The biggest Revel Ever! And a Revel with so much heart. Thursday, Oct 18th 20077, we celebrated the Art of Activism at this year’s Revel, our annual awards dinner and wild party. 650 of our best enjoyed great fare: a locally grown organic dinner, organic wines and beers and organic cocktails – see, it’s possible – go [...]

Today, the Nobel Committee awarded the Peace Prize to Al Gore (and the IPCC). No one deserves it more than he does. We’re very happy for him. And we think he should go to jail. Specifically, he should go to jail on RAN’s November 16-17 Day of Action Against Coal Finance. As reported in Nicholas Kristof’s [...]

Momentum is building against Citi and Bank of America’s coal investments. Anti-coal, clean energy politics rule these days and despite their millions invested in a green-washing public relations mechanism these two financial giants can’t get away the stigma of dirty energy. -Citi and friends tried to finance TXU’s proposed 11 coal-fired power plants and saw [...]

Today, the Rainforest Action Network turned up the heat on US Agribusiness giants ADM, Bunge, and Cargill. Early this morning, when employees arrived at the Chicago Board of Trade, they were met with a massive banner, reading: “ADM, Bunge, Cargill: the ABCs of Rainforest Destruction.” Watch the banner drop here. We’re stepping it up and we [...]

Last week, Bank of America’s San Francisco offices got a present courtesy of Rainforest Action Network. A banner saying “Bank of America: Funding Coal, Killing Communities” was tied to a bouquet of helium balloons, and set sail in their lobby. Finally coming to rest on the ceiling of their lobby, the banner spent the rest [...]

This morning the RAN’s Rainforest Agribusiness campaign officially launched with a full-page ad in the Chicago Tribune, holding the agribusiness giants responsible for warming our planet for corporate profit. From Indonesia to Brazil, Paraguay to Papua New Guinea, US agribusiness giants ADM, Bunge, and Cargill have been involved in the clearing of pristine tropical rainforests [...]

  Hello RANsters and RYSEstars! Just wanted to give you a belated reportback on something RAN/RYSE did over the summer! From July 12 to August 10, we rode along the Warped Tour, a loud rock tour with dozens of bands, in a bus that ran on recycled vegetable oil! Every day we woke up at 9 [...]

Yesterday, Bill McKibben, author and founder of Step It Up, joined Rainforest Action Network for our campaign launch calling on Citi and Bank of America’s to stop their financing of the coal sector and, ultimately, global warming. On Sunday, McKibben penned an editorial in the Washington Post calling for a grassroots movement to pressure [...]

If you’d like to get a feel for what it’s like to run a trans-national fast food company, head over to McVideo Game. You have to make some tough choices, like whether or not to demolish Indigenous villages in order to plant soy to feed to your malnourished cattle. It’s a fairly “enlightened” video game [...]

Just minutes ago, RAN’s Global Finance team finished up a press conference announcing to the world that we are formally launching a campaign against the world’s two largest banks – Citi and Bank of America. Why? Because they are the top funders of the dirty coal industry – and the crucial link supplying billions of [...]