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Love the Oscars? You’ll love these environmental films too

Blog entry by Shuk-Wah Chung | March 1, 2016

Rising seas, severe droughts, catastrophic storms, people foraging for food. Sounds like a backdrop for a post-apocalyptic film but this is climate change, and it’s the real-life blockbuster happening right now. Whether it’s Al...

Absurdity, urgency and the battle for our future

Blog entry by Daniel Mittler | December 7, 2012

My head is in Doha, but my body is not. My inbox is overflowing even more than usual, as rumors picked up in the vast corridors of the Qatar Convention Centre are spread around electronically. The acronyms alone make it easy to make...

India must get its own house in order on biodiversity

Blog entry by Vanessa Atkinson | October 14, 2012

Usually I work in New Zealand on the climate campaign but right now I'm in Hyderabad, India, helping out the team here on a big push around the Convention on Biological Diversity. It's hard to throw a party and expect your guests...

Breaking: Activists Block Shipment of Mountain Top Removal Coal

Blog entry by Dan Schreiber | May 4, 2012

A set of train tracks in rural North Carolina is not the kind of place that brings iPads to mind. But this railroad is part of the chain that links you and me – and anyone who uses the cloud – to the massive destruction caused by...

Tell Apple, Amazon, Microsoft you want a cleaner cloud

Blog entry by Casey Harrell | April 18, 2012

Every day, our lives revolve more and more around the phenomenon that is “the cloud.” We check our e-mail, store our music, and share photos and status updates. It’s a key part of how we connect with our friends and family. But...

Mega coal mines threaten Great Barrier Reef

Blog entry by John Hepburn | March 15, 2012

© Tom Jefferson/Greenpeace In our campaign to stop dangerous climate change, Greenpeace is taking on one of the most urgent issues: the enormous expansion of coal mining and coal exports from Australia. Not only does coal...

Victory! Facebook 'friends' renewable energy

Blog entry by Eoin - Greenpeace International | December 16, 2011

After 20 months 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...

Ten-thousand call for an Energy [R]evolution in Thailand

Blog entry by Jay Harkness | February 28, 2011

10,000 people in Thailand took to the streets near their homes to oppose dirty energy. Their goal: protect their province from coal plants slated to be built by the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand. Local communities...

Coal the answer to the wrong question

Blog entry by Simon Boxer | November 18, 2010

The guest editorial titled ' Year of silly advice on climate change ' and published in the Otago Daily Times earlier this week was never going to deal to the arguments around fossil fuels with a balanced hand - after all, the author...

Facebook hits 500 million mark

Blog entry by nick | July 23, 2010

It’s official: an eye-watering 500 million people are now using Facebook. But as the social networking site celebrates this latest milestone, another one is in the making: almost half a million of its users have joined one of our...

UPDATED: Activists block Fonterra coal use

Blog entry by nick | May 18, 2010

Fighting Fonterra Climate Crimes This morning a team of Greenpeace activists blocked the supply of coal to the boilers of Fonterra's Clandeboye milk drying plant in Canterbury effectively halting another Fonterra climate crime.

Greenpeace shuts down coal terminal in Australia

Blog entry by nick | August 4, 2009

(C) Greenpeace/Pratten Breaking news from across the ditch: Greenpeace and Pacific activists have shut down Abbott Point coal export terminal in Queensland in protest over the impacts of climate change on Pacific islands and crazy...

Clean Coal Air Freshener

Blog entry by Nick | March 5, 2009

Now with a new and improved label! New Reality ad directed by the Academy-award winning Coen Brothers. In reality, there's no such thing as clean coal. Learn more. Join the campaign .

Coal: the Kingsnorth Six on trial

Blog entry by Nick | September 1, 2008

In the UK today, six brave Greenpeace souls will be appearing at Maidstone Crown Court for the start of a trial centring around Kingsnorth, coal and climate change. In October last year, they took a personal stand to protect the...

Greenpeace blockades Eraring Power Station in Australia

Blog entry by Nick | July 4, 2008

An activist climbs down a ladder in a stairwell above the coal stockpile. © Greenpeace Our colleagues across the Tasman have just pulled off an audacious action at the Eraring Power Station. In a 5.5 hour blockade of the coal...

Greenpeace balloon calls for more than hot air across the Tasman

Blog entry by Nick | April 9, 2008

Hunter Valley, NSW, Australia: At dawn this morning the Greenpeace hot air balloon flew over Liddell and Bayswater coal-fired power stations in the Hunter Valley, delivering a spectacular climate change message to the federal...

PR smokescreen lifts on coal industry's false solution

Blog entry by Nick | February 8, 2008

Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS), the technological poster child for the future of the global coal industry has just had its biggest supporter pull the rug out from underneath its feet. With the Bush administration withdrawing...

Tigers at the door

Blog entry by Brikesh Singh | October 18, 2012

At Greenpeace India we are always looking for the most effective ways to communicate our messages – today in the hi-tech world of modern media that includes tweeting and texting, blogging and subvertising. But there are times...

US climate protest goes live

Blog entry by Kathy | March 3, 2009

Crowd Scene It’s being called the biggest U.S. protest on climate change — hundreds of activists have gathered around the tiny coal-fired power plant in Washington that heats and cools the halls of power. The 99-year old facility that...

This is the impact of our daily life on the planet

Blog entry by Rashini Suriyaarachchi | June 7, 2015

Every day, we all make choices that impact our local area, country, and the world at large. It can be hard to make the link between your favourite chocolate treat and deforestation in Indonesia – but when you zoom out a little, the...

Apple can be an environmental leader again

Blog entry by Renee Blanchard | May 11, 2012

The very first campaign I worked on when I arrived at Greenpeace in 2006 was the Green My Apple campaign. It was exciting and different, and as someone who has proudly held on to her iMac G3 (Bondi Blue I might add) to this very day...

Enthusiasm for oil requires cognitive shut-down

Blog entry by Steve Abel | January 24, 2012

Recently some commentators have revealed something about the way their brain functions in singing the praises of new fossil fuels. We shouldn’t be surprised that oil companies are excited about oil, though the Sunday Star Times...

US protest postscript

Blog entry by Kathy | March 3, 2009

Stop Coal! More than 2,500 former coal miners, ministers, mothers, students, and climate activists, representing over 40 states from Arizona to Appalachia, successfully blocked all five entrances to the US Capitol's Power Plant for...

Hard and dirty

Blog entry by Kathy | November 12, 2008

The National Party is set to announce its Cabinet line up in next two days. Former Shadow Leader of the House Gerry Brownlee is likely to feature as Energy Minister. This is the same Mr Brownlee that has publicly professed a strange...

A new paint job for some coal ships across the Tasman

Blog entry by Nick | July 28, 2008

MACKAY AUSTRALIA - Greenpeace activists in inflatables targeted a queue of almost 50 coal ships at Hay Point port in Queensland and are currently painting them with climate change protest messages such as: 'RUDD EXPORTING CO2',...

How Clean is your Cloud - Apple responds

Blog entry by Gary Cook | April 18, 2012

Our new report “ How Clean is Your Cloud ” is out today - to show that the massive increase in Internet use is mainly being powered by dirty energy. Apple, Amazon and Microsoft all score badly in the report for relying on dirty coal...

Google shows off its data centers, powered increasingly by clean energy

Blog entry by David Pomerantz | October 23, 2012

Ever wondered what the Internet looks like? If so, you’re in luck: Google has drawn back the curtains of its data centers, the facilities that compute and store all of our gmail, youtube videos, and searches. [Photo: Google’s...

Key and Joyce are dragging New Zealand back to Neanderthal times with asset sales agenda

Blog entry by Nathan Argent | September 5, 2012

John Key has announced a back down on his plans to sell off the first of our state owned assets – Mighty River Power. He claimed that although he did not accept the argument that Maori had property rights over the affected waterways,...

A message in the floods

Blog entry by Bunny McDiarmid | January 20, 2011

A new year has begun and, as always, brings with it a sense of new potential and hope. And even though I’ve only been back at work a week it already feels like this will be a crucial year, a year where all that we do needs to count.

A Greenpeace activist in India talks about going to jail for the climate

Blog entry by nick | June 10, 2010

Six Greenpeace activists in India did something took action at a coal-power plant in 2007. They were arrested and thrown into jail. This is the story of one of those activists.

The Energy [R]evolution

Blog entry by nick | June 8, 2010

We have had a vision! The Energy [R]evolution demonstrates how the world can get from where we are now, to where we need to be in terms of phasing out fossil fuels, cutting CO2 while ensuring energy security. This includes...

What the LULUCF?

Blog entry by Phil | June 4, 2010

New Zealand's strategy at the climate change negotiations may be running into a bit of trouble. To understand why, I need to explain New Zealand's strategy which pretends to tackle climate change. Basically, whatever our...

Biggest protest march in living memory

Blog entry by Kathy Cumming | May 1, 2010

We expected 20,000. We HOPED for 30,000. We got nearly double that. In the biggest protest march in living memory,  50,000 turned out on Queen Street today to march against the Government's mining plans. The photos say it all (see...

Copenhagen - Historic failure that will live in infamy

Blog entry by nick | December 21, 2009

Spontaneous demonstration by NGOs outside the UN Climate Summit in Copenhagen, after world leaders failed to agree on a fair, ambitious and binding treaty. © Greenpeace/Myllyvirta The following piece is written by one of our UK...

End of the tour but the fight goes on

Blog entry by Kathy | April 16, 2008

Waving goodbye to the Warrior (C) GREENPEACE / Sharomov Six weeks ago I packed my trunk in my bedroom in Grey Lynn Auckland, boarded a bus and rode downtown to Princes Wharf. There I walked up the gangway of the Rainbow Warrior. It...

PETITION: Sign the deep water oil drilling in NZ waters

Blog entry by nick | June 10, 2010

Imagine if the BP Deepwater Horizon oil disaster happened in NZ waters. It would stretch from Wellington to Christchurch and would devastate our coastline and fisheries for decades. This is now a very real risk as the...

Marsden B

Page | August 6, 2007 at 23:32

Due to relentless campaigning by Greenpeace and many others, Mighty River Power canned its plan to refire the mothballed Marsden B coal fired power station in March 2007.

The occupation of Marsden B

Image | February 16, 2005 at 0:00

The occupation of Marsden B coal fired power station.

Greenpeace protesters occupying a plant of Marsden B

Image | February 19, 2005 at 0:00

Three Greenpeace protesters occupying the plant wave to the crowds of local people protesting below from the roof of Marsden B.

Greenpeace banner of the Marsden B occupation

Image | February 16, 2005 at 0:00

A banner hangs on the perimeter fence as the second day of the Greenpeace occupation of Marsden B begins.

Greenpeace climbers unfurl a Target Climate Change banner of a Solid Energy's coal ship

Image | March 25, 2008 at 8:33

Greenpeace climbers unfurl a Target Climate Change banner while hanging from the hull of Solid Energy's coal ship, the Hellenic Sea.

Solid Energy's coal ship power-hose Greenpeace activists

Image | March 25, 2008 at 8:26

Crew on Solid Energy's coal ship, the Hellenic Sea, power-hose Greenpeace activists - 2008

Greenpeace activists block coal being supplied

Image | May 18, 2010 at 6:53

Greenpeace activists block coal being supplied to the boilers of Fonterra's Clandeboye factory, in Canterbury, with three tonnes of wood pellets and by locking themselves to equipment May 18 2010. .

Over 500 Northland residents gather to protest Mighty River Power's proposal

Image | February 19, 2005 at 0:00

Over 500 Northland residents gather to protest Mighty River Power's proposal to convert the mothballed Marsden B power station into a coal fired power station on Bream Bay beach beneath the power station. They spelled out NO COAL and STOP MARSDEN...

Surfers Against Sulphur protest on the beach below the proposed Marsden B coal fired...

Image | February 19, 2005 at 0:00

Local Ruakaka group 'Surfers Against Sulphur' stage a protest on the beach below the proposed Marsden B coal fired power station. Their t-shirts spell out 'Surfers Against Suphpur'. Greenpeace activists are on the roof of the power station in the...

Local Ruakaka protest against Marsden B

Image | February 19, 2005 at 0:00

Local Ruakaka group 'Surfers Against Sulphur' stage a protest on the beach below the proposed Marsden B coal fired power station. Their t-shirts spell out 'Surfers Against Suphpur'. Greenpeace activists are on the roof of the power station in the...

As Greenpeace activists occupy the proposed Marsden B coal fired power station

Image | February 16, 2005 at 0:00

As Greenpeace activists occupy the proposed Marsden B coal fired power station, the sun rises over the beach on the day the Kyoto Protocol comes into force in Ruakaka, New Zealand.

Greenpeace activists try to stop the unloading of coal from Indonesia

Image | August 8, 2004 at 1:00

TAURANGA: Greenpeace activists move to the side of the ship Atermon, two activists climbed onto the side of the ship. Greenpeace are looking to stop the unloading of coal from Indonesia, current negotiations are under way to burn 1 million tons...

The So Coal Network

Video | September 17, 2010 at 10:00

A timely story about Mark Zuckerberg, a friendly blue giant, and dirty old coal. http://www.greenpeace.org/coalfacebook

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