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How much would you pay for rainfall and carbon sinks?

Posted by tracy - 9 September 2008 at 5:10pm - Comments

After this summer I would be willing to empty my account for some sunshine, but rainforest are rarely seen has having value beyond the commodities they produce. Last night Panorama looked at the important issue of the value of our rainforests to the planet. Known as ecosystem services, forests "influence weather systems on a vast scale, produce rainfall and capture CO2 from the atmosphere, reducing global warming".

Article tagged as: amazon, carbon sinks, climate change, ecosystem services, panorama, rainforests

Greenpeace volunteers paint coal cargo ship in Israel

Posted by tracy - 9 September 2008 at 11:15am - Comments

Photographer Pierre Gleizes managed to get back to the Rainbow Warrior after his arrest and put together this set of pictures capturing the high tension moment of the activists arrests after painting a cargo ship carrying coal to the Ashkelon power plant in Israel. Great to have the master back on board and still going strong after over 25 years of making superb images for Greenpeace.

Rainbow Warrior in Israel

Article tagged as: climate change, coal, coal shipment, israel, power stations, quit coal tour, rainbow warrior

Rainbow Warrior captain arrested in Israel over coal protest

Posted by tracy - 8 September 2008 at 5:30pm - Comments

police board the rainbow warrior in Israel to arrest the captain

Israeli police boarded the Rainbow Warrior today to arrest captain Daniel Rizzotti after the peaceful action of activists from the ship who painted "Quit Coal" on the hull of a ship unloading coal at the Ashkelon power plant.

Article tagged as: climate change, coal, israel, quit coal tour, rainbow warrior

A surprising solution to our energy needs

Posted by tracy - 19 June 2008 at 10:43am - Comments

Conoco Phillips industrial CHP

No one will be surprised that Greenpeace is against the construction of new nuclear power stations, but what some may find unusual is one of the solutions we are proposing to meet our energy needs and reduce our CO2 emissions - industrial CHP, or combined heat and power.

Article tagged as: CHP, climate change, coal, decentralised energy, electricity, heat, industrial, nuclear

Skate your way to free Glastonbury tickets: the winners

Posted by tracy - 17 June 2008 at 10:42am - Comments

The editor of sidewalk got in touch with us on Saturday to confirm the winners of our competition to win three pairs of Glastonbury tickets.

Just to recap, we asked skaters (or fakers) to submit clips of themselves on a video site in order to enter for three categories: best trick, best line (or group of tricks put together if you aren’t a skater) and judges discretion.

Article tagged as: competitions, glastonbury, sidewalk, skate, tickets

Amy says NO, no, no to a 3rd runway

Posted by tracy - 10 June 2008 at 2:30pm - Comments

A few months back when Niall and Jason from Tellyjuice contacted us, they said they liked our videos on YouTube but thought we could be "well, um… funnier". I had to admit that we often forget to see the funny side of things surrounded by all this doom and gloom (did you hear about the bees on the Today programme this morning?!).

Article tagged as: 3rd runway, amy greenhouse, aviation, climate change, heathrow, make a noise, videos

Skate your way to free tickets to Glastonbury

Posted by tracy - 19 May 2008 at 12:11pm - Comments

Our resident tame orang-utan demonstrates his skateboarding technique...

If you're an up and coming skater (or a good faker) here’s your chance to win tickets to Glastonbury Festival.

Our skateboard park is a highlight of our field at Glastonbury and this year we’ve already confirmed performances by pro skaters including riders from eS, Vans, Santa Cruz and Death and this is your chance to be among them at this year’s festival.

Article tagged as: competitions, free, FSC, glastonbury, skate, videos

Unilever takes the lead to stop deforestation in Indonesia

Posted by tracy - 14 May 2008 at 1:28pm - Comments

orangutans are threatened by forest destruction in indonesia

You may have noticed that we had quick win in our campaign to stop deforestation from palm oil a couple of weeks back. Unilever made an announcement that they would support a moratorium to protect Indonesia's rainforest from destruction just ten days after the launch of our campaign.

Article tagged as: dove, forests, indonesia, kraft, nestle, palm oil, proctor & gamble, rainforests, unilever

Greenpeace podcast: Attenborough and our own chief scientist

Posted by tracy - 9 May 2008 at 2:05pm - Comments

We made it, version two. Ok so it's not exactly fortnightly (it's not at all fortnightly), so we're going for the classic monthly format. In this episode I head down to Google's headquarters in London to hear Sir David Attenborough speaking about the access to information we have about the natural world through programs like Google Earth and the responsibility that comes with that knowledge. Bex talks to Fish (if you speak Mandarin that's peng yo gan tongshi) from Our office in Bejing about their chopsticks campaign, and Jamie speaks with our chief scientist about biofuels and the threat they pose to the climate. The podcast is presented by our very own James Turner (who lies, I have never been nor will be a fan of Jason Donovan).

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Article tagged as: audio, biofuels, china, climate change, david attenborough, podcasts

Send Ruth Kelly a birthday message

Posted by tracy - 9 May 2008 at 10:20am - Comments

Ruthy Kelly's birthday cake and cupcakes

It’s Transport Minister Ruth Kelly's 40th birthday, and just now seven women from Sipson were at the Department for Transport to give her a birthday cake. But the message is less traditional, it's a big fat, creamy, sugary NO – well that's the shape of the cake anyway. They also sang happy birthday in the reception and staff got NO cupcakes.

You too can send Ruth Kelly a birthday message. She's in charge of Heathrow expansion, so send her a message asking her to join the Make a NOise carnival on May31st.

Article tagged as: aviation, BA, climate change, events, heathrow, rowan williams, ruth kelly

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