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The fight against mountaintop removal coal mining is coming to San Francisco this week with some great events. *San Francisco Premiere of “Coal Country” – Wednesday, Sept. 30 at 7pm “Coal Country” is a dramatic look at modern coal mining. We get to know working miners along with activists who are battling coal companies in [...]
Continue reading...By Branden Barber, September 28 2009
I first met Maria Gunnoe a couple of years ago when we had the great fortune to honor her at REVEL with a World Rainforest Award for her courageous and critical work in West Virginia’s Appalachian mountains. I was impressed by her courage and her spirit – and just how engaging and approachable she is. [...]
Continue reading...By Robin Averbeck, September 28 2009
On July 30, 2009 Rainforest Action Network sent letters to almost 100 fashion and retail companies alerting them that them that they were contributing to the destruction of endangered tropical rainforests in Indonesia through their procurement of packaging products and shopping bags from Asia Pulp and Paper/Sinar Mas Group affiliate PAK 2000. The letter informed [...]
Continue reading...By Scott Parkin, September 28 2009
Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue. It seeks so to dramatize the issue that it can no longer be ignored. –Martin Luther King Jr. I recently saw the new German film “The [...]
Continue reading...By David Gilbert, September 28 2009
Below is a video interview shot at RAN’s offices in San Francisco with Matilda Pilacapio, an environmental rights advocate from PNG who is fighting Cargill’s massive palm oil operations in her home province of Milne Bay. Matilda weighs in on palm oil, Cargill, and the rise of the ‘carbon cowboy’ climate traders in her home [...]
Continue reading...By joshua kahn russell, September 28 2009
…and we’re off to a crawl cross posted from Grist. Coming right off the heels of the UN General Assembly in New York and the G20 in Pittsburgh, the world has taken its next step on the road to Copenhagen: the Bangkok round of negotiations for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). [...]
Continue reading...By David Gilbert, September 25 2009
Reuters ran a story this week on illegal palm oil development in Aceh, Indonesia. The story takes an interesting angle, completely ignoring the massive scale of legal oil palm development in Aceh and focusing in on illegal planting by small farmers or tiny companies. With oil palm threatening to overwhelm Aceh’s Leuser Ecosystem, NGOs and [...]
Continue reading...By Jennifer Krill, September 25 2009
Senators Kerry and Boxer have said that they are on track to introduce the first step for Senate version of the ACES climate bill next Wednesday, September 30th. The draft will reportedly include an emissions reduction target of 20% from 2005 levels by 2020, an modest improvement over ACES’ 17% target, but nowhere near the [...]
Continue reading...By Annie Sartor, September 25 2009
This action alert comes from the Waterkeeper Alliance, a great organization that, according to their mission, “provides a way for communities to stand up for their right to clean water and for the wise and equitable use of water resources, both locally and globally.” Take action to help stop a coal industry insider from becoming [...]
Continue reading...By Brant Olson, September 24 2009
RBC CEO Gord Nixon should be putting his bank’s money where his mouth is. Last week, he offered an incoherent defense of RBC’s “balanced approach” to the environment after RAN activists confronted him on the bank’s financial support for expansion of Canada’s tar sands. Recognizing his stumble, Nelson hit the papers this week to explain. [...]
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By Scott Parkin, September 28 2009
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