October 2012

Thank you, times two million!

Posted by Martin Norman - 3 October 2012 at 3:48pm - Comments
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When you’re as far north as we are right now, communications come to you like telegrams; they’re few and far between, and only the most important make it through. So when Steve, the radio operator on board the Arctic Sunrise, hand-delivered me a message today, I knew it was going to be good. “Two million people have now signed the petition to protect the Arctic!”

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Get well soon, Volkswagen

Posted by Hugh Mouser - 1 October 2012 at 5:18pm - Comments
Activists from Greenpeace France hang a banner at the Paris Motorshow
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Activists from Greenpeace France hang a banner at the Paris Motorshow

What are the signs of a guilty conscience? Volkswagen seems to be providing the perfect example. For the past year Greenpeace has been exposing how VW’s green marketing is just a smokescreen and urging it to green up its act.

Svalbard remembered

Posted by Stuart Yates - 1 October 2012 at 2:41pm - Comments

Have you ever seen a polar bear up close? Photographer and intrepid Quaker activist, Stuart Yates has. In remembering his trip to Svalbard, he shares a glimpse of what makes the Arctic such a valuable place, worthy of protection.

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