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The Brazilian Congress, influenced by the agribusiness sector, seeks to change the Forest Code in Brazil to open more of the Amazon rainforest to be cleared. Not only will this destroy forested areas in the Amazon no longer protected by the Forest Code, but the clearing and burning of these lands will release millions of tons of greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere—making the impacts of climate change much worse.

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Police and port authorities in Dumai forced a Greenpeace activist down from the anchor chain of a Rotterdam-bound tanker ship today. The activist was protesting the fact that the ship was laden with crude palm oil produced on a plantation created by destroying the rainforests of Indonesia.

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GM asks students to Greenwash
Usually filled with listserv emails, notes from Mom, and reminders from professors, rarely anything stirring appears in my Inbox. However, Saturday brought the urgent subject heading: "PLEASE REPLY—Fuel Cell Car."

Like any eco-minded undergrad, bringing a fuel cell car to campus is the stuff of my dreams. As a member of American University's environmental club, EcoSense, this could be the eye-catching, consumer-educating event I've always imagined sponsoring. Then, I read the email.

General Motors was using the campus to run its “gas-friendly to gas-free" greenwashing campaign... Read more

Rolling back Bush's disastrous policies and unleashing innovation
Many, many disastrous policies were put in place by the Bush administration. But none will have more far-reaching an impact than those that were adopted as a means of delaying serious action on global warming. Read more

Remembering Fallen Forests
Tissue giant (and forest destroyer) Kimberly-Clark is trying to convince Spanish speakers in the US to buy its products – Huggies and Pull-ups in particular. To do so, they’re touring southern California, handing out sample diapers. If you’re a regular Treehugger blog reader, you know that they’ve had some weird marketing tours in the last year, including an ugly dog-bus and a fake café. This time, it is a diaper-train tent. I’m serious. Read more