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Great report back from Samantha Corbin, who attended Bunge’s shareholder meeting last Friday! “I’m more of a party crasher than someone who gets an engraved invitation. Certainly so when the party is the shareholder meeting of a billion-dollar multinational corporation like Bunge, one of the largest argribusiness and food companies in the world and a [...]
Continue reading...By Jennifer Krill, March 20 2009
Integrity is everything when you’ve got limited resources and are committed to saving the world’s last remaining old growth forests, defending Indigenous rights, and stopping climate change. While we applaud the efforts of those who are actively trying to limit our emissions and put a system in place that will ensure that this is so, [...]
Continue reading...By Jennifer Krill, March 16 2009
Great news from Australia! A logging company has settled its lawsuit against its activist critics, and believe it or not the logger is the one who has to pay the legal fees! In 2004, the largest logger in Tasmania, Gunns Ltd. surprised the world by suing 20 of its strongest critics, charging them with 9 [...]
Continue reading...By Jennifer Krill, November 17 2008
Check out yesterday’s blog post from Marc Gunther: http://www.marcgunther.com/?p=431 Charging ahead with electric cars As the electric car is business gets more and more crowded, it feels like we are approaching a breakthrough. It could come from a U.S. automaker like GM with its Volt, from a European company like Renault (and its partner Nissan) [...]
Continue reading...By Jennifer Krill, November 15 2008
After three decades of cheap oil, the rising cost of gasoline is finally driving consumers away from gas guzzling cars trucks and SUVs, the mainstay of Detroit’s profit margins. Now General Motors, with its 100,000 workers, 1300 suppliers and thousands of dealerships around the country, may go bankrupt without federal support. If Wall Street is [...]
Continue reading...By Jennifer Krill, October 14 2008
Coming up in November, RAN staff will be attending the FSC General Assembly meeting as one of 350 members of the environmental chamber. The FSC is the only forest certification scheme in the world in which RAN and environmentalists can fight for greater protections – others, like the SFI, won’t even let us in the [...]
Continue reading...By Jennifer Krill, October 6 2008
Thanks in part to the support from tens of thousands of RAN activists and supporters, this past June the Grassy Narrows First Nation won an unprecedented victory when AbitibiBowater, the largest paper company in the world, agreed to stop logging in their traditional territory and the provincial government agreed to honor Grassy Narrows’ consent for [...]
Continue reading...By Jennifer Krill, September 24 2008
More on the Wall Street meltdown below with an internal shake-up at Citi over its responsibilities to clients. If you’re in San Francisco, or in New York, come out tomorrow to tell all of Wall Street what you think we should be doing with $700 billion dollars. Fortune/CNN Money blogs September 22, 2008, 4:39 pm [...]
Continue reading...By Jennifer Krill, July 17 2008
Check out this great piece from longtime RAN friend Marc Geller from Plug In America. He took a CNN reporter for a ride around San Francisco in his petroleum-free, solar powered electric car. The best way to solve our addiction on oil (and high gas prices, and wars for oil, and expanding refineries to process [...]
Continue reading...By Jennifer Krill, June 25 2008
Sad news in Detroit: yesterday the expansion of the Marathon Oil Refinery was approved in Detroit. As you would expect from the ruthless, profiteering oil industry, the refinery is cited in a predominantly community of color, and the brunt of pollution is borne by neighboring residents. In exchange for voluntary pledges from Marathon, the city [...]
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By Jennifer Krill, May 11 2009
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