April 2013

This year, Greenpeace returns to Glastonbury and it will be massive! But we need a lot of help. Would you like to come with us? We’ll be there with The Rolling Stones, Arctic Monkeys, Dinosaur Jr., Django Django, Phoenix and many other amazing bands are playing. So why not join the Greenpeace crew and help save the Arctic?

Last Saturday, the Arctic arrived in the UK. The I ♥ Arctic global day of action saw more than 10,000 of us around the world, in more than 280 cities, come together in a declaration of love for the Arctic. The day culminated in a massive effort from amazing volunteers and donated equipment, in the production of the biggest Arctic landscape the streets of London have ever seen - testament to the collective creativity of passionate people.

Last Saturday, more than 10,000 of us in more than 280 cities came together in a declaration of love for the Arctic. Thousands of volunteers, all around the world, speaking with one voice to send a clear message to politicians: the Arctic belongs to everyone.

Before I got involved in my local Greenpeace group, I remember thinking, am I the only person who cares about this? Today, I know that I'm part of an unstoppable movement to protect the planet from greed.

In a shock to the scientific community, neonicotinoids, - or neurotoxic agricultural insecticides - have been shown in laboratory tests to cause brain damage in bees.

Actually, it wasn’t that much of a shock. There’s never been any doubt over the potential of these chemicals to harm bees - the recent controversy has been over dosage.

It’s World Penguin Day today, April 25^th, and I simply can’t imagine a world that didn’t have penguins in it. So in order to celebrate our funny fine-flippered friends I thought it would be good to pull together some fun facts about penguins. Some are fun, some are facts, and some are both at once.

Something big went down in Europe today: MEPs voted on how efficient our future cars should be. This lays the foundations for rules that carmakers have to abide by.

The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil was set up so you could buy palm oil without fueling deforestation. So why does it look like Duta Palma, an RSPO member, is destroying the Indonesian rainforest?

I’m starting a new job at Greenpeace this Summer: ‘Actions Creator’. It’s very much a natural step for me, having spent the past five years working on the creative side of campaign communications at Greenpeace. It’s a traditional action logistics role but with a front-loaded creative twist. I’ll work for six months of the year, sharing the job with another who does the other six. He’s in post now – I go second. The idea is that for the half of the year where you’re not working at Greenpeace HQ, you pursue your own creative projects.