How Ford and GM can possibly frame their latest auto buying incentive as helping anything but foreign wars and global warming is totally beyond me. On my way to work this morning, I heard a GM commercial state that if you buy a HUMMER by July 5th, you will pay only $1.99 [...]

Gristmill carries a story around a story in Motor Trend this week in which General Motors CEO Rick Wagoner is asked which decision he most regrets. “Axing the EV1 electric-car program and not putting the right resources into hybrids. It didn’t affect profitabilty but it did affect image.” Wow. That’s quite a statment. Grist goes on to [...]

This report comes from Caitlin, one of several interns spending their Summer in Grassy Narrows: After 400-500 years of assault on the spirit, the Anishinabe nation has begun the process of healing their nation and spirit. This was why they named their Youth and Elders Gathering “Healing the Spirit.” Hosted by Grassy Narrows, [...]

This report comes from Alex–on the blockade in Grassy Narrows. Several of the youth from Grassy as well as some leaders from the community and visitors from out of town are staying at the blockade tonight, as they did last night. While I write, just outside my tent one of the youth organizers is setting [...]

We continue to hear good reports from Solidiarity Summer going on now in Grassy Narrows. The First Nation community in NW Ontario is struggling to defend its traditions from multinational logging companies. Join them at the Earth Justice Gathering July 10-16th. This report comes from Christy: For several years now, Grassy Narrows has hosted a three-day [...]

At the beginning of this year’s hurricane season, I decided to go to New Orleans, Louisiana to the Eco Justice for All conference to understand the environmental impacts of Hurricane Katrina and to learn more about faith based initiatives on climate change.  I arrived to the “Good ole’ South” with all the images of last year’s [...]

The fellows over at Seventh Generation have picked up shop and headed down to the Amazonian Rainforest for a trip to inspire and educate others about what’s really going on down in the “lungs of the world.” Along with regular audio blogs Jeffrey Hollender has written briefly about what they are seeing and the effects [...]

My mother always told me that gambling could very quickly become an addiction. I guess I can’t be too surprised that oil companies, who seem to be dealing with another type of addiction, are also having trouble weaning themselves away from the continued faith in oil platforms in the Gulf of Mexico. Economically it doesn’t [...]

More from Alex in Grassy Narrows. Stay tuned for more developments and pictures from Grassy throughout the Summer. We arrived at Grassy Narrows on Saturday the 27th. We are camped right at the blockade site - roundhouse, wigwam, teepees and all. I find something very inspirational about the notion of living on this site [...]

RAN kicked off a Summer of solidarity with the people of Grassy Narrows last week. Here’s the latest from Alex, one of a group living and working in Grassy for the next two months. I arrived at Leah’s house just before 7am on May 26th. Leah is an organizer from Forest Ethics. She, [...]