Los Angeles Auto Show – Day 1. Well, actually it’s the pre-show press-only days, but it was Day 1 for us. I came down with a contingent of people from RAN and Global Exchange, meeting up with folks from CodePink and other local LA activists. The LA Auto Show is one of the major international [...]

A group of state officials and environmentalists take the EPA to the supreme court this week, charging that the current data around climate change and CO2 emissions requires the federal agency to get involved. And why not? It’s the Environmental Protection Agency! In one of the most obvious cases of protecting the environment (not to mention [...]

From our crew of organizers up in Seattle…. It was another stereotypic Seattle day; rainy, windy and cold, as we pulled into a parking lot outside the “pleasantville” themed Quadrant Home’s “community” in Kent, Washington. As we stepped out and headed towards Quadrant’s sales office, I whipped out our video camera and got some footage of [...]

Many in my home state of Texas boast that everything is bigger and better. But in the case of some new coal powered power plants, bigger is definitely not better. Dallas-based utilities company TXU is proposing to spend $11 Billion on 11 new coal fired power plants in 8 Texas counties. In [...]

Al Gore’s documentary on global warming officially moves to DVD today. How scary is it that with all the horror films in theaters these days, the most frightening one was a documentary? Terrifying. Slashdot has a great reminder commentary on the movie and why its one of the most important flicks of this generation. [...]

Appalachia is under attack by corrupt coal companies and greedy banks, like Wells Fargo, that fund them. The tactic is mountaintop removal. The result is a sort of bombing campaign wrecking havoc on Appalachian land, economy, people and culture. Rainforest Action Network is helping spread the word about this “bombing campaign” and popular opposition [...]

Just when you thought things were actually getting better, the Environment team at UK’s the Independent has to go and ruin it. But the truth hurts, right? CO2 emissions worldwide over the past five years were four times greater than for the preceding ten years. Data on carbon dioxide emissions shows that the global growth rate was [...]

Ok, so rarely do we toot our own horn around here but I thought this video that we recently put out was pretty dang good. For those of you new to RAN, it provides an excellent idea of who we are what we do. For our old friends and neighbors, well, it’ll bring back some [...]

End Oil Aid Now!! Not the catchiest of chants, but it gets the point across as we’re entering a new century where public institutions like the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and the US Treasury are STILL subsidizing Big Oil for power and profit with total disregard for the environment and people. Not only [...]

Rhett Butler over at Mongabay alerted me to an incredible story developing out of Venezuela. Illegal gold mining is on the rise in South America but most heavily in beautiful natural regions of the Amazonian river basin. Specifically, the Caura River Basin along the Venezuelan and Brazilian border. Known as one of the [...]