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For the second time in as many weeks, activists have been arrested protesting the mountaintop removal mining of Coal River Mountain, the site of a proposed wind farm. Massey Energy has started blasting in the beginnings of removing the top of Coal River Mountain. RAN and Earth First! founder Mike Roselle and Jamie McGinness were [...]
Continue reading...By Scott Parkin, February 15 2009
On Valentine’s Day in San Francisco’s tourist packed Union Square shopping district, over 25 climate activists descended on Bank of America to close their accounts and ask the banking giant “Where’s Your Heart?” In it’s inaugural action, Rising Tide Bay Area (RTBA) connected environmental justice and economic justice issues by protesting the Bank’s continued unjust [...]
Continue reading...By Scott Parkin, February 13 2009
Today, February 13th, 2009, Baltimore Rising Tide confronts Constellation Energy about their connections to coal and threaten to “break-up” with the company unless they begin to explore local and sustainable energy solutions. Baltimore Rising Tide, a local environmental group confronting the root causes of climate change, surprised employees at the Constellation Energy building on Pratt [...]
Continue reading...By joshua kahn russell, February 13 2009
Is Banksy endorsing the Capitol Climate Action (CCA)? It’s not photoshopped. Large scale stencils, wheatpasting, and paint graffiti is turning up in DC promoting the Capitol Climate Action on March 2nd. So what’s keeping you from RSVPing?
Continue reading...By joshua kahn russell, February 12 2009
Susan Sarandon just made a video asking people to participate in the Capitol Climate Action on March 2nd (and you don’t really need to get arrested to join!) Wk She’s lending her voice to a number of other endorsers, most recently including Appalachian groups who have more people interested in participating than they have busses, [...]
Continue reading...By Scott Parkin, February 11 2009
Interesting turn of events with the US Climate Action Partnership (USCAP). You may remember that in Dec. 2007 Rising Tide spoofed USCAP with a hoax website that got major international media. AIG Withdraws From US Climate Action Partnership Dow Joes Newswire February 6, 2009 WASHINGTON — American International Group (AIG), the beleaguered insurance giant rescued [...]
Continue reading...By Annie Sartor, February 11 2009
People call the RAN office all the time asking for paper purchasing advice. We tell people that our office uses 100% post-consumer recycled paper from New Leaf Paper, and that they should look for paper that is also 100% post consumer recycled, preferably not chlorine bleached. If they can’t find such paper, we encourage folks [...]
Continue reading...By Annie Sartor, February 11 2009
Our friends at Bank of America, Citigroup, and other major banks are in the news this week: - Yesterday, Treasury Secretary Geithner unveiled the Obama administration’s bailout plan to spend up to 2 TRILLION dollars to revive the economy, including details for how the government will spend the second half of the TARP bailout funds. [...]
Continue reading...By Scott Parkin, February 11 2009
UPDATE: Ron Arnold of Center for the Defense of Free Interprise and the Wise Use movement has come out with a statement in support of Roselle: “02/11/09 Mike Roselle – I don’t agree with him, but he’s no terrorist. CDFE executive vice president Ron Arnold angrily condemned a WCHS-TV8 report suggesting Roselle is an “eco-terrorist.” [...]
Continue reading...By Branden Barber, February 10 2009
This from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA. For those out there that have any lingering doubts about humanity’s role in warming our fragile planetary life-supporting systems, time to wake up. In fact, that time has passed. Given the findings in this article, we have less than no time to [...]
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