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What an inspirational week! The Rainforest Agribusiness campaigners, interns, and legions of supporters across the world have taken major steps to bring about the end of palm oil expansion into endangered ecosystems and displacing Indigenous communities. And they did it on the Internet! So many non-profits use the Internet merely to raise funds or to [...]
Continue reading...By Stan, March 13 2008
The Vatican, in an effort to modernize the Catholic Church, has revised the list of mortal sins. Even those of us who fell asleep in the pews could recite the old list thanks to its archaic but charismatic words (sloth, wrath, avarice, etc.) but the new list has a decidedly contemporary character: Genetic modification Human [...]
Continue reading...By Stan, January 10 2008
The Malaysian Palm Oil Council is promoting their product as the green alternative to oil (of the non-Malaysian Palm variety). They’re running a series of ads each ending in “Sustainably produced since 1917″. I’m all for turning people away from the sticky black goo, but mowing down pristine rainforests to do so is not what [...]
Continue reading...By Stan, November 28 2007
I like Google. No, wait… I love Google. The folks in Mountain View have changed my life for the better, several times. Google Search did it the first time, then Google Image Search, then Google News, Google Maps… Really, almost every project they come up with has improved the quality of my life, not just [...]
Continue reading...By Stan, October 2 2007
If you’d like to get a feel for what it’s like to run a trans-national fast food company, head over to McVideo Game. You have to make some tough choices, like whether or not to demolish Indigenous villages in order to plant soy to feed to your malnourished cattle. It’s a fairly “enlightened” video game [...]
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Our inside man Brant has infiltrated a banking convention and is broadcasting live. RAN activists will soon be putting the pressure on Bank of America for its investments in coal and other dirty energy. You can watch it all as it happens at ran.org/live! Join me in the chatroom if you have any questions about [...]
Continue reading...By Stan, September 13 2007
Several attendees to the upcoming protest in DC this weekend are planning on dressing in strictly business attire. You can read their reasons via that last link, but here’s the gist of it: “[W]e believe that a professional appearance will be more effective in projecting seriousness and determination to the administration, and more effective in [...]
Continue reading...By Stan, August 2 2007
I’ve been laughing all morning over Weyerhaeuser’s new website GrowingIdeas.com. It’s comically evil—and illustrates better than we ever could just how out-of-touch they are with reality. I clicked on “What Can a Tree Be?”, wondering why being a key part of a diverse ecosystem, like providing shelter for animals, preventing erosion and producing oxygen was [...]
Continue reading...By Stan, July 20 2007
RAN members often ask us why we’re so crazy about plug-ins (a.k.a. Plug-in Hybrids, a.k.a. Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles, a.k.a. PHEVs). A new report from fellow environmental non-profit NRDC (a.k.a. Natural Resource Defense Council) and EPRI (a.k.a. Electric Power Research Institute) lays it out pretty well. Why we’re so crazy about acronyms is a different [...]
Continue reading...By Stan, June 14 2007
An update from our Tasmanian Campaigner, David Lee: This past week, RAN Senior Campaigner Bill Barclay and I were in Tokyo, Japan, to help our Japanese staff host three forums focused upon the serious problems with old growth logging in Tasmania. Japanese paper companies purchase over 80 percent of the woodchips produced by Gunns Limited, [...]
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By Stan, August 15 2008
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