Go beyond oil

If we want to have healthy lives and a healthy planet we have to wean ourselves off oil. We are working to expose the lengths the oil industry is willing to go to squeeze the last barrels out of the ground and putting pressure on industry and governments to move beyond oil.

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Our international film competition launches on 17 September 2011

Voting now open in our VW film competition!

Volkswagen claims to be an eco-friendly company, but in reality it's lobbying against the laws we need to stop climate change and make cars more efficient....
Posted by Richardg - 17 October, 2011 - 16:15
UN confirmed that Shell's oil spills could take 30 years to clean up

The price of oil: Shell in the Niger Delta

A guest blog from Ben Amunwa, campaigner with oil industry watchdog PlatformThis time last year I was standing in a vast pool of oily water. It used to be a...
Posted by jamess - 7 October, 2011 - 15:00
Our international film competition launches on 17 September 2011

VW film entries are amazing - voting coming soon!

After two weeks of frantic film making, the curtain has fallen on the Greenpeace film competition.I spent a few very pleasant hours yesterday watching all the...
Posted by Richardg - 5 October, 2011 - 17:46
Volkswagen is lobbying against environmental laws in the US and Europe

Proof: car companies are crying wolf

Back in 2007 when the European Commission was trying to agree a law that would force car makers to produce less-polluting cars, I saw first hand how car...
Posted by emmagibson - 29 September, 2011 - 11:08
The Arctic Sunrise and the Esperanza intercept Cairn Energy's controversial Arct

No oil in the Arctic for Cairn, but hazardous chemicals aplenty


Yesterday brought the news that yet another Cairn well off Greenland - the sixth so far - has come up dry. The Delta-1 well will be plugged and abandoned and...
Posted by bex - 29 September, 2011 - 10:50

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