The past few months have been exciting in the struggle for mountain justice. At Mountain Justice Spring Break, over 100 community members, students and individuals of conscious occupied the offices of West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin over the permitting of a 2nd coal silo next to Marsh Fork Elementary. Marsh Fork Elementary has [...]

National Arbor Day was on Friday. Did anyone know? No doubt millions of Americans were taking time off work to go and plant trees in their neighborhoods and communities. Ok, well maybe not. Clearly, Arbor Day has taken a hit on the national holiday regard-o-meter. I can’t remember ever really “celebrating” National Arbor Day. But [...]

Domtar announced today that it will certify all of its logging operations in Canada’s Boreal Forest to the environmental standards of the Forest Stewardship Council. This includes sensitive Woodland Caribou habitat in Ontario and Saskatchewan transferred to Domtar from Weyerhaeuser in a deal closed earlier this year. These are the same areas Weyerhaeuser [...]

Read RAN Executive Director Michael Brune’sletter to ChevronTexaco Last month, some friends of mine and I participated in a non-violent direct action outside the world headquarters of oil giant Chevron. We worked with a broad spectrum of groups concerned with Chevron’s behavior in Ecuador, Iraq’s Oil Theft Law, pollution around Chevron refineries in places like [...]

Australia is suffering through an epic six-year drought and it just got a lot worse. The Australian government has warned its farmers that they are dangerously close to pulling the plug on their irrigation supplies to meet the need of all-time low drinking water reserves. Basically, Australia will stop producing food for a little while [...]

San Francisco Billionaires for Coal throw a cocktail party and croquet party at 555 California, home to Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers and Morgan Stanley offices.

I’m standing on the second floor of a parking garage in Bellevue, WA. Opposite me is the headquarters of Quadrant Home–Washington’s biggest homebuilder, owned by Weyerhaeuser the worlds biggest lumber company. Two RAN activists dangle in climbing harnesses from the roof-line. Surprised office workers crane their necks inside. Twenty minutes after they hop from the [...]

A couple of activists up in Seattle along with our old growth team sent a strong message to Weyerhaeuser and their doting subsidiary Quadrant Homes: stop logging land and forests that belong to first nation’s communities, like Grassy Narrows. Checkout the footage at Seattle’s King 5 website: http://www.king5.com/video/news-index.html?nvid=136719 Nicely done folks. More info on this coming [...]

Today’s International Herald-Tribune reports on a study by a Stanford professor that found that an increase in ethanol use would actually make our air dirtier. Specifically, he projects that if we switched completely to ethanol by 2020, there would be 200 more smog-related deaths each year.

Right in Farragut Square…well done folks.