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Forbes.com published an article today called “Food Vs. Fuel” which, and this isn’t too common in the financial press, addresses the fact that “concern about climate change has led to biofuels subsidies that pit hungry mouths and empty gas tanks against each other.” No exactly what I expected to read from Forbes. The article goes [...]
Continue reading...By Scott Parkin, November 15 2007
Al Gore recently predicted that it won’t be long before people are putting their bodies on the line protesting the construction of new coal fired power plants. He’s being proven correct again and again as people are putting their bodies on the line around the world (in fact, he is considering joining these efforts). Today [...]
Continue reading...By Brant Olson, November 15 2007
Greetings netizens! Today we’re broadcasting live online from the LA Autoshow where we’ve teamed up with Cal Cars to convert a modest Prius Hybrid into an amazing plug-in electric that will average 100 MPG. Drop by http://www.Justin.tv/ryse to catch the action all day and join us live in the chatroom. UPDATE: I’ve gone ahead and [...]
Continue reading...By Brant Olson, November 14 2007
Blogging late after a great day of cloak and dagger infiltration at the LA Auto Show. Here’s what the AP had to say about incident in this video: After the Sequoia was introduced Wednesday, an environmental activist with a video camera approached Toyota’s general manager for U.S. sales, Bob Carter, and asked why the company [...]
Continue reading...By Sarah, November 14 2007
It’s auto show season again. That’s right—the beginning of the annual cycle where the automakers roll through LA, Detroit, New York, (and thousands of smaller cities in between) launching their new concept cars. This week, Freedom from Oil is blogging from the Los Angeles Auto Show—the “green” autoshow of the year. Like last year we’re [...]
Continue reading...By Brant Olson, November 13 2007
Regular readers of the understory will be familiar with Glen Barry. Aside from goading us on the Understory, Glen also runs a number of websites about ecological protection–all of them valuable resources for the community of earth defenders of all stripes. Last month Glen sent RAN an open letter criticizing, among other things, our support [...]
Continue reading...By Scott Parkin, November 13 2007
Tonight, we had an organizing conference call with activists from all over the country in preparation for the National Day of Action Against Coal Finance. Right now, over 50 cities are scheduled to have a multitude of actions from coast to coast (i.e every city is doing multiple actions). From cough-in’s/die-in’s to bank visits by [...]
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It’s a busy week for us here at RAN. We’re still recovering from our awesome fete in New York this weekend, hosted by Chris Noth. At the same time, we’re prepping for a Triple Crown of campaign activity. Our fearless Freedom From Oil campaign will be hitting the Los Angeles Auto Show to ask the [...]
Continue reading...By Becky Tarbotton, November 12 2007
At Chris Noth’s wood paneled Plumm Club in New York this Saturday, the crowd ran thick with RAN friends, old and new. This was the second (now annual!) benefit hosted by the actor of Sex in the City and Law and Order fame, who spoke passionately about his personal commitment to taking real action that [...]
Continue reading...By Robin, November 9 2007
I’ve just returned from a quick trip helping our Rainforest Agribusiness team organize a protest the ADM annual shareholders meeting in Decatur, IL. If you haven’t yet, check out Leila’s post about all the action inside the meeting. My job was to help put together our outside action. I’ll give you the summary first and [...]
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