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Mangrove planting on Sagar Island

Posted by tracy - 17 October 2007 at 4:23pm - Comments

Tracy is on the Rainbow Warrior, which is in India to highlight the impacts of climate change and what we can do to stop it. You can follow all the tour updates on the Ban the Bulb blog, and we'll be posting tour highlights here.

Woman planting a mangorve sapling

We set off early for the southeast corner of Sagar Island, where the task today was to plant 8,000 mangrove seedlings along the shore to help hold back the advancing seas. This is an experimental plantation project started by Professor Sugata Hazra, head of oceanography at Jadhaupur University.

He says that the Sundarbans delta is already experiencing the worst of climate change. Sea levels are rising faster here than the global average and the intensity of cyclonic storms and monsoon rainfall has increased.

I'm a climate celebrity - get me out of here

Posted by tracy - 16 October 2007 at 6:23pm - Comments

From the Rainbow Warrior, which is in India to highlight the impacts of climate change and what we can do to stop it. You can follow all the tour updates on the Ban the Bulb blog, and we'll be posting tour highlights here.


I've never wanted to be a celebrity, always loved my anonymity, so being welcomed to Sagar Island by 12,000 people was a bit overwhelming.

We sailed from Kolkata at three in the morning so by noon we were well down the Hugli and approaching the Bay of Bengal. The "meeting", as it was described to us, to welcome the Rainbow Warrior to Sagar Island was due to start in the early afternoon and the Warrior was still a few hours away. We launched two inflatable boats to take us to the northern tip of the island and we would go the rest of the way by jeep to beat the ship to the Sagar Ganges beach.

Swimming in Calcutta

Posted by tracy - 9 October 2007 at 4:53pm - Comments

I'm in Calcutta! Wow, what a mad place - dodging traffic, choked pavements, goat herding in the city centre, streets filled with sleeping bodies at night, fantastic food, friendly people - it is a little overwhelming.

I'm here for the next month helping out the India office and I'll be joining the Rainbow Warrior when it arrives in Calcutta, or Kolkata as it is now known. We'll be sailing down the coast to look at the impacts of climate change and what can be done in India to stop it.

Video: another bad idea sponsored by the UK government

Posted by tracy - 3 October 2007 at 2:46pm - Comments

We’re pretty impressed at the depths New Labour will sink to push a bad idea – so much so that we’ve made this video about the government’s Energy Review – the latest ploy in their tireless efforts to revive the dirty and dangerous nuclear industry.

What is the government hiding about nuclear power?

Posted by tracy - 7 September 2007 at 8:32pm - Comments

Sellafield nuclear reactor

As a matter of law the government must keep an open mind on new nuclear power until after the "fullest public consultation." It claims that it "will consider carefully the responses we get and this will enable us to take a decision on nuclear power later in the year".

One day. One thousand people. That is what the government considers full public consultation on the fate of the country and the survival of the planet.

Warning - this story contains nudity

Posted by tracy - 20 August 2007 at 10:36am - Comments

Spencer Tunick installation on Swiss glacier

That was bound to get your attention. And that is precisely what 600 volunteers thought when they took off their clothes on a glacier in the Swiss Alps to call for action against climate change.

The nude volunteers posed for our Swiss office and renowned installation artist Spencer Tunick on the Aletsch Glacier. Known around the world for his installations, Spencer Tunick wants people to know that global climate change is not an abstract issue, but a hazardous threat which affects us all.

Good news for the Amazon, and the climate

Posted by tracy - 13 August 2007 at 11:09am - Comments
Soya farming in the Brazilian Amazon

Just as we were heading out for a Friday evening pint we got word from our office in Manaus that we had something to celebrate. The Brazilian government announced that deforestation rates for the Amazon have dropped for the third year in a row.

Mud, tapes and fire at Glastonbury

Posted by tracy - 22 June 2007 at 7:19pm - Comments

Pyramid stage crowd for Amy Winehouse

I had to be up and backstage by 8.30am to deliver some vox pop videos we shot yesterday to be shown on the stages at Glastonbury. 8.30? It’s Glastonbury. But with the first bands going on around 10.30, they wanted the videos into their system early.

So I pulled myself out of my tent in the rain, made my way backstage in time only to be told I was at the wrong stage. I was supposed to be at the Other Stage, not the Pyramid Stage. Thus began my epic day running between one stage and another.

Glastonbury: climate change megamix in the Techno-Dome

Posted by tracy - 12 June 2007 at 11:08am - Comments

More detail are reaching us about what will be happening in the Greenpeace field at Glastonbury. The Techno-Dome is a 30-metre geodesic dome that will house an explosion of audio visual artists and performers to boldly go into the future to show us what climate change could mean in this rapidly changing landscape that we are already witnessing.

Come visit us at Glastonbury

Posted by tracy - 11 June 2007 at 3:43pm - Comments

Climbing training at Glastonbury

It’s almost Glastonbury time. And while I wouldn’t call it panic, yet, the excitement is mounting since the crew went down to Worthy Farm at the weekend to begin construction of the Greenpeace field.

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