Being an internet guy, I was especially thrilled to see that Manitoba First Nations are seeking cellphone revenue from telecommunications companies broadcasting in their airspace. Chief Ovide Mercredi of the Grand Rapids First Nation explains: When it comes to using airspace, it’s like using our water and simply because there’s no precedent doesn’t mean that it’s [...]

Blogger, podcaster, and otherwise web-savvy worldchanger Britt Bravo dropped by the RAN office the other day. She’s been a friend to RAN in the past, interviewing one of our Freedom From Oil campaigners Jodie Van Horn, Global Finance Campaign Director Emeritus and MoveOn.org Campaign Director Ilyse Hogue, and most recently once-upon-a-time RAN Board of Directors [...]

Saturday turned out to be Labor Day in Oakland and I joined a group of friends that joined pickets that led to the ILWU shutting down the Port of Oakland and East Bay Labor groups picketing the Woodfin Suites Hotel. This morning a group of friends joined the anti-war picket at the Port of Oakland calling [...]

On Thursday, May 11th, Ford Motor Company held its annual shareholder meeting presided over by Chairman William Clay Ford, Jr. and CEO Alan Mulally. Leading up to the meeting, Ford’s top executives revealed their compensation packages, while Ford Motor Co. deals with $12.7 billion in losses in 2006, the largest loss in its 103-year [...]

If you’re like me, you wake up each morning wondering why my suitcase doesn’t unfold into a flying car like in the Jetsons. Where is the future we were promised? It’s the new millennium already and all I got is this lousy t-shirt.

Check out this great clip clearing the air on the murky world of carbon offsets. RAN campaigner Bill Barclay makes a guest appearance towards the end!

OK - we know that forests trap carbon which helps reduce the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. We know that planting trees and restoring forests increases the depth of this carbon trap. We know that transportation and power generation are great emitters of greenhouse gases. But have a look at this article from [...]

Scientists from around the world are calling on the Canadian legislature to strengthen protections for the increasingly endangered Boreal forest. A letter from 1,500 scientists from 50 countries released today warns: “We are concerned that current conservation planning efforts are insufficient to sustain the ecological integrity of Canada’s Boreal region, one of the most intact ecosystems [...]

Earth Day was last month and magazines made the most of it by making April their “Green Issue”. Here’s my favorite, and least favorite, of the bunch.

This is an excellent article written by our ally, Ted Glick. Ted is the coordinator of the US Climate Emergency Council and co-founder of the Climate Crisis Coalition, and works extensively on climate change and coal issues. I think he makes an excellent case for the urgency to “turn up the heat” on climate change [...]