Friends of the Earth’s blog is a staff-run blog that provides policy analysis, insight and commentary about the environment and other progressive issues, advances our campaigns, and builds momentum for a healthy and just world.
Jan. 16, 2013 / Posted by: Michelle Chan / Categories: Blog, Economics for the Earth / Tags: Michelle chan, Money in politics
From climate change to clean water, from healthy forests to safer food, progress on our most important environmental priorities is being crippled by the outsized role of money in politics. It’s an old story by now: big polluters, with their ...
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Aug. 6, 2012 / Posted by: Michelle Chan / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy, Economics for the Earth / Tags: Carbon trading, Michelle chan
My husband is a self-described Olympics junkie, and our television has been on nonstop since the opening ceremonies. As a result, I have been barraged by the full spectrum of TV commercials -- all of them attempts to bathe corporate logos in the w...
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Jul. 12, 2012 / Posted by: Michelle Chan / Categories: Blog, Oceans and Forests / Tags: Michelle chan, Redd
This week, Friends of Earth, along with 30 other organizations based in California, urged Governor Brown to prevent international REDD carbon credits (carbon credits generated from efforts to prevent deforestation and forest degradation in tropica...
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Jul. 2, 2012 / Posted by: Michelle Chan / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Economics for the Earth / Tags: Michelle chan
Over the past several years, Chinese overseas investments have had a powerful global impact, from the Gibe 3 dam in Ethiopia, to the Alberta tar sands in Canada, to the Shwe oil and gas project in Myanmar. In the past, many of these environmentall...
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May. 10, 2012 / Posted by: Michelle Chan / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Climate and Energy, Economics for the Earth, Publications / Tags: Michelle chan
Friends of the Earth has long been at the forefront of the effort to eliminate fossil fuel subsidies. These subsidies perpetuate our dependence on the dirty energy sources of the past, rob us of our capacity to fund energy solutions of the future,...
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Feb. 17, 2012 / Posted by: Michelle Chan / Categories: Blog, Economics for the Earth, Publications / Tags: Michelle chan
The growing power of Chinese multinational corporations around the world, particularly in developing countries, is drawing a lot of attention. International companies complain that they are losing out to Chinese businesses benefiting from state s...
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Jan. 23, 2012 / Posted by: Michelle Chan / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy, Economics for the Earth / Tags: Michelle chan
As someone who lives in California but works for a Washington-based advocacy organization, I often think about how decisions in DC impact life here in the Golden State. So late last year, when Congress froze funding for the Commodity Futures Tradi...
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Nov. 30, 2011 / Posted by: Michelle Chan / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy, Economics for the Earth, Publications / Tags: Michelle chan
As negotiators from around the world gather in Durban, South Africa for the latest round of climate talks, Friends of the Earth and our allies released a report today titled Unclear on the Concept. The key question we explore is, "How Can the Worl...
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Nov. 30, 2011 / Posted by: Michelle Chan / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy, Economics for the Earth / Tags: Michelle chan
As the international climate talks enter their third day, Friends of the Earth – South Africa, BankTrack, and other environmental groups released a scathing new exposé on the biggest banks funding the global coal industry. The report...
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Nov. 8, 2011 / Posted by: Michelle Chan / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Economics for the Earth / Tags: Earth budget, Green scissors, Michelle chan
Friends of the Earth is proud to team up with Annie Leonard, creator of the hit video The Story of Stuff, on her latest project -- The Story of Broke. This new video describes the myriad ways in which our government subsidizes big polluters and ot...
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