Victory for Forests: Disney Changes Sourcing On All Its Paper Products, Takes a Stand for Endangered Forests and Animals
Today, Disney adds its significant voice to the growing chorus of companies demonstrating that there’s no need to sacrifice endangered forests in Indonesia or elsewhere for the paper we use…
An Open Letter In Support Of the Tar Sands Blockade
Rainforest Action Network is excited to have led this call to support the Tar Sands Blockade. Not only is stopping the expansion of fossil fuels infrastructure of the utmost priority,…
Another Bad Call by Bank of America… And I Ain’t Just Talking Football
I imagine there are quite a few folks over at Bank of America thanking god it’s Friday right about now, because this was one hell of a bad week for…
TransCanada Ordered Texas Police To Use Brutal Tactics Against Peaceful Protesters
Yesterday, we learned that Texas police applied sustained chokeholds, violent arm-twisting, pepper spray, and multiple uses of tasers to move two peaceful protesters—all at the behest of TransCanada employees. On…
Tell Cargill: Keep Corporate Influence Out of Science
Two weeks ago, the mainstream media caught fire with a Stanford study questioning the benefits of organic foods. It turns out the anti-organics study may have the fingerprints of agribusiness…
Stop ‘NAFTA on steroids’!
We just got word that a round of closed door negotiations will begin this week for the largest free trade agreement in history. We are talking about NAFTA on steroids—an…
Thousands March on Wall Street South, Bank of America
Just days before DNC delegates descended on Charlotte, the streets here were filled with throngs of the 99%. Nearly 2,000 protestors marched through the heart of Wall Street South, stopping…
How Cargill is Saving Humanity… and the World
If you made $5 billion clearing a community’s forest and community food garden, polluted and drained their rivers, but gave them a tree and a bucket of clean water in…
Bank of America’s Greenwash Doesn’t Fly On Twitter
Bank of America released its so-called Corporate Social Responsibility report today. I say “so-called” because it’s still unclear how the bank justifies calling itself “socially responsible” when it is the…
Bank of America’s New Report Touts Green Image, Downplays Dirty Emissions
This morning Bank of America rolled out its annual Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) report, which proudly promotes the company’s commitment to greening their public image but fails to address its…