Archive | February, 2008

Great News for the Old Growth Campaign!

By Annie Sartor, February 28 2008

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Great News for the Old Growth Campaign!

What happened: Boise announced yesterday that it “wishes to honor the request of Chief Fobister to discontinue sourcing fiber from the Traditional Use Area of Grassy Narrows”. Check out their letter here: boises-letter.pdf AbitibiBowater, the world’s largest paper company, clear-cuts trees from Grassy Narrow’s traditional territory in northwestern Ontario, and sells pulp from these trees [...]

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Video Greenwash of the Week: Virgin Air’s Biofueled 747

By Luke, February 26 2008

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Video Greenwash of the Week: Virgin Air’s Biofueled 747

We decided to do something a little different with this greenwash of the week: video! Here’s our own Robin Beck on the Virgin Air biofuel greenwash:

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Talk about a crock of s**t; Mr. Lutz there are children listening

By Nell, February 26 2008

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Talk about a crock of s**t; Mr. Lutz there are children listening

This week, General Motors Vice Chairman, Bob Lutz, defended his remark dismissing global warming as a “crock of s**t.” For a moment, the remark felt like a refreshing glimmer of honesty—a break from the company’s misleading eco-pr and green concept cars. But Lutz took it a step further by insisting that his global warming denial [...]

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Notes from the Soy Highway

By Andrea, February 25 2008

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Notes from the Soy Highway

A joint dispatch from Jodie and Andrea, RAN campaigners traveling through Argentina and Paraguay: The trip between Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Asuncion, Paraguay, takes 16 hours by bus. Although about 10 of those hours pass in darkness, the remaining 6 leave no guess as to what whizzing views one misses during the bumpy night. There [...]

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Blockade Shuts Down South Florida Power Plant Construction, 27 Arrested!

By Scott Parkin, February 19 2008

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Blockade Shuts Down South Florida Power Plant Construction, 27 Arrested!

Yesterday, Earth First and Rising Tide blockaded a gas-fired power plant construction site in Palm Beach County, Florida near “the Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge which sits 1000 ft from the power plant site.” 27 people were arrested putting their bodies on the line with over 200 people rallying in support. The action stopped construction on [...]

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Environmental Justice Community says NO to Carbon Trading!

By Matt Leonard, February 19 2008

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Environmental Justice Community says NO to Carbon Trading!

Hot on the heels of an amazing speaking tour by members of the Durban Group for Climate Justice – a coalition of mostly California-based groups spoke out today opposing carbon-trading schemes. Issuing The California Environmental Justice Movement’s Declaration Against Use of Carbon Trading Schemes to Address Climate Change – the groups argued that such systems [...]

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KI Chief facing jail time for defending land

By David, February 19 2008

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KI Chief facing jail time for defending land

“I’m prepared to go to jail for my belief in my land.” Those words were spoken by Chief Donny Morris in a Thunder Bay Ontario courtroom on January 25th. With those words it became crystal clear that Chief Morris and his small fly-in community can not, and will not back down in their stand to [...]

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Is Al Gore joining the Global Finance Campaign?

By Scott Parkin, February 16 2008

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Is Al Gore joining the Global Finance Campaign?

Al Gore keeps saying the most interesting things. I think he must read our website when surfing the internet late at night. This week, speaking to financial leaders controlling $20 trillion in assets, Gore said “You need to really scrub your investment portfolios, because I guarantee you — as my longtime good redneck friends in [...]

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GM folds under pressure: greenwashing 2.0 and the aesthetic of authenticity

By Luke, February 15 2008

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GM folds under pressure: greenwashing 2.0 and the aesthetic of authenticity

We’ve been getting some good press lately about how GM’s public relations people decided to turn off some features on gmnext.com and hold a special forum in response to our supporters’ concerns about their environmental practices (they also killed some of the images we uploaded before they ever went live). GM poured untold resources into [...]

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OSU Students Intercept President Gee – Twice!

By David, February 14 2008

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OSU Students Intercept President Gee – Twice!

Check out this update from our friends at OSU Today, Thursday the 14th, Free The Planet members directly confronted OSU President Gordon Gee, not once, but twice. This morning I went to see Kate Wolford, assistant to the President and Director of Operations here at OSU. She is one of the university’s key negotiators at [...]

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