June 2008

The future of seafood

Greenpeace Canada has launched a groundbreaking new report exploring the role of Canadian supermarkets in the health of the planet's oceans. Out of Stock: Supermarkets and the Future of Seafood, targets Canadian grocery stores including Loblaws, Sobey's, Metro, Wal-Mart, Costco and Safeway, demanding that they adopt sustainable seafood policies. It also includes a seafood 'Redlist,' giving consumers in Canada the opportunity to avoid the most unsustainable seafood species.

• Read a Greenpeace backgrounder and fact sheet on unsustainable seafood.
• Explore Greenpeace's Redlist of unsustainable seafood.
• Read the report: Out of Stock: Supermarkets and the Future of Seafood
• Take Action: Contact your supermarket

Liberal Carbon Tax Plan: A Start, More Needed

On April 19, 2008, federal Liberal leader Stéphane Dion released a plan to introduce a carbon tax in Canada. Greenpeace welcomed the idea a useful step towards reducing Canada's greenhouse gas emissions. However, we feel the price set for carbon in the plan is too low to be effective, the targets for greenhouse gas reductions are weak and the plan needs to go further and include measures to use some of the tax cut identified in the plan to help Canadians save energy.

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The problem with Kleenex

Kimberly-Clark refuses to stop destroying ancient forests for its Kleenex, Scott and Cottonelle products, so, in mid-June, Kleercut activists launched a blockade of the company's New Milford, Connecticut facility. This massive plant accounts for 40 percent of the Kleenex and Scott products sold in the United States, yet most products made at the New Milford facility contain little or no recycled fibre.

• Find out more.
• Watch a slideshow of the blockade.
• Take a look at the billboard Greenpeace put up to confront executives from Kimberly-Clark on their way to work.

The truth about e-waste

This month, Greenpeace activists delivered 500 Philips television sets and 100 pieces of Philips electronic equipment to the company's headquarters in Amsterdam. Unlike other major electronics companies, Philips has no take-back policies for its end-of-life products unless forced to do so by legislation. In addition, Philips has been lobbying hard against legislation that makes companies directly responsible for the costs of recycling and safe disposal of their own products. The Dutch public beg to differ: an opinion poll carried out in the Netherlands revealed that 94 percent of the public believe that electronics producers should take responsibility for collecting their own electronic waste.

• Find out more about Philips
• Visit Greenpeace's Guide to Greener Electronics.

Greenpeace welcomes AbitibiBowater decision to stop logging in Grassy Narrows First Nation territory

Greenpeace welcomes a decision by forest products giant AbitibiBowater to end its logging operations in the traditional territory of the Grassy Narrows First Nation and support the community in its struggle for rights over its traditional lands. The move follows a near decade-long campaign by the Grassy Narrows First Nation to suspend industrial logging in the one million hectare Whiskey Jack Forest, near Kenora.

• Find out more.

Greenpeace's top three tips for green summer eating

It's summer, the perfect time to eat fresh, ripe and in season. The best route to green eating: think about your food. Find out where it comes from, who picked it for you and exactly how it got from seed to table. To get you started, here are Greenpeace's top three tips for green summer eating.

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