Podcasts about Rainforest Action Network

Get David's book here: https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/.../rainforest-radicals/   Rainforest Radicals presents the first history of one of the most innovative and successful environmental organizations of the late twentieth century. Rainforest Action Network emerged in 1985, when it took over a fledgling effort to protect rainforests from transnational corporations funding the expansion of tropical cattle ranching. It excelled at using nonviolent, civil disobedience in dramatic campaigns that captured the attention of the public, media, and RAN's corporate adversaries. As a result, two decades later rainforest conservation went from a niche academic topic to a fixture in American popular culture, the rights of Indigenous people had gone from ignored or romanticized to at least considered in discussions of the management of their ancestral homelands, and RAN had scored a series of victories over some of the planet's largest corporations. In Rainforest Radicals David Benac traces the evolution of RAN and radical, transnational grassroots environmentalism through the four campaigns identified at the group's founding: rainforest beef, Hawai‘ian rainforests, tropical timber, and multinational development banks. Forty years after RAN's inception, there is much to learn from how it organized people in small towns and large cities across the United States, created alliances that spanned oceans, and inspired a new movement that integrated human rights, Indigenous sovereignty, and environmental protection to challenge multinational corporations, national governments, and neocolonial corporate-led globalism.   Through more than thirty oral histories, including those of key players from different eras of RAN's history as well as leaders from other environmental and Indigenous rights organizations, Rainforest Radicals provides unparalleled insight into the network.   Check out our new bi-weekly series, "The Crisis Papers" here: https://www.patreon.com/bitterlakepresents/shop   READ THE WEEKLY TIR NEWSLETTER HERE: https://www.patreon.com/collection/1853497   Thank you guys again for taking the time to check this out. We appreciate each and everyone of you. If you have the means, and you feel so inclined,   BECOME A PATRON! We're creating patron only programing, you'll get bonus content from many of the episodes, and you get MERCH!   Become a patron now https://www.patreon.com/join/BitterLakePresents?   Please also like, subscribe, and follow us on these platforms as well, (specially YouTube!)   THANKS Y'ALL   YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG9WtLyoP9QU8sxuIfxk3eg Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Thisisrevolutionpodcast/ Twitter: @TIRShowOakland Instagram: @thisisrevolutionoakland   Substack: https://jmylesoftir.substack.com/.../the-money-will-roll...   Read Jason Myles in Current Affairs Magazine here: https://www.currentaffairs.org/.../donald-trump-is-a-pro... Read Jason Myles in Damage Magazine https://damagemag.com/2023/11/07/the-man-who-sold-the-world/ Read Jason in Black Agenda Report: https://www.blackagendareport.com/rainbow-and-machine S

Join us on May 21st at 6:30pm for a panel on Radicals, Realists, and Repression: The State of Activism in the US. The panel will feature Prof. Thomas Zeitzoff, professor in the School of Public Affairs at American University and author of “No Option, But Sabotage,” Prof. Omar Wasow, Assistant Professor in UC Berkeley's Department of Political Science, longtime environmental campaigner and organizer, and co-host of the Green and Red Podcast, Scott Parkin and Jason Myles, host of THIS IS REVOLUTION>podcast.RSVP: https://actionnetwork.org/events/radicals-realists-and-repression-the-state-of-activism-in-the-us/https://actionnetwork.org/events/radicals-realists-and-repression-the-state-of-activism-in-the-us/We've been in the midst of a serious rollback of first amendment protected activities. States are passing anti-protest legislation, police are increasingly militarized, surveillance is being drastically increased on activist groups and the Trump administration is turning activism into terrorism. BUT, we are also seeing new large-scale resistance from the massive No Kings and May Day mobilizations to fierce resistance to ICE in Los Angeles, Chicago and Minneapolis, communities and movements are fighting back.The anti-AI Data Center movement has blurred political divides across the country. Activists are not only marching in the street and disrupting authoritarian forces, but actions at Tesla dealerships, Kimberly Clark warehouses, the offices of corporate war profiteers and other locations show a radical edge to today's resistance.This panel discussion will focus on the state of activism in the United States from its radicals to its realists, how the state is responding with repression, and understanding why movements and activists make the choices they do. WHERE: The Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists; 1924 Cedar St. Berkeley CAWHEN: May 21st, 2026. Doors open at 6:30pm. Event begins at 7pmVirtual viewing: We'll also be live streaming the event on our YouTube Page. Just RSVP to receive details on how to watch.RSVP: https://actionnetwork.org/events/radicals-realists-and-repression-the-state-of-activism-in-the-us/Bio// Thomas Zeitzoff is a professor in the School of Public Affairs at American University in Washington DC. His research focuses on political violence, social media, and political psychology. His most recent book is No Option But Sabotage: The Radical Climate Movement and the Climate Crisis (Oxford 2026). His work has appeared in many of the leading political science journals, and he is also the author of Nasty Politics: The Logic of Insults, Threats, and Incitement (Oxford, 2023). Bio// Omar Wasow is an Assistant Professor in UC Berkeley's Department of Political Science. His research focuses on race, politics and statistical methods. His paper on the political consequences of the 1960s civil rights movement was published in the American Political Science Review. His co-authored work on estimating causal effects of race was published in the Annual Review of Political Science. Previously, Omar co-founded BlackPlanet.com, an early leading social network, and was a regular technology analyst on radio and television.Bio//Scott Parkin has been a campaigner and organizer in social justice and environmental movements for over two decades. He is the Organizing Director at Rainforest Action Network and has led campaigns against Wall Street banks, mountaintop removal coal mining and the Keystone XL pipeline.Bio// Jason Myles is the host of THIS IS REVOLUTION>podcast with bylines in Current Affairs Magazine,Damage Magazine and Black Agenda ReportEvent hosted by the Green and Red Podcast, Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists' Social Justice Committee, Mt. Diablo Rising Tide and Oil and Gas ActionNetwork

History has shown that authoritarian regimes can be toppled and social injustices can be eliminated if the public participates even in just one peaceful but powerful protest. But despite their noble goals, activism is often vilified and protesters are criminalized. Corinna Bellizzi is joined by Annie Leonard and André Carothers, two powerful souls who have spent their careers at the frontlines of activism. Together, they discuss why the public should never give up their right to protest, which is an essential “weapon” to voice out woes to those in power when all legal avenues of democracy have been exhausted. They also talk about the widespread impact of digital activism, the danger of overusing in-group language, and why protests can be effective even without resorting to violence. Blog for this episode: https://caremorebebetter.com/if-we-lose-the-right-to-protest-we-lose-everything-with-annie-leonard-andre-carothers/ About Guests: Annie Leonard is a lifelong activist whose work has taken her to protests, courtrooms, and congressional hearings around the world. As Executive Director of Greenpeace US from 2014 to 2023, she led one of the most recognized environmental organizations on the planet. She is the creator of The Story of Stuff — one of the most widely viewed environmental films in history — and co-launched the Jane Fonda Climate PAC. She has testified before Congress, appeared across major media, and been recognized by Time magazine as a Hero of the Environment. She received an honorary degree from Vermont Law School and has spent decades campaigning against pollution, waste, and unchecked corporate power. André Carothers is an activist, writer, and organizer with more than four decades of experience in campaigns spanning climate change, human rights, environmental protection, and nuclear disarmament. He worked for Greenpeace US for 13 years, including serving on its board of directors. He co-founded the Rockwood Leadership Institute, a training organization for activists, and consults as an organizational development coach for leaders across the social change sector. He has served on the boards of the Center for Investigative Reporting (which includes Mother Jones), International Rivers, the Center for Environmental Health, the Furthur Foundation, and Rainforest Action Network. Guest LinkedIn:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/annie-leonard-65a00333/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrecarothers/ Guest Website:  theprotestbook.com Guest Social:  https://instagram.com/theprotestbook https://www.instagram.com/andrecarothers/ https://www.instagram.com/annie_leonard/ https://bsky.app/profile/theprotestbook.bsky.social https://www.facebook.com/annie.leonard/ Show Notes:  03:03 - Difference Between Activism And Protest 08:42 - Disability Rights Movement And Giving Funerals For Glaciers 14:49 - Common Trait Of Protests Regardless Of Issues Confronted 19:22 - How Protests And Protesters Vilified And Criminalized 28:37 - Where Does The Legitimate Limits Of Protests Lie 37:45 - How Stuff Welcomes Everyone Into The World Of Protests 42:44 - How Protests Can Actually Move The Needle 49:48 - The Widespread Impact Of Digital And Online Activism 53:12 - Balancing Clarity Of Direction, Discipline Of Movement, And The Diversity Of Humans 58:57 - Sustaining Oneself Emotionally Despite The Overwhelming Mission 01:03:18 - Seeing Protests In A Different Light BUILD A GREENER FUTURE with CARE MORE BE BETTER: Together, we planted 36,044 trees in 2025 through our partnership with ForestPlanet. Join our newsletter, and we'll plant even more. CAUSE PARTNER: If you value open dialogue, sustainability, and social equity, I invite you to support our new cause partner — Prescott College. To learn more about this effort and to support the show, visit: https://caremorebebetter.com/support/ Follow us on social media: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/caremorebebetter TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@caremorebebetter Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/caremorebebetter Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CareMoreBeBetter LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/care-more-be-better Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Introduction to solution Green banks “provide financing and technical assistance for clean energy and climate solutions” while driving “economic, health, and environmental benefits for communities across the country” (US Green Bank 50). They attempt to spend, save, and invest people's money conscientiously so they “can grow [their] money while making the world a better place” (GreenFi).  Background The fossil fuel industry is the primary driver of our climate crisis, creating an imperative to implement reductions of greenhouse gas as soon as possible to minimize the potential for catastrophic impacts. Unfortunately, traditional banks have exacerbated this problem; specifically, they have “financed fossil fuels by $7.9 trillion dollars since the Paris Agreement,” enabling the building of new oil and gas pipelines, large-scale equipment purchases, and more oil and gas explorations to expand their businesses (Rainforest Action Network).  Advantages of Climate-Friendly Banks Green banks pledge to never fund projects involving fossil fuels. Many also donate a percentage of the monthly amount that customers pay to “non-profits that support climate action” while providing transparency about the carbon footprints of their funded businesses (GreenFi). Some “optimistic studies even estimate that [this] divestment [of resources]… can lead to an effective reduction in carbon footprint of up to 7%” (Mieux Donner). Drawbacks of this Solution However, critics argue that the impact of divestment is not equal to the carbon impact of the investment: “under the current system, divested funds can be quickly replaced by other investors, which limits the direct effect on the behaviour of companies and their CO2 emissions” (Mieux Donner). Companies can also adjust their financial strategies to offset the impact of divestment, which limits its effect on their emissions. Specifically, while green banking is well-intentioned, staying with a conventional bank may allow customers to save more money, which they could then donate to high-impact environmental nonprofits. Guest's take Charley Cummings, the CEO of a climate-friendly bank known as Walden Mutual, emphasizes how the largest funders of fossil fuel companies are banks in the United States. He encourages listeners to switch to greener banks that divest their funds towards sustainability while remaining as reliable as traditional banks. About our guest Charley Cummings is the CEO of Walden Mutual Bank, which solely invests their holdings in local sustainable companies. Resources BusinessGreen, ‘Historic bid for greener banking': 21 universities threaten to switch billions of pounds to 'green' banks Greenfi, Greenfi Mieux Donner, A critical analysis of green neo-banks: greenwashing or effective leverage? Rainforest Action Network, Banks fossil fuel finance totals $869 billion in 2024, a dramatic increase in financing Ran, Banks Fossil Fuel Financing U.S. Green Bank 50, The U.S. Green Bank 50 Further Reading Edie, Timeline: What's Included in the IEA's new Net-Zero Roadmap for energy?  Financial Times, Cambridge-led coalition of universities threatens banks over fossil-fuel financing US EPA, Green Banks For a transcript, please visit climatebreak.org. For a transcript please visit climatebreak.org/climate-friendly-banking-with-charley-cummings/

With so much carnage in the news cycle, it's easy to overlook the wellbeing of the world's rainforests like the Amazon, the “lungs of the planet.” On today's show, host Esty Dinur is in conversation with Laurel Sutherlin of the Rainforest Action Network about the importance of protecting this precious resource from deforestation caused by industrial agriculture.  Sutherlin says that the world's rainforests are integral to global climate and the products that are being consumed in the US are destroying them. He wants more people to understand that deforestation is the second leading cause of the climate crisis and that's being driven by industrial agriculture like palm oil plantations. This is also a human rights story, says Sutherlin, as rainforests around the world are home to Indigenous peoples. The Rainforest Action Network works to hold the companies extracting resources and violating the human rights of Indigenous peoples accountable. Sutherlin says that the countries driving deforestation will often set up shell companies to shield themselves from accountability.  From March 21-18, the Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement is calling for a boycott of Chevron. Sutherlin says that Chevron is a “poster corporation” for the destruction of the rainforests. In Ecuador they left hundreds of open pit oil pools throughout the rainforest, polluting drinking water and food sources. They also talk about the link between war and climate change, the shining examples of Indigenous leadership and climate activism, National Oreo Day in opposition to the Mondelēz International corporation, and the health of rainforests from Sumatra, to Borneo and the Congo.  Laurel Sutherlin is the Director of Strategic Communications at Rainforest Action Network, where he has worked on international conservation and human rights campaigns for over 15 years. Laurel also sits on the board of Directors of a bioregional, forest protection group in Oregon called the Klamath-Siskiyou Wildlands Center (KSWild). He is a lifelong birder, naturalist and outdoor educator. He currently lives in Kingston, in the Hudson Valley of New York State, where he hosts a weekly live radio talk show program called Nature Nuggets. Featured image of a palm oil plantation in Indonesia. Did you enjoy this story? Your funding makes great, local journalism like this possible. Donate hereThe post Deforestation Won't End Because of Good Corporate Hearts appeared first on WORT-FM 89.9.

Today we welcome back: Author John Perkins Part 2! As Chief Economist at a major international consulting firm, John Perkins advised the World Bank, United Nations, IMF, U.S. Treasury Department, Fortune 500 corporations, and countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East. He worked directly with heads of state and CEOs of major companies. His books on economics and geo-politics have sold more than 2 million copies, spent many months on the New York Times and other bestseller lists, and are published in over 30 languages. John's Confessions of an Economic Hit Man trilogy (more than 70 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list) is a startling exposé of international corruption. His The Secret History of the American Empire, also a New York Times bestseller, details the clandestine operations that created the world's first truly global empire. His Hoodwinked is a blueprint for a new form of global economics. The solutions are not "return to normal" ones. Instead, John challenges us to soar to new heights, away from predatory capitalism and into an era more transformative than the Agricultural and Industrial Revolutions. His writings detail specific steps each of us can take to create a sustainable, just, and peaceful world. John is a founder and board member of Dream Change and The Pachamama Alliance, nonprofit organizations devoted to establishing a world our children will want to inherit, has lectured at more than 50 universities around the world, and is the author of books on indigenous cultures and transformation, including Touching the Jaguar, Shapeshifting, The World Is As You Dream It, Psychonavigation, Spirit of the Shuar, and The Stress-Free Habit. He has been featured on ABC, NBC, CNN, NPR, A&E, the History Channel, Al Jazeera, RT, Time, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Cosmopolitan, Elle, Der Spiegel, and many other publications, as well as in numerous documentaries including The End of Poverty, Zeitgeist Addendum, and Apology of an Economic Hit Man. John was awarded the Lennon/Ono Peace Prize (along with Lady Gaga and Pussy Riot!) and the Challenging Business as Usual Award from the Rainforest Action Network. Thank you for your support! The B.I.Stander Podcast is a listener supported podcast so please consider subscribing.   BE A FRIEND OF PODCASTVILLE AND TELL A FRIEND  Thank you to our very supportive sponsors! Blue Canary Auto NOW ALSO in Bremerton! Sound Reprographics Tideland Magazine Sheldon Orthodontics KitsapSmokestack.org Hot Hot Yoga Miguelitos Vast Solutions Editing by: Cherie Newman Magpie Audio Productions    

Today we welcomeback: Author John Perkins  As Chief Economist at a major international consulting firm, John Perkins advised the World Bank, United Nations, IMF, U.S. Treasury Department, Fortune 500 corporations, and countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East. He worked directly with heads of state and CEOs of major companies. His books on economics and geo-politics have sold more than 2 million copies, spent many months on the New York Times and other bestseller lists, and are published in over 30 languages. John's Confessions of an Economic Hit Man trilogy (more than 70 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list) is a startling exposé of international corruption. His The Secret History of the American Empire, also a New York Times bestseller, details the clandestine operations that created the world's first truly global empire. His Hoodwinked is a blueprint for a new form of global economics. The solutions are not "return to normal" ones. Instead, John challenges us to soar to new heights, away from predatory capitalism and into an era more transformative than the Agricultural and Industrial Revolutions. His writings detail specific steps each of us can take to create a sustainable, just, and peaceful world. John is a founder and board member of Dream Change and The Pachamama Alliance, nonprofit organizations devoted to establishing a world our children will want to inherit, has lectured at more than 50 universities around the world, and is the author of books on indigenous cultures and transformation, including Touching the Jaguar, Shapeshifting, The World Is As You Dream It, Psychonavigation, Spirit of the Shuar, and The Stress-Free Habit. He has been featured on ABC, NBC, CNN, NPR, A&E, the History Channel, Al Jazeera, RT, Time, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Cosmopolitan, Elle, Der Spiegel, and many other publications, as well as in numerous documentaries including The End of Poverty, Zeitgeist Addendum, and Apology of an Economic Hit Man. John was awarded the Lennon/Ono Peace Prize (along with Lady Gaga and Pussy Riot!) and the Challenging Business as Usual Award from the Rainforest Action Network. Thank you for your support! The B.I.Stander Podcast is a listener supported podcast so please consider subscribing.   BE A FRIEND OF PODCASTVILLE AND TELL A FRIEND  Thank you to our very supportive sponsors! Blue Canary Auto NOW ALSO in Bremerton! Sound Reprographics Tideland Magazine Sheldon Orthodontics KitsapSmokestack.org Hot Hot Yoga Miguelitos Vast Solutions Editing by: Cherie Newman Magpie Audio Productions    

It's the 40th anniversary of the founding of Rainforest Action Network (RAN). So we're reposting this 2021 interview with RAN co-founder Randy Hayes.The 1980s saw a new consciousness of environmental awareness, particularly around the Earth's rain forests. Scientists had discovered that, aside from their enormous biodiversity, rainforests also helped to keep carbon from being released into the atmosphere. Corporations in the U.S. and Europe saw tropical rainforests as a means for profit. For a long time, Indigenous communities had stood against industrial development and deforestation. And by the 1980s, environmental groups in Europe and Australia had been actively fighting deforestation on a grassroots level. But in the U.S. environmental movements had failed to evoke widespread activism on the subject. This episode is about the emergence of rainforest movements in the U.S. in the 1980s with one of the founders of Rainforest Action Network (RAN)-- Randy Hayes.We interview Randy about the history of the movement to save tropical rainforests, corporate campaigning in the early days of RAN and being in solidarity with Indigenous communities around the globe. Randy also talks about biodiversity loss and the ever smaller window of opportunity we have to halt and reverse the very worst of the damage. Bio// Described by the Wall Street Journal as “an environmental pit bull,” Randy Hayes is the co-founder of Rainforest Action Network, and is an author, filmmaker and environmentalist. Hayes is a veteran of many high-visibility corporate accountability campaigns and has advocated for the rights of Indigenous peoples throughout the world. He is currently the executive director of Foundation Earth and a consultant to the World Future Council, based in Washington, DC.-----------------------

US imperialism is directly connected to hundreds of millions of people's lives throughout the world, capital accumulation and global inequality, climate change, fascism. The U.S. enforces its violent empire by maintaining almost 800 military bases around the world. Each one contaminates the soil. Occupies land. Each base contributes to the U.S. military project's status as #1 institutional polluter in the world, as it unleashes over a billion metric tons of CO2 in the atmosphere. As it destroys the built and natural environment wherever its boots touch the ground. In this episode, we engage with Jodie Evans from CODEPINK to explore the crucial relationship between war and environmental degradation. We unpack the concept of the War Economy, its devastating impacts on our planet, and discuss the urgent need for a shift towards a Peace Economy. Join us as we challenge the narratives surrounding militarism and advocate for a world where peace and sustainability coexist. Support the Podcast via PayPal https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=LBGXTRM292TFC&source=url The environmental movement and the peace movement share a target: militarism. War is driven by resource extraction; without it, the push for control of fossil fuels, rare earth minerals, shipping ports and channels would not be necessary nor possible. Therefore a Peace Economy would help keep the fossil fuels in the ground and direct investment in clean and renewable energy, as well as regenerative growth in agriculture and green infrastructure that both create jobs and improve our biosphere as a place for living and thriving. For an extended interview and other benefits, become an EcoJustice Radio patron at https://www.patreon.com/ecojusticeradio Resources/Articles: CODEPINK WING resource page https://www.codepink.org/wing and Elephant In The Room campaign: https://www.codepink.org/elephant_in_the_room Jodie Evans is a co-founder and board member of CODEPINK [https://www.codepink.org/] with over 40 years of activism in peace, environmental, women's rights, and social justice. She has traveled to war zones to promote peaceful conflict resolution and works locally to advocate for divestment from war and build peace economies. Jodie served in Jerry Brown's administration, ran his presidential campaign, and authored two books: Stop the Next War Now and Twilight of Empire. As a documentary producer and board member of the Rainforest Action Network and Women's Media Center, she is a powerful voice for activism and policy change. Jodie has appeared on numerous podcasts and TV segments over the years and is a sought-after guest panelist on the topic of local peace economies, feminist foreign policy, and using activism to cultivate change. Jack Eidt is an urban planner, environmental journalist, and climate organizer, as well as award-winning fiction writer. He is Co-Founder of SoCal 350 Climate Action and Executive Producer of EcoJustice Radio. He writes a column on PBS SoCal called High & Dry [https://www.pbssocal.org/people/high-dry]. He is also Founder and Publisher of WilderUtopia [https://wilderutopia.com], a website dedicated to the question of Earth sustainability, finding society-level solutions to environmental, community, economic, transportation and energy needs. Podcast Website: http://ecojusticeradio.org/ Podcast Blog: https://www.wilderutopia.com/category/ecojustice-radio/ Support the Podcast: Patreon https://www.patreon.com/ecojusticeradio PayPal https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=LBGXTRM292TFC&source=url Executive Producer and Host: Jack Eidt Engineer and Original Music: Blake Quake Beats Episode 266 Photo credit: CODEPINK

One of the most followed stained glass artists on social media, Meggy Wilm of Colorado Glass Works, Boulder, Colorado, shares her creations with nearly 275K (and growing) followers on Instagram – attracting a new audience of young enthusiasts to the medieval craft. Wilm and her husband Dustin Mayfield also recently purchased Boulder-based D&L Art Glass Supply from Leslie Silverman, who dedicated 50 years to the company she founded. Experienced entrepreneurs, Wilm and Mayfield have a deep appreciation for the art glass industry and a forward-thinking vision for D&L. Her first company, Colorado Glass Works is a multifaceted art glass business where Wilm teaches a variety of classes, sells and ships sheet glass around the world, designs her own custom sheet glass, and creates small and large commissions for private clients. She has been creating stained art glass for the last seven years and has a deep love of all things nature- and glass-related. States Wilm: “I founded Colorado Glass Works in the fall of 2017 sitting criss-crossed on my living room floor in Denver, Colorado. My passion is creating dreamy and colorful stained glass art pieces ranging from mini sun-catchers to fully installable windows. I imagine, custom design, and hand-make every single one of my pieces with attention to every little detail.” Beginning on January 1, 2020, Wilm made a commitment to donate a percentage of her glass profits amongst her five favorite environmental organizations – The Sierra Club, The Marine Conservation Institute, the Rainforest Action Network, Defenders of Wildlife, and The Environmental Defense Fund. In 2024, through purchases of Wilm's art, she raised $10,000 and donated those funds to help protect our planet. Each of her chosen nonprofit organizations received $2,000 to continue their efforts. Raising larger amounts each year, in 2024 Wilm was able to expand on her altruistic goals and donate stained glass art supplies, classes, and glass to schools in need. Eight deserving schools across the United States received full beginner stained glass startup kits to introduce stained glass as an elective or after-school activity. These kits included tools, classes, and materials valued at over $10,000, giving students the opportunity to explore stained glass. Wilm says: “Together, we made a total of $20,678 in donations to causes that truly matter. None of this would have been possible without you. Thank you for being part of this journey. I am so thrilled we get to work together in making a small impact to help protect this beautiful world we live in.” In addition to running Colorado Glass Works, and taking the wheel at D&L, Wilm will be a TA for Ted Ellison at Pilchuck from May 22 – 29, 2025. Keep your eye on social media for more of the artist's beautiful Colorado landscapes, sparkling snowflakes and signature textured or dichroic Monstera leaves.  

As biodiversity loss accelerates, there's a growing push to get financial institutions to take responsibility. In Malaysia, Bank Negara has announced plans to adopt nature-related risk assessments inspired by the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures or TNFD, which is a global initiative that provides a framework for companies and financial institutions to report and manage nature-related risks and impacts. But how effective — or even fair — is this framework? Shona Hawkes, a Senior Advisor on Finance at the Rainforest Action Network, joins us to explore why many environmental and rights groups are deeply concerned about the TFND, and why they believe its practices could open the door to more corporate greenwashing.Image Credit: Forests & Finance | YouTubeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Randy Hayes has been described in the Wall Street Journal as “an environmental pit bull.” He is Executive Director of Foundation Earth, an organization fostering the big rethink from the ground up to help protect the planet's life support systems. Hayes, a former filmmaker, then founder of Rainforest Action Network, is a veteran of many high-visibility corporate accountability campaigns […] Read full article: Episode 146: Randy Hayes' Roadmap for an Ecological Civilization

Send us a textHey Pickles!How ya doin? We hope you're well!This week, we'll tell you about a great fundraiser we did in Syracuse NY, and of course we found some awesome vegan food along the way!Our Noteworthy segment this week looks at the best vegan meal delivery services. We'll let you know which ones might work for you!In our Main Topic we dive into a report from Rainforest Action Network that looks at how much money vegan organizations are taking in, where the money is going, and how they can compete with the millions of dollars that are being invested in the industries that they are fighting.We got much of this information from animal activist, Jake Conroy aka The Cranky Vegan. You can make a difference by donating to Jake's Patreon. All of the money goes to a different animal sanctuary each month, and your membership entitles you to a vote on where the money goes.Here's the link:   https://patreon.com/thecrankyveganJake's Patreon is also our Vegan Org of the Week!We have a very special Listener Shout Out, a new vegan recipe From Our Vegan Kitchen, and much more!Thanks for listening!Love, Sam & ChristineSupport the showJoin Our Patreon https://www.patreon.com/CompassionandcucumbersSign Up For Our Newsletterhttps://www.compassionandcucumbers.comOur YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@compassioncucumbersveganpod/videos72 Reasons To Be Vegan *paid link https://amzn.to/3W8ZwsUVisit Our Website https://www.compassionandcucumbers.comSam's Etsy https://www.etsy.com/shop/CucumberCraftworksJoin the AFA Vegan Voter Hub https://agriculturefairnessalliance.org/vegan-voter-hub/

“Uncertainty inherently means that possibility exists. Possibility for all sorts of things. For the darkest fantasies and fears that I have and for the most beautiful. And my life is a vote in the direction of a possibility, and I'm going to give myself to the one I want.”Check out the episode page for the transcript and the full list of the resources mentioned in this episode: https://widerroots.com/7 In this conversation with Jess Serrante, we dive into the teachings of Joanna Macy and explore how they can support us in our work for social change. I was particularly moved by our discussion on the role of heartbreak in activism and coaching. We asked, what if more healing modalities and spiritual paths helped us get in touch with our pain for the world as a catalyst for discovering our unique contribution? Jess shares powerful insights from her new podcast, "We Are The Great Turning," (including previews of unreleased episodes!)We also grapple with the question of hope in the face of overwhelming challenges like climate change. When despair creeps in, what can we draw upon that's more stable than the fluctuations of hope? Throughout our conversation, we touch on the importance of grounding our activism in our love for the world, and how Joanna's teachings can help us do that.Jess Serrante is a dear friend of mine and a longtime climate activist who has worked with groups like Greenpeace, Rainforest Action Network, and Sunrise Movement. She's a coach, facilitator, and now a podcaster!Subscribe to We Are The Great Turning on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pocket Casts, or wherever you get your podcasts.Key moments03:02 - The dream Joanna & Jess had for this project15:39 - Heartbreak and honoring our pain for the world23:59 - Clip from Joanna Macy: What if my pain for the world overwhelms me?28:58 - Clip from Joanna Macy: Our pain is sacred35:34 - Heartbreak guiding us to our calling44:25 - Examining Hope (and other places to find our motivation)53:36 - Clip from Joanna Macy: Whistling in the dark to cheer ourselves up1:02:51 - Jess' sources of nourishment1:04:46 - ClosingResources & LinksWe Are The Great Turning Podcast websiteActive Hope by Joanna Macy (book)The Work That ReconnectsVideo of Joanna Macy: “The knife edge of uncertainty”Parable of The Sower by Octavia Butler (book)Rebecca Solnit quote: “Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky. It is an axe you break down doors with in an emergency"Connect with JessCoaching website: JessSerrante.comInstagram:

John Beske and Marla Rose, Vegan Street's 25th Birthday! JOHN BESKE is a long-time veteran of graphic design, advertising and marketing with stints at a series of large and small advertising agencies including Leo Burnett and Della Femina McNamee. During this time, he produced print, television, promotional and retail advertising and design for dozens of companies including such famous brands as General Mills, Sony, Popsicle, Miller Brewing and, yes, even McDonald's. Eventually, he became disillusioned the advertising industry and left the agency scene to become an art director for brands he believed were doing good in the world. Shortly after, he co-founded a visionary marketing agency called Sustain that devoted all of its work to building the messaging of non-profits in the environmental and social justice sectors including campaigns for Sierra Club, Earthjustice and the Rainforest Action Network. During this same time, he teamed up with Marla to create the pioneering website Vegan Street in 1998, and open a Chicago chapter of EarthSave International in 1999.  In 2005, he left Sustain to form John Beske Communications, which has been building the brands of vegan and ecologically responsible companies and organizations for more than a decade. John Beske Communications has now been folded into Vegan Street Media. MARLA ROSE is an award-nominated journalist, columnist, public speaker, recipe developer and author as well as event planner. Since leaving her job in humane education in 1998, Marla has dedicated her life to building vegan culture and community and today she writes most of the content for Vegan Street. In 1999, Marla was the founding chairperson of EarthSave Chicago, which hosted dozens of monthly potlucks, each featuring speakers, and produced five major day-long vegan conferences called The Conference for Conscious Living, which ultimately evolved into  Chicago VeganMania, which was a popular free festival for ten years. In 2009, she and her partner John Beske were awarded Activists of the Year by Mercy for Animals and won Green America‘s People and Planet Award in 2015. For the past several years, she has been writing feature stories for magazines and has spoken at the Green Festival, Animal Rights Conference, Vegetarian Summerfest and many other conferences and festivals. She is a frequent writer for  VegNews  magazine, a writer of feature stories and author of several books.

This September, The Coast Range Association, along with partners like 350pdx, Indigenous Environmental Network, Rainforest Action Network, the Pacific Northwest Forest Climate Alliance, and many more, organized a major protest and counter conference in response to the Who Will Own The Forest timber investor conference.If you aren't familiar with the Who Will Own the Forest Conference, I'd encourage you to listen to the episode with Brenna Bell of 350pdx, which you can find on this pod feed or at our website, coastrange.org.The short version is that Who Will Own The Forest is an annual “timberland investment conference” bringing together some of the world's biggest climate polluters, corporate forest clear-cutters, finance giants, and false climate solutions peddlers.  Just to name a few, JP morgan-Chase, weyerhauser,  BP,  the list goes on and on, but you get the idea. Attendees come from all over the world to scheme on ever more efficient ways to exploit communities and natural resources, sabotage efforts to decarbonize, and extract maximum profits for the 1%.So in response, we staged a day long protest outside of the conference which drew around two hundred people, and the next day, we held a day long, Forests Over Profits  counter conference which was attended by roughly the same number of folks! There is clearly an appetite for taking on Wall St's exploitation of forestlands, and I'm so excited to see where this movement goes from here.  If you want to learn more or get involved, email me at michael@coastrange.org.For today's episode, I'm going to be airing a few clips from our Forests over Profits Conference, and I will be putting out another episode or two highlighting different presentations from the Forests Over Profits Conference soon.  I'm releasing this episode on Indigenous People's Day, October 9th, So in honor of that, today's episode will focus on clips from some of our conference's Indigenous presenters, including an Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN) panel discussion and a talk on the commercialization of Huckleberries and other sacred foods.  The Indigenous Environmental Network panel in particular was really powerful and inspiring, but I only have time to air a few clips for our radio edition.   I really encourage you to listen to their entire presentation, so I'll be putting out the full discussion as a bonus episode on this feed.Links and resources:CRR #65: Who Will Own The Forest, with Brenna Bell:More about our campaigns:https://coastrange.org/Forestsoverprofits.orghttps://www.ienearth.org/The Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative False Solutions AllianceHuckleberry commercializationFairy Creek campaign:-Amazing documentary https://rematriationthefilm.com/-About Grandma LosahSupport the showPlease Donate to Help us Keep This Show Free!

We talk a lot on this show about the devastation wrought on our environment and communities by invasive capitalism, and today we get to talk about something tangible we can do to fight back!On September 26-28, Wall Street investors will join timber corporations, big oil, carbon offset & biomass companies in Portland for their annual “Who Will Own the Forest?” conference. With tickets costing over two thousand dollars apiece, this “timberland investment conference” brings together some of the world's biggest climate polluters, corporate forest clear-cutters, and false climate solutions peddlers.  For anyone who's watched the Godfather movie's, I liken this conference to the scene where the mafia bosses are all gathered around a cake with an image of Cuba on the top, divvying up the pieces of the island and deciding who gets control over what.But instead of Who WILL Own the Forest, we should be asking, who should own the forest?  Should forests even be owned?  And should the greatest value of our forests be reduced to quarterly returns for wealthy investors?A coalition of groups, including 350, Indigenous Environmental Network, Rainforest Action Network, the Coast Range association, and many more, think these are some of the questions that should be asked at the Who Will Own the Forest Conference.  And even though we weren't invited to this event, we're going anyway, and you are invited to join us!To talk about “Who will own the forest”, our response, and how to get involved in disrupting invasive capital's plans, I'm joined by Brenna Bell, the Forest Climate Manager for 350PDX.  She has been deeply involved in forest defense for over two decades, and is co-founder of the Pacific Northwest Forest Climate Alliance.  Links and Resources:https://forestsoverprofits.org/https://www.worldforestry.org/who-will-own-the-forest/Support the showPlease Donate to Help us Keep This Show Free!

The Village Square is truly delighted to offer you a feed drop episode of the "How Do We Fix It?" podcast, from the coolest podcast hosting dynamic duo we know and love,  Richard Davies and Jim Meigs. These two have real fun together and with their guests—and we all get to listen. This episode of How Do We Fix It? "The Middle 70%: In This Together" features Bill Shireman, host of the podcast "A Moment of BS Bill Shireman Disrupts the Dividers". President of Future 500, where he invites Greenpeace, ExxonMobil, Rainforest Action Network, Mitsubishi and other corporate and environmental leaders to work together. We hope you'll take a moment to jump over to How Do We Fix It? right now to listen to more interviews with people like Jonathan Haidt, David Bornstein, Lenore Skenazy, Mike Rowe—and so many more (including our founder Liz Joyner) on "positive ideas for challenging times. Village SquareCast and How Do We Fix It? are both proud members of The Democracy Group, a network of podcasts that examines what's broken in our democracy and how we can work together to fix it. Village SquareCast will be back with brand new episodes of Village SquareCast this fall.

Chris Boucher is recognized across the global hemp industry for his broad expertise in hemp, including farming, product development, consulting, education, advocacy, and legislation.  Chris began growing hemp in the early 1990s in China, Poland, Hungary, and Romania. In 1991, he founded The Hempstead Company, one of the first hemp clothing and seed businesses to open in the US since the 1930s. The company sold products to more than 4,000 stores in 10 countries. Clients included The Beatles (for their Anthology Release), the Disney Stores, Converse Shoes, The Dave Mathews Band, Phish, Ziggy Marley, the Bob Marley Foundation, the Save the Earth Foundation, the Turner Foundation, and the Rainforest Action Network.  In 1992, Chris co-founded The True Hemp Industry Association, now known as the Hemp Industries Association (HIA). In 1994, he became the first person in modern times permitted to legally grow a hemp crop in the US, at the USDA Research Center in Brawley, California.  In 1997, Chris worked with the Navajo Nation in Arizona to help pass progressive hemp legislation for  Native American US reservations. From 1994-2017, he helped draft and promote legislation resulting in the first relaxation of agricultural hemp laws in America, implemented in California and Colorado. In 2012, he co-wrote Hemp CBD is Legal in All 50 States, a groundbreaking legal opinion challenging the legal status of Hemp-derived CBD, which vaulted the US CBD business into the billion-dollar industry it is today. In 2018, Chris established a large, sustainable hemp farm at the Imperial Valley Research Center in California to support his educational, commercial, and advocacy activities.  Today, Chris is CEO and co-founder, along with his wife Jen Hutchinson, of Juicetiva Hemp CBDA Powder, which produces a breakthrough innovation for hemp foods, raw 100% hemp juice CBDA powder. He also serves as CEO of Farmtiva, inc. which breeds and sells CBD, CBG, fiber and grain seeds across USA. He also serves as a Director of the California Hemp Farmers Guild a non-profit dedicated to helping hemp farmers.  Chris lives with his wife in Laguna Beach, California, and he donates his time to mentoring underserved youth in South Central Los Angeles. He travels the country speaking and consulting on behalf of the new American agricultural hemp industry. -- Critical Mass Business Talk Show is Orange County, CA's longest-running business talk show, focused on offering value and insight to middle-market business leaders in the OC and beyond. Hosted by Ric Franzi, business partner at Renaissance Executive Forums Orange County. Learn more about Ric at www.ricfranzi.com. Catch up on past Critical Mass Business Talk Show interviews... YouTube: https://lnkd.in/gHKT2gmF LinkedIn: https://lnkd.in/g2PzRhjQ Podbean: https://lnkd.in/eWpNVRi Apple Podcasts: https://lnkd.in/gRd_863w Spotify: https://lnkd.in/gruexU6m #orangecountyca #mastermind #ceopeergroups #peergroups #peerlearning

Jacob Harold is a social change strategist, author, and executive. He served as CEO of GuideStar, co-founder of Candid, and as a staff leader at the Hewlett Foundation, Bridgespan, Greenpeace, and Rainforest Action Network. Harold studied ethics at Duke and earned an MBA at Stanford.

"America is rigidly divided between red and blue." That's what we're constantly being told by pundits, politicians and media outlets, both left and right.But what if that wasn't quite true?On a surprisingly large number of issues, Americans agree on the broad outlines of public policy. Author, conflict mediator, and social entrepreneur, Bill Shireman makes the case that the middle 70% of the public should have a much greater say in who gets elected to make laws and decide policy."All it takes is a small number of folks who are aware of how we're being gamed to build a bridge between the political left and right, Bill says. "We need a relatively small percentage of voters who will not divide the way we are triggered to divide," Bill argues that the media and political industry make money and gain power by dividing Americans and making us mad at the other side."The middle 70%" does not necessarily mean moderates. Bill calls them "the silenced majority of us who are common-sense, reality-based voters who can work out our differences." Some are conservatives or progressives, while others have a mix of opinions on social and economic issues. The House of Representatives vote for the debt ceiling bill is an example of what Bill is talking about. Despite furious denunciations by legislators on the progressive left and Freedom Caucus right, the compromise bill passed by an overwhelming margin. President Biden and House Republican leaders quietly worked together. More about Bill Shireman: Host of the podcast series "A Moment of BS Bill Shireman Disrupts the Dividers". President of Future 500, where he invites Greenpeace, ExxonMobil, Rainforest Action Network, Mitsubishi and other corporate and environmental leaders to work together.Bill co-chairs the Donor Roundtable and its citizen recruitment initiative, In This Together.He's the author of seven books. The most recent is "In This Together: How Republicans, Democrats, Capitalists and Activists are Uniting to Tackle Climate Change and More.Bill teaches leadership and negotiations at the Berkeley Haas School of Business, University of California Berkeley.Recommendation: Richard listened to and was moved by the documentary podcast series "The Witch Trials of JK Rowling", hosted by Megan Phelps-Roper. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

May 18, 2023--On Corporations and Democracy... BANKING ON CLIMATE CHAOS is a new study of the big bad banks that enable continued, massive fossil fuel development. Steve and Annie interview Shawna Foster of Rainforest Action Network who will examine the banks that are funding climate disaster. 

Tune in as host Saankhya engages in a captivating interview with Zanne Garland, Development Director of Rainforest Action Network. Explore the crucial work of RAN in safeguarding our planet's rainforests, the strategies they employ to hold corporations accountable, and the significant role individuals can play in preserving our natural world. Don't miss this enlightening conversation with Zanne

* Texas Judge's Ruling Banning a Widely Used Abortion Drug Based on Ideology Not Science; Pema Levy, a reporter with Mother Jones magazine; Producer: Scott Harris. * Amid the Deepening Climate Crisis Banks Invested a Staggering $673 Billion in Fossil Fuel Projects in 2022; April Merleaux, research manager with Rainforest Action Network; Producer: Melinda Tuhus. * Climate Defiance Activists Plan Blockade of White House Correspondents Dinner April 29th; Rylee Haught, action organizer with Climate Defiance; Producer: Scott Harris.

Multiple banks have pledged to clean up their fossil fuel funding with net-zero carbon commitments, but they continue business-as-usual, pushing for profit by championing destructive projects responsible for driving climate chaos. The 2022 annual report, Banking on Climate Chaos [http://www.bankingonclimatechaos.org], revealed that fossil fuel financing from the worlds 60 largest banks has reached nearly $4.6 trillion in the six years since the adoption of the Paris Climate Agreement, with $742 billion in 2021 alone. On this show recorded in 2022, we delve into the Banking on Climate Chaos report with Ruth Breech from Rainforest Action Network [https://www.ran.org/], one of the organizations that authored the report. She discusses how these findings underscore the need for banks to immediately implement policies that end their financing for fossil fuel expansion. Moreover we highlight some of these projects causing climate chaos and the worldwide movement of communities coming together to demand that the financial sector get out of the oil and gas business altogether. We also feature special reports from Producer Jack Eidt on Liquified natural Gas expansions on the Louisiana Gulf Coast and the recently approved Willow drilling project on Alaska's North Slope. Listen to the extended version of the show: https://www.patreon.com/posts/banking-on-chaos-66503029 Ruth Breech is Senior Campaigner, of Rainforest Action Networks Climate and Energy team. She is responsible for organizing corporate accountability campaigns on financial institutions, supporting front line communities impacted by fossil fuels and climate change, partnering with Indigenous leaders and working with grassroots networks across the country to Defund Climate Chaos. Ruth brings 20 years of on-the-ground-work with environmental justice frontline communities. She is the recipient of the 2009 Healthy School Heroes Award for her leadership in relocating an elementary school in Ohio away from a plastics plant and its cancer causing emissions. She serves on the board of Crude Accountability International & Earth Guardians. Jessica Aldridge, Co-Host and Producer of EcoJustice Radio, is an environmental educator, community organizer, and 15-year waste industry leader. She is a co-founder of SoCal 350, organizer for ReusableLA, and founded Adventures in Waste. She is a former professor of Recycling and Resource Management at Santa Monica College, and an award recipient of the international 2021 Women in Sustainability Leadership and the 2016 inaugural Waste360, 40 Under 40. Podcast Website: http://ecojusticeradio.org/ Podcast Blog: https://wilderutopia.com/ecojustice-radio/banking-on-climate-chaos-the-fossil-fuel-finance-report/ Support the Podcast: Patreon https://www.patreon.com/ecojusticeradio PayPal https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=LBGXTRM292TFC&source=url Executive Producer: Jack Eidt Host and Producer: Jessica Aldridge Engineer and Original Music: Blake Quake Beats

This butterfly is excited to be speaking with Branden Barber. Branden is a lifelong environmentalist. Starting with a degree in Environmental Studies from UC Santa Cruz, he cut his teeth with Greenpeace International on the Rainbow Warrior. Then he ran the Victorian State Office for Greenpeace Australia. Over the last 25 years, he's worked in both the social profit and for-profit sectors, from start-ups to S&P 500 companies to NGO's, large and small. In the last decade, Branden has been involved with various environmental organizations as staff or as a consultant, served on the Leadership Teams at both Rainforest Action Network and Amazon Watch, and has sat on several boards – always with a focus on the environment. Branden joined the Rainforest Rescue team in 2018. He is passionate about rainforests, ardently committed to the natural world, and brings a wealth and breadth of experience to Rainforest Rescue as the CEO. In this episode, you will hear about his work, challenges in restoring a rainforest, the Daintree rainforest (the oldest rainforest in the world), and more. Some notes... More about 1treellion & Branden Barber. To support planting all over the world, please check out this link. The great music is credited to Pixabay.

When you read this 6-word story, what emotions come up for you? "For sale. Baby shoes. Never worn." “For a story to change the world,” author and storytelling coach Jay Golden says, “It has to change you first.” That's why, after a dozen years working at the cutting edge of digital storytelling, Jay shifted his attention to unlocking the purpose of globally transformative leaders through the stories they tell, one-to-one and one-to-many. Today, as the founder of the storytelling company Retellable, Jay coaches and trains founders, innovators, and social entrepreneurs at companies such as Facebook, Google, LinkedIn and Rainforest Action Network. With an approach that is both personally transformative and also universally applicable, his book, Retellable: How Your Essential Stories Unlock Power and Purpose, is a guide to storytelling using his original framework - The Journey Curve. To reach Jay, simply email jay@retellable.cvom, or visit www.retellable.com For more information about the First Bank Center for Family-Owned Businesses, contact us at www.first.bank/faamilybusiness --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/fromthehart/message

Climate Champion, Michael Brune, plus NaturePositive.org, and the Rainforest Action Network.

Multiple banks have pledged to clean up their fossil fuel funding with net-zero carbon commitments, but they continue business-as-usual, pushing for profit by championing destructive projects responsible for driving climate chaos. The 2022 annual report, Banking on Climate Chaos [http://www.bankingonclimatechaos.org], revealed that fossil fuel financing from the world's 60 largest banks has reached nearly $4.6 trillion in the six years since the adoption of the Paris Climate Agreement, with $742 billion in 2021 alone. On this show, we delve into the Banking on Climate Chaos report with Ruth Breech from Rainforest Action Network [https://www.ran.org/], one of the organizations that authored the report. She discusses how these findings underscore the need for banks to immediately implement policies that end their financing for fossil fuel expansion. Moreover we highlight some of these projects causing climate chaos and the worldwide movement of communities coming together to demand that the financial sector get out of the oil and gas business altogether. *Ruth Breech is Senior Campaigner for Rainforest Action Network's Climate and Energy team. She is responsible for organizing corporate accountability campaigns on financial institutions, supporting front line communities impacted by fossil fuels and climate change, partnering with Indigenous leaders and working with grassroots networks across the country to Defund Climate Chaos. Ruth brings 20 years of on-the-ground-work with environmental justice frontline communities. She is the recipient of the 2009 Healthy School Heroes Award for her leadership in relocating an elementary school in Ohio away from a plastics plant and its cancer causing emissions. She serves on the board of Crude Accountability International & Earth Guardians. Podcast Website: http://ecojusticeradio.org/ Podcast Blog: https://www.wilderutopia.com/category/ecojustice-radio/ Support the Podcast: https://www.patreon.com/ecojusticeradio Hosted by Jessica Aldridge Engineer and Original Music: Blake Quake Beats Executive Producer: Jack Eidt Show Created by Mark and JP Morris Episode 134 Photo credit: Ruth Breech

Gestern veröffentlichte das Rainforest Action Network zusammen mit verschiedenen anderen Organisationen den Bericht Banking on Climate Chaos. Dabei untersuchten die Autor*innen die Investitionspolitik von 60 global agierenden Banken und kommen zum Schluss, dass jährlich mehrere Hundert Milliarden Dollar in die Förderung von fossilen Brennstoffen investiert werden. Vorne mit dabei sind auch die UBS und die ... >

Jake Conroy is a long-time activist, designer, and writer currently residing in Seattle, WA USA.  He helped organize and participated in successful local, regional, national and international pressure campaigns. He also helped build the foundation of SHAC USA, considered one of the most successful grassroots animal rights campaigns in history. He and his co-organizers were arrested by the US government for their roles and dubbed the SHAC7.  Jake and his codefendants were found guilty after a lengthy trial and he was sentenced to 4 years in federal prison.  In 2019, the Joaquin Phoenix produced documentary, The Animal People, was released detailing the campaign and the controversial court case.Currently, Jake hosts the podcast Radicals & Revolutionaries and works at the Rainforest Action Network, an international organization using pressure campaigns to stop rainforest deforestation, fossil fuel extraction, and support human rights.  He can be found pontificating online as the Cranky Vegan, where he helps reimagines the tactics, strategies, and optics of the grassroots animal rights movement. Connect with Jake on Instagram, Youtube, or Facebook.---This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp: Get 10% off the first month of online therapy at https://betterhelp.com/carlyThis episode is supported by Terraseed. Click here to get 50% off your first month of vegan vitamins!This episode is supported by Who Gives A Crap. Try your new favorite, sustainable toilet paper today by using the code CARLY10 to get $10 off your first order over $54 or more!https://prf.hn/click/camref:1011ljZTu---Thanks for listening to another episode. Follow, review and share to help Consciously Clueless grow! Support Carly on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/consciouslycarlyConnect on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/consciously.carly/Connect on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/consciously.carly.blogConnect on Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/carlyjean5/Explore the Website: https://www.consciouslycarly.com/Music by Matthew Baxley

4.500 miliardi di dollari in soli sei anni. È la cifra stratosferica che le 60 più grandi banche del mondo hanno concesso al settore delle fonti fossili. A rivelarlo è il nuovo rapporto “Banking on Climate Chaos”, curato da sei organizzazioni non governative: Rainforest Action Network, BankTrack, Sierra Club, Indigenous Environmental Network, Oil Change International e Reclaim Finance.Ne parlano in questo podcast Andrea Baranes, Andrea Barolini e Claudia Vago.

This week: La Rhea Pepper, Claire Bergkamp and Megan Stoneburner from Textile Exchange discuss the potential from manmade cellulosic fibres – particularly viscose and rayon – for the apparel and textiles sector. They talk about the challenges of ensuring sustainable supply, particularly for fibres sourced from forests, and how such materials can have a key role as the sector addresses the significant challenges in transitioning to net zero. Plus: UK farmers set to be paid £1.6bn for re-wilding and environmental sensitivity; France bans plastic wrapped fruit and vegetables; and, better news on deforestation rates in Indonesia down to palm oil sector scrutiny, says Rainforest Action Network, in the news digest. Host: Ian Welsh

I'm Michael Watson and this is the InfluenceWatch Podcast. Our guest today is a Time Magazine Hero of the Environment who at age 16 raised money for the Rainforest Action Network and at 17 “lived in Nicaragua to show solidarity with the Sandinista socialist revolution.” But our guest, author Michael Shellenberger, isn't your typical Bill McKibben or Bernie Sanders type: He is a campaigner for the environmental benefits of nuclear energy through his group Environmental Progress and just released a new book, San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities criticizing how radical-left approaches to criminal justice and homelessness have battered the Bay Area. Ken Braun, who joins today's conversation reviewed both San Fransicko and Shellenberger's previous book, Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All for Capital Research Center; Shellenberger joins us to discuss his theses. Michael Shellenberger @ Environmental Progress: https://environmentalprogress.org/founder-president San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities: https://www.amazon.com/San-Fransicko-Progressives-Ruin-Cities/dp/0063093626 Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All:https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07Y8FHFQ7/ref=dbsadefrwtbiblvppii1 “Pathological Altruism” May Kill a City Near You: https://capitalresearch.org/article/pathological-altruism-may-kill-a-city-near-you/ Antidote for “Apocalyptic Environmentalists” -- Apocalypse Never: https://capitalresearch.org/article/oliver-stones-antidote-for-apocalyptic-environmentalists-part-1/ A cautionary tale from the streets of San Francisco: https://www.economist.com/books-and-arts/2021/10/23/a-cautionary-tale-from-the-streets-of-san-francisco Subscribe to the podcast on your platform of choice at: https://influencewatch.fireside.fm/ • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/capitalresearchcenter • Twitter: https://twitter.com/capitalresearch • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/capital.research.center/ • YouTube: https://bit.ly/CRCYouTube

Hundreds of banks and money managers pledged to consider the planet when making decisions. There have been multiple promises on climate and finance in the past, and we discuss whether the new announcements are different with Tom Picken, forests and finance campaign director at the Rainforest Action Network. And Catherine McGuinness, policy chair at the City of London Corporation gives us the perspective of financial institutions. We also talk to the environmental activist George Monbiot about his view that a complete redesign of the capitalist system is needed in order to limit global temperature rises. Also in the programme, Facebook has announced that it will no longer use facial recognition technology to identify people in pictures uploaded on the social network. We get reaction to the move from Stuart Miles of the technology website Pocket Lint. Plus, the US Department of Justice is suing to prevent the takeover of publisher Simon & Schuster by Penguin Random House. Benedicte Page is deputy editor of The Bookseller, and explains the background.

Simon Holmes a Court (pictured), the fellow behind Climate 200, was interviewed on Radio National and the full interview can be found at “Climate 200 seeks to unseat government giants over climate change, integrity and the treatment of women”. The next story today is from Wired and tells readers: “Valley Fever Is Spreading Through a Hotter, Drier Western US”; That's followed by four stories from Medium: “Carbon Removals vs. Carbon Avoidance”; “Molten salt reactors: global savior or a deal with the devil?”; “Let's talk about climate change (no really!)”; “As Antarctica melts, we stand to lose much more than ice”; Now it's two stories from The Conversation: “Grattan on Friday: To go or not to go — Morrison grapples with Glasgow”; “Social media is reducing climate change debates to your views on veganism”; From Bloomberg: “Coal Surges to Record as Global Scramble for Energy Accelerates”; Inside Climate News tells readers: “Climate Change is Weakening the Ocean Currents That Shape Weather on Both Sides of the Atlantic”; We have four stories how from the Guardian: “10 great city projects for nature - from vertical forests to a "gangsta garden"”; “Cumbria coalmine would hit global decarbonisation efforts, inquiry hears”; “Right faction hardheads will accept greenwashing ahead of Glasgow if that's required to keep the Coalition in power”; “Apple and Disney among companies backing groups against US climate bill”; Aljazeera tells readers: “Thunberg leads climate protests in Italy ahead of COP26”; From The Hill it's: “Manchin: Natural gas 'has to be' part of clean energy program”; Rainforest Action Network tells readers about; “Revel 2021”; Here's a trio of stories from The Melbourne Age: “While the 2050 battle rages in Australia, the world is talking 2030”; “Joyce striving to lead Nationals to peace deal on climate”; “Morrison is out of excuses, and time, to act on emissions”; From the Climate CoLab we readers learn that they can: “Work with people from all over the world to create proposals for how to reach global climate change goals”; On Yahoo News it's: “Keep up climate pressure, UN chief tells youth”; From RenewEconomy: “Liberal-controlled oversight committee says Taylor's ARENA changes should be cancelled”; Finally, for today, we have two stories from Yale Climate Connections: “Hot, dry, and smoky: Iconic Yellowstone has much to lose with climate change”; “Pittsburgh's climate-friendly plan for condemned homes”.  Enjoy “Music for a Warming World”. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/climateconversations

We are all familiar with doubt in our lives, sometimes it is obvious, other times it's hidden in our self-sabotage. It can be action or inaction. It can also spread like a virus through false belief and inaccurate ideas or myths. Well, we are here to offer a cure, and no, it's not more cowbell.https://reverb.orgREVERB was founded in 2004 by environmentalist Lauren Sullivan and her musician husband, Adam Gardner of Guster. While Lauren was seeing the power musicians brought to environmental campaigns when she was working at the Rainforest Action Network, Adam was feeling badly about the size of his band's environmental footprint on tour.After speaking to a number of other touring musicians who felt the same way, they decided to form REVERB. Lauren reached out to Bonnie Raitt's manager, Kathy Kane after seeing Bonnie's Green Highway tour which was an earth-friendly tour that educated fans at shows. REVERB was initially a project of Kathy and Bonnie's ARIA Foundation until it grew into it's own 501c3 organization.REVERB's early artist partners were Dave Matthews Band, Jack Johnson, Maroon 5, John Mayer and Barenaked Ladies–and continue to work with all of them to this day. Check out REVERB.ORG for more informationLet's start by diving into the myths we have heard over the years about musicians and money. This is in no way a complete list but is in fact an ever growing one. One thing we artists have proven good at it's making shit up! Myths about Musicians and Money:Unless you're famous your brokeMusicians can't make middle classes wagesMusicians can't get home loans1099s are so importantMusicians can't retire so don't plan on itBeing a musician isn't a sustainable life choice Musicians can't have healthy family livesOnly super talented become successful Taking money for commercial work is sell outCovering other people's music is selling outWriting music for money is selling out (Paul McCartney ex) - There is no such thing as selling out, except selling out of something, like tickets or merch, which is very real. And very awesome.musicians get no tax breaksAs a musician it's better to not claim your income.WRONGGGGSince there is so much work I need to do on my music biz it's better to just not do any Every musician is different, no two are exactly the same, just like our fingerprints, we all have something unique. Find the place of your work you really love and grow from there. Don't start from these places of myths.Connect with us at: https://www.musicianstipjar.com/ or send an email to musicianstipjar@gmail.com Intro & Outro Music Donated by: The Magi https://www.themagimusic.com Intro Read by: David “DJ” Lee of The Magi https://soundcloud.com/rockababyrock Picture by: Kit Chalberg https://kitchalberg.com/https://www.musicianstipjar.com/

This week I spoke with Mary Lovell. Mary works for the Rainforest Action Network, and is currently working to stop the expansion of the Trans-Mountain Pipeline extension which would run along side another, already existing and leaking pipeline, along the coast line of the Salish Sea. In this episode, Mary talks about all of what it takes to stop a pipeline, but why ending new pipeline construction has such a massive ecological impact on the entire world, as well the potential risks and dangers that it poses to the southern resident orcas and wild chinook salmon. Find out more about the Rainforest Action Network by visiting their website https://www.ran.org Check out the hashtag #stoptmx on Instagram to see what activists are doing to stop this pipeline. Visit this Facebook Event, as well as this Action Toolkit if you're interested in participating in the protests. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cupofhope/support

“Earth's medicine cabinet,” “lungs of the planet,” the Amazon is known for many things including sparking the American environmental movement. Before the (remarkably unsuccessful) “save the rainforest” thing in the '80s, most Americans were unaware of the global, environmental significance of the Amazon Rainforest.  Guests, Luis Muñoz and Lexie Gropper live and work on a reforestation “farm” in Northeast Ecuador, lovingly called Amisacho.Luis's parents started the project 14 ish years ago, with just a few acres. Now a 30+ acre island of jungle amidst widespread clear-cutting and desertification, Amisacho is home to multiple species of monkeys, a community lab for experimenting with native plant species, and other sustainable harvesting endeavors.  Luis and Lexie share about their wide-ranging work, which includes, installing solar panels in remote indigenous communities, making art, essential oils, biochar,  medicinal tinctures, and fostering healing in the wake of decades-long corporate pollution from Chevron/Texaco's oil drilling. Part of their mission is to rebuild not only the forest, but a sense of community, hope, and resilience in the face of continual pressure to clearcut, plant monocultures, graze livestock, or allow international corporate extraction.  Loss of forest means loss of habitat for plants and animals as well as the loss of entire people groups, and cultures– cultures that hold invaluable indigenous wisdom, language, and stories. It means the loss of atmospheric oxygen and biodiversity–  the value of which the rest of the world has yet to even comprehend. (See how this forest could have sparked a movement?)This episode inspires us to remember what it means to be indigenous to a place, to protect and invest in future generations we may never know. There are many ways we can all help turn the tide, wherever we are. First by being aware of the impact of our choices and supporting the work of indigenous groups and projects like this one. Collective effort and patience have helped make Amisacho a place where the jungle demonstrates the power of biodiversity, resilience, and restoration. To learn more about these topics and see how you can make a change by voting with your dollar (how you shop, how you invest, or divest) check out the links in the show notes. And finally, please consider the ways you can support the work of the world's indigenous groups currently protecting 36% of the world's intact forests. Many in the Amazon have been protecting ancestral lands for decades, at times with their lives, against pressure from government and corporations. Thanks for listening.Amisacho's WebsiteAmisacho's Facebook PageSupport the conservation work of  Alianza Ceibo as they defend ancestral land from extractors and polluters, setting legal precedents that will protect watersheds, cultures, biodiversity, and so much more for future generations. Interested in divesting in big oil? So are we. Check out the Rainforest Action Network's Fossil Fuel  Finance Report for 2020 Support the decades long legal work of The Union of Affected People Against Texaco  as they work to set precedence in cases like these. O  La Unión de Afectados y Afectadas por las Operaciones Petroleras de TexacoSupport the healing work of Clínica AmbientalLearn more about biochar from the Permaculture Research InstituteWorld Resource Institute Article on ways indigenous communities are protecting forests. YAKUM  

STX#7 Andy Middleton Saxophonist and environmental activist in Vienna SONIC: Scooter, Terra Infirma, Sternklar, Turbulent Altercation, Polar Bear Seas, Global Freeze  TONIC: Fresh Blended Veggie Juice (& Secret Tonic #2!!!) EXPERIENCE: Professor of Jazz Saxophone & Jazz Comp/Arr at MUK - Musik und Kunst Privatuniversität der Stadt Wien, Enjoying Life as an Expat, Environmental Activist  Timely episode with all of Mother Nature's activities this week

79% of people say the COVID-19 pandemic has opened their eyes to major cracks in American society and government. Cracks require change, and that change is spearheaded by activism. Today we talk to Aleysha - an activist, actor, and TikTok sensation who disrupted Donald Trump's Tulsa Rally. Aleysha tells us about Gen Z Activism, her story, and educates Adam and Scott on TikTok and KPop Stans. She also tells us about the important work being done by the Rainforest Action Network to prevent the destruction of the world's rainforests. As Aleysha puts it, "we cannot have these positive changes to make if we don't have a world to live on."

Paul Hilton is a conservation photojournalist. He has worked with Greenpeace, Animals Asia, Rainforest Action Network, Wildaid, Racing Extinction, and many more non-profit organizations. Paul has documented elephants in Kenya, orangutans in Indonesia, bear bile farms in China, sharks in our oceans, and most recently koala's in Australia - along with many more animals in many places. Being a photojournalist who sheds light on the massive ecological collapse happening all around us - to both our natural world and the animals that inhabit it - is no easy task. Armed with a camera, Paul uses his powerful images and thought-provoking language to show the world the injustices taking place against those that can't speak for themselves - the animals. We spoke about how Paul got his start as a photographer, and with time, how he made the switch into conservation photojournalism. We discussed the risks he faces, shooting in illegal underworlds, where anything can happen - and how he personally deals with the horrific things he has witnessed over the decades. Change doesn't happen overnight, but Paul's persistence to document the plight of animals is what reaches hearts and minds, and creates change - through educational content, conservation efforts, and enforced regulations. Our daily choices do matter, and affect the environment and the world around us. Instead of relying on our governments to take action to help our planet and the animals, we can try in our own ways to help conservation and animal relief efforts - the first step being our day to day choices as consumers. Listen to the podcast for more information on how we can affect change. It was a pleasure to have Paul on the podcast, enjoy the show! Paul Hilton - http://www.paulhiltonphotography.com/ Paul Hilton Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/paulhiltonphoto/ Comments, requests or questions please reach out, my email - roybntz@gmail.com

In this episode, Cy & TJ regale the audience with tales of their first times. No ... it's not that type of show, kiddos. Strictly PG. They take us down Memory Lane about first trips to Korea, college roommates and house parties. Some of the stories are, shall we say ... interesting. --- On a more serious note, the co-hosts implore you to spare a thought and some time for the Amazon rainforest. It's been burning for a month now, and there's been very little major media coverage about. Organizations like Green Peace, the Rainforest Action Network, and Amazon Watch are actively trying to keep corrupt parties in the Brazilian government from actively destroying one of Mother Nature's most important natural resources. So please, do what you can. Thank you. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

On this week's episode we just had to talk about the musical event that is MTV's annual Video Music Awards! Despite awards shows past, 2019 proved to be the year of absolute legends. The women that graced the stage this year...! All Cy & TJ can say is... BOW DOWN! --- On a more serious note, the co-hosts implore you to spare a thought and some time for the Amazon rainforest. It's been burning for a month now, and there's been very little major media coverage about. Organizations like Green Peace, the Rainforest Action Network, and Amazon Watch are actively trying to keep corrupt parties in the Brazilian government from actively destroying one of Mother Nature's most important natural resources. So please, do what you can. Thank you. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Climate and finance campaigners from the Rainforest Action Network join Terra Verde host Gary Hughes to discuss the 10th edition of the annual fossil fuel finance report card “Banking on Climate Change.” The post Banking on Climate Chaos – April 26, 2019 appeared first on KPFA.

Episode 15  Jake Conroy: Digital Desing Coordinator at the Rainforest Action Network Jake Conroy is a long-time activist, designer, and writer.  He has been involved in a wide range of grassroots activism since 1995. His dedication to change is almost matched for his desire to make it look good. Over the last 15 years, Jake has honed his skills in the fine arts, print and digital design in order to better convey messages of change to the general public in an exciting, appealing and educational way. Jake is also a co-founder of Ocean Defense International, and helped lead the first ever disruption of a whale hunt in US coastal waters. He also helped build the foundation of Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty USA (SHAC USA), one of the most successful grassroots animal rights campaigns in history. Due to his involvement with SHAC USA, he was a co-defendant in the SHAC7 case and was sentenced to 48 months in federal prison.  Sources: Rainforest Action Network: Our Team  , The Base Find out more Jake and his work:  Facebook Twitter Forest Action Network Are We Winning // A Challenge to James Aspey My Friends Do The Coolest Sh*t // Episode 1: Michael Petrelis Music: Pulbic Enemy: Fear of a Black Planet  Earth Crisis Book Recommendations:  Ready for Revolution: The Life and Struggles of Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture)

Jake Conroy is an insightful soul. He's very concerned about how his actions impact the environment and humanity. He also is willing to hold companies - large or small - to a higher standard which they do not like as evidenced by his story. Jake Conroy is a long-time activist, designer, and writer based in San Francisco, California. As a co-founder of Ocean Defense International, he helped lead the first ever disruption of a whale hunt in US coastal waters, putting himself between the hunter and the hunted. He also helped build the foundation of Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty USA (SHAC USA), one of the most successful grassroots animal rights campaigns in history. Due to his involvement with SHAC USA, he was a co-defendant in the SHAC7 case and was sentenced to 48 months in federal prison. Jake is currently working at an international environmental non-profit campaigning against corporate polluters. He can also be found speaking around the US, and working on the projects he helped co-found— Bite Back Magazine, theAnimal Defense League San Francisco, and the blog Plant Based on a Budget.   To connect with Jake: * Website: www.jakeconroy.com * Twitter: Jake Conroy   Additional resources: * Rainforest Action Network (look up "rising tide") * Seattle Burrito Coalition * 5 Calls

Toby Webb chats to Lafcadio Cortesi, Asia campaigns director at Rainforest Action Network about big brand's ambitious deforestation commitments, implementation on the ground, certification, peat-land and lidar.

On March 3, activists led by Rainforest Action Network (RAN) held simultaneous protests in front of Citigroup's New York City and San Francisco offices on to demand the company stop funding coal mining. According to RAN, Citigroup is looking to finance the purchase of coal mines in New Mexico and Colorado, despite having a policy on its books to sunset these harmful investments. On today's episode, we'll be joined by Ben Collins, Senior Research and Policy Campaigner for RAN, to discuss the outcome of the protests and why this issue is so critical.