Don’t Take Our Word For It: Chevron’s “We Agree” Campaign One of 2010’s Worst
Rather than take responsibility for its toxic mess in the Ecuadorean Amazon, Chevron launched a fancy new $90 million ad campaign to convince us all that the company really cares…
Challenging Green Corporate Power
Last week, the San Francisco Chronicle posted an article about California becoming “the center of renewable power development in the United States” as utility companies work toward the state-mandated 20%…
Oil Spills Are Just Business As Usual for Chevron
Oil is a dirty business. There’s just no way around it. Drilling for oil, transporting it across the globe, refining it into fuel – every step of the process is…
Designing For Good (Not Evil)
When talking about activism and social change, design is not always one of the first words that come to mind. But maybe it should be. It is critical that we…
Climate Activists Train To Slow Flow Of Tar Sands
Resistance is fertile. Last week, almost 100 people from Idaho, Montana, Washington, Utah Oregon, California, Oklahoma and different parts of Canada converged outside of Missoula, MT for the Anti-Tar Sands…
Big Coal Launches Assault On EPA
The sharks smell the blood in the water. The opposition is emboldened. Whatever are we to do? After the “shellacking” that the Dems took at the hands of the teabaggers…
Chevron And The Bittersweet California Election Results
November 3rd was a bittersweet day. The day after the midterm elections, we found out that Prop 23 — the so-called “Dirty Energy Proposition” that was funded by Texas oil…
Does Chevron Think We’re All Stupid?
Have you seen the way Big Oil has tried to rebrand itself since the BP oil disaster started six months ago? Each of the major oil companies wants us to…
Solar Good, Chevron’s Business Bad
A hand covered in crude contaminates from an open toxic pool in the the Ecuadorean Amazon rainforest near Lago Agrio. It was abandoned by Texaco (now Chevron) after oil drilling…
Okay, we admit it: We punked Chevron
Activists in Washington, DC put these posters up around town to call attention to Chevron’s attempts to greenwash its image even while ignoring its toxic legacy in Ecuador. Chevron rolled…