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Al Jazeera English reports today on the ways that corruption is fueling deforestation in Southeast Asia and the consequences for people on the ground. It’s a great spot – check it out.
Continue reading...By Adrian, July 14 2009
It’s pretty rare that I read a Green Scare smear piece that turns my stomach these days. But this one just took the cake. The Canadian Defence & Foreign Affairs Institute just released a report called “Resource Industries and Security Issues in Northern Alberta,” written by University of Calgary professor Tom Flanagan (the “man behind [...]
Continue reading...By joshua kahn russell, July 14 2009
Check out the final glorious episode of the 10 day adventure of RAN and Substance educating and mobilizing people to stop the Tar Sands, with rock bands Propagandhi and Strike Anywhere In this one we talk to bands, Chrissy Swain from Grassy Narrows, RAN activists, and talk about how YOU can get involved with the [...]
Continue reading...By Adrian, July 14 2009
I just read a fantastic article by Derrick Jensen in the Orion that I wanted to share with you. About once a week – on comments on the Understory, or in conversations that I have with friends – I hear someone make a remark that fits into a common theme: I’m glad you organized this [...]
Continue reading...By Scott Parkin, July 13 2009
The New York Action Network has joined RAN’s campaign to force Wall Street’s biggest bank out of Appalachia. Right now, JP Morgan Chase is the biggest financier of coal companies destroying our Appalachian Mountains. Check out the video they made after they visited Chase branches all over Manhattan on Friday and Saturday.
Continue reading...By Lafcadio Cortesi, July 10 2009
Sinar Mas Group, one of Indonesia’s largest business cartel’s and, between its holdings in the pulp and paper and oil palm sectors, perhaps the nation’s biggest forest destroyer, has once again proven that it operates outside responsible business norms by detaining journalists in the Sumatran province of Jambi. In fact, given its atrocious record on [...]
Continue reading...By Branden Barber, July 10 2009
The Carbon Logic Problem Statement by Ken Ward. All too often those debating the solutions and proposed actions to tackle global warming fail to challenge the assumptions. While it's important to deal with emissions it can be argued that the root causes of emissions lie farther upstream and can more effectively deal with the challenges we are facing. Cutting emissions is good. Investing in clean energy and cutting emissions before the fuel is readied is better.
Continue reading...By joshua kahn russell, July 10 2009
Check out episode 9 of the 10 day adventure of RAN and Substance educating and mobilizing people to stop the Tar Sands, with rock bands Propagandhi and Strike Anywhere
Continue reading...By Scott Parkin, July 9 2009
This week, a group of Cascadia Earth First!ers and Rising Tide members took action against the continued liquidation and destruction of Oregon’s Elliot State Forest. Using sky pods, bipods, road blockades, overturned cargo vans, lock downs and many other beautiful installations, the road to Umpcoos Ridge timber sale has been occupied, held and reclaimed for [...]
Continue reading...By Toben, July 8 2009
A Tasmanian tragedy? : How the forestry industry has torn an island apart. A great article from Mongabay on the momumental struggle to protect Tasmania’s forests from clearcutting by rogue logger Gunns, Inc. RAN is proud to be working alongside our allies in Australia to preserve these maginificent forests, which include the world’s tallest hardwood [...]
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By Margaret, July 17 2009
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