Over the past 2 weekends, members from Rainforest Action Network and Global Exchange have provided training and support to the “Save the Oaks” Campaign in Berkeley. Save the Oaks is an inspiring group of students and community members trying to stop the University of Berkeley’s plans to clear a grove of historic Live Oaks [...]

There are few real perks to climate change but apparently this is one of them. Subordinate grey seals are taking advantage of rising temperatures and falling rainfall to mate more often. Due to climate change female grey seals are being forced to travel further for drinking water - removing them from the watchful eye of the dominant [...]

Dallas-based energy company TXU Inc, is utterly committed to global warming. So committed in fact, that they’re willing to build 11 new coal-fired power plants in Texas over the next 6 years that will spew forth over 78 million tons of carbon each year. For those of you counting at home, thats more than what the [...]

Occidental Petroleum, a Los Angeles-based oil and gas company with over $6.5 billion in total current assets, decided to cease all operations in a highly-sensitive and diverse region of northern Peru today, called “Block 64,” home to the Achuar people. Occidental has a checkered past for sure, including lawsuits for possible involvement in the murder of [...]

We had our first official meeting tonight at the RAN offices in San Francisco. 24 people in total came and discussed RAN, our renewed effort to grassroots market activism and our current campaigns and where they’re at.  We had some pizza, strawberries (maybe not an obvious combo but I’m telling you they are surprising tasty [...]

Just in case you thought oil was only being used for energy, the Azerbaijanis have to go and rub it…well, all over. NY TImes reports on a growing health craze in the former Soviet state: bathing in crude oil. So, while our western doctors here say it can cause cancer, their doctors and health officials [...]