Blogposts tagged 'Donate'

Can football save the planet?

Posted by mollybrooks - 15 June 2010 at 10:34am - 0 Comments

Love it or hate it, there's no escaping the huge football tournament that's taking place in South Africa at the moment.

You may have expected that Greenpeace would be a World Cup free zone, given that it's not the most environmentally-friendly event ever. But we're doing our bit to try and help the World Cup leave a positive legacy for the people of South Africa, and we've launched a special edition Greenpeace Giving virtual gift to celebrate.

Greenpeace Africa is providing a solar viewing area in the village of Jericho in the North West Province of South Africa. This means that villagers, who may not otherwise be able to watch the World Cup, will be able to view the matches on big screens powered entirely by solar panels.

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Save the Arctic or lose the polar bears

Posted by KatieS - 6 November 2009 at 10:17am - 8 Comments

So I was thinking about polar bears the other day. They're not my normal topic for musing while dodging London traffic on my bicycle, but I was thinking about them because a friend told me something I just couldn't believe. She said that polar bears could be the first mammals to lose their entire habitat to climate change. I was shocked. Polar bears have no natural predators. They're on the top of the food chain. They're perfectly adapted to the inhospitable Arctic environment, but now their icy home is disappearing beneath their paws because of our carbon polluting lifestyles.

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