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?
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.
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.
Submarine explorers
planting Russian flags under the North Pole. Military tension between Nato and
Russia. US diplomats manoeuvring in the wings. Aircraft carriers lurking and
strike fighters changing hands.
Sound like something from
a James Bond plot? Unfortunately it’s not.
New Wikileaks releases today have shown the Arctic oil rush
is not just a threat to the environment and our climate, but also to peace.
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.
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.
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?
