Calling Out Conflict Palm Oil Laggards One By One
PepsiCo is the largest globally distributed snack food company in the world. But the company has yet to take steps to address its Conflict Palm Oil problem and break the…
Join the Global Day of Action to Cut Conflict Palm Oil: The Power is #InYourPalm
I recently heard Jane Goodall speak about the importance of having hope in a time when our planet’s natural systems teeter on the brink of collapse. She compared climate change…
Did You Hear The One About The Bank That Couldn’t Count?
Last week, Bank of America (BofA) admitted a huge accounting error—for several years, it claimed a whopping $4 billion more in capital than it actually has. The day BofA announced…
RAN Stands With Jaka. Will You?
Jaka, pictured here, was 14 years old when he began working on the palm oil plantation. My name is Ratri Kusumohartono, and I’ve traveled here from Indonesia to bring the…
Divestment Movement Escalates
This week, the national fossil fuel divestment movement escalated, as student blockades popped up at Harvard and Washington University in St. Louis. By the end of the week, 8 students…
Why We Are Blocking the Office of Harvard’s President
Co-authored by Sima Atri, Benjamin Franta, Sidni Frederick, Ted Hamilton, Jacob Lipton, Chloe Maxmin, Brett Roche, Kelsey Skaggs, Henney Sullivan, Tyler VanValkenburg, Jacob Lipton, Zoë Onion, Olivia Kivel, and Canyon…
Guest Blog: Rudi Putra, Winner of the 2014 Goldman Prize for Forest Protection in Indonesia
The message below comes to you from Rudi Putra, a longtime ally and hero of RAN’s and winner of the 2014 Goldman Environmental Prize—the world’s most prestigious award for grassroots…
5 Photos That Show Why Barclays Bank Must Stop Financing Mountain Destruction
Barclays, the British banking giant, is the number one financier of companies engaged in mountaintop removal mining for coal. Often referred to as MTR, mountaintop removal is a horrendous practice…
Myanmar Illegal Logging Poses Enormous Risk for Customers Across Southeast Asia
Truck carrying raw logs in Myanmar. Photo courtesy of the EIA. The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) has released a shocking new report, Data Corruption: Exposing the true scale of logging…
From Appalachia to London, Barclays Bank Takes Heat for Coal Financing
There is nothing quite like giving one of world’s biggest banks a bad day. A bad week is even better. Today, protestors swamped Barclays’ annual shareholder meeting in London, calling…
I’m Visiting Barclays Bank and I Need You to Back Me Up
This is a guest post by Paul Corbit Brown, president, Keeper of the Mountains. Tomorrow, I’m visiting Barclays and I need you to back me up. In 2013 Barclays gave…
Why Join Me To Protect Our Climate? Because It’s Worth It!
This op-ed by actor Chris Noth was originally printed in Metro on Monday, April 21. I’m not too big to admit that climate change terrifies me. These days, I’ve had…
It’s Your Turn PepsiCo: Time to Take the Conflict Palm Oil Challenge
This week marks an exciting turning point in the ambitious international effort to eliminate Conflict Palm Oil connected to rainforest destruction, human rights abuses and climate pollution from our food…
Barclays: The Biggest Banker of Mountaintop Removal Coal
This year’s grades for the banks that finance the worst coal companies are in, and they’re not pretty. Financing companies that use mountaintop removal (MTR) coal mining practices puts communities,…
Top Quotes from Today’s Keystone News
We’ve had our eyes glued to the news on the Keystone XL pipeline delay all day. Here are some of the responses from different sides of the issue that we…
What Today’s Keystone Pipeline Delay Means For You
If you’ve been glued to the emerging news on the Keystone XL pipeline like the RAN team has today then you already know that a final decision on this disastrous…
Extreme Coal – No Longer Business as Usual
For the first time since we began publishing coal finance report cards five years ago, we have an encouraging trend to report: Major banks have begun making noise about the…
Decentralized Actions Ready to Stop Keystone XL
The campaign to stop the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline has become a watershed moment in confronting climate change and fossil fuel extraction. So far, more than 94,000 people have…
Breakthrough: JPMorgan Chase Dropping Mountain Destruction
This could be the tipping point for the horrific practice of Mountaintop Removal coal mining. Just this week, JPMorgan Chase updated its environmental policy, revealing that it will be ending…
Why Washington University in St. Louis Should Ditch Peabody Coal
This article first appeared in Washington University in St. Louis’ Student Life on April 10, 2014. On April 30, the UN’s International Governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released the…
Resisting Exxon and Peabody’s Dark Age
Forget the reign of Tywin Lannister and his bloodthirsty brood of children, grandchildren and henchmen raping and pillaging their way through the fantastical land of Westeros while hapless Starks are…
Why We’re Sitting in at WashU (And We’re Not Leaving)
By Caroline Burney, Senior at Washington University. Crossposted from We Are Powershift. I’ve learned many things in my four years at Washington University in St. Louis–not all of them in…
Taking Action: Global Day of Action to Cut Conflict Palm Oil
We’re so excited to see what happens around the world on May 20! We’ve been working hard with thousands of you across the globe to ensure that the Global Day…
All Our Water is Going to a Plant We Don’t Eat to Support a Diet We Don’t Need.
2013 went down as the driest year in California’s recorded history. A major reservoir outside of Sacramento has been reduced from 83% to 36% capacity in just over 2 years. …
Watch And Share: Years of Living Dangerously
Have you seen the press around Years of Living Dangerously yet? We’re amazed by what’s happening over at Showtime right now and we think you will be too. Not since…