RSS Feeds

What is RSS?

RSS stands for really simple syndication. It is a format designed for sharing headlines and other web content. Instead of continually checking our website for updates, RSS allows for this information to be automatically updated to your website, newsreader, or, in the case of Firefox, Safari, or Opera, and several others, your browser or email client.

Think of RSS as a special web page that is read by computers rather than people.

Not all websites provide RSS, luckily ours does.

How do I use RSS to get Greenpeace content?

You will need a news reader, which is a piece of software that checks RSS feeds to inform you about new content.

Readers can be accessed using a browser or they can be downloaded.

In the case of Firefox and Safari, you can also create live bookmarks from those same links. Hey presto! The latest content will appear right in your browser's bookmarks. For more information about how to do this in Firefox, see below.

Once you have chosen your reader you need to decide on what information you would like to receive from us.

You can receive Greenpeace news, press release, jobs and events feeds. Just click on the links below.

(Right click and copy these links for bookmarks or pasting into a newsreader, email client, or other RSS-friendly device. Normal clicking upon them will just show you a raw XML file. It's not pretty.)

Greenpeace news:

http://www.greenpeace.org/rss/australia/news-and-events/news

Greenpeace events

http://www.greenpeace.org/rss/australia/news-and-events/events

Greenpeace media releases

http://www.greenpeace.org/rss/australia/news-and-events/media/releases

Greenpeace jobs

http://www.greenpeace.org/rss/australia/about/jobs

You can generate an RSS 2.0 feed from any page on this website by inserting /rss in the URL immediately after http://www.greenpeace.org. 

So you would change this URL

http://www.greenpeace.org/australia/news-and-events/media/releases

to this

http://www.greenpeace.org/rss/australia/news-and-events/media/releases

and import that into your feed reader software, live bookmark, or web page.

For Firefox users:

This site is enabled for Live Bookmarks: you'll see this icon on the bottom right corner of the browser. Clicking on the icon and selecting an RSS feed will bring up the Add Bookmark dialog. Select 'OK' and you will see Live Bookmarks with the rest of your bookmarks. Many people find it especially convenient to save Live Bookmarks in their Bookmarks Toolbar folder.

Add Live Bookmarks manually

If you construct your own RSS feed as above, you can manually create a Live Bookmark for the site. Go to the Bookmarks menu and select 'Manage Bookmarks'. Under the 'File Menu', select 'New Live Bookmark'. Create a name for the Live Bookmark and add the URL. New articles will appear as Live Bookmarks in Firefox.

Share your bookmarks

Why keep your bookmarks to yourself? Services like http://del.icio.us let you publish your own bookmarks as RSS feeds, so that other Firefox users can subscribe to your bookmarks through Live Bookmarks. Live Bookmarks and del.icio.us makes it easy to share cool sites you like with your friends.

You can also put your bookmarks into your own private RSS feed, to share your bookmarks among multiple computers. Spread the word!