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Von Hernandez, Campaigns Director of Greenpeace Southeast Asia, in a visit to Payatas garbage dump in Metro Manila. Hernandez is recognized by Time Magazine as one of this year’s Heroes of the Environment in recognition of his unrelenting campaign against waste trade and highly polluting waste incinerators in the Philippines and the region. Enlarge Image

A Hero for the Environment

TIME magazine's latest issue which features the most innovative and influential protectors of the planet includes Von Hernandez, Campaigns Director of Greenpeace Southeast Asia as one of this year’s Heroes of the Environment. This latest accolade is in recognition of his unrelenting campaign against waste trade and highly polluting waste incinerators in the Philippines and the region.

Photographs taken by Greenpeace paramotors as they launch an ongoing aerial initiative to spot forest and peat fires in an oil palm plantation. The paramotors were launched from the Greenpeace Forest Defenders Camp which opened on the 9th October as part of the organisations campaign to stop forest and peatland destruction caused in part by oil palm plantations. Enlarge Image

Greenpeace Paramotors begin fire-spotting activities in Riau

Greenpeace launched today fire-spotting activities with paramotors also known as powered paragliders from the Forest Defenders Camp in Riau, Sumatra. These reconnaissance flights will be a regular feature of the camp to provide accurate and timely information to the local fire-fighting authorities as part of its efforts to address the forest fire issue.

Removed, the iPhone's screen detached from the battery and processors. Enlarge Image

iPhone's hazardous chemicals

Scientific tests, arranged by Greenpeace, reveal that Apple's iPhone contains hazardous chemicals. The tests uncovered two types of hazardous substances, some of which have already been eliminated by other mobile phone makers.

Image shows dismantling of laptops to enable testing of individual components and materials for a range of hazardous substances as part of a Greenpeace study ‘Toxic Chemicals in Computers Exposed’ that revealed the presence of toxic substances in five well-known brand laptops, with HP and Apple having the highest contamination levels. Enlarge Image

Electronics companies green up their act

The latest edition of our quarterly Guide to Greener Electronics shows that major electronics firms have made large, green strides since the guide was first launched in August 2006. Nokia still leads, closely followed by Sony Erricson, Dell and Lenovo.

A Greenpeace activist dressed as a logger chainsawed a 20-meter wooden wall symbolizing the Indonesian forests for a "happening art" symbolically depicting the alarming rate of Indonesian forest destruction during Greenpeace Indonesia's launching of the Forest Defenders campaign on March 16; 2007 at Jakarta's Independence Proclamation Monument. Enlarge Image

Indonesia makes it to 2008 Guinness World Records as fastest forest destroyer on the planet

The next edition of the Guinness Book of World Records will list Indonesia as the country with the fastest rate of forest destruction on the planet. Indonesia is destroying an area of forest equivalent to 300 football pitches every hour. It has already lost 72% of its large intact ancient forests (1) and half of what remains is threatened (2).

Boys share a laugh before a football game at Panggang island of Kepulaun Seribu (thousand islands) north of Jakarta, Indonesia. Most of the population of Indonesia is unaware to the future impacts of climate change and the dire predictions of scientists around the world. Indonesian Environment Minister, Mr. R. Witoelar, recently announced that about 2000 islands are expected to drown in his archipelagic nation due to climate change induced sea level rise. Enlarge Image

The Children of Thousand Islands

Kepulauan Seribu or Thousand Islands is a misnomer for a group of 128 islands and sandbars, north of Jakarta in Indonesia. Only 12 of these are inhabited, with a total population of 5000 families mainly dependent on fishing and 'resort' tourism which includes snorkeling and diving resorts.

Actress Angel Aquino helps out at the Greenpeace Solar Café booth at the Philippine Senate in Manila 8 November 2006. The booth, which serves coffee and bread, runs on solar energy cells in the photo’s background. Greenpeace is holding a series of activities at the senate this week to call on lawmakers to fast-track the passage of a stronger renewable energy bill for the Philippines to make a significant contribution to stop climate change. Enlarge Image

A greener earth for Angel

Famous actress, model, and mother Angel Aquino simply does not have time to rest. Amidst her busy work and family schedule, she has chosen to give back to Mother Earth by selflessly volunteering for Greenpeace. Here is a woman who truly believes that we cannot go on consuming more of the earth's precious resources without consequences. She also wants everyone to realize that we have the power to change this and that now is the time to act.

Respected actor Christopher de Leon at the Greenpeace ‘green carpet’ screening of Al Gore’s ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ last November 22, 2006 in SM Megamall. Greenpeace organized the free screening of the movie to encourage as many policy and decision makers, members of the press, to take part in the important conversation about climate change and help shape the kind of interventions now needed, both at the individual and political levels, to help avert this global catastrophe. Enlarge Image

A 'green' carpet screening

"If the vast majority of the world's scientists are right, we have just ten years to avert a major catastrophe that could send our entire planet into a tail-spin of epic destruction involving extreme weather, floods, droughts, epidemics, and killer heat waves beyond anything we have ever experienced."

Greenpeace engages Lawmakers, Satur Ocampo, Neric Acosta and Lorenzo Tanada III (L-R) who plugs in the switch into a powered supply to light up the first-ever solar-powered Christmas Tree at the lobby of the National Congress Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2006. The Christmas tree runs on clean renewable energy from the sun . The lawmakers joins Greenpeace in urging the Senate to prioritize the passage of the Renewable Energy (RE) Bill as a measure to ensure thecountry's energy security and to combat the grave impacts of climate changr certain to create serious repercussions on the country's ailing economy. Enlarge Image

Solar-powered Christmas tree

Christmas will be brighter with the prioritization of the Renewable Energy (RE)Bill, Greenpeace said today at the lighting of the first-ever solar-powered Christmas tree in the House of Representatives. The tree, which runs on clean, renewable energy from the sun, was lit by Congressmen Lorenzo Tañada III (4th District, Quezon) and Nerius Acosta, Jr (1st District, Bukidnon) who joined Greenpeace in urging the Senate to prioritize the passage of the Renewable Energy (RE) Bill as a measure to ensure the country’s energy security and to combat the grave impacts of climate change certain to create serious repercussions on the country’s ailing economy.

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Blogging to cool the planet

As politicians gather for the UN climate meeting in Nairobi, Kenya, people across the globe can send a clear message to: Cool the Planet, by blogging.

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