From our allies and friends in NYC yesterday morning. A jolly good action outside of Merrill Lynch! Here here!

Crossposted from Its Getting Hot in Here: It’s time to turn the heat up on Gov. Manchin. Today the Governor dodged attempts of community members to arrange a meeting to deliver 500 letters from children around the world concerned about the health of the kids of Marsh Fork Elementary School.

Perhaps the scariest piece of this article is the opening: According to the American Heritage Dictionary, a suicidal act is one that is “dangerous to oneself or to one’s interests; self-destructive or ruinous.” By this standard, the coal boom that is currently sweeping America is the atmospheric equivalent of a swan dive off a very tall [...]

A scary stat coming from an ACNielson internet poll: 13% of Americans have never heard of global warming. Whats more compelling from an international perspective, but of course not surprising, is that 91% of the people polled thought that global warming was a “serious problem” or a “very serious problem.” I don’t want to assume anything but [...]

We’ve recently asks many of you, our RAN supporters, to make calls to the Ontario government on behalf of the community of Grassy Narrows. Over 850 phone calls have been made to Premier Dalton McGuinty’s office over the past month and we’ve received a little feedback from many of you about how the calls went. But [...]

Here is an update from the latest action in Seattle, hosted by SeaRAG. I was able to attend and see firsthand the excitement of Seattle activists, and the nervousness of Quadrant executives and thier hired security guards. Way to go SeaRAG. For the past few months SeaRAG (the Seattle Rainforest Action Group) has [...]

The Boston Globe wrote a bit more about the latest on the TXU ordeal. The article explains how the” new front on fighting global warming follows trails of money, not wisps of polluting chemicals, straight to the doorsteps of banks.” One of the issues that folks have with banks like Citigroup and Merrill Lynch is in [...]

How’s this for a New Year’s resolution? Stay cool. That’s what the earth has to be saying to itself as average annual temperatures continue to climb thanks to the growing coverage of greenhouse gases in our atmosphere. We knew it was coming, but now its in the books. USA Today reports that according to the National [...]

Fortune’s Mark Gunther took a swipe at investment bank Merrill Lynch last week, calling them out on their support of the controversial TXU coal power plant deal down in Texas which will make TXU the largest corporate emitter of greenhouse gases in North America.

I sat in wonderment for over 2 hours on this website today. Granted its Saturday, so I had some time to waste, but it also speaks to the powerful images and music Forests Forever was able to pull together for an amazing experience into the consciousness of forests. You can visit over 10 different forest [...]