Dr Octagon's latest single "Trees" is being used by MTV to promote awareness of the environment through the THINK campaign and $1 of each downloaded single will go to Friends Of The Earth on their BIG ASK campaign.

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At Greenpeace, we support Blog Action Day.

It's one of those simple ideas that can make a world of difference. On October 15th, bloggers around the world will focus on a single issue - the environment. Already, almost 6,000 blogs with a combined au... Read more >

Here's an update from Jamie (Greenpeace China corporate social responsibility campaigner). She went with Greenpeace International Executive Director Gerd to meet UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon last Wednesday, and emailed me this afterwards:

My “da... Read more >

An international Greenpeace contingent attended yesterday's high level UN meeting on climate change. Athena was there and felt compelled to put down her thoughts on the meeting. Here they are:

My name is Athena and I have been called a climate “polic... Read more >

A whole host of top notch bloggers are on the scene at the UN's high level meeting about climate change (starting today). From the UN press release: Read more >

Together these bloggers reach an audience of more than 6 million people a month, all over the world. P...

[I'm posting this, but Eoin wrote most of it. I'm just the messenger! - Dave]

Important developments have unfolded in Japan since we wrote earlier this month about the threatened dugongs and plans to expand a U.S. military base on Okinawa's coast. Th... Read more >

Yesterday, a Greenpeace delegation met with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.

[ Update: Just posted Jamie's impressions of the meet. ]

Here's a first hand account from Greenpeace Executive Director, Gerd Leipold:

It’s official. You, our supporters, mak... Read more >

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From the press release:

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Greenpeace Canada has begun a blockade of the freighter Jaeger Arrow from their ship, the Arctic Sunrise, in Quebec's Saguenay River near Chicoutimi. Three Greenpeace activists are hanging from the ship'...

Greenpeace activists in Brazil today chained themselves to the gates of the National Commission of Nuclear Energy (CNEN), placing a memorial plaque in tribute to the victims of the Goiânia Cesium-137 tragedy, the worst radiation accident in an urban a... Read more >

Anita Roddick, environmental actvist and founder of the Body Shop, died yesterday at the age of 64 of a brain hemorrhage.

Anita was the living proof that a business could do well by doing good. She drove her shops to reduce packaging, giving a discou... Read more >

Melanie, who works in our Anchorage office, justed emailed to tell me that was a (rather depressing) headline from the Anchorage Daily News last week. The news story was prompted by a US government study that paints a grim future for the world's lar... Read more >

George Bush and John Howard did their best this week to try very hard to appear to be doing something about climate change at the APEC meeting in Sydney. With other pacific rim countries they declared some completely meaningless “voluntary, aspiration... Read more >

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So what does a dugong do? Not much, except wander coastal areas from the east coast of Africa to Australia, and beyond, grazing on the seagrass of coral reefs.

Dugongs living on the coast of Japan's Okinawa island are threatened by the... Read more >

Here's some kick-ass good news from Indonesia. The Ulama (Islamic Religious council) of Central Java, the most powerful body in Indonesia when it comes to influencing presidential decisions, after a lengthy debate has passed a fatwa declaring the prop... Read more >

• First up is EKO((b))logas, a blog in Lithuanian about climate change and eco activi...