Some Coalitions and Campaigns We Support
Stop Global Warming
This is a movement about change, as individuals, as a country, and as a global community. Join the more than one million supporters of the Stop Global Warming Virtual March, and become part of the movement to demand our leaders freeze and reduce carbon dioxide emissions now. We are all contributors to global warming and we all need to be part of the solution.
Open the Government
The American way of life demands that government operate in the open to be responsive to the public, to foster trust and confidence in government, and to encourage public participation in civic and government institutions. The public's right to know promotes equal and equitable access to government, encourages integrity in official conduct, and prevents undisclosed and undue influence from special interests. This broad-based coalition seeks to advance the public's right to know and to reduce secrecy in government.
Rainforest Agribusiness
The Rainforest Agribusiness Campaign is challenging one of the fastest growing threats to the world’s tropical forests: the rapid expansion of industrial agriculture. Fueled in part by the growing demand for biofuels, U.S. agribusiness giants ADM, Bunge and Cargill are establishing soy and palm oil operations in some of the planet’s most biodiverse forests. Soy has become a major contributor to deforestation in the Amazon Rainforest and its surrounding wooded savanna, the Cerrado, while palm oil plantations are expanding at a rate of 2.5 million acres per year into the tropical forests of Indonesia, Malaysia and Papua New Guinea.
Free Grassy Narrows
2,500 square miles of forests, lakes and rivers north of Kenora, Ontario have sustained the people of Grassy Narrows First Nation for thousands of years. Now Weyerhaeuser, the largest lumber company in the world, is driving a wave of destructive logging that threatens to uproot their traditional way of life. Support the Grassy Narrows struggle for self determination and help stop the logging that they oppose.
Environmental Paper Network
The Environmental Paper Network is a diverse group of environmental organizations joined together to support socially and environmentally sustainable transformations within the pulp and paper industry. The Network developed the Common Vision as a framework to guide necessary shifts in production and consumption.
No Dirty Gold
Nothing glitters like gold, but the mining of this precious metal can be a dirty business. While gold mining generates revenues for the governments of developing countries, it can also be enormously damaging to local communities, polluting water and land, displacing people and jobs, and leaving mountains of toxic waste for future generations to endure. Stop Newmont Mining Corporation and its "dirty gold" practices.
Clean Up Newtown Creek
For more than half a century, 17 million gallons of oil have been oozing beneath Greenpoint, Brooklyn, courtesy of ExxonMobil and other oil companies. The spill courses beneath 55 acres of industrial, commercial, and residential property, affecting 100 homes and dozens of businesses. Petroleum from the spill continuously leaks into Newtown Creek; globs of oil and a rainbow sheen constantly coat the surface of this small waterway separating Brooklyn and Queens. The spill — 50% larger than the Exxon Valdez disaster — is a major source of contamination throughout the New York Harbor. It's time for those responsible to clean up the largest oil spill in American history.
Shell Oil on Sakhalin: Putting Profits Before People and the Environment
Since 1994, Shell and other energy giants have been developing massive oil and natural gas extraction projects on and offshore Sakhalin Island, Russia, projects that threaten the economic and social well-being of Sakhalin's people and the island's fragile ecosystems.