Which automaker has (once again) the worst fuel efficiency ratings on the planet? Ford Motor Company.

Verlyn Klinkenborg’s opinion piece in this Sunday’s New York Times tells the story of a peculiar billboard in Times Square and the organization that paid for its placement. The billboard attacks People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) and is sponsored by the Center for Consumer Freedom, one of those innocuous-sounding organizations like [...]

Last Monday July 11, Wells Fargo announced a spiffy new "10-point environmental commitment" on the eve of a planned protest at their San Francisco headquarters. The PR maneuver...

As global leaders pointed fingers at the developing world to fight illegal logging, their own corporate criminials are being let off the hook.

Today, the Rainforest Action Network and Global Exchange featured a full page ad in the New York Times linking Dick Cheney, Crown Prince Abdullah and Bill Ford Jr. in their addiction to oil and gas guzzling....This ad also suggests a better vision supported by America’s ingenuity that is committed to developing a safe, secure and sustainable source of American energy.

Once again the Canadian editions of Harry Potter have cast a magic spell for forests around the world by being printed on Ancient Forest Friendly paper. The Canadian edition of Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince is printed on 100% post-consumer recycled, processed chlorine free paper. The Canadian and German editions are the only versions of Harry Potter to be printed on Ancient Forest Friendly paper internationally – other countries have started to improve their papers also – including the UK, Italy and Israel.

The recent Senate Energy Bill that passed with flying colors (85-12) is more than disappointing. It's pathetic.

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.