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Nissan recently announced plans to produce electric vehicles for the U.S. market by 2010. This upstages announcements from both GM and Toyota, which have also announced plans for plug-in production. Nissan’s commitment will make it the first automaker to sell zero emission vehicles in the U.S. Well, the first in the second wave anyway. (See [...]
Continue reading...By Jodie, May 12 2008
Ever heard of Corporate Watchdog Radio? It’s a weekly radio show and audio/video podcast on issues that you most likely care about (since you read the Understory). Last week the Business Ethics Network offered RAN a Commentaries spot on the Corporate Watchdog Radio show. I recorded a short piece on biofuels – a timely week [...]
Continue reading...By Jodie, April 6 2008
This weekend the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) governors and directors are in Miami for their annual meeting. And where there is unaccountable and unsustainable finance, there is also a broad alliance of representatives from Indigenous groups, human rights, environmental, and developmental organizations from across Latin America, the US and Europe out protesting the bank’s policies [...]
Continue reading...By Jodie, March 28 2008
Yesterday in a bold move backwards, California’s Air Resource Board (CARB) voted to kill the electric car. Again. Bowing to automaker pressure. Again. Ignoring the concerns of California’s citizens. Again. CARB reviews what is known as the Zero Emission Vehicle Program every 5 years. At one time, this cutting edge program pushed automakers to produce [...]
Continue reading...By Jodie, January 13 2008
Today we marched through the streets of downtown Detroit towards the Cobo convention center where the North American International Auto Show launched into the first day of glitz, glam, and greenwash. More than sixty students from a half-dozen campuses around Michigan carpooled (for lack of another option) to Detroit to send a clear message to [...]
Continue reading...By Jodie, October 23 2007
WASHINGTON D.C. The arrests are still being tallied, the YouTube videos posted, and cars returned from impound lots – all residuals of Monday’s No War, No Warming mobilization that sent ripples from Washington D.C. to Santa Monica. Peace and climate activists banded together on October 22 to engage in an historical act of nonviolent civil [...]
Continue reading...By Jodie, October 2 2007
Over the weekend, in East Lansing, Michigan, a fierce network of student activists reconfirmed its commitment to raise hell for anyone who stands in their way on the path to sustainability. The group is called the Michigan Student Sustainability Coalition, or the MSSC, and its mission is to band together enviros from universities across Michigan [...]
Continue reading...By Jodie, July 9 2007
The Amazon basin is often referred to as the “lungs of the world’ for its role in regulating global climate. Over the weekend, as the Live Earth Concert series brought together an estimated two billion people from across the world around global warming, the Ecuadorian Amazon was (to continue the anatomical analogy) at the heart [...]
Continue reading...By Jodie, June 20 2007
On Monday of this week, Google.org, the philanthropic arm of Google, announced the launch of their 10 million dollar plug-in hybrid electric vehicle initiative (RechargeIT), and unveiled the largest solar charging station in the country. Google’s support of plug-in hybrid technology gives a healthy boost to the movement to demonstrate that plug-in cars are viable, [...]
Continue reading...By Jodie, June 4 2007
The Freedom from Oil team made a special delivery in Sacramento last week at the door of the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers (AAM), the major lobbying association of the auto industry. Complete with “An Idiot’s Guide to Global Warming”, a copy of An Inconvenient Truth, a life preserver, and a framed picture of the ever-threatened [...]
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By Jodie, May 28 2008
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