This one wasn’t in the U.S. but it was much more devastating than anything I’ve heard before when it comes to coal mine accidents. A methane explosion killed 106 people in a Siberian coal mine and they are currently trying to rescue 4 trapped miners who at 885 feet down. Do we really need to [...]

News helicopters captured footage of the RAN and Grassy Narrows occupation of a Quadrant home in Bothell, WA. Quadrant homes are built with Weyerhaeuser lumber taken from the territory of the Grassy Narrows First Nation in Ontario, Canada.

Amazing local public broadcasting video from West Virginia. Many of the protestors were community members and local students. They actually dragged students out by their arms and legs, reminiscent of what officers did to students at Sproul Hall in Berkeley during the dawning of the Free Speech Movement. More video here.

Things are happening fast in the world of coal. Gristmill’s Dave Roberts caught this story in the Toronto Star about the recent push by investment firms like Merrill Lynch and Europe’s largest insurance firm Allianz, pressuring the U.S. Congress to pass a climate change policy that would put investors and investments on the global [...]

Many of you probably remember Ed Wiley’s courageous long walk from West Virginia to Washington DC last August to raise awareness about his grand-daughter’s elementary school built 225 feet from a Massey Energy coal loading silo and downstream from a 385 foot tall seeping toxic coal waste sludge dam with a nearly 3 billion gallon [...]

Right now our supporters on the ground are telling us that we have over 100 people occupying the WV Governor’s office protesting the 2nd coal silo that was approved to be built a mere 300 feet from Marsh Fork Elementary school in West Virginia. It includes an 87 year old woman who is celebrating her [...]

It’s 4 a.m. Activsts that took to the roof of a Quadrant Model home in Bothell, WA are safe at home with their friends and family. Check the news from KING5 and the Everett Herald on the newswire. Pictures are at our Flickr account. Stay tuned for video and commentary (just as soon as [...]

…When you Leave Ours!” – Grassy Narrows to Weyerhaeuser Breaking News from Seattle today as activists from Grassy Narrows and RAN occupied the roof of a model home at Quadrant Homes’ Bothell Development, unfurling a large banner reading “Weyerhaeuser: We’ll Leave Your Home When You Leave Ours.” The plan is to occupy the house [...]

As promised, we spent the morning with a couple dozen folks from the Seattle Rainforest Action Group dressed as homeless caribou, wandering the streets of Everett, Washington. I’m speaking, of course, of our antics at the Built Green Conference and Expo. The annual event drew about 700 building industry professionals. As conference attendees flooded [...]

Breaking news from the Built Green Conference up in Everett, Washington today. RAN and Grassy Narrows community members were on hand to expose Weyerhaeuser subsidiary Quadrant Homes’ greenwashing. Quadrant uses wood clearcut without consent from Grassy Narrows traditional territory to build homes in the Puget Sound area of Washington State. Stay tuned as more action [...]