Sep 05

Get your own bit of Greenpeace

Greenpeace gear is back. Thanks to public pressure (you shoppers are persistent!), our popular merchandise range is available again, including organic cotton T-shirts, 2006 diaries and a CD featuring Missy Higgins, Jet and more. Our online shop is now open for business.

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Deadly storms, deadly addiction

By now we all know the science: no single hurricane can be blamed on climate change, in the same way that no single cigarette can be blamed for a cancer death. But as devastating as Hurricanes Katrina and Rita may be, they are nothing compared to the devastation that climate change will wreak on our planet if governments fail to address our world's oil and coal addictions.

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GE contamination spread to all states

Last week, the NSW government announced it would extend the ban on genetically engineered (GE) crops until 2008. But the GE news is not all good. Genetic contamination has shown up in all Australian states. In June, Bayer's GE canola, Topas, was discovered in Victoria and South Australia. Now it seems Monsanto’s Roundup Ready canola has contaminated crops in NSW, WA and Victoria. In NSW, 15 of 20 trial plots were destroyed and contamination levels appear to be as high as 20 per cent. Such high level genetic contamination is almost unheard of. Announcing an extended ban on GE crops can't hide the fact that contamination may already be out of control.

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Is peaceful protest a security threat?

The Howard government seems to think so after it removed American teacher and peace activist, Scott Parkin, from Australia this morning. His crime: advocating peace, which the government views as a threat to national security.

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Peace flag winners

No one wants to see another Hiroshima or Nagasaki. Even so, there are 30, 000 nuclear weapons on this planet and the countries with these nuclear weapons refuse to disarm them. That is why last month we asked the public to speak up for peace and demand an end to the on-going nuclear weapons threat by creating a peace flag to fly at the Hiroshima and Nagasaki peace commemorations, which took place (August 6-9) throughout Australia.