WWF’s Palm Oil Scorecard Rewards Companies With Links to Child Labor and Forest Destruction
Palm oil is a subject of heated debate across the globe. Why? Put simply it is a controversial, yet nearly universal, commodity. The expansion of industrial scale plantations has destroyed…
Yale Students to PepsiCo: “We Won’t Work for Conflict Palm Oil”
Earlier this week, RAN activists and volunteer Yale students disrupted a networking event where PepsiCo was recruiting at the Yale School of Management. RAN Organizers Pearl Robinson and JeNaé Nicole…
Orphaned Orangutan Gets Second Chance After His Home Was Destroyed by Palm Oil
Cross-posted at EcoWatch. As Conflict Palm Oil companies move into priceless rainforests like Sumatra’s Leuser Ecosystem, they are leaving a trail of destruction behind. Chocolate the orangutan is one of…
#TeamRainforest: Challenging Abercrombie & Fitch on its Home Turf
What happens when #TeamRainforest comes to your party? No one can miss us! Last week, 50 RAN activists came to Abercrombie & Fitch’s biggest event of the year—its annual party…
PepsiCo’s Conflict Palm Oil Problem: Taking the Fight to PepsiCo’s Doorstep
A few miles north of New York City, what do Westchester and Fairfield Counties have to do with child labor? Species extinction? Rainforest destruction? Climate change? Everything. PepsiCo’s Conflict Palm…
Op-Ed: The limits of bank self-regulation in fighting deforestation
Check out this Financial Times op-ed from Ben Goldsmith on the laws needed to stop banks from financing companies putting people and forests at risk. Banks and investors in Southeast…
Video: A Dozen Youth Leaders Flash Mob Hollister Store
Young people aren’t buying it. A dozen youth leaders did a flash mob at a Hollister store in Detroit to demand it use rainforest-free fabrics in its clothing. Watch the…
Let’s talk about Palm Oil, Baby
Last night PepsiCo re-launched its 90’s throwback drink, Crystal Pepsi. It was a 90’s-filled night, with performances by Salt-N-Pepa and En Vogue. In typical 90’s nerd fashion, we weren’t invited,…
Hazy Morals and Cloudy Policies: PepsiCo’s Unclear Legacy
Pepsi is about to launch its biggest advertising campaign of the last two decades. Using Facebook, Twitter, and shameless nostalgia, Pepsi is resurrecting its ”iconic clear soda from the 90’s,”…
RSPO’s Credibility On The Line: Will It Maintain Its Suspension of Industry Laggard IOI Group?
Yesterday, news broke of a pending decision by the RSPO Complaints Panel to lift the suspension of IOI Group’s certification under the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil certification system. If…
