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Kababayan towards a more sustainable tuna fishery
Blogpost by Joan Neris, volunteer translator onboard the Esperanza on the Defending our Pacific ship tour “Arya!” shouted the captain. This word reverberated around Purple Lilac 888 as it readied itself to release its net. “Arya”, which literally means “forge ahead”, is a Philippine term used in fishing jargon to refer to the release of…
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Polluticians occupy the climate
Press release – 23 November, 2011Major Polluters Singled Out Week Before United Nations Climate Change Conference in South AfricaSydney/Durban, 24 November 2011 – A new report released today by Greenpeace reveals how a handful of major polluting corporations such as Eskom, BASF, ArcelorMittal, BHP Billiton, Shell and Koch Industries – and the industry associations they…
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Greenpeace takes action at site of new dirty coal power station
Press release – 22 November, 2011‘Julia, keep your word on HRL’Morwell, 23 November 2011: At the site of the proposed “HRL” dirty coal-fired power station south of Morwell, Victoria, Greenpeace activists have laid out a 200 metre long banner with the message ‘Julia, keep your word on HRL’, referencing the Prime Minister’s 2010 commitment to…
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Let’s Occupy Oceans
Blogpost by Alex Hofford, photographer on board the MY Esperanza, Defending our Pacific ship tour 2011 Currently I’m on assignment for Greenpeace as the photographer on board the ‘MY Esperanza’ as part of the ‘Defending the Pacific‘ tour 2011. I arrived at the ship from my adopted home, Hong Kong, about two weeks ago, expecting…
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Onward to 2050….
In 2050 my youngest daughter will be 43. She and others of her generation will have an opportunity to open the Time Capsule we sealed today in Canberra following the final passage of the carbon price through the Australian Parliament. In the Time Capsule they will find messages from people all around Australia supporting a…
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Greenpeace welcomes carbon price – Still more to do to secure a clean energy future
Press release – 7 November, 2011Greenpeace Australia Pacific today welcomed the passage of the clean energy legislation through the Senate but said there is still more to do to ensure Australia moves to a low carbon future.In Canberra to mark the passage of the vote, Greenpeace Australian Pacific Head of Communications Dae Levine said the…
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Launching Changing Climates: a Greenpeace photo exhibition
We couldn’t have picked a better summers evening to launch our Changing Climates photo exhibition. The backdrop was Sydney’s beautiful Botanical Gardens and by sunset the food and wine were flowing. The speakers were Julian Burnside AO QC and our very own climate campaigner John Hepburn. Never mind the race that stopped the nation, this…
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Protecting the wild south: Antarctica
Blogpost by Richard Page Oceans campaigner Richard Page is currently attending the annual meeting of CCAMLR Commission, where discussions are underway for a representative network of marine protected areas across the Southern Ocean by 2012. Although it’s spring here in Hobart, Tasmania, the sometimes-chilly weather reminds me that there is only 3,500km (2000 miles) of…
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Asia Pulp and Paper’s sinking reputation forces more companies to jump ship – including Hasbro
There’s further bad news for Asia Pulp and Paper (APP) as yet more companies around the world ditch their contracts with the unscrupulous forest-trashing company. Hot on the heels of Mattel and Lego, today Hasbro announced a new paper-buying policy. Blogpost by Jamie Woolley, Greenpeace UK Hasbro’s new policy says it will avoid controversial…
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Another campaigner kicked out of Indonesia for fighting APP’s deforestation
Until last Wednesday, I was in Indonesia. I’d travelled there to work with colleagues in Jakarta and Sumatra on our continuing campaign to end the devastation of the country’s magnificent rainforests. But after an extremely intense few days, I left the country prematurely on Wednesday evening. I had been due to stay longer and had…