July 2011

MPs should keep their promises - not back £1 billion windfall for nuclear power

Posted by Louise Hutchins - 4 July 2011 at 6:20pm - Comments

A vote will happen in parliament either late tonight or tomorrow on government plans to hand out a whopping £1billion in new subsidies for the nuclear industry. The money will come from energy consumer pockets and will go to EDF and Centrica for doing absolutely nothing new at all.

Article tagged as: energy, fukushima, nuclear, nuclear industry, subsidies

Call Mattel about Barbie's deforestation habit

Posted by jamie - 4 July 2011 at 5:37pm - Comments

Ken’s picked up the phone. And now we’d like you to drop Mattel a call too.

Article tagged as: APP, barbie, deforestation, indonesia, Ken, mattel, tigers, Toys, videos

Jedi, we need your help. There has been a disturbance in the Force.

Posted by jamess - 1 July 2011 at 4:27pm - Comments
Our comms channel has been destroyed. But the Rebellion goes on.
All rights reserved. Credit: Nick Cobbing/Greenpeace
Our communication channel has been hit. But the Rebellion goes on.

Last night – at approximately 1830 – our communications equipment took a direct hit. After providing nearly 2 million transmissions of our latest Rebellion underground message “VW: The Dark Side”, our YouTube films and channel were taken down. And now moments ago, Vimeo took them down.

Our rebel engineers are working shifts round the clock in the coldest depths of cyberspace to try and locate the source of the attack.

Article tagged as: climate, go beyond oil, oil, VW, VWDarkside

Projecting change for our oceans in South Korea

Posted by Gemma Freeman - 1 July 2011 at 2:04pm - Comments
Activists project an animation on Pacific tuna destruction onto Sajo Industries
All rights reserved. Credit: © Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert / Greenpeace
Activists project an animation on Pacific tuna destruction onto Sajo Industries HQ in Busan, South Korea
From our brand new Korean office, Oceans team leader at Greenpeace Australia Pacific, Lagi Toribau, reports from the Rainbow Warrior's latest action: taking the plight of Pacific tuna to South Korea's biggest fishing company - Sajo.  

Article tagged as: actions, global, Korea, oceans, pacific, rainbow warrior, Sajo, tuna

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