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Corporate ethics activists “The Yes Men” crashed the Gas and Oil Exposition 2007 in Calgary yesterday. Their presentation on “Vivoleum,” a new fuel source derived from the bodies of people killed by climate change, was going over pretty well until they showed this video. In it, former Exxon janitor Reggie Watts expresses his dying wish [...]
Continue reading...By Matt Leonard, June 15 2007
Yesterday, Ken Lewis, Chairman and CEO of Bank America was in San Francisco speaking about the opportunities for businesses and banks to cash in on the “Greening of America”. He talked about the role of responsible investing, and how Bank of America has high values for all their business operations. Two members of Rainforest Action [...]
Continue reading...By Stan, June 14 2007
An update from our Tasmanian Campaigner, David Lee: This past week, RAN Senior Campaigner Bill Barclay and I were in Tokyo, Japan, to help our Japanese staff host three forums focused upon the serious problems with old growth logging in Tasmania. Japanese paper companies purchase over 80 percent of the woodchips produced by Gunns Limited, [...]
Continue reading...By Luke, June 14 2007
The International Herald-Tribune reports that the German government has finalized plans to close its last nine anthracite mines by 2018.
Continue reading...By Toben, June 7 2007
San Ramon, Calif.-based Chevron Corporation may face a second ‘trial of the century’ after a San Francisco Federal judge ruled yesterday that a lawsuit accusing the oil giant of collusion with the Nigerian government in attacks that killed and wounded villagers protesting Chevron’s practices may proceed to trial in the U.S. The lawsuit follows a [...]
Continue reading...By Toben, June 7 2007
Ecuador’s newly-elected President Rafael Correa has appealed to the international community to help raise half the amount of projected revenues resulting from oil extraction in one of the most biologically-rich tropical rainforests in the world in order to save it. The announcement is somewhat revolutionary in that an elected leader is openly promoting investment in [...]
Continue reading...By Scott Parkin, June 7 2007
This week, the governments of the seven most important industrialized countries and Russia are meeting for the ‘G8 Summit’ at the Baltic seaside resort of Heiligendamm. A self-appointed informal world decision-making body, they make decisions which affect the whole of humanity–including deregulation, neoliberal globalization, immigration, climate, war in Iraq and many other issues. Outside the [...]
Continue reading...By Matt Leonard, June 5 2007
Today, the Florida Public Service Commission voted 4-0 to deny Florida Power & Light’s permits for a proposed coal-fired power plant in Glades County. The $5.7 billion proposed plant would have been located just 68 miles from Everglades National Park heavily polluting the Glades and surrounding area. This plant would use 26 million tons of [...]
Continue reading...By Jodie, June 4 2007
The Freedom from Oil team made a special delivery in Sacramento last week at the door of the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers (AAM), the major lobbying association of the auto industry. Complete with “An Idiot’s Guide to Global Warming”, a copy of An Inconvenient Truth, a life preserver, and a framed picture of the ever-threatened [...]
Continue reading...By Luke, June 4 2007
A new type of experimental photo-voltaic cell has been developed by Spectrolab, Inc, a subsidiary of Boeing. The new cells concentrate the sun’s rays using mirrors in order to extract 40% of the energy from a higher-intensity beam.
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