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Love is in the air… and on the water. We say #LetThemStay
This Valentine’s Day I’m standing up for love. I work with Greenpeace and by the time you’re reading this, I’ll be driving a boat in Sydney Harbour, showing my support for the #LetThemStay movement. There is a group of 267 people seeking refuge in Australia and our government is trying to send them to detention…
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America’s Largest National Forest — And Its Wolves — Need Your Help by February 22
How you can help protect the Tongass National Forest.
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John West announce FAD free tuna
Have you seen the news? John West, Australia’s biggest tuna brand with over 40% of the market, has announced their complete transition to FAD-free tuna sourced from the Pacific (FADs are fish aggregating devices - which act like fish magnets, drawing in tuna and other marine life making them easier to find and scoop up in…
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5 reasons why Thursday was awesome
If you work in an office every day (like me) it’s pretty easy to get lost in the day to day challenges, and deadlines, and office politics, and making plans for future projects, and sneakily thinking about what you’re going to do on the weekend… You know. The usual. Then you get days like Thursday.…
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Stripped-down activists find little to wear at The North Face Store protests in Sydney and Melbourne
Press release – 4 February, 2016Sydney and Melbourne, 4 February 2016 – Stripped-down Greenpeace activists today targeted three flagship stores of outdoor clothing company The North Face in Sydney and Melbourne over the company’s use of polluting chemicals.Activists wearing only cardboard boxes bearing the slogan ‘Better this than PFC gear’ highlighted the company’s use of…
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Great news for outdoor lovers: high performance without PFCs is possible
Blog entry by Chiara Campione – senior campaigner at Greenpeace Italy “Going PFC-free in one of the world’s most extreme and challenging natural environments is possible. I can do it”. This was the idea David Bacci – an Italian professional climber – submitted to us when we asked the outdoor community for ideas to make the…
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The Good News
Do you want the good news or the bad news first? Let’s be honest, reading mainstream media at the moment will give you plenty of bad news, so let’s talk about the good stuff. I left the business world to join the non-profit sector because I believe people can change the world for the…
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The Bad News
Do you want the good news or the bad news first? I don’t know about you, but I’ve been hearing a lot of bad news recently, so let’s start there. Here’s a random sampling of some of the big bad stories of 2016 so far (well, actually, the last week). NASA, NOAA, the UK Met…
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Three ways to shut down the Japanese Government’s whaling programme… for good
Blog written by Junichi Sato, Executive Director of Greenpeace Japan and one of the “Tokyo Two” arrested following an investigation into the whale meat trade in Japan. A 3 metre inflatable whale waits for Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull with a sign reading “Malcolm, don’t forget me” before Greenpeace, the International Fund for Animal Welfare…