Making Waves

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  • European agriculture at risk: time to ban bee-killing pesticides

    Blogpost by Matthias Wüthrich - April 9, 2013 at 11:11 6 comments

    Most of the food served on our tables greatly depends on insects such as bees and their crucial pollinating role in agriculture, but the use of pesticides is increasingly placing the future of bees and our farming at risk.

    A scientific review of poll... Read more >

  • We touched down at Barneo base Friday afternoon, a small outpost of humanity in the middle of this great frozen ocean. It's created each year to serve polar explorers, scientists and now, Save the Arctic activists. Our arrival was disorienting, buffet... Read more >

  • Arctic at the Crossroads

    Blogpost by Kelly Rigg - April 8, 2013 at 16:41 5 comments

    Crossroads

    As a small team of youth ambassadors for Greenpeace's Arctic campaign begin their trek to the North Pole, I'm reminded of the campaign to save the Antarctic (below), which I led on behalf of Greenpeace in the 1980s.

    While politics between the two p... Read more >

  • On skis across the ice, towing their packs and equipment on sleighs during a week-long expedition to reach the geographic North Pole, a team of 16 campaigners are braving the remoteness of the Arctic to declare it a global sanctuary.

    And an unexpecte... Read more >

  • In Pod We Trust

    Blogpost by Jess Wilson - April 7, 2013 at 14:02 11 comments

    Team around pod

    Every couple of months, something bizarre happens at work that convinces me I must have one of the strangest jobs on the planet.

    And these moments often come in the form of a question.

    Questions like, “Did One Direction’s tweet just break our webs... Read more >

  • The Making of an Arctic Time Capsule

    Blogpost by Jess Wilson - April 7, 2013 at 13:41 1 comment

    The Frame: The capsule’s frame is made of titanium, a very long-lasting, inert material. All the bolts and nuts are made from titanium as well. Inscribed on the inert titanium ring that encircles the capsule are the words: Project Aurora 2013 | Save t... Read more >

  • The Stars Align Over the North Pole

    Blogpost by Josefina Skerk - April 7, 2013 at 12:26 4 comments

    Today is the day we have been all been waiting for, and we have some exciting news to share with you. When we planned this expedition, our ambition was big already — to ski to the North Pole to lower a special pod and a flag for the future to the seab... Read more >

  • Team Aurora rides North

    Blogpost by Anna Jones - April 5, 2013 at 15:41 2 comments

    Anna Jones is a Greenpeace campaigner from the UK, and the project leader of the North Pole Expedition. She sent us this message today from Svalbard, midway between mainland Norway and the North Pole.

    I've just said goodbye to Team Aurora at Svalbard... Read more >

  • Death from the stack

    Blogpost by Lauri Myllyvirta - April 5, 2013 at 15:32

    The coal industry has a dirty secret: it is killing people. This week Greenpeace Germany released a report, "Death from the stack", revealing that the country's coal-fired power plants caused an estimated 3,100 deaths in 2010 - almost as many as died ... Read more >

  • Help knock out car CO2 for good

    Blogpost by Hugh Mouser - April 5, 2013 at 13:45 1 comment

    European leaders are discussing whether we should make our cars more efficient. Right now the cars we drive in the EU are stuck in the past. Their thirst for oil is fuelling a dangerous rush to drill in fragile places, such as the Arctic.

    To help e... Read more >

  • Deforestation takes flight again in the Amazon

    Blogpost by Jess Miller - April 4, 2013 at 14:27 4 comments

    Last week, as some of us were heading off for the long holiday weekend (Easter is a holiday here in Brazil), the Brazilian government was quietly releasing deforestation trends showing an increase in deforestation for the first time in five years.

    Th... Read more >

  • The Great Bear Rainforest: Weaving a Rich Tapestry of Solutions

    Blogpost by Eduardo Sousa - April 4, 2013 at 14:15

    This amazing planet of ours has so many special places of great natural beauty, especially those enmeshed within a web of ecological relationships. I have been privileged to work in one such place of beauty and power: the Great Bear Rainforest. When I... Read more >

  • Warming up for the North Pole, keeping a promise we made

    Blogpost by Iris Andrews - April 3, 2013 at 11:01 1 comment

    Last June, as we launched our campaign to save the Arctic, we made a promise. We promised that if a million joined our movement, we would take their names to the North Pole and plant them on the seabed 4km beneath the ice as statement of our joint com... Read more >

  • Ugly food: the truth behind chemical fertilisers in China

    Blogpost by Alessandro Saccoccio - April 2, 2013 at 11:00 4 comments

    ugly side of food graphic

    When thinking about food the first image that comes to our mind might be the so-called 'food porn' photography that the marketing industry relies upon when advertising food products. But there is also an ugly side of food the industry is not willing... Read more >

  • Catwalk design heading to the North Pole

    Blogpost by Vivienne Westwood - March 28, 2013 at 16:59 4 comments

    I really am delighted to support the Save the Arctic campaign. I am incredibly proud of the design that we came up with — and we launched a new T-shirt as part of the collection at Paris fashion week. We superimposed the image on a polka-dotted T-sh... Read more >

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