Today, a number of high school students from around the country paraded with Rainforest Action Network to numerous Citi (formerlly Citibank) branch locations in downtown San Francisco for the Clean Up Citi Carnival.

RAN members often ask us why we’re so crazy about plug-ins (a.k.a. Plug-in Hybrids, a.k.a. Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles, a.k.a. PHEVs). A new report from fellow environmental non-profit NRDC (a.k.a. Natural Resource Defense Council) and EPRI (a.k.a. Electric Power Research Institute) lays it out pretty well. Why we’re so crazy about acronyms is a different [...]

Eric Holt-Giménez, executive director of Food First, was recently in RAN’s offices to talk to our staff about biofuels. You can hear him talk about the issue in this interview from KPFA radio in Berkley: “How did such a bad idea gain such incredible currency?” Listen and find out. Also in the interview was Joe Brewer, a [...]

I moved here to the Bay Area four and half years ago from Albuquerque, New Mexico. While the Bay Area is lovely and an amazing place to be, I miss the desert terribly. The thing I miss the most is the fact that ‘Burque boasts an average of 300 days of sunshine per year and [...]

For the past three years, RAN has been on a very active kick to increase and solidify our commitment to becoming the most diverse and anti-oppressive workplace possible. Since we are in the business of market transformation, we figured we should put the same effort toward transforming the mainstream environmental movement (it has a nasty [...]

If you are in the Bay Area in mid-October this year, you have to make time to come to REVEL: The Art of Activism. It’s the 13th annual benefit dinner for RAN. It’s one of the most fun fundraising dinners hosted in the Bay Area! It shows that folks at RAN not only work their [...]

So, lots of anecdotes (and reputable studies) point to credit cards being responsible for a plethora of problems facing our society. From enabling (and encouraging) rampant consumerism, to predatory lending practices, to the estimated US consumer debt at $2.2 trillion – it’s no wonder I avoided the plastic plague for a long time. But a few [...]

So it seems that CNN’s Glenn Beck thinks that cows produce more greenhouse gases than coal-fired power plants. Mike Brune, RAN’s executive director, was on the Glenn Beck’s show on Monday being interviewed about Live Earth. Beck, like a lot of conservative critics, focused on the carbon footprint of the event itself. Mike refused to criticize [...]

While we do not support any candidates, it’s great to see that John Edwards is showing strong leadership on climate change by releasing this clearly worded podcast that lays out a program of deep carbon emissions reductions. He even comes right out and says there should be no new coal-fired power plants – a position [...]

Slate sums up the general public reaction to the Live Earth concerts this past weekend: Lame Earth. Both the event itself and the criticism of it seemed off the mark to me. From the little bit I saw and what I’ve read in the coverage, the actual environmental movement seemed largely absent from the consciousness-raising [...]