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Apple, Amazon, Microsoft choose dirty energy to power growing cloud
Press release – 17 April, 2012Greenpeace International report evaluates 14 IT companies’ energy choicesSydney/ San Francisco, USA, 18 April 2012– The current explosion in cloud computing offered by major IT companies is driving significant new demand for dirty energy like coal and nuclear power, according to a new report from Greenpeace International. The report, “…
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Who knows where volunteering could take you…
Monday December 5 is International Volunteer Day – and a great opportunity to celebrate and recognise those who have helped us achieve so much by donating their time to Greenpeace. On board the MY Esperanza for the 2nd leg of the Defending our Pacific ship tour we have a number of people who are here…
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The Esperanza back in the Pacific
How about this for great timing? The Esperanza has arrived in the Pacific – the same ocean where Greenpeace started its first campaign – just in time for our 40th anniversary later this month. Blogpost by Phil Crawford (Comms officer on the Espy) In 1971 we were protesting against nuclear testing in the Pacific. In…
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The Rainbow Warrior II retires
It’s a day of mixed emotions for Greenpeace. For 22 years our ship the Rainbow Warrior II and her crew have confronted environmental destruction around the world, bearing witness and taking action to protect our planet. And today we say farewell to her. After the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior I by French government agents…
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Greenpeace Rainbow Warrior II retired
Press release – 15 August, 2011Bangladeshi NGO Friendship to turn it into hospital shipAmsterdam – Dhaka, 16 August 2011 — At a ceremony in Singapore today, the iconic protest vessel, the Rainbow Warrior will be transferred to Friendship, a Bangladesh based NGO which will refit it for use as a hospital ship. (1) After 22…
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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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NGOs united in opposition to uranium mining and nuclear power
Press release – 18 April, 2011Sydney, Australia — A coalition of 27 Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) is today releasing a joint statement reaffirming our united opposition to the nuclear industry. The statement has been endorsed by leading national environmental and public health NGOs, all state conservation councils, and key climate change action groups and networks.Dr Jim…
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We must embrace a clean energy future
Between 2000 and 2002, I was part of a Greenpeace team that mounted a global campaign to stop the transport of mixed oxide (MOX) plutonium based nuclear fuel and radioactive waste across the world, and through the Pacific. Protests against various transports happened in the UK, France, South America, South Africa, in the Tasman Sea…
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3 billion reasons to be hopeful
We’re getting into the meaty end of Professor Ross Garnaut’s papers and presentations on carbon pricing. Today he released the seventh of eight papers, after which he will report to Prime Minister Gillard with recommendations about how to structure a carbon price policy. Today’s presentation was all about low-carbon technology innovation: basically, how we should…
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Two countries, worlds apart on renewable energy
I’ve just come home to Australia after working for Greenpeace in Europe during 2010. The incredible growth of renewables over there is so obvious, from farmlands dotted by wind turbines in Germany to solar panels on cottages in Holland and large-scale solar plants in Spain. European renewable energy success stories are becoming well known, but…