Last Friday marked the 5th anniversary of the logging road blockade at Grassy Narrows. Judy DaSilva, a clan mother from Grassy Narrows and member of the grassroots effort to end clear cut logging there, offered these thoughts. December 2, 2002 Grassy Narrows People (& youth) decided to put up a road blockade on a [...]

Submitted without comment: SPEECH BY AL GORE ON THE ACCEPTANCE OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE DECEMBER 10, 2007 OSLO, NORWAY Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Honorable members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Excellencies, Ladies and gentlemen. I have a purpose here today. It is a purpose I have tried to serve for many years. I have prayed that [...]

Last week, the National Energy Technology Laboratory (a project of the Department of Energy) issued a new report on every climate activists’ favorite subject: coal. Specifically, this report is about Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS), and it poses yet another major red flag to the viability and wide scale deployment of CCS. The take-away of the [...]

Embattled bank Citi named Vikram Pandit their new CEO today. Citi’s had a lot of trouble as a result of the current credit crisis, it’s what cost previous CEO Chuck Prince his job. But besides getting Citi out of the sprawling sub-prime mortgage mess, Mr Pandit will have to show leadership on another looming [...]

A herd of 11 caribou migrated to OfficeMax in San Francisco today in search of their destroyed forest habitat and demanded that OfficeMax executives support the Grassy Narrows First Nation’s call for a logging moratorium on their traditional territory. The caribou began their visit to OfficeMax by continuing their migration inside the store, to [...]

International Day of A(u)ction against dams on the Madeira River! Today, the Brazilian government will offer the contract to build a $6 billion dam on the Madeira River, the Amazon´s principal tributary, to private companies, including Suez, Endesa and Odebrecht, in an auction behind closed doors. But you too can take part in this Day [...]

Francisco Avalos at a sustainable farm in Minnesota

Here’s a great video about the cycle of production and consumption: The Story of Stuff. Sponsored by our friends at the Tides Foundation and Funders Workgroup for Sustainable Production and Consumption. You’ll see RAN on their list of NGOs working on changing the materials economy.

Snow is gently blowing across the runway during our takeoff into the clear cold night sky. Under the brilliant bright moon, the darkness of the trees contrasting with the brightness of the ice and snow are beautiful. Soon after takeoff I spy an orange glow in the horizon. Multiple plants [...]

I noticed another climate change column from Thomas L. Friedman in my e-mail in-box this morning. On the whole, it was a lot more encouraging than this earlier piece, in which he lamented that the current generation of American college students isn’t making enough noise about the issue of climate change, among other things. [...]