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Rainforest Action Network (RAN) is an environmental organization based in San Francisco, California, United States. The organization was founded by Randy "Hurricane" Hayes and Mike Roselle in 1985, and first gained national prominence with a grassroots organizing campaign that in 1987 succeeded in convincing Burger King to cancel $31 million ...
Earth First! was founded in 1980 by Mike Roselle, Dave Foreman, Howie Wolke, Bart Koehler, and Ron Kezar. [6] Rainforest Action Network was founded in San Francisco in 1985 by Roselle and Randy Hayes. [7]
Rebecca Tarbotton (30 July 1973 – 26 December 2012) was a Canadian environmental, human rights, and food activist, and the Executive Director of Rainforest Action Network. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Career and activism
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Prior to the Sierra Club, Brune was the executive director of the Rainforest Action Network for seven years. He also worked as an organizer for Greenpeace. [3] In 1999, while working at the Rainforest Action Network, Brune ran a successful campaign to get Home Depot stores to stop purchasing and selling wood from old-growth forests.
In a jungled corner of Indonesia's Papua, the Awyu tribe await a Supreme Court verdict that will determine whether thousands of hectares of rainforest will be cleared for a vast palm oil ...
This is a list of television networks and stations in Indonesia. Since the establishment of TVRI , Indonesians could only watch one television channel. In 1989, the government allowed RCTI to broadcast as the first private television network in Indonesia, although only people who had a decoder could watch; it was opened to the public on 24 ...
On August 8, 2013, Germany-based non-profit certification organisation Forest Stewardship Council announced that it has ended all association with APRIL after a complaint filed in May of that year by non-governmental organizations Greenpeace International, Rainforest Action Network and WWF Indonesia alleging violation of the council's policy of ...