Disney, recognizing its heavy paper footprint as the world’s largest publisher of children’s books and magazines, has announced it will be changing its paper policies to try to stop the degradation of rainforests in Southeast Asia.
The change comes as a victory for indigenous Indonesians, rainforest wildlife and the atmosphere, which are all being harmed by the vociferous consumption of rainforests by logging in Indonesia.
Tags: · Asia Paper & Pulp, carbon dioxide pollution, Carbon Emissions, children's books, China, deforestation, Disney, Indonesia, Rainforest Action Network, sustainable paper
Keystone XL pipeline protesters plan to encircle the White House at 2 p.m. on Sunday, in a second show of solidarity against the proposed 1,700-mile pipeline.
The line will include representatives from at least a dozen environmental groups. Celebrities supporting the protest include Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Robert Redford, Darryl Hannah and others.
Tags: · greenrightnow.com, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Keystone pipeline protest at White House, Nov. 6 pipeline protest, NRDC, Rainforest Action Network, Sierra Club, tar sands, TarSandsAction
As the Occupy Wall Street movement rails against corporate greed and wrongdoing by large banks, the Rainforest Action Campaign has singled out one bank that it considers to be the worst in the crowd, the Bank of America.
Tags: · Bank of America, Bank of America the 'Bank of Coal', coal energy, coal industry, greenrightnow.com, Rainforest Action Network
Rainforest Action Network, in solidarity with the 30,000 Ecuadorans affected by Chevron’s oil pollution in the Amazon, issued an open letter last week calling on Americans to pressure the oil giant to accept responsibility for the damages and begin reparation efforts.
Tags: · Equador, Rainforest Action Network, RAN
From Green Right Now Reports
Earth Day is fast approaching, but it’s not too late for kids in grades K-6 to enter a contest aimed at raising awareness about the loss of rainforests.
The contest by the Rainforest Action Network comes with a teaching module about Tiki the Tiger, who’s losing his home to rainforest destruction, as [...]
Tags: · greenrightnow.com, lumber, palm oil, Rainforest Action Network, rainforest destruction, Tiki the Tiger
‘Tis the season for giving, but what how does the environmentally-conscious shopper weave a bit of good stewardship into all that holiday generosity?
Before making a list of energy-efficient gadgets or rushing out to buy your spouse a brand new electric car, consider a little more expanded approach to gifting “green.”
For several years now, my wife has given our eco-friendly offspring (and a few friends) a donation to Heifer International. You’ve probably heard of Heifer: They’re the folks who literally provide heifers (young cows), goats, sheep, llamas, rabbits, chickens and geese – among other good chain-friendly creatures — to impoverished families, hoping to help lift them up and enable them to be more self-sufficient.
So how, you may ask, is this green?
These animals help turn dependent people into ones who can provide their own food, which is about as “sustainable” as it gets. In Heifer International’s case, that heifer is a source of milk for children and the potential to sell excess milk to pay for food, clothing and other necessities. With proper planning, the heifer can produce offspring that can help the gift keep on giving over multiple generations.
Tags: · 350.org, American Farmland, Audubon Society, Earth Day Network, Environmental Defense Fund, Heifer International, holiday gifts, International Rescue Committee, National Resources Defense Council, National Wildlife Federation, Nature Conservancy, Pacific Ocean, Rainforest Action Network, support environmental groups, World Wildlife Federation
Environmental groups come up with a lot of inspired campaigns. Some, like Greenpeace and the Rainforest Action Network, are masters of eco-guerilla warfare, turning up at national icons or even in grocery stores with campaigns that make us think about deforestation, oil dependence and climate change.
Defenders of Wildlife is not such a showy group, but they work in their own way to connect the dots, trying to find solutions to wildlife issues. They’ve been instrumental in working toward peaceful solutions between ranchers and wolf advocates in the Rocky Mountains.
Tags: · BarbaraKesslerBlog, Defenders of Wildlife, Greenpeace, petition lawmakers, Rainforest Action Network
Activists with the Rainforest Action Network staged a sit-in today at EPA headquarters in Washington to protest the passage of a permit that will allow mountaintop removal coal mining in Logan County, West Virginia.
Tags: · coal, coal mining, environmental demonstrators, EPA, mountaintop removal, Rainforest Action Network, valley fill
LUSH Cosmetics, a natural bath and body shop, hopes to hit consumers with the naked truth about Canada’s destructive tar sands projects. Starting tomorrow, it will launch a campaign against the tar sands, with a petition and a specially designated product to help raise money to fight what it sees as an environmental catastrophe. Store employees in the Los Angeles shop will kick off the two week effort by wearing nothing but oil barrels emblazoned with the slogan ‘Time For An Oil Change or We’ll Lose it All!”
Tags: · Canada’s destructive tar sands, environmental catastrophe, LUSH Cosmetics, LUSH Fresh Handmade Cosmetics, natural bath and body shop, Rainforest Action Network, Time For An Oil Change or We’ll Lose it All, Wild Rose bath bomb
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Rainforest Action Network unfurls protest banner at General Mills (Photo: Mercury Miller, RAN)
The Rainforest Action Network (RAN) launched the first fusillade today in a campaign to expose General Mills’ extensive use of palm oil in dozens of packaged products.
More than 40 activists with Rainforest Action Network, Walker Church and other community organizations unfurled a 30 x 70 ft. banner in the snow outside the company’s Minneapolis headquarters. It read: “Warning: General Mills Destroys Rainforests”.
Tags: · General Mills, palm oil, palm oil in foods, protest against General Mills, Rainforest Action Network, rainforest destruction
By Melissa Segrest
Green Right Now
If you are lucky enough to afford fashion goodies from top designers, you must also love swinging down the street with their logo-emblazoned paper bags. Versace, Prada, Valentino — they’re among the look-at-me labels telling passersby you’ve won the holiday jackpot.
Paper and pulp producers are taking a toll on Indonesia's rainforest
Would you be so flashy with those bags if you knew they had destroyed a piece of the delicate Indonesian rainforest?
Tags: · Asia Paper and Pulp, Indonesian rainforest, PAK 2000, paper bags, Prada, Rainforest Action Network, Valentino, Versace
By Shermakaye Bass
Green Right Now
It’s The Year of Living Dangerously all over again.
Orangutan (Photo: Tom Theodore/Dreamstime)
On Tuesday, two journalists were arrested in Sumatra while covering a politically sensitive topic – palm oil harvesting and the ensuing decimation of Southeast Asia’s old-growth, carbon-capturing rainforests, and the subsequent release of giant CO2 pockets that lie beneath the forests and their peat swamps.
More disturbing than the reporters’ deportation, though, is how little we consumers seem to realize that, not only are we what we eat, but when it comes to palm oil, we are eating our own lifeblood. We’re ‘eating’ our oxygen, we’re ‘eating’ our fellow species. We’re consuming our own future by driving up carbon emissions much faster than we can offset them. We are the snake eating its own tail.
Tags: · Carbon Emissions, carbon pollution, deforestation, Indonesian third largest carbon polluter, orangutans, packaged foods, palm oil, palm planatations, Rainforest Action Network, Rainforest Alliance, Roundtable for Sustainable Palm Oil, RSPO, Southeast Asia, tropical rainforest
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