The cost of dealing with the UK's nuclear waste has risen by almost a billion pounds in just 12 months. It's yet another reason why we shouldn't build any new nuclear reactors.
Pressure mounts on KFC to stop trashing rainforests for packaging as the campaign spreads across the world. With two KFC national divisions now declaring they will rule out Asia Pulp and Paper (APP), how much longer will KFC's global headquarters hold out against the public outcry?
Today I saw a tonne of tuna. Literally. I witnessed every
tuna landed on a pole and line fishing trip in the Maldives. It was a relatively
slow day, 1.3 tonnes of tuna to be precise. A good day starts around 5 tonnes, but conditions were rough out there. And competition was stiff from the other
pole and line boats, known as dhonis, fishing near us.
Great news! We've gained an important win in protecting Indonesia's rainforests as KFC UK & Ireland commit to excluding suppliers actively involved in rainforest clearance.
As a teenage boy is killed by a tiger forced out of its natural habitat by deforestation, we ask how serious must this get before KFC publicly cut ties with companies pulping rainforests?
Fridays are always interesting in most offices. In the web team here at Greenpeace UK, we use it as a day to experiment with social media in delivering our campaign messages. At times, this can have slightly bizarre consequences....
A long day ends at 5am after my piracy watch onboard the
Rainbow Warrior. We cross the Indian Ocean, moving through a piracy zone. Our
security toolbox includes the eyes and ears of crew and campaigners onboard
this beautiful vessel. My two hour stint was beneath a mind-bending lattice of
stars and shooting stars striping the sky, with Orion’s belt crowning the
massive A-frame that bestrides the Warrior.
Encouraging a fashion behemoth to change the way it produces clothing is no small task. But armed with the facts and the collective power of supporters like you, we are able to achieve the sort of success story we are announcing today.
Which is that Marks & Spencer has committed to eliminate all releases of hazardous chemicals throughout its entire supply chain and products by 2020.
More than 150,000 people came to London last Saturday to protest against austerity measures and march for A Future That Works. The rally was organised by the Trade Union Congress, the national trade union centre in the UK representing the vast majority of organised workers.
KFC recently
uploaded a new statement to their website called Sustainable Sourcing and Waste
Recovery. Is this the
start of KFC’s response to the campaign that has seen hundreds of thousands of
people tell them to stop driving the destruction of rainforests?
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