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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.
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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

What does 100,000 Jedi look like?

Posted by jamess - 30 June 2011 at 10:49am - Comments
We've just passed 100k Jedi in the Rebellion. Help us visualise it and get some
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We've just passed 100k Jedi in the Rebellion. Help us visualise it and get some Force points!

Wow. Just over 48 hours in and we've passed the 100,000 mark for the rebellion. With well over a million views to our VW films (in all languages) this is getting bigger by the minute.

There's only one problem: what does 100,000 Jedis look like?

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

LIVE: We're stopping Arctic oil drilling!

Posted by jamess - 29 May 2011 at 9:49am - Comments

UPDATE: The Danish Navy has arrested our activists and seized the Pod after nearly 100 hours stopping Arctic drilling

This morning we started taking direct action against the world's most controversial oil rig: Cairn Energy's Arctic driller, the 53,000 tonne Leiv Eiriksson, which was hours away from its drill site in Iceberg Alley off Greenland.

Article tagged as: arctic, cairn, climate, climate change, go beyond oil, oil, oil drilling, oil spill, pod

Paula Bear: Where's your spill response plan, Cairn?

Posted by jamess - 26 May 2011 at 10:35am
Paula blocking the entrance to Cairn's HQ
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Paula blocking the entrance to Cairn's HQ

This morning Paula Bear swung into action as a Greenpeace activist. While our ships are confronting Cairn Energy's oil rig in the Arctic, she’s blocking the entrance to the wildcat drillers' headquarters in Edinburgh.

Horrified that Cairn Energy are drilling for oil in the Arctic, Paula’s rage was tipped over the edge when she learned that Cairn won’t even make their oil spill response plan public.

Article tagged as: action, arctic, cairn, cairn energy, climate, climate change, go beyond oil, oil, oil spill, paula bear

Government documents: Arctic oil spill all but impossible to clear up

Posted by jamess - 24 May 2011 at 9:55am
The Arctic Sunrise and the Esperanza intercept Cairn Energy's controversial Arct
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The Arctic Sunrise and the Esperanza intercept Cairn Energy's controversial Arctic rig

We obtained a series of documents [download part one and part two, both pdfs] today under a Freedom of Information request that show the government is saying privately what we've been saying publicly: an Arctic oil spill would be all but impossible to clear up.

Article tagged as: arctic, cairn, cairn energy, climate, climate change, oil drilling, oil spill

Destroying the Arctic for a three-year fix

Posted by jamess - 12 May 2011 at 1:52pm
Oil companies are taking their drills to the Arctic
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Oil companies are taking their drills to the Arctic

How much oil lies under that Arctic ice? 90 billion barrels, according to the US Geological Survey.

But, how much really is that? If you ask an oil company, that’s a huge amount. With a barrel of oil over the hundred dollar mark, that's nine trillion dollars worth at today’s prices – if you could get at it all.

However, there’s a much more important number than the mind-boggling figures that the oil companies deal in.

Article tagged as: arctic, BP, cairn, cairn energy, climate, climate change, go beyond oil, oil, oil drilling, shell

Save the Paula Bear!

Posted by jamess - 28 April 2011 at 10:00am - Comments
Paula's looking for work .. we've got something for her
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Paula's looking for work .. we've got something for her

UPDATE: We've hit our target - thank you!

We need your help to save the polar bear. Well, one polar bear in particular.

Greenpeace have the opportunity to buy an astonishingly realistic polar bear costume to use in our work to tackle the causes of climate change - and help us stop reckless oil companies from drilling in the pristine Arctic wilderness.

Article tagged as: activism, arctic, climate, climate change, fundraising, greenland, paula, paula bear

The Arctic: what's at stake

Posted by jamess - 22 April 2011 at 9:19am - Comments
We must protect the Arctic from dangerous deep water oil drilling
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We must protect the Arctic from dangerous deep water oil drilling

As our action against Cairn's Arctic-bound oil rig gets underway, there's no better time to remind us all of what's at stake - watch and share these powerful pictures.

Article tagged as: arctic, BP, cairn energy, climate, climate change, go beyond oil, oil, oil spill

LIVE: we've scaled and occupied Cairn's Arctic rig

Posted by jamess - 22 April 2011 at 7:03am - Comments
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UPDATE: Force 7 gales have forced the activists down from the rig and to safety. But the campaign continues - stay tuned.

It's the only rig on the planet that is destined to begin new deep sea drilling in the Arctic this year.

Cairn Energy's Leiv Eiriksson is on its way to Baffin Bay, Greenland, leading the new oil rush.

This morning at 5.40 local time, a handful of our volunteers intercepted the rig shortly after it left Besiktas near Istanbul in Turkey.

Article tagged as: arctic, cairn, cairn energy, climage change, climate, go beyond oil, oil, oil spill

New Greenpeace report digs up the dirt on Internet data centres

Posted by jamess - 21 April 2011 at 12:52pm - Comments
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For most of us, when we think about our environmental footprint, the first things that spring to mind are how to commute to work, the kind of bags we use for food shopping, or the detergents we wash our clothes with. But how often do we consider the energy we use when surfing the web? Or, how much polluting, dirty energy our Facebook profile generates?

Article tagged as: apple, clean energy, climate change, data centers, facebook, google, microsoft

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