YES Magazine highlights how pressuring banks to step away from the Dakota Access Pipeline is having results, including impacts on how they view human rights. “The most visible outcome has…
December 22, 2016
December 20, 2016
One Green Planet: We Are What the Corporations Feed Us? Why Challenging Our Broken Food System is Important
We’ve handed over one of the most important decisions for the health of our bodies and the planet – what to eat and how we produce it – to the…
December 4, 2016
The New York Times: How Big Banks Are Putting Rain Forests in Peril
“The allocation of finance is so influential in our economy and to our environment,” said Tom Picken of the Rainforest Action Network. “But there’s little way we can hold financial…
December 1, 2016
Reuters: Palm oil industry watchdog lax on human rights – critics
Human rights advocates say the RSPO’s labour guidelines show little concern for the welfare of workers, making its claim that its members are sustainable producers unreliable. “Simply put, the RSPO…
November 26, 2016
Vice: Is Indonesia’s Leuser Rainforest For Sale?
“It’s hard to adequately express the importance of the Leuser Ecosystem, both to the millions of Acehnese people who depend on it for their livelihoods and clean water, but also…
November 22, 2016
One Green Planet: From Conflict Palm Oil to Factory Farms: The True Cost of Tyson’s Cheap Food
Tyson Foods, in its over 80 years of operation, has had a hugely negative impact on our food system. Tyson Foods profits off the cheap land and cheap labor that…
November 18, 2016
Huffington Post: Obama Administration Blocks Arctic Oil Drilling Through 2022
Huffington Post: “This move locks the Gulf into another five years of corporate giveaways ― with decades more of climate pollution, offshore oil spills, devastation to fisheries, and health impacts…
November 15, 2016
Fortune: The U.S. Army Calls for More Analysis of Dakota Access Pipeline
“This delay provides an opportunity for the U.S. government to resolve outstanding issues to the full satisfaction of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and end this pipeline project,” said Amanda…
November 10, 2016
Grist: Is your bank funding the Dakota Access Pipeline? Here’s how to find a new bank.
Grist responds to a reader’s question on banks that are environmentally responsible, highlighting the 2016 report card from the Rainforest Action Network that grades the major banks on their fossil fuel investments…
November 9, 2016
Reuters: Energy Transfer says not slowing construction of North Dakota pipeline
“It’s clearly causing a lot of public concern and this is really a challenge to the reputation of the banks involved in this loan and how they stand on human…