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I am happy to announce that forests continue to be this year's fashion trend. Just this week, PAK 2000, packaging supplier to fashion's finest companies, including Versace, Coach, Calvin Klein, and Marc Jacobs, has rejected rainforest destruction!
PAK 2000 announced that they will cut all ...
Green Living
Indonesia
Human Rights Watch has just released the report: Wild Money: The human rights consequences of illegal logging and corruption in Indonesia’s forestry sector .
Talking to allies in Riau, Sumatra, where Asia Pulp and Paper (APP) is logging tropical forests, it is clear that APP engages in ...
Green Living
Indonesia
Yesterday the New York Times featured the plight of Indonesian rainforests and the relevance of stemming deforestation in order to address global climate change on the front page. While the article correctly identifies the global importance of rainforests and peatlands for the climate, it ...
Other
New York
Today on the Global Day of Climate Justice Action, a rowdy march in San Francisco made it’s way to Bank of America’s skyscraper (the tallest building in San Francisco), where dozens of activists blockaded the doors all around the building.
Some locked themselves within the ...
Environment
Climate Change
Concerned citizens have blocked the shipment of a massive generator to Cliffside Coal Plant.
Pictures on their way. Keep track at http://twitter.com/RisingTideNA
Greenville, SC Two protestors have locked themselves to the 1.5 million pound generator destined for Duke Energy’s Cliffside coal ...
Energy/Transportation
Coal Mining
On November 30, major demonstrations, teach-ins and civil disobedience actions will take place in nine cities around the U.S.—in Chicago, New York, Boston, San Francisco, Seattle, Burlington, VT, two cities in Maine, and Washington DC, as well as several other countries—one week before the UN ...
Environment
Climate Change
Energy Crisis
It’s only a few days until November 30, an international day of climate action and solidarity with the upcoming protests in Copenhagen.
Nine cities are preparing mobilizations, mass actions, protests and civil disobedience targeting a variety of corporate entities complicit in the climate ...
Environment
Climate Change
Energy Crisis
This is a nice piece of news . Hopefully the folks in Meigs County, OH will have a good holiday this year in celebrating the cancellation of this proposed plant.
Meigs is ranked as one of the most polluted counties in the country as southeast Ohio is already the site of many coal plants. ...
Energy/Transportation
Ohio
Coal Mining
As negotiations wrapped up in Barcelona at the UN Climate Talks, the opportunity for a robust agreement to reduce emissions from deforestation and degradation in developing countries (REDD) is dangling from a wire. The latest negotiating text , which parties will be working on at the opening of ...
Other
The world’s forests are a critical piece of the climate change puzzle. Covering over 30 percent of the Earth’s land surface, forests play a huge role in regulating weather patterns and absorbing the carbon that we release into the atmosphere. Not to mention, global deforestation is ...
Energy/Transportation
Low Carbon Energy
Canada
Agribusiness
United States
Last week I was in Sumatra, Indonesia, traveling with representatives from the local NGO Warsi, investigating the impacts of Asia Pulp and Paper (APP), a wholly owned subsidiary of Sinar Mas, on forests and forests peoples.
Two days of 4×4 travel over dirt roads brought my team to PT ...
Green Living
Indonesia
November 23, 2009
Published in the Huffington Post
by Han Shan
Chevron is piling on the lobbyists and PR firms in an extraordinary effort to evade responsibility for its massive toxic contamination of the Ecuadorian Amazon.
But in a recent article for Politico , Kenneth Vogel, who ...
Other
Oil Drilling
Ecuador
There has been a lot of grassroots pressure on the EPA in the last few weeks on the issue of Mountaintop Removal. Last Friday I was able to meet a new coalition of youth activists in Philly that has emerged when they were speaking out at the Region 3 EPA headquarters.
The group, Philadelphia ...
Environment
Environmental Protection Agency
Coal Mining
Responding to Harmful Government Inaction, Protestors Stop Blasting on Coal River Mountain
PETTUS, W. Va. – Early this morning two concerned citizens, Dea Goblirsch and Nick Martin, locked down to a drill rig on Coal River Mountain’s Bee Tree mountaintop removal site, effectively stopping ...
Energy/Transportation
Coal Mining
November 20th, 2009
Published in the Huffington Post
By Trudie Styler Actress, director, producer, and ...
Green Living
From RAN’s Dana Clarke
We’ve just learned that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has sent a very legalistic letter to Marfork Coal Company, the Massey Energy subsidiary that is blasting on Coal River Mountain. The letter follows up on an EPA site visit to Coal River Mountain ...
Environment
Environmental Protection Agency
Coal Mining
Massey Energy
Here are a couple of great articles by lefty author Naomi Klein about the anti-corporate movement of movements which converged in Seattle in 1999 at the shutdown of the World Trade Organization are re-converging around climate change in Copenhagen.
In both, Klein talks about how ...
Environment
Ice Age
Bill McKibben , Gloria Reuben , and RAN’s own Mike Brune have all sent letters to JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon asking him to stop JPMC’s financing of the coal industry and mountaintop removal coal mining. We got word today that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. just sent his letter to Jamie ...
Energy/Transportation
Robert Riley
West Virginia
Mr. Watson, how will you respond?
Yesterday Rainforest Action Network’s executive director Mike Brune sent a letter to Chevron’s incoming CEO John Watson and made him an offer. Come with us to Ecuador. To our knowledge no senior Chevron official has toured Texaco’s former oil installations ...
Environment
Ecuador
George Will
Seriously , if you aren’t going to be Copenhagen, ask yourself why won’t you be in West Virginia defending Coal River Mountain on Dec 7?
As climate justice movements turn towards the floundering talks in Denmark, people in Appalachia are in the fight of their lives to save Coal River ...
