Mélanie Laurent witnesses forest destruction - where climate change starts - in Indonesia.
From Hikmat, media officer at the Climate Defenders Camp in Indonesia
No flashlights. No red carpets. Don’t talk about fancy five-star hotel because here we don’t even have a proper toilet.
But Inglourious [...]
More often than not - you only get to see the finished product of our heroic actions -- the brave Greenpeace activists in the photo - doing something awesome to save the planet. And what you rarely see is how they got there or how much preparation [...]
The public demand for action on climate change is palpable this morning in Barcelona.
Today marks the beginning the final round of climate talks before December's UN climate summit in Copenhagen – the negotiators have one week to set the stage for the promised deal to stop' [...]
Activist Petteri has been hard at work, blocking the drainage of carbon-rich peatland in Indonesia (read his first update - and why they are building a dam here).
Update 2
This morning we left camp with two pong pongs - local small boats - and headed [...]
Now for a wonderfully descriptive account from our Climate Defenders Camp leader - Rob, in Indonesia
Earlier this week - myself and four other guys set out from the Climate Defenders Camp to join a team already in the field preparing for a couple of giant banners to [...]
This morning Greenpeace activists in two inflatable boats intercepted a ship in France, the Izmir Castle, carrying 15 000 tonnes of palm kernel in Montoir-de-Bretagne port. They painted "Climate Crime" on the hull of the cargo ship. 11 other activists climbed on the top of three cranes [...]
Friday October 30th
With our ship the Rainbow Warrior, Spanish activists boarded a coal ship on its way to the coal fired power plant in Alcudia (Mallorca) and demanded their President Zapatero show climate leadership at the EU Summit still ongoing in Brussels.
And an update from activists [...]
There's lots happening at our Climate Defenders Camp now - on the ground in the Indonesian rainforest.
Activists from the camp are blocking the drainage of peat canals in the region - in order to protect the rainforest and peatlands. Paper and palm oil industries drain the carbon rich peat' [...]
Our team in Indonesia has set up a camp in the heart of the rainforest where activists will remain for several weeks in order to bring urgent attention to the role that deforestation plays in driving dangerous climate change.
Our Climate Defenders Camp is on the threatened [...]
Yesterday was the climate change global day of action. People all over the world had been preparing and recruiting for the occasion for weeks.
According to the grassroots climate campaign website 350.org, there were over 5,200 events all told, in 181 countries. [...]
"Each SurvivaBall contains all the tools you need to enjoy a safe and happy stay on our changing planet" ... and makes you look like a cross between a blowfish and a cow's udder.
The Yes Men strike again. After fooling Reuters, The New York Times and CNBC with' [...]
We ask Greenpeace supporters to do a lot of speaking up -- to world leaders about signing a fair, ambitious, binding deal to do something about climate change, to oil companies about the mess they're making in the Tar Sands of Alberta, and to companies whose purchasing policies on leather' [...]
Trafigura: Why did Greenpeace have to stop their poisoned ship? Why did Twitter have to stop their censorship? Because Governments failed to do their job.
Why are we, with less than 53 days to go to the Copenhagen Climate summit fearing we will have to ratchet down our already [...]
What kind of person climbs the roof of the UK parliament building to demand politicians take action against climate change?
Well, these kinds of people:
People like you.
You don't need to scale a building to make your own statement. On Saturday, October 24th, 350.org and all of' [...]
From Greenpeace UK...
Fifty-five Greenpeace volunteers have scaled the walls of the Houses of Parliament and are now occupying the roof to call for for a new style of politics in Britain, one capable of rising to meet the challenge of climate change.Bold action! Now if only we had [...]
When Obama flies to Norway to pick up the Nobel Peace Prize, he should go straight from Oslo to Copenhagen, and attend the Climate Summit, happening at the same time as the award ceremony on December 10th. He can even take [...]
Alex, our Energy [R]evolution specialist, reports on the action happening now in Finland:
The crisp and cold early mornings have begun; for those of us in the Northern hemisphere this signals two inevitable events: shorter days and the annual onslaught of Christmas Kitsch. However I am not [...]
Some of you will remember the story of William Kamkwamba, the boy who at 14 built a 12-watt windmill from improvised materials for his famine-stricken home in Africa.
He built the thing from plans he found in a library book while he was out of school because his family couldn't' [...]
Yesterday our activists in Sweden sent an urgent message to President Lula of Brazil. During a one day EU-Brazil Summit, Lula met with Prime Minister Reinfeldt of Sweden - who is the current President of the European Council - and President Barroso of the European Commission (all [...]
From Juliette, on board the Arctic Sunrise
Early this morning, three inflatables were lowered from the deck of the Arctic Sunrise and joined the bow of the Pascha - a ship transporting 70,000 tons of coal to Portugal from Svalbard.
In the past few days, the [...]
From Juliette in Svalbard:
This afternoon, a small group of us went out with an inflatable to the end of the glacier. I found out how deceiving the clean air was. We can see the end so well from here and I thought it'd be a matter' [...]
Updates from action at tar sands upgrader expansion site:
5:00am local time - Sunday Oct 4
After occupying the expansion site of a Shell tar sands upgrader for 24 hours all Greenpeace activists have now been removed from the site by police. The final 9 were taken in the [...]
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Early this morning, activists started blocking the loading of a coal ship in Svea, Svalbard - 75 degrees North. Two climbers are hanging down the crane used to load the ship as I write. They are calling for the end of coal as we know [...]
From the top of the world - activists have just spent more than 30 hours calling for a global energy revolution by blocking a coal shipment in the Arctic (But we do wish it was actually Obama, Merkel, and friends demading the world quit coal!)
Update 10AM [...]
I arrived in Svea, Svalbard this morning. It's absolutely beautiful here. My camera has been working overtime, and I have way too many pictures of fjords and snowy mountains already.
Going over Svalbard by plane was surprising. I expected it to be white all over, but it's mainly brown - [...]
Free Greenpeace T-shirt for the first one to name all the celebrities in this music video produced by the Tck Tck Tck campaign.
Have you called for a cool Copenhagen climate treaty yet?
9:15am local time
Greenpeace activists from Germany, France, Brazil and Canada have just entered a Suncor upgrader facility in the tar sands of northern, Alberta and have shut down the conveyer belt of an open pit mining operation. This follows a previous action where Greenpeace activists stopped operations [...]
This is a really cool time lapse video of some very creative graffiti being painted. It was made by our Danish office - for the Age of Stupid Premier in Copenhagen.
[...]During our action in the tar sands of northern Alberta, Canada last week we were running a Twitter and comment feed on the Stop the Tar Sands landing page - so that while people watched the live video feed of our activists they were able to send messages of [...]
When I arrived in New York last week to follow the journey of four women from across the world during Climate Week - I knew I would find some interesting stories. And I expected to feel a little emotional - but I had no idea how meeting these amazing [...]
Margaret Gardner, Rob Cartridge, (author unknown), David J. Grimshaw
