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Branden Barber - who has written 39 posts on Rainforest Action Network Blog.
RAN's development director
It’s easy to forget all that we’ve achieved as RAN races forward into the fray, fighting the battles that must be waged and won to protect the world’s remaining forests. We work hard to live in the present, and to think strategically about the future. But the unexamined life is not worth living, as Socrates [...]
Continue reading...By Branden Barber, November 2 2009
It was an unusual site at the EPA on Friday, as a group of mountain-loving zombies turned up to let EPA Administrator, Lisa Jackson, know that Mountaintop Removal coal mining must stop. “Where’s your Brains?” One of the walking undead demanded, while others shuffled about carrying signs that called out JPMorgan Chase as the top [...]
Continue reading...By Branden Barber, October 16 2009
Surrounded by larger-than life rainforest photos draped from the walls of the gorgeous Bentley Reserve the who’s who of the environmental movement gathered last night to pay tribute to two great environmental leader and two Indigenous activists from Ecuador at REVEL, Rainforest Action Network’s annual gala. Two Ecuadoran heroes, Emergildo Criollo and Humberto Piaguaje, were [...]
Continue reading...By Branden Barber, October 6 2009
I recently went on a trip with two awesome people from Rainforest Action Network, Branden Barber and Debra Erenberg, to visit Appalachia country in West Virginia. The purpose of the trip was to see first hand what’s happening with mountaintop removal (MTR) due to the affects of coal strip mining. Its one thing to read [...]
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 Branden Barber, September 17 2009
For years now RAN has set the bar for annual environmental fundraising celebrations. And this year’s event, on October 15th will be no exception! REVEL: The Art of Activism is indeed a party “so fun it should be illegal” – “don’t miss it for the world!” My first REVEL was a few years back, and [...]
Continue reading...By Branden Barber, September 15 2009
In 1991 Judy Bonds was a waitress. One day she was with her daughter and her grandson in front of the property where she was born – and where hollers are supposed to fe forever. While they talked her grandson was played in the stream that has run in front of their property for as [...]
Continue reading...By Branden Barber, September 8 2009
Finding your way to Climate Ground Zero is easy if you know where you’re going. Well, even then I’ve learned that Google will lead me astray from time to time. But in terms of what CGZ is, well, I thought I knew. I didn’t have a clue. Well, maybe that’s unfair. I knew what was [...]
Continue reading...By Branden Barber, September 1 2009
After a series of challenges yesterday (the pilot tapping futilely on the little “check battery” light and the cancelled flight to Google’s outdated belief that there is no mine where that road used to be) we finally found ourselves in Rock Creek, West Virginia, Ground Zero for Mountain Top Removal coal mining. This is a [...]
Continue reading...By Branden Barber, July 28 2009
Indie rock sensation Trevor Hall has been an avid supporter of the Rainforest Action Network for many years, performing at a benefit concert for the organization in San Francisco in 2005. Now – Trevor and his label, Vanguard Records are teaming up with ThinkIndie.com to support RAN with some of the profits from the sales [...]
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By Branden Barber, January 6 2010
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