From our Global Finance campaigner Dana about the Sakhalin project in Russia: This story on the future of Sakhalin II is still going back and forth. Since so many of you are interested in this project, I wanted to try to give a summary of the information and perspectives on what is happening. First, Shell’s permit was [...]

Today, Wells Fargo CEO Richard Kovacevich was a participant in a large Wall Street investor’s conference held at the San Francisco Ritz-Carlton today. The conference, lasting through the week, includes CEO’s from a number of companies meeting with and briefing institutional investors on their business plans. As an organizer on RAN’s Global Finance campaign, we [...]

Anyone who still thinks that global warming is a theory hasn’t heard the voices from the Arctic, Iraq, New Orleans, Nigeria and the small island nations Micronesia and Tuvalu. But you can. This fall, Voices from the Frontline of Oil and Global Warming will be touring the United States sharing personal stories of how the [...]

Fabulous little video about the energy thats all around us. Truly, bad that we don’t use it like we can. Here are some folks that are though. Solon: based in Germany (no surprise here, German and enginneering go together like wiener und schnitzel) put out this video and I believe is running in Europe. Canrom: based in [...]

Every so often you go to an event – perhaps even a fundraiser – and you’re struck by the quality of the evening. The venue is perfect – not too big – not too small. The entertainment – the food – the drinks – the guests – the hosts. Everything, amazingly, perfect. Well, RAN had a [...]

From our folks up in Seattle… It was after your typical Northwest moistness on Saturday that members of the Seattle Rainforest Action Group showed up to needle logging giant Weyerhaeuser about its deception and devastation. Less than a mile from the company’s global headquarters in Federal Way, Washington, we paid a visit [...]

This week, West Virginia Granpa Ed Wiley will be arriving in Washington DC to deliver a letter to Sectretary of Education Margaret Spellings asking for help to build a new school in the Coal River Valley. Ed’s granddaughter goes to Marsh Fork Elementary, a school sitting right next to a toxic site owned by a Massey [...]

There’s a new World’s Tallest tree — actually there’s three. A team of researchers along California’s north coast discovered three Redwood giants all over 370 feet tall while bushwacking through unknown coastal redwood forests. The current title holder, The Stratosphere Giant (also a coastal Redwood) tops out at 370 feet but now will [...]

For the first time in history a group of mostly male politicans asked a collection of young women in corsets and fishnet stockings to leave the room. A saloon-style striptease, complete with corsets and balloons, at an Australian government-sponsored conference on global warming left some scientists hot and bothered and the organizers in boiling [...]

Ford’s economically devastating downward spiral of oil addiction has had us all watching to see how this auto giant will chart its Way Forward. As we’ve seen Bill Ford Jr break environmental promise after environmental promise, we’ve wondered if he was really the right leader to illustrate the the bottom-line merit of environmental values. So [...]