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Just a few days into our three-month “Defending Our Mediterranean” tour, and already the Arctic Sunrise has come face-to-face with pirates. In the early hours of the morning, we confiscated almost two kilometres of illegal driftnet, containing dead, undersized bluefin tuna - and a small sea turtle.
The Mediterranean Sea is a global treasure. Rich seagrass meadows and rocky reefs dominate its coastal zone while an awe-inspiring array of underwater mountains (seamounts), cold seeps and trenches are found on its seabed.
“The Minister has no clothes! Nuclear is a sham!” This morning, Greenpeace gave this message to the Energy Minister by climbing up to the Energy Ministry building. The demonstration was in protest at the Energy Minister’s plans for spending billions of dollars to build dangerous nuclear power stations in Turkey.
Greenpeace activists set up the solar cafe at the entrance to the coal power plant in Ashkelon, to convey the message that the solution to Israel's electricity supply isn't coal, but rather solar. Members of the Infrastructure Committee chickened out, and entered the plant through the back-door.
Tens of Greenpeace stripped this morning in a middle of a Tel Aviv Univercity Semenar addressing the nuclear challenge in the Middle-East, in protest of the lack of balance in this so called ‘academic’ conference.
Greenpeace activists protested today against the construction of yet another coal power plant in the city of Ashkelon, and especially against it’s lead advocate – Israeli Minister of Infrastructure Benjamin (Fouad) Ben-Eliezer. Dressed as terminal patients in wheelchairs and connected to oxygen masks, and with a background soundtrack of hospital noise, the activists called on Fouad to look out his window to see the kind of suffering his deadly initiative will cause.
A Greenpeace “Climate Squad” set out today through public places in Tel Aviv, and exchanged normal incandescent light bulbs to efficient CFL bulbs, to raise public awareness to our part in global warming.
Judeo, Christian and Muslim religions all include the story of a great flood and Noah's Ark. It's said that as the flood subsided Noah released a dove, and the dove returned with an olive branch to show land had been found. To this day the Ark and the dove are symbols of hope.
Work has already begun on constructing a new Noah's Ark on Mount Ararat at an elevation of 2,500 meters. Measuring 10 by four by four meters, the ship being built by Greenpeace, will remind leaders of all nations that there's not much time left to mitigate a climate disaster with devastating consequences for all.
Greenpeace launched a Global Energy [R]evolution scenario in Turkey today, for the future energy system of the world. This, in order to remind Turkish Energy Minister, Hilmi Guler, the real meaning of ‘sustainable development’ . While Turkey and the rest of the world are suffering the increasingly harmful impacts of climate change, leading millions to live under threat of hunger and billions of water shortage, the report shows a comprehensive roadmap, which tackles these overwhelming threats. This, without exchanging these threats with those of the dirty and expensive nuclear power as well as experimental and unproven technologies such as ‘carbon storage’.
![Greenpeace launches a Global Energy [R]evolution scenario in Turkey ,
for the future energy system of the world. This, in order to remind
Turkish Energy Minister, Hilmi Guler, the real meaning of ‘sustainable
development’.](/raw/image_thumb/mediterranean/photosvideos/photos/greenpeace-launches-a-global-e.jpg)
