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Aug 05

In our online auction you can buy this work or even a Judy Cassab or Mary Shackman painting! Enlarge image

You're invited to the Art for Action exhibition

Her paintings hang in the Australian National Gallery and London's National Portrait gallery. She has won the Archibald Prize two times. Now Judy Cassab has taken on her next artistic challenge: the Greenpeace Art for Action competition!

The dry mouth of the Murray shows the river's exposure to climate change. ©Greenpeace Enlarge image

Saving Australia's prize

The Murray Darling Basin is Australia's lifeblood. It irrigates 70 per cent of our crops and pastures, and provides drinking water to three million people. Now our largest river system may die because of climate change. But there are solutions to save the Murray.

Clean energy solutions on the move at the Sydney City to Surf! Enlarge image

Clean solutions at City to Surf

Sydney had a clean energy boost on Sunday when a Greenpeace City to Surf team burst onto the track. Along the 14 kilometre route, human wind turbines and strolling solar panels promoted Greenpeace’s clean energy campaign. There was even a polluting coal stack spotted in the crowd. The team, headed by Lonely Planet co-founder Tony Wheeler, raised vital funds for Greenpeace campaigns and had a fun day in the sun.

A group of volunteers dumped sacks of coal at the front of Victoria's Parliament House. Enlarge image

Parliament must Quit Coal

The day after taking on the developed world's most greenhouse-polluting power plant – Hazelwood power station in the Latrobe Valley – Greenpeace today dumped sacks of coal at the front of Victoria’s Parliament House.

Activists unfurl a banner outside Hazelwood power station, Victoria, Australia's most polluting coal-fired plant. Enlarge image

Victoria wins first prize for dirtiest power plant

A fortnight after closing the world’s largest coal export port (in Newcastle, NSW), Greenpeace is taking on the developed world’s most greenhouse-polluting power plant in Victoria's Latrobe Valley.

Protester picketing outside Bayer's head office in Melbourne. Enlarge image

Bayer's GE crop contamination a reality

As Greenpeace suspected, the West Australian government has found that some of its canola crops are contaminated by Bayer's genetically engineered (GE) canola. There is also a possibility that this contamination could have spread to another three states.

The Rainbow Warrior arrives in Port Melbourne, Victoria. Enlarge image

Solutions for Australia's worst polluter

Victoria has some excellent wind power sites. But it also has Hazelwood, the most greenhouse-polluting power plant in the developed world.

Greenpeace volunteers holding “Wings of Peace” balloons with 10,000 peace messages in Hiroshima, Friday morning August 5 Enlarge image

60 years - too long in the nuclear shadow

Australian Peace and Disarmament campaigner, Kieran Longridge writes from Hiroshima, where she attended the commemoration ceremonies and a Mayors for Peace conference.

Greenpeace local goup (Melbourne) members with their peace flags. Enlarge image

Stand up for peace this Hiroshima day

On 6 August 1945 the US dropped the world’s first nuclear bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, and then another three days later on Nagasaki. The death, suffering and destruction that followed were unprecedented in the history of war. More than 100,000 people died instantly, generations were afflicted and died of illnesses caused by radiation.

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