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Facebook responds to Greenpeace demands

Blog entry by dkessler | September 2, 2010

Yesterday, Greenpeace International Executive Director Kumi Naidoo wrote to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerburg about the social network's coal use. The full letter was posted on this blog , and in the blog's comments section a Facebook...

At the World Economic Forum: Calling for a real transformation - now!

Blog entry by Kumi Naidoo | January 26, 2012 5 comments

If I bump into Professor Klaus Schwab, who started and still runs the World Economic Forum here in Davos, I will challenge him on the purpose of the event. Schwab has described the WEF as “a platform for collaborative thinking and...

40 years of Inspiring Action

Blog entry by Kumi Naidoo | September 15, 2011 102 comments

Believe it or not, Greenpeace celebrates its 40 birthday today! To mark the occasion, Kumi Naidoo, our International Executive Director, calls on us all to take inspiration from that first Greenpeace voyage, and to demand a better...

From the keel up, building a new campaigning ship

Blog entry by EoinD | July 13, 2010 1 comment

In this blog post, long-time Greenpeacer Peter Willcox takes us from the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior 25 years ago, to the keel laying of the new, purpose-built Rainbow Warrior in Gdansk, Poland last Saturday. Click here to chip in...

Executive Director of Greenpeace to CEO of Facebook: Unfriend Coal!

Blog entry by Jodie Van Horn | September 1, 2010 28 comments

We've been talking a lot about Facebook lately. We were alarmed in January by the company's announcement that it would build a coal-powered data center in Prineville, Oregon. So we started a little group to ask the company not to...

Kumi Naidoo arrives on the Esperanza

Image | June 17, 2011 at 11:21

Greenpeace International Executive Director Kumi Naidoo of South Africa prepares to take action on the Greenpeace ship Esperanza in the Davis Strait off the coast of Greenland.

World Wetlands Day - Save our Forests

Blog entry by LisaV | February 2, 2011 1 comment

Today is World Wetlands Day and this year, in the UN International Year of Forests , the theme for today is 'Wetlands and Forests'. Greenpeace is working to save the rainforests and carbon rich peatlands of Indonesia.  Only 20...

Two bullets per person: the trillion dollar military spending club

Blog entry by Kumi Naidoo | April 17, 2012 28 comments

What would you do with $1,738 billion (US dollars)? If you were told you had to spend it this year on making people safer, what would you spend it on?  $1, 738bn is how much was spent on the world’s military last year, according to...

Iran Nuclear Crisis Needs ‘Disruptive Diplomacy’, Not Shock and Awe

Blog entry by Kumi Naidoo | April 14, 2012 18 comments

Disruptive diplomacy may be the only way out of the Iran-Israel nuclear crisis, the only way to pierce the hegemony of hypocrisy dominating the power politics of nuclear weapons control, of those who have them, and of those who are ...

Davos failed to address fundamentals – will the next Earth Summit in Rio?

Blog entry by Kumi Naidoo | February 2, 2012 6 comments

At the World Economics Forum in Davos last week, no one was denying that we face serious economic, social and environmental crises. When even the Financial Times runs a series of articles on " Capitalism in crisis ", it´s obvious that...

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