2016: From Financiers to the Forest Floor
It was a momentous year for RAN’s Forest Program. In 2016, RAN followed through in our commitment to challenge abuses of corporate power and to follow the money from the…
It was a momentous year for RAN’s Forest Program. In 2016, RAN followed through in our commitment to challenge abuses of corporate power and to follow the money from the…
As I travel across the world for Rainforest Action Network’s campaign to transform the palm oil sector I am always asked one simple question. “Which brands can I trust? ”…
2016 has been a busy year for the Conflict Palm Oil organizing program. When we kicked off the year, we decided to really ramp up the pressure on PepsiCo. At…
Stand Up Against This Very Real Threat. It seems harder and harder to come up with the appropriate language, but Donald Trump’s nomination of Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson as…
We’ve got PepsiCo’s attention, and we know that the company is feeling the heat. Over the past 5 months, we’ve hunted down PepsiCo’s biggest and most expensive advertising campaigns—from new…
One of the few remaining primary forests in West Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo), Sungai Putri is home to between 750 and 1750 critically endangered Bornean orangutans. This forest is one of…
Content Warning: Images of Industrial Farming and Animal Violence. The average American dinner plate – meat, potatoes and/or a frozen packaged meal with Conflict Palm Oil. Photo credit: Flickr/1950s Unlimited 80…
Last week, RAN activists confronted both Indra Nooyi, CEO of PepsiCo and Al Carey, CEO of PepsiCo North America, on the company’s connection to the exploitation of palm oil workers…
RAN and Allies Bring Labor Issues Front and Center for the Palm Oil Industry The issues faced by the roughly 3.5 million workers in the palm oil industry were front…
This is a sobering moment. Today I am filled with both disappointment and determination, inspired by the demonstrations of love, resistance and solidarity from around the country in response to…
Wyoming Tells BLM to “Keep it in the Ground” at Oil and Gas Land Auction This past Tuesday, RAN staff and our allies on the ground went to one of…
We know that in order to avoid the worst effects of climate change we have to make immediate changes. One of the biggest changes we can make is ending extraction…
This week, during the Fast Company Innovation Festival in New York City, RAN activists confronted Indra Nooyi, CEO of PepsiCo, on the company’s connection to the exploitation of Indonesian palm…
Hey folks, my name is Brihannala Morgan and I’m a senior forest campaigner at RAN. While my work mostly involves working directly with Indigenous and frontline communities in Indonesia, I…
I am proud to say that Rainforest Action Network endorses the Movement for Black Lives Platform.https://policy.m4bl.org/platform/ Rainforest Action Network has a 30 year history of working at the intersection of…
Here’s the latest fact banks don’t want you to know: Fracked gas exports are worse for the climate than coal. But big banks are getting ready to bankroll three major fracked…
PepsiCo Stands to Lose Out on Recruiting Top Millennial Talent Every Fall, college and universities across the country welcome companies on their campuses to provide networking opportunities for students. These…
Will President Obama’s climate legacy be determined by his rhetoric on climate change, a historic Agreement made in Paris last year, and the Clean Power Plan? Or will he be…
Appetite for Destruction: Palm Oil DiariesCrossposted at One Green Planet I recently watched a fascinating new documentary film called, “Appetite for Destruction: Palm Oil Diaries.” In it, filmmaker Michael Dorgan…
The backbone of any certification system is its credibility in the market. If brands like PepsiCo, and others in the Snack Food 20, put a so-called ‘sustainable’ palm oil label…
The phrase “the elephant in the room” is, by definition, “an English metaphorical idiom for an obvious truth that is going unaddressed; an obvious problem or risk no one wants…
Palm oil is a subject of heated debate across the globe. Why? Put simply it is a controversial, yet nearly universal, commodity. The expansion of industrial scale plantations has destroyed…
Earlier this week, RAN activists and volunteer Yale students disrupted a networking event where PepsiCo was recruiting at the Yale School of Management. RAN Organizers Pearl Robinson and JeNaé Nicole…
Cross-posted at EcoWatch. As Conflict Palm Oil companies move into priceless rainforests like Sumatra’s Leuser Ecosystem, they are leaving a trail of destruction behind. Chocolate the orangutan is one of…
What happens when #TeamRainforest comes to your party? No one can miss us! Last week, 50 RAN activists came to Abercrombie & Fitch’s biggest event of the year—its annual party…