Understory: the Official Blog of RAN

Archive for May, 2005

Expanding Ice Sheet in Antarctica

I had always figured that as the effects of global warming increase more and more of the largest ice sheets on the planet would continue to melt away. A great article in today's San Francisco Chronicle speaks to why that assumption is dead wrong.

WRI Debates CEI on E&E

World Resources Institute's John Sohn debated Competitive Enterprise Institute's Marlo Lewis on the recent JP Morgan Chase Environmental Policy. Lewis states that...

State of Denial

An astonishing piece of investigative journalism has appeared in this month’s Mother Jones. Chris Mooney (a regular in pubs such as The American Scholar, Slate, The Washington Monthly, Salon to say nothing of his well-known blog) unleashes a scathing expose revealing...

Unocal and Weyerhaeuser: Ties that Bind

Among other business at Weyerhaeuser's shareholder meeting on thursday, Chuck Williamson of Unocal was nominated to the company's Board of Directors. CEO Rogel says that his post "will be important as Weyerhaeuser develops a larger global footprint."

JP Morgan Turns Green

JPMorgan Chase announced its new "sustainability commitment" today after months of intense campaigning by RAN members, activists, and allies around the country. Want to know what they agreed to do? Take a look at the policy and see for yourself (its a PDF folks). Some highlights

Haida Gwaii vs. Weyerhaeuser

If you haven’t been following this amazing story coming out of British Columbia, you might want to tune in now. Local residents of the Queen Charlotte Islands off the coast of British Columbia are in the midst of a stunning stand against logging giant Weyerhaeuser, one of the world’s largest logging companies grossing over [...]

The RAN Supporter

So what does the average RAN supporter look like?

Shared Values on Wall Street?

If any of you haven’t seen yesterday’s Wall Street Journal article on the vulnerability of big banks to scandals (JP Morgan and Citigroup), give it a read (you’ll need a subscription to get access) . They claim that the “politicization of bank lending hurts not only the banks, but also the future of the [...]

You’ve Been Inspected

Hundreds of activists converged on JP Morgan branch offices nationwide today and we've got pics!

Inspectors Needed

The Global Finance team is putting together one of the largest actions for this Tuesday, April 12th. This national day of action will involve hundreds of people around the country with specific flagship actions in New York City and Chicago. Targeting JP Morgan Chase and their famed Investments of Mass Destruction the goal [...]

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