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Japhet - who has written 134 posts on Rainforest Action Network Blog.
After a lifetime on the East Coast and getting stuck in the Midwestern suburbs of Chicago and northern Michigan I'm finally on the West Coast in the always cool and never hot city of San Francisco.
Japhet worked for various outdoor organizations before becoming a member of Howard Dean's webteam (a lowly online organizer) in Burlington, Vermont. Afterwards, he continued his election work with America Coming Together in Madison, Wisconsin where he helped increase voter turnout to the highest in state history.
Now, coming back to this environmental and corporate ethics roots, Japhet is excited to put his skills to use for Rainforest Action Network.
Presidential contender Barack Obama (D-IL) unleashed his energy plan with strong words for the heads of America’s auto leaders in Detroit. Yet, despite a reasonably strong stand on auto emissions the plan appeared to have gaping holes in addressing how our nation uses other sources of energy that are more polluting and more dangerous than [...]
Continue reading...By Japhet, April 29 2007
National Arbor Day was on Friday. Did anyone know? No doubt millions of Americans were taking time off work to go and plant trees in their neighborhoods and communities. Ok, well maybe not. Clearly, Arbor Day has taken a hit on the national holiday regard-o-meter. I can’t remember ever really “celebrating” National Arbor Day. But [...]
Continue reading...By Japhet, April 21 2007
Australia is suffering through an epic six-year drought and it just got a lot worse. The Australian government has warned its farmers that they are dangerously close to pulling the plug on their irrigation supplies to meet the need of all-time low drinking water reserves. Basically, Australia will stop producing food for a little while [...]
Continue reading...By Japhet, April 18 2007
A couple of activists up in Seattle along with our old growth team sent a strong message to Weyerhaeuser and their doting subsidiary Quadrant Homes: stop logging land and forests that belong to first nation’s communities, like Grassy Narrows. Checkout the footage at Seattle’s King 5 website: http://www.king5.com/video/news-index.html?nvid=136719 Nicely done folks. More info on this [...]
Continue reading...By Japhet, April 18 2007
Right in Farragut Square…well done folks.
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Probably one of the best all around actions during the Step It Up weekend, our activists in Madison, NJ strolled down Main Street to their local Chase bank to shed a little light on the banks financial support of coal-fired power plants. My favorite photograph is of the three miners sitting in the waiting room [...]
Continue reading...By Japhet, April 16 2007
This just in from our favorite billionaire, Jolly Ho of Sarasota… I am very glad to report that the billionaires had an absolutely spiffing time on Friday. Who knew that mingling with the poor could be so enjoyable? My companion and I donned our finest apparel and headed downtown to the office of our dear [...]
Continue reading...By Japhet, April 13 2007
…had a good showing in TXU-country.
Continue reading...By Japhet, April 13 2007
About 20 RAN supporters and staff turned out to the corner of Kearney and California at the Bank of America building in San Francisco, as a group of “Billionaires for Coal” banned together to throw a cocktail party on the plaza, part of . The party was complete with a game of croquet and badminton [...]
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Lamoko is a small village on the Maringa River deep in the heart of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The village sits beside a giant swath of virgin rainforest containing high-value species like African Teak and Sapele. Back in 2005 a couple of representatives from a major timber firm showed up to negotiate a [...]
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By Japhet, May 7 2007
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