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Greenpeace Detox challenge to Adidas and Nike hits Toronto

Greenpeace Detox challenge to Adidas and Nike hits Toronto

Feature story | July 14, 2011 at 21:25

Toronto — Volunteers took to Greenpeace Detox campaign to Torontonians today. They were following up on the Detox challenge Greenpeace has issued to Adidas and Nike to be the first to cut the discharge of hazardous chemicals from supply chains.

Time for Nike and Adidas to Detox the world’s water

Time for Nike and Adidas to Detox the world’s water

Feature story | July 12, 2011 at 15:56

Game on. Greenpeace is calling on Nike and Adidas to see which one is stronger on the flats, quicker on the breaks, turns faster and plays harder at a game we’re calling ‘Detox’,

Demand clean water to live

Demand clean water to live

Blog entry by Anil Kanji | October 15, 2010

Today is Blog Action Day , a yearly event where bloggers around the world commit to writing about a a single topic to raise awareness. This year's topic is Water. Less than two weeks ago a mass of toxic mud swept through...

The fight against pipelines is a fight for water: the Kinder Morgan trial

The fight against pipelines is a fight for water: the Kinder Morgan trial

Blog entry by Mike Hudema | October 4, 2017

For many, this fight is about water. Water, that precious resource, that flows across the land just as it flows through us. We are born in it and without it we perish. When you take a moment to think about all of your connections...

Podcast: Who's emptying Canada's lakes? Coping with tricky party convos

Podcast: Who's emptying Canada's lakes? Coping with tricky party convos

Blog entry by Mary Ambrose | December 1, 2014 1 comment

There’s an environment myth which claims  that  Ahmed Zaki Yamani, Saudi Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources from the 1960s to the 80s apparently said, that rather than discovering oil, he wish his country had found water. ...

Oil development in British Columbia’s coastal waters

Publication | June 26, 2010 at 18:49

The oil and gas industry has a great interest in accessing and expanding its operations in British Columbia’s coastal waters for oil development and transportation. Meanwhile, successive governments have not protected the marine environment nor...

Health, food, water

Publication | March 25, 2008 at 13:42

Heat waves attributable in part to climate change are forecast to kill hundreds of thousands this century. Climate change will also have disastrous effects on water supplies, agriculture and the spread of disease. Rich and poor alike will be...

Harper government ignores scientists' warning on tar sands water impact

Harper government ignores scientists' warning on tar sands water impact

Blog entry by Keith Stewart | May 29, 2013 1 comment

The Harper government's move to exempt in-situ oil sands projects from the (new) Canadian Environmental Assessment Act runs contrary to the advice of government scientists, according to documents obtained by Greenpeace Canada under...

Detox game on almost everywhere

Detox game on almost everywhere

Blog entry by Brian Blomme | July 15, 2011

The Greenpeace XM3N mannequins and their Detox challenge to Adidas and Nike are showing up everywhere. The Detox campaign kicked off with news conferences in Beijing and Hong Kong. Greenpeace is challenging the world’s biggest...

The consequences of an oil spill in Canada’s West Coast waters

Publication | June 26, 2010 at 17:36

If the Canadian government approves a proposal from pipeline giant Enbridge Inc. to build twin Northern Gateway pipelines from Alberta’s tar sands to Kitimat on northern B.C.’s Great Bear Rainforest, an oil spill in the region is inevitable.

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