Posted Apr 1st, 2008
Ten activists with Rainforest Action Network Houston showed up to take action on Dynegy’s headquarters. While two activists delivered our Fossil Fool of the Year award to CEO of Dynegy, Bruce Williamson, eight others released a balloon banner in the
Posted Apr 1st, 2008
Activists with the Environmental Resource Center, Olympia Rising Tide, the Cascade Climate Network and Washpirg targeted Bank of America.
The students built and hit a piñata in the shape of a Bank of America ATM. As the fake ATM fell apart, chocolate shaped like coal, as well as “Credit cards” (baring information on Bank of America) fell out. With the piñata, conversations with passersby, creative signs and literature, organizers helped to inform students and staff that the school’s money is being used to fund environmentally and socially destructive coal companies. A petition to change Evergreen’s bank was circulated, and pressure against Bank of America on campus has grown.
Posted Apr 1st, 2008
Lunch time as usual was interrupted in the Capitol
Building of West Virginia today when a spontaneous Fossil Fools Awards Ceremony began. The ceremony was held to celebrate West Virginia governor Joe Manchin and Coal Baron Don Blankenship receiving the prestigious award of Life Time Achievement in Fossil Foolery in Appalachia. Unfortunately, neither Manchin nor Blankenship were able to collect their awards in person, but news cameras from several local TV stations were there as stand-ins accepted the awards in their honor. Continue Reading »
Posted Apr 1st, 2008
At the University of Kentucky, students protested the university’s coal-fired power plant by climbing atop the coal stockpile, and raising giant wind turbines. Raising a mock wind turbine on top of the UK power plant’s coal fuel pile was designed to show the futility and myopic vision of the University’s current energy policy. While happy to learn that UK does not use coal from mountaintop removal sites, the State of Kentucky’s flagship university is a fossil fool and it must demonstrate leadership and a far-thinking approach to its energy sourcing and usage. Continue Reading »
Posted Apr 1st, 2008
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Fairfield, ME - Volunteers with the Native Forest Network (NFN) staged a mock “Fossil Fool’s Day” awards ceremony today at the offices of the Plum Creek Timber Company to draw attention to the potential impacts of the company’s Moosehead region development proposal on the regional and global climate. Continue Reading »
Posted Mar 31st, 2008
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