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Good question! USGS reports that “Before European settlement, forests covered nearly one billion acres of what is now the United States.” Data tables from the UN Forest Resource Asessment 2005 show that only 257, 439,329 acres (104,182,000 ha) of “primary” forests remain in the US (defined as where there are no clearly visible indications of [...]
Continue reading...By Scott Parkin, November 11 2008
Over the past year, thousands of people have been part of the anti-coal movement taking action against the coal and coal finance sectors. AND the struggle continues. On Nov. 14-15, We need all of you to join RAN, Greenpeace, Rising Tide, Southern Energy Network, Student Environmental Action Coalition (SEAC), Heartwood, Coal River Mountain Watch, Ohio [...]
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This post was written by our fabulous French communications intern, Virginie Corominas. In anticipation of a European directive that would mandate a 10 percent minimum of agrofuels in all fuel by 2020, three French NGOs are starting a campaign called Agrofuels, ca nourrit pas son monde. (The title of the campaign is a play on [...]
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I just saw this on Huffington post and I had to share. Newsweek got a great quote from Barack Obama on what goes through his head when he gets stupid questions about global warming during presidential debates: I often find myself trapped by the questions and thinking to myself, ‘You know, this is a stupid [...]
Continue reading...By Scott Parkin, November 7 2008
Last Friday, I blogged on the direct action that Australia Rising Tide did at the Bayswater coal fired power station in New South Wales. The action resulted in over 25 arrests, four of which locked themselves to the coal conveyor belt. Since then, Aussies have done 3 more direct actions against coal fired power plants [...]
Continue reading...By Brant Olson, November 6 2008
A report from the Globe and Mail today underscores just how important dirty oil is to Canada’s designs on the US energy markets: Prime Minister Stephen Harper is proposing to strike a joint climate-change pact with president-elect Barack Obama, an initiative that would seek to protect Alberta’s oil sands projects from potentially tough new U.S. [...]
Continue reading...By Brihannala, November 6 2008
Dispatched from Soy City USA, written by Bria M. and Andrea S., two of your Rainforest Agribusiness campaigners… Once again, ADM was under the mistaken impression that they could break the law and get away with it. In Decatur this morning we—Bria, Andrea, and Rob Parsons (a renewable energy advocate and ally in our anti-palm [...]
Continue reading...By Scott Parkin, November 6 2008
Holy smokes!! Wise County lockdown and blockade! Al Gore! Direct Action! RAN! Rising Tide! All in the pages of a national news magazine. Check out this great story by Bryan Walsh at Time magazine about the Wise County action from September. A very good piece on the growing use of direct action in the coal [...]
Continue reading...By Adrian, November 5 2008
I know, I know – after the past couple days, Halloween seems like it happened about three months ago. But I wanted to share my excitement with you about last week’s Halloween Stickering Week of Action. When my colleague Bria and I sent out action alerts to the Rainforest Agribusiness Campaign’s grassroots activists a few [...]
Continue reading...By Robin, November 5 2008
Michael Brune, RAN’s Executive Director, just sent out this email asking all of us to bring our excitement and inspiration from yesterday’s election to a discussion around how we should move forward together. Take a look and use the comments to add your voice. Michael and other RAN staff will join in as the discussion [...]
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By Brant Olson, November 11 2008
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