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Interview: Rainforest Action Network Executive Director Rebecca Tarbotton

photo via RAN Rainforest Action Network’s new Executive Director, Rebecca Tarbotton, has big plans for the Bay Area-based advocacy group. RAN , which was founded in 1985, takes on big banks that are funding the coal industry, like JP Morgan and Chase, and it has worked to protect the world’s most threatened rainforests, like those in Indonesia that are home to endangered orangutans and tigers. Tarbotton has a lot to say about RAN’s future and where the environmental movement is going…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Crazy/Cool DIY Idea: Embed Vintage Furniture in Plaster (Photos)

Photos: Courtesy of Mut Architecture . Faced with the challenge to create a posh lounge for VIPs at the Cannes Film Festival with prohibitively low budget, the fellows from the Bronx based firm Mut Architecture came up with this interesting idea. After recuperating furniture from the streets in the French Riviera, they chopped the pieces, placed them together in weird ways, and embedded them all with other elements such as pots in plaster, with pallets as a base. Take a closer look inside…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Brave Protestors Strip to Skivvies to Protest Tar Sands. Would You?

Image courtesy of Lush Cosmetics. Rainforest Action Network ( RAN ) is one busy non-profit: This morning we wrote about their success with luxury brand Gucci’s switch to FSC-certified paper bags and now they’re kicking off a campaign with Lush Cosmetics to protest Canadian tar sands oil. The cosmetic brand has (somehow) persuaded their employees to don only “barrels” of oil printed with the slogan “Time For An Oil Change Or We’ll Lose It All”, at select Lush Cosmetics stores nation-wide, tomorrow… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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