Posts By Jodie Van Horn

Jodie - who has written 13 posts on Rainforest Action Network Blog.


Grassroots Update: Vancouver, Canada

By Jodie, March 31 2006

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Grassroots Update: Vancouver, Canada

In blacks and beiges, the TD Greenwash Action Team met up early to go over our plan for the Toronto Dominion annual shareholder meeting. There were about a dozen of us, from various organizations and affiliations, ready to pose as TD Bank’s welcoming committee at the entrance to the Westin Resort and Marina in Vancouver, [...]

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Coal: No Alternative to Oil

By Jodie, March 30 2006

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Coal: No Alternative to Oil

In these days where much attention is focused on oil (oil wars, auto emissions, oil addiction, etc etc) one of the potential problems that could arise is a new dependency on coal and coal-fired power plants. When burned, coal is the dirtiest fossil fuel. It releases toxic mercury, acid-rain producing sulfur dioxide, and much more [...]

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Trading Foreign Oil For Homegrown Dirty Energy

By Jodie, February 9 2006

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Trading Foreign Oil For Homegrown Dirty Energy

When I listened to Bush’s recent State Of The Union speech decrying America’s addiction to foreign oil, it made me hesitate for a moment—“Hey, he’s finally onto something!” But then I realized 2 key words—“FOREIGN OIL”. While Bush wants us off oil from “unstable parts of the world”, here in our own backyard big oil [...]

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