Life as a consumer is very different to what we’re told.

We’re told it’s easy, it’s effortless. That life flows better with Visa.

We’re sold an image of smash avo on toast; of beautiful, thin, white women laughing at salads; of right-angled, rugged heroes cruising on highways in their brand-new Holdens.

It looks so good, so inviting, so perfect.

But we know that there’s another picture too. Of turtles dying after ingesting plastic. Of marine life being deafened by oil drilling. Of climate change.

No one wants this. It doesn’t look good on Instagram. So the same people who sell you solutions for your ageing skin also sell you the solution to all sorts of environmental crises.

If you want clean air, then stop buying the affordable petrol car we sell you and how about this snazzy, ma... Read more >

It was only two years ago when, during the Paris Climate Conference, we displayed our first giant Sun in Paris to demand that our world leaders tackle climate change by replacing dirty fossil fuels with clean renewable energy.

COP21: Arc de Triomphe Sun Action in Paris. 11 December, 2015

With world leaders finally agreeing on historic steps to protect the climate, the sun became a symbol of those promises and the symbol of our battle for a healthy, renewable future.

Last June, we marked the beginning of Summer with a sun in Barcelona to remind our leaders of their Paris promises. Another Sun also rose in Croatia to make sure the world remembered the potential of solar energy.

Sun Action in Barcelona. 21 June 2017.

Last week, peaceful activists turned iconic public spaces in europe into... Read more >

The fashion industry is considered to be one of the most polluting in the world. Its material-intensive business model relies heavily on our addiction to overconsumption and feeds the destruction of the planet.

There is one way to solve the problem: slowing down fashion. We need a model that doesn’t compromise on ethical, social and environmental values and involves customers, rather than encouraging them to binge buy ever-changing trends.

At Milan Fashion Week this year, Greenpeace Italy decided to give the podium to the pioneers of sustainable fashion, who are changing the way we wear our clothes. These are the companies behind some of the examples from the Greenpeace Germany report “Fashion at the Crossroads”.

We chose to highlight the three most important ways to create clothes that ...

“It was really distressing to see her working so hard to breathe. She’s so small.”

It’s a parents’ worst nightmare to see their child being rushed in and out of hospital. Yet Sephie’s parents - Bo and Amii - have all too often seen their daughter confined to a hospital ward, breathing through a toddler-sized breathing machine.

Her body would become limp, she would become unable to eat or get up and was exhausted simply from trying to breathe in and out. Her parents would take her to hospital, go home-then it would happen again. They were terrified.

What’s worse is that, as Bo and Amii waited in the hospital’s emergency department, they noticed it wasn’t just Sephie being rushed into hospital with chest problems – there were lots more children too. Doctors said they thought chest pr... Read more >

"I have been waiting for this day for seven decades and I am overjoyed that it has finally arrived,” said Hiroshima survivor Setsuko Thurlow in July, when a new treaty banning nuclear weapons was agreed at the United Nations in New York. “This is the beginning of the end of nuclear weapons.”

However agreeing on a new treaty is only the first step towards a treaty becoming valid international law. As of Wednesday 20th September, governments can take the next step and officially sign the Treaty on the Prohibition on Nuclear Weapons (TPNW). Once a country signs, it needs to have it adopted as national law to ratify it. And 50 countries need to do this before this treaty becomes agreed international law. (New Zealand is amongst the first to sign).

Governments that sign and ratify the treaty... Read more >

After perpetrating what is probably the worst oil-related catastrophe on Earth - a 20,000 hectare death zone in Ecuador, known as the “Amazon Chernobyl” - the Chevron Corporation has spent two decades and over a billion dollars trying to avoid responsibility. In 2011, Indigenous and peasant villagers won an $9.5-billion compensation judgment in Ecuador. Chevron, despite accepting jurisdiction in Ecuador to avoid a US jury trial, refused to pay.

Image courtesy of Amazon Watch

The company sold its assets in Ecuador to avoid seizure, left the country, and threatened the victims with a "lifetime of litigation" if they pursued compensation. The 30,000 plaintiffs, however, have not given up. The case now moves to Canada, where Chevron holds assets, and where the victims hope, at last, to gain jus... Read more >

If you’ve got loads of burning questions and want to know more then come along to the briefing on Wednesday, September 13th at Halo, 66B Wharenui Road.  Make sure you’re registered to get updates.

How long do I have to stay?

We’re asking people to join us for the whole day on Thursday, Sept. the 14th and you’ll need to be prepared to meet us in Chch at 7:45am in the morning in Chch. If you can only come for part of the day we’d still love to have you come along.

What am I actually going to have to do?

There will be lots of different ways people can participate and you don’t need to come with specific or specialist skills to be involved. If you can make it along to the briefing on September 13th in Chch we can talk to you more about the plans. Make sure you’re registered - we’ll email yo... Read more >