Palm Oil Pariah Sinar Mas Commits to Forest Protection. What About Cargill?
Sinar Mas Group, the notorious international palm oil pariah, recently made a remarkable announcement: The company’s subsidiary, Golden Agri Resouces (GAR), intends to implement a forest conservation policy. Among other…
Help RAN Get a Date with Cargill by Sending a Saucy Valentine!
Valentine’s Day, love or hate it, is a day filled with anxiety. The state of our love lives, whatever they may be, goes under the magnifying glass…Even more so if…
No Blood for Palm Oil
The land grab crisis in Indonesia is getting worse — with tragic consequences. On Tuesday, six unarmed villagers were shot while harvesting palm oil fruit on their own land. Jakarta…
RAN-Twin Cities Makes “Resistance in Review” Top 10!
The feisty Rainforest Action Network – Twin Cities chapter and fellow rabble-rousers helped make history last January when 42 people unfurled a 90 foot by 30 foot banner on the…
Top Five Ways to Protect Rainforests in 2011
This post originally appeared on The Huffington Post. Many of us live thousands of miles away from Brazil, Indonesia and the Congo Basin, where the last stands of tropical rainforests…
Indonesian Palm Oil Makes Department of Labor’s Red List
Last month I wrote a post telling the horrific stories of Ferdi, Volario, and Suroso and their personal accounts of being forced into slave labor on oil palm plantations in…
Rainforest Action Network Victories: Top Ten of 2010
Making change in the world is hard work — some times decades-long hard work. But with the right combination of strategies, experience, tenacity, and allies, it is possible to achieve…
Diggin’ Palm Oil Free Soap
Most of us practice personal hygiene at least every couple of days, and because many contain synthetic chemicals, a portion of those end up in our bodies and in our…
Failures And Unanswered Questions At The RSPO
Today was the final day of the 8th Roundtable for Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) meeting in Jakarta, Indonesia. Many controversial and heated issues were hashed out at the four-day gathering…
Land Lost in Lies: Smallholder Schemes Gone Wrong
I’ve spent the past week visiting our partners in Indonesia and interviewing frontline communities directly impacted by the palm oil industry. The stories I’ve heard are haunting — tales of human…