Last week, I posted a blog about ten activists who were sentenced to ten days in a Chinese prison after doing pro-Tibet actions at the Olympics. Thankfully, they ended up being there for only three days, but had a terrible ordeal in that time. Two of the activists are friends and comrades of mine, Jeremy [...]

UPDATE: All but two of the ten detained have been put on a plane to the United States. Florian Norbu Gyanatshang, 30, of Stuttgart, Germany and Mandie McKeown, 41, of Bristol, United Kingdom are still in custody. Please continue to contact U.S. and Chinese officials about these last two human rights activists in [...]

I’m in Minneapolis, shortly before the 2009 Republican National Convention…and the gigantic protest spectacle here to greet it. But I don’t think I’m even going this year. Not to dis all the good folks who will be pouring into town in the coming week to express their dissatisfaction with that last 8 years of the [...]

In the end, climate change made us quit. On most days, we’re like any other card-carrying, food-conscious environmentalists. My wife and I shop at our local natural grocery store, dutifully selecting locally grown, organic produce. We planted fruit trees a few years ago, our summer vegetable garden is thriving, and we generally do what we can [...]

Check out this totally amazing video made up of the pictures from the Photo Actions we did at the beginning of the year. The video was put together by the all star team of Stan Jones, Peter Saltanis, Aja Lippincott, and Kate Heller:

You know you are doing something right when Fortune Magazine and CNN Money highlight your work. This week, Marc Gunther, a senior writer at Fortune, published this fabulous article : Eco-Police Find A New Target: Oreos. The tagline says it all “Kraft Foods, Kellogg’s and other US food producers come under attack as demand for vegetable [...]

It’s not every day that one has the opportunity to chit chat with the likes of Bob Rubin, but today was such a day. I was at the National Clean Energy Summit in (of all places) Las Vegas (not to self: in future, avoid excessively consumptive locales when trying to stay inspired about the future [...]

RAN’s representative on the Sustainable Living Roadshow tour is Marty Driggs… his first report from the field… Hello blog world! Marty here, checking in from Berkeley, CA, where the crew of the Sustainable Living Roadshow is making final preparations before embarking on its first national tour, “Be The Change 2008.” We are a [...]

The Mendoza family, along with the snakes, birds, bears, frogs, fish and ancient oak trees shared their home with our RYSE crew in the vast wilderness of the Mendocino National forest for six days. We swam, hiked, shared stories, shared struggles, made masks, danced, skipped rocks and stickered palm oil products. We looked climate [...]

I just got back from seven days that reminded me why youth are gonna save the world. I had the privilege of helping train and learn from 200 brilliant young organizers in Minneapolis Minnesota at the Energy Action Coalition Power Vote camp. It was the most fluid and well organized training I had ever been [...]