NOW magazine, Toronto’s weekly rag since 1981 chock full of vibrant local issues, personalities and entertainment to-dos, recently posted their “Highs of 2006.”  The struggle in Grassy Narrows made the list at #6 for the longest-running anti-logging campaign in Canadian history. Kudos to the people of Grassy Narrows for their continued fight to bring justice to [...]

The crap hit the fan on logging industry greenwash over the holidays and we’re tickled pink they got caught red-handed. Friends of RAN filed challenges in two states last month against environmental claims made by Weyerhaeuser and Plum Creek Timber under the industry-based Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI). The two complaints show how loggers used the forest [...]

Before the holiday season, RAN activists in Seattle delivered 500 gifts containing a dvd about the struggle in Grassy Narrows and information about RAN’s old growth campaign to Quadrant homeowners in the Puget Sound region. The action was designed to educate homeowners about Weyerhaeuser’s destructive and disrespectful logging practices – Quadrant homes are [...]

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 [...]