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Poor Big Oil. They’ve really been taking a hit lately. Between weak climate legislation that would marginally take a bite out of their mammoth profits, billion-dollar lawsuits accusing them of dumping wastewater in some rainforest somewhere, and direct actions blaming them for cooking the climate, oil companies have really been feeling the heat. And I’m [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, August 20, 2008
RAN’s representative on the Sustainable Living Roadshow tour is Marty Driggs… his first report from the field… Hello blog world! Marty here, checking in from Berkeley, CA, where the crew of the Sustainable Living Roadshow is making final preparations before embarking on its first national tour, “Be The Change 2008.” We are a caravan of [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, August 20, 2008
I just got back from seven days that reminded me why youth are gonna save the world. I had the privilege of helping train and learn from 200 brilliant young organizers in Minneapolis Minnesota at the Energy Action Coalition Power Vote camp. It was the most fluid and well organized training I had ever been [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Ever wonder where you can learn from models of successful social movements and urban youth organizing? Sao Paulo is busting at the seams with innovative, effective, creative and inspiring youth organizing and projects. I had the privilege to live there for two years, getting schooled by people like Marcela Freitas who helped start a popular [...]
Continue reading...Monday, May 12, 2008
Weyerhaeuser, by way of its iLevel brand, has been broadcasting the construction of a new house in Reedley, CA live over the Web. Quick background: In northwestern Ontario’s stretch of boreal forest, Weyerhaeuser owns and operates a major mill which obtains wood from the traditional territory of the Grassy Narrows First Nation. The community has [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, May 6, 2008
I think the first time I ever heard the word ‘greenwashing’ was in the late ’80s or maybe early ’90s after I saw a flier from McDonald’s about how they didn’t use beef from the Amazon. I brought the flier home to show my mother, an environmentalist, because I was so proud to show her [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, April 15, 2008
I coauthored this with Amy Ortiz, a student activist from the RAN network, who also works with Southern Energy Network. This past weekend, April 4-6th, something historic took place in Memphis, Tennessee. During the same few days where people from across the nation gathered in the place where Martin Luther King Jr’s was assassinated forty [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, March 5, 2008
It’s not a secret. Environmentalism has a bad name with a lot of people – and for lots of good reasons (check the article “Soul of Environmentalism” if you are not on the same page with me on this). The mainstream, majority white environmental movement has a checkered history of ignoring (or working against) the [...]
Continue reading...Friday, February 15, 2008
We’ve been getting some good press lately about how GM’s public relations people decided to turn off some features on gmnext.com and hold a special forum in response to our supporters’ concerns about their environmental practices (they also killed some of the images we uploaded before they ever went live). GM poured untold resources into [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, February 7, 2008
As promised, General Motors hosted a live webchat to address “corporate greenwashing” for RAN supporters yesterday. The Detroit News covered the event, featuring GM executive Brent Dewar “answering” questions from more than 65 RAN supporters (I use scare quotes because of the large number of questions he ignored and the indirect responses he gave to [...]
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