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 [...]

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 [...]