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Illegal timber – now it’s everyone’s business
Ever wondered where your outdoor furniture came from? Ever pondered on the story behind your lovely new decking? Or how about the journey your toilet paper took to arrive at your loo? Blogpost first appeared on ABC online Most Australians assume that everyday purchases such as dining chairs and toilet paper don’t come from illegally…
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Award winning awards. Or is it just greenwash?
We’re approaching corporate AGM season. It’s an inspiring time of year. As the birds begin nesting and the spring flowers bloom, countless annual reports with pictures of smiling children and windmills will be printed on glossy recycled paper, reminding us all of the ability of companies to pretend that they care about something other than…
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Meet Katherine aka Barbie
Katherine Higgins from Melbourne is one of our wonderful volunteers. She recently took action as the not-so-wonderful ‘rainforest destroyer’ Barbie. Here Katherine talks about her motivations for volunteering with Greenpeace’s environmental campaigns. How long have you volunteered with Greenpeace? I’ve been volunteering with Greenpeace in Melbourne for 5 months. Last year, I lived in…
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Nuclear Banks: No Thanks!
Exactly two months ago an earthquake and tsunami hit Japan. Together, they not only resulted in a huge natural disaster, but also triggered an unprecedented man made tragedy. The Fukushima nuclear power plant is still out of control, threatening thousands of people’s health and livelihoods. If making mistakes with nuclear energy is bad enough –…
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ANZ exposed by secret pollution deal
Press release – 21 November, 2010Greenpeace is condemning ANZ’s hypocrisy after revelations the bank tried to hide a $150 million loan to recommission a highly polluting power station in Western Australia. This came just two weeks after accepting a major international award for ‘climate change mitigation and environmental performance.’This weekend’s Financial Review revealed that the…
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Are the banks starting to walk away from coal?
On Friday it was revealed that for the first time, a bank had insisted on a confidentiality clause as part of a finance deal for a coal power station — so that its name could not be revealed for fear of reputational damage. Yesterday, Westpac announced in its annual sustainability report that they “will avoid…
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Greenpeace urges dirtiest bank to come clean
Press release – 21 October, 2010Greenpeace activists have ended today’s protest at ANZ after the company agreed to high level discussions on the future financing of polluting power.The climbers had been in place since 8.15 am (EST) this morning, having scaled ANZ’s Queensland HQ to hang a giant banner displaying Australia’s dirtiest bank’s new logo:…
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Greenpeace illuminates ANZ as Australia’s dirtiest bank
Press release – 20 October, 2010Last night (Tuesday) Greenpeace launched a new campaign to illuminate the role of ANZ as the biggest financier of polluting coal power in Australia.Greenpeace activists projected a new ANZ logo and tag line "We Pollute Your World" onto a cooling tower at Yallourn – one of Australia’s dirtiest coal power…
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Dirty bank takes out "Sustainability" Award
Press release – 9 September, 2010The announcement this afternoon that ANZ bank has topped the sector category in the Dow Jones Sustainability Index serves to further erode public trust in the term ‘sustainability’.On its own website, ANZ boasts of being Australia’s largest funder of coal – the key driver of pollution and global warming. Just…