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Over the last two months, Rainforest Action Network has been working with CREDO and The Other 98% to lay the groundwork to prepare for the Pledge of Resistance. The Pledge is a commitment made by more than 60,000 people to engage in civil disobedience and risk arrest if President Obama’s administration issues a draft approval [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, May 9, 2013
VIDEO: To watch more of what happened yesterday at the Bank of America shareholder meeting in Charlotte, watch the clip at the bottom of this blog post. As I stood eye-to-eye with Bank of America (BofA) CEO, Brian Moynihan, a large stop-watch projected onto the wall of the conference room started to count down. I [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, May 7, 2013
I’m in Charlotte this week to talk to Bank of America’s annual shareholder meeting. For the past two years, RAN has been calling on the bank to get serious about addressing climate change.This is a bank that declares a “commitment to positive environmental change” proudly on its website and a bank that has fanfared multi-billion [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, April 24, 2013
It’s sure to be a spectacular evening in the ‘Grate’ Room at Terrapin Crossroads, Phil Lesh’s new venue on the canals of San Rafael. We’ll kick off with critically acclaimed singer-songwriter Harper Simon, followed by the legendary Phil Lesh himself jamming with the Terrapin Family Band. Join us for a VIP reception at 6:30 with [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, April 10, 2013
A Guest blog-post by Yann Louvel, BankTrack‘s Climate and Energy Campaign Coordinator This week, Bloomberg published the results of its third annual ranking of the “world’s greenest banks”: Citi was ranked first, followed by Santander and JPMorgan. The study assesses banks based on their lending to clean-energy projects and reduction in their own power consumption [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, April 4, 2013
Is anyone else paying attention to the tweets that Exxon-Mobil have posted following the aftermath of the Mayflower, Arkansas oil spill? Frustratingly—and not surprisingly—Exxon has issued a hollow apology “for the inconvenience” to the town of Mayflower for spilling over 80,000 gallons of oil that cascaded through the streets of this small town last Friday: [...]
Continue reading...Friday, March 29, 2013
Perhaps it’s the weather or our coastal position, the intellectual attitudes or revolutionary roots–this much is clear: there is no shortage of enthusiasm in Boston to expose Bank of America (BofA) as the #1 financier of U.S. coal and climate change. We are responding to the climate emergency and we are illuminating its economic, social [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, February 17, 2013
“Now that we have seen what the Tar Sands in Alberta looks like, this is not about the pipeline going through our farm. This is about Alberta, about the world. ” This week tens of thousands of people have arrived in Washington D.C. to defend the climate and demonstrate their opposition to the Keystone XL [...]
Continue reading...Friday, February 8, 2013
Today, we’re pleased to announce the appointment of Lindsey Allen, RAN’s Forest Program Director, as our Acting Executive Director. Lindsey has been the Forest Program Director at RAN since October 2010. Under her lead the Program secured the largest victory for rainforests in RAN’s 27-year history (literally)—a paper policy transforming everything about the way entertainment [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, January 31, 2013
Wow. You know your brand is in the gutter when even Rupert Murdoch won’t buy from you because of your company’s bad reputation. But few companies have done as much to earn their bad name as Asia Pulp and Paper (APP). Responding to RAN’s campaign, Murdoch’s HarperCollins has just announced they will no longer buy [...]
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