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Greenpeace
ship to visit Canada 
Our ship, the Arctic Sunrise, will visit
Canada this summer - and you're invited aboard! The 162-foot
vessel, will
stop in Toronto, Montreal, Quebec City and Kingston in
August and September. The ship is here to promote clean
energy alternatives to coal and nuclear power, and highlight
destructive logging in the Boreal Forest.
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takes on logging giant Abitibi-Consolidated 
Early
on Wednesday morning, Greenpeace activists climbed the
headquarters of Abitibi-Consolidated in downtown Montreal to
hang a massive banner denouncing the logging company's destruction
of Canada's Boreal Forest.
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Questions
and answers about the Alberta Tar Sands Greenpeace
has started a campaign to oppose the unsustainable development
of the Alberta Tar Sands. We are keeping the larger details of
the campaign under wraps for now, but Geeta Sehgal, one of our
new campaigners, answered a few of our questions about what's
going on in the Alberta Tar Sands.
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Green
Tips: How to get political
We love our green tips. It's important do to your bit at home, at work and on
the road. But what we do in our own lives is just the beginning. To make real
change, we need to look at why the world works the way it does. And we need
to figure out how to change it. Here's Greenpeace's top five tips for getting
political for the environment.
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Nuclear
power under fire around the world
It's been a bad few weeks for the nuclear industry, in Canada and around the
world. Two German nuclear plants suffered a fire and emergency shut down.
A Japanese nuclear plant spilled radioactive waste after an earthquake. And here
in Canada, the Pickering nuclear plant shut down for repairs because it's falling
apart.
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Vote
for clean energy in Ontario
Greenpeace is working with a coalition of environmental groups to make sure
the fall election in Ontario is about environmental issues. We have put together
a website - voteforcleanenergy.ca - to help you get inolved in the campaig for
a clean, green energy future.
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Greenpeace
people: An Energy Revolutionary
 Walking
up this tree-lined residential street in east end Toronto, there is nothing
in particular that distinguishes Ron McKay's house from any of the others
in this 90 year old neighbourhood. That is until you get to the front door.
There, a small brass plaque is mounted that reads: “This home generates solar
electricity.” The place is a power plant.
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The month in pictures
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Greenpeace
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of people committed to environmental protection. Thank you for your hope
and dedication! This E-news highlights some of the important work made possible
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