Understory: the Official Blog of RAN

Archive for September, 2005

Green Building Builds Steam… and Industry Copy-Cats

You know you've found a winning environmental strategy when red states start building green--really. The strategy is the LEED Green Building Standard developed by the US Green Building Council.

Drop banners Not Bombs- Alberta Day2

As some of you may know its RAN's 20th birthday this year and i've spent some good time in the last weeks going through stacks of old photos- many of which showcase the famous RAN banner shots. We are an organization...

Our Ford website has been Jumpstarted

Finally, an answer to the burning question I hear all the time, "Why on earth is a rainforest organization targeting a car company?"

Live from Alberta

The excitement is building around Alberta's Eco Action Camp as we sort through trainings and schedules, greet new and extraordinary activists everyday, move tables and chairs around, gather wood for the fire, drink LOTS of tea and cocoa, and figure out how exactly we are going to fit 60 plus young people from around the world (the number grows everyday and is three times as many people as last year) into 2 cabins - we were told there were more but they're apparently hiding.

Wakeup Call on Newspaper Consumption

The Minnesota Daily (U of M's university paper) highlighted a rather unknown topic concerning newspaper production and its effects on forests worldwide.

Weyerhaeuser Starts to Sweat

We heard through a public radio station in Seattle about some interesting "meetings" going on in Weyerhaeuser's corporate offices.

Even With Hybrids Ford is Still Dead Last

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

“Consumer Freedom” or Corporate Interests?

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 [...]

Wells Fargo’s Got Far to Go

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...

Corporate Crime in the Forest

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

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