Greetings netizens! Today we’re broadcasting live online from the LA Autoshow where we’ve teamed up with Cal Cars to convert a modest Prius Hybrid into an amazing plug-in electric that will average 100 MPG. Drop by http://www.Justin.tv/ryse to catch the action all day and join us live in the chatroom. UPDATE: I’ve gone ahead and [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Blogging late after a great day of cloak and dagger infiltration at the LA Auto Show. Here’s what the AP had to say about incident in this video: After the Sequoia was introduced Wednesday, an environmental activist with a video camera approached Toyota’s general manager for U.S. sales, Bob Carter, and asked why the company [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, November 14, 2007
It’s auto show season again. That’s right—the beginning of the annual cycle where the automakers roll through LA, Detroit, New York, (and thousands of smaller cities in between) launching their new concept cars. This week, Freedom from Oil is blogging from the Los Angeles Auto Show—the “green” autoshow of the year. Like last year we’re [...]
Continue reading...Monday, October 29, 2007
Under the haze of smoke from forest fires in southern California on the day of No War No Warming, Freedom From Oil Campaign, Global Exchange, Plug In America, Interfaith Power & Light and RAN supporters rallied at Toyota Santa Monica to tell Toyota to drop out the Pavely lawsuit and to be a leader in [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, 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...Monday, 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 [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, May 24, 2007
Blogger, podcaster, and otherwise web-savvy worldchanger Britt Bravo dropped by the RAN office the other day. She’s been a friend to RAN in the past, interviewing one of our Freedom From Oil campaigners Jodie Van Horn, Global Finance Campaign Director Emeritus and MoveOn.org Campaign Director Ilyse Hogue, and most recently once-upon-a-time RAN Board of Directors [...]
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Thursday, November 15, 2007
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