Walmart Goes Out On A Limb: Sustainable Palm Oil By 2015
After a great deal of bad press, such as the 2005 film The High Cost of Low Prices, the retail giant Wal-Mart has been feeling the pressure to clean-up their…
REVEL IN ACTION: Announcing The Winners
The art of the brand jam is something Rainforest Action Network has worked hard to perfect over the years. This month, we gave folks in the RAN community a shot…
Rainforests Or Big Business: Who Will Win In Jakarta?
The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) 8th Annual Meeting is coming up November 8-11th in Jakarta. RAN’s rainforest agribusiness team will be there. Indonesia is the world’s 3rd largest…
Greenwash And Cargill: Growing Together
Cargill just released their 2010 Corporate Responsibility Report, which provides an overview of Cargill’s amazing lackluster efforts to address supply chain issues including sourcing palm oil associated with rainforest destruction…
Palm Oil Key Focus at General Mills Shareholder Meeting
Yesterday marked a huge shift in the U.S. food industry – it’s now official that the world’s sixth largest food company is taking concrete action to address their controversial sourcing…
Massive Banners Dropped on Cargill, Grain Exchange Skyway
Despite state-wide flood warnings, the skies opened for just enough time to allow five RAN activists to hang two billboard sized banners off of a 3rd street skyway during morning…
General Mills Moves Away from Rainforest Destruction
It is with much gratitude, excitement and hope for our world’s remaining forests that I announce the end to Rainforest Action Network’s General Mills palm oil campaign. Our Rainforest Agribusiness…
Cargill Destroys Rainforests at Twins-Rangers Game
This past Sunday in Minneapolis, something unusual happened during the local Twins baseball game. Unhappy with the way one of their hometown corporations (and the largest privately owned in the…
Cargill Back Pedals on Rainforest Track
In response to Cargill’s recent announcement stating that they would ignore their promise to take action on widely known rainforest destroyer Sinar Mas, RAN sent out a press release calling…
Mr. Page: Future Generations Are Counting on You
http://www.flickr.com/apps/slideshow/show.swf?v=71649 Last week, over a dozen local Twin Cities community members, including members of the Walker Church social justice chapter, children, and concerned parents, paid Mr. Page – Cargill CEO…