Welcome Declarers! Thanks for taking part in this effort bring an oil free future to America! An important part of this will be the discussion around how and when we can continue convincing American automakers, like Ford, to building more fuel efficient vehicles. We here at RAN think that its the only force behind this movment to change our energy practices. For hundreds of years citizens have been the impetus behind social and environmental change.

At last week’s UN World Environment Day celebrations in San Francisco, the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights launched a bold and visionary new program, one with the potential to unite progressives across a broad spectrum of interests and help shape an economy that’s clean, green, and just. Reclaim the Future is a project [...]

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.

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

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...

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."

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

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 [...]

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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 [...]