My friend Jonathan McIntosh remixes videos. Specifically, he takes aspects of pop-culture and jumbles them around to make them accurate (and really funny). In his most recent video, the “So You Think You Can Dance” judges are far more honest (and tough) on the candidates stances on Clean Coal and Nuclear than the “real press” [...]

Yesterday in Wise Virginia, the group who put their bodies on the line to stop the construction of Dominion’s newest coal-fired power plant on Sep. 15th appeared in court to agree to a plea agreement and read statements about their action. They had been charged with four counts ranging from tresspass to unlawful assembly. Two [...]

While watching the presidential debates last night, the first thing I noticed was that Stephen Colbert is right: John McCain sticks out his tongue more often than a lizard on a hot Arizona day. The second thing I noticed was that McCain said some interesting things about biofuels (or, as we call them, agrofuels): “Government spending has [...]

There they go again, smearing community organizers. The way McCain was talking about Obama’s connection to ACORN – and the way Obama was running away from that connection – would have you convinced that the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now was some kind of criminal syndicate working to subvert democracy. Oh my! In truth, [...]

The San Francisco Chronicle ran an op-ed from our own Mike Brune today – clearing the air on politics and clean coal. You can read it below, or check out the original article on the SF Gate site. Clean coal – a contradiction in terms Michael Brune Wednesday, October 15, 2008 If you are a politician running for national office [...]

Coming up in November, RAN staff will be attending the FSC General Assembly meeting as one of 350 members of the environmental chamber. The FSC is the only forest certification scheme in the world in which RAN and environmentalists can fight for greater protections – others, like the SFI, won’t even let us in the [...]

The Town Hall Meeting, “Rise Up and Green Up” of the Hecho en Califas festival at La Pena that we co-sponsored in Berkeley was a huge success It was one of those special moments in my organizing career where everything was just kind of amazing. People were wildly participating, the dialogue was rich and solution oriented, [...]

Written by Sarah Lozanov Published on October 9th, 2008 – Posted in alternative energy, carbon emissions http://cleantechnica.com/2008/10/09/5-dirty-aspects-of-clean-coal/ Clean coal has been getting a lot of attention lately. Both Mr. McCain and Mr. Obama consider it to be an important piece in their energy plans. Even the recent $900 billion bailout package included $1.5 billion for clean coal. [...]

Since 1993, RAN has distributed over $850,000 in small grants to traditionally under-funded organizations and communities in forest regions through our Protect-an-Acre program. Our grants (generally $5,000 or less) support organizations and communities that are working to regain control of and sustainably manage their traditional territories through land title initiatives, community education, development of sustainable [...]

As millions of viewers nation-wide made plans to join their friends for political primetime – the presidential debate, a smaller number of people representing community, environmental and economic justice gathered in Harvard Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts with a different resolve – firmly rooted in the popular notion that “Change will not come from Washington. [...]