Blogposts tagged 'Coal'

Victory! Facebook becomes friends with renewable energy

Posted by Eoin D - 15 December 2011 at 2:01pm - 0 Comments

After nearly two years of mobilising, agitating and negotiating to green Facebook, the internet giant has today announced its goal to run on clean, renewable energy. More than 700,000 people from all over the world joined to make this possible! Facebook's message to energy producers is clear: invest now in renewable energy, and move away from coal power.

From Chinese Young Pioneer to Greenpeace activist: the story of Tom Wang

Posted by Tom Wang - 28 September 2011 at 9:09am - 1 Comment
Tom Wang, Communications Director of Greenpeace East Asia
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Tom Wang, Communications Director of Greenpeace East Asia

My name is Tom Wang. Tom is my English name. I gave it to myself when I was learning English from my British teacher. She couldn't pronounce my Chinese name, Xiaojun. Xiaojun means "a soldier born at dawn".

Frozen in time

Posted by Frida Bengtsson - 26 September 2011 at 2:38pm - 2 Comments
Svea Coal Mine in Svalbard
All rights reserved. Credit: Greenpeace / Christian Åslund
Svea coal mine in Svalbard

I will never forget Pyramiden, an abandoned Russian mining town on Svalbard that I visited last year. Walking over green grass unheard of in the Arctic and passing by building complexes that could be the homes of hundreds of people. The feeling that those who lived there had just gone out on a day-trip and would be coming back soon.

Face it, Facebook, time to unfriend coal

Posted by sara_a - 15 April 2011 at 10:05am - 3 Comments
by. Credit: Greenpeace
Down at Facebook's London HQ

Very early this morning a handful of us went down to Facebook’s London HQ, to leaflet and talk to Facebook staff about Greenpeace’s global ‘Unfriend Coal’ campaign. We’re asking Facebook to stop using dirty coal to power its servers, and commit to sourcing 100% renewable energy.

Help save our climate (targets)

Posted by tracy.frauzel - 5 April 2011 at 1:47pm - 61 Comments
wind farm at butterwick
All rights reserved. Credit: © Steve Morgan / Greenpeace

The ongoing problems with the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan has prompted many people to question where we get our energy from, now and in the future. The champions of nuclear power say the risks only affect a small number of people and are outweighed by the risks of climate change. So if we can’t burn coal, we must have nuclear power.

Ask Facebook to ♥ renewable energy in photo competition

Posted by Eoin D - 17 February 2011 at 6:10pm - 1 Comment
Facebook Unfriend Coal photo competition entry
All rights reserved. Credit: Joachim Schoring
Enter the next round of the Unfriend Coal photo competition

The first round of our photo competition asking Facebook to ♥ Renewable Energy (and thus Unfriend Coal) has just closed but the entries have been so amazing we're launching another round straight away.

Facebook, let's commit to Unfriend Coal by Earth Day

Posted by Kumi Naidoo - 8 February 2011 at 4:23pm - 6 Comments
by. Credit: Greenpeace

Since we started our campaign in February 2010, over 600,000 Greenpeace supporters like you have called on Facebook to unfriend coal and embrace renewables to power their massive data centres. Thank you.

Another victory over dirty coal as Kingsnorth plans scrapped

Posted by jamess - 21 October 2010 at 2:42pm - 0 Comments

Emily Hall - one of the Kingsnorth Six - on the coal station's chimney stack

Crack out the balloons and the (recycled) paper hats - it's party time.

Kingsnorth is shelved. Again.  Yesterday the news came out that Eon, the company behind the plans for the first new coal plant in the UK in over 30 years was scrapping its proposal to build another climate-wrecking monster to replace its current power station in Kent.

Measures to clean up power sector won't be in coalition's energy law

Posted by jossg - 17 August 2010 at 1:38pm - 0 Comments

This blog first appeared on Left Foot Forward, and this decision could have far-reaching implications for where we get our energy from. If that gets your goat, 38 Degrees have made it very easy to write to your MP about emissions performance standards.

Yesterday The Guardian splashed with the news that the coalition's promise to introduce an emissions performance standard (EPS) to stop the most polluting power stations has been ‘put on hold' and wouldn't be in the coalition's first energy law, which is expected to come before Parliament later this year.

China: why coal takes more than it gives

Posted by jossc - 23 April 2010 at 9:58am - 0 Comments

China is the king of coal. It is the world's biggest producer and consumer - but this reliance on coal is costing the country dear.

Because coal kills.

From the miners who dig it, to the people who breathe in its fumes, to the skies that swallow immense clouds of carbon dioxide, heating the earth and causing climate change and rising seal levels, coal takes more than it gives.

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