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The latest updates

 

The future we want? Between hope and despair on the road to the Rio Earth Summit

Blog entry by Daniel Mittler | January 13, 2012 23 comments

I have been up at night a lot over the last ten days thinking about the future. You do not have to feel bad for me as the reason was a joyful one: I was carrying around my new born daughter. As I stared at her fresh face and hints of... Read more >

Climate Change and your refrigerator!

Blog entry by Anna K | December 15, 2011 3 comments

For twenty years, Europeans and people all over the world have had energy-efficient, climate-friendly refrigerators in their kitchens. Now, twenty years later, US consumers are finally able to buy these refrigerators, which Greenpeace... Read more >

South African children roar for climate courage

Blog entry by Caroline Chisholm | December 7, 2011 5 comments

Almost 1,500 children gathered on the beach in Durban today to form a human aerial of a lion, to send a message to the leaders of COP17: show some courage for the climate. The inspriration of artist John Quigley, the image was... Read more >

The Mystery of McKinsey's Black Box

Blog entry by John Bowler | December 7, 2011 2 comments

Hello from Durban, home of COP17, and for the past 10 days home of the Greenpeace forest team. Sometimes serendipity just waltzes right up to you. And that is what has just happened. Earlier this year a Greenpeace investigation ... Read more >

Real Wealth

Blog entry by Rex Weyler | December 2, 2011 2 comments

Deep Green is Rex Weyler's monthly column, reflecting on the roots of activism, environmentalism, and Greenpeace's past, present, and future. The opinions here are his own. Howard T. Odum's Energy Economics "Money and... Read more >

Telling the oil companies the truth

Blog entry by Jon Burgwald | December 1, 2011 18 comments

Today, the Greenland Bureau of Mineral and Petroleum invited the world’s biggest oil companies to a meeting that can have extreme importance for the future of the Arctic. Greenland wants to open up an untouched area of the North-East... Read more >

Month in Pictures - November 2011

Image gallery | November 29, 2011

Personal Energy Outlook

Blog entry by Ethan Gilbert | November 11, 2011 3 comments

This week the International Energy Agency (IEA) released its annual World Energy Outlook , saying that we are on the path for irreversible climate change. To me, it's personal. When he was captured, American bank robber Willie... Read more >

Top Spot for HP in New Guide to Greener Electronics

Blog entry by EoinD | November 9, 2011

We just released a new version of the Guide to Greener Electronics , which this time ranks 15 gadget and electronics companies on energy, greener products and sustainable operations. HP takes the lead at 5.9 out of a possible 10... Read more >

Wind Power! Rainbow Warrior trials her sails

Blog entry by Brian Fitzgerald | October 28, 2011 9 comments

Don't think there's much power in the wind? I defy anyone to say that standing here on the deck of the Rainbow Warrior as she heels over at 14 degrees, 838 tonnes of steel moving at 12.8 knots on only four sails, the masts singing as... Read more >

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