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  • The Sun is coming out this February

    Blogpost by Monica Davies - February 3, 2012 at 16:41

    Come and see him at these events

    While we all took summer holidays, the South African Sun was still in his office, working full days, shining bright solar rays down on us all that could have been powering our country.

    But just because we haven’t emp... Read more >

  • Too many boats catching too few fish

    Blogpost by Farah Obaidullah - February 1, 2012 at 12:57

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    Local fishermen in St Louis. Organised by Greenpeace, the “My Voice, My Future” caravan documents small-scale fishing communities and the impact of foreign super-trawlers on local fish stocks.

    It is no secret that Europe’s seas, once teeming with life, are now unable to provide fish for all its citizens. EU governments and the fishing industry have known for decades that they catch more than their seas can provide, so much so that ... Read more >

  • Guinness World Record!

    Blogpost by Mike Baillie - January 26, 2012 at 10:29

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    A Guinness World Record Certificate for our 'Unfriend Coal' cyber action. The certificate reads: "The most comments on a facebook item in 24 hours is 80,030 and was achieved by Greenpeace on 14 April 2011"

     

    In April last year we were pushing hard for Facebook to 'unfriend' coal -- and we asked you to get involved.

    The idea was to make a post on the unfriend coal Facebook page and then see if we could set a record for the most comments on a sin... Read more >

  • We're sorry, you're not allowed to read this

    Blogpost by Kumi Naidoo - January 18, 2012 at 9:17

    As South Africa grapples with the very controversial Secrecy Bill, censorship is also a hot topic further abroad. And just like the Secrecy Bill, the US Stop Online Piracy Act could be disasterous for the work Greenpeace does. Below is a blog from Gre... Read more >

  • Public Eye Awards: The Fight Against Unscrupulous Companies Continues

    Blogpost by Monica Davies - January 10, 2012 at 9:43 1 comment

    On January 27th, the Berne Declaration and Greenpeace will again present the Public Eye Awards to the most irresponsible companies in terms of respect for human rights and the environment.


    Voting runs until January 26 at midnight. This year's six nom... Read more >

  • 2011: The Year In Pictures

    Blogpost by Mike Townsley, Greenpeace International - January 6, 2012 at 12:36 2 comments

    2011 was the year the bottom shook the top, the year the ballerina danced on the bull, and “The Protestor” was named Time Magazine person of the year. The faces in our Year in Pictures pay testament and tribute to our contribution and to the be... Read more >

  • Deja vu hits Durban

    Blogpost by Susan Cavanagh - December 10, 2011 at 14:30

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    OMG, it's deja vu all over again.

    Just over 11 years ago at around 10am on the final day of COP6 I sat at my desk in the Greenpeace office at the Den Hague conference centre with our final statement (below) printed on black paper - meant to... Read more >

  • "Listen to the people" inside UN climate talks

    Blogpost by Mike Baillie - December 9, 2011 at 20:14

    Today at the UN climate negotiations in Durban the whispers of polluting companies were drowned out by the roar of the crowd demanding governments “Listen to the people not the polluters!” 

    As the talks draw to a close in the coming hours, there is... Read more >

  • The Official Use Me More Theme Song

    Blogpost by Monica Davies - December 8, 2011 at 9:07 1 comment

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    Turning to the sun is an urge as old as mankind itself. Like the sunflower, we turn to it for life, warmth and light - three words which could easily be used to describe the music of the newly-formed group, Jika Nelanga (which means sunflowe... Read more >

  • The Mystery of McKinsey's Black Box

    Blogpost by John Bowler - December 7, 2011 at 21:49

     

    Hello from Durban, home of COP17, and for the past 10 days home of the Greenpeace forest team.

    Sometimes serendipity just waltzes right up to you. And that is what has just happened. Earlier this year a Greenpeace investigation revealed ... Read more >

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