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Recycling is a “false solution” to plastic pollution
Greenpeace Africa Plastic Campaigner Amos Wemanya explains why recycling is a “false solution” to Africa’s plastic pollution crisis
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Health & the Reuse Revolution: Is disposable safer than reusable? Let’s consult the science
Since the beginning of the pandemic, many companies have rightly taken steps to limit contamination in their restaurants and stores. In an emergency, they chose to ban the use of…
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Systems Change is the answer. People Change is the authentic solution
I have never experienced anything of the same magnitude as what we are currently going through. 2020 is the year of disruption.
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Greenpeace Africa stands in solidarity with Black Lives Matter to end systemic racism
We, the Board of Directors of Greenpeace Africa, stand in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement to denounce the systemic racially-motivated discrimination and police brutality targeting black people and people of colour and their communities
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Greenpeace Launches The Story of Plastic Documentary; Calls for A Total Ban on Single-Use Plastics
Johannesburg, 2 June 2020 – This World Environment Day, Greenpeace Africa will be screening The Story of Plastic, a new documentary directed and produced by Deia Schlosberg. This documentary exposes…
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Greenpeace Launches The Story of Plastic Documentary; Calls for A Total Ban on Single-Use Plastics
Nairobi, 2 June 2020 – This World Environment Day, Greenpeace Africa will be screening The Story of Plastic, a new documentary directed and produced by Deia Schlosberg. This documentary exposes…
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Eskom seeks to deepen South Africa’s air pollution crisis
15 May 2020, Johannesburg — Media reported today that Eskom is seeking to delay the closure of three of its ancient coal-fired power stations – Grootvlei, Camden and Hendrina. In…
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You are stronger than you know and you aren’t in this alone
Hello fellow Humans! My name is Orieny Japheth, a volunteer for Greenpeace Africa living in Nairobi, Kenya. Till last month I hadn’t really appreciated the importance of freedom of movement…
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To describe the online Greenpeace Global Volunteer Leadership Training as effective is an understatement
Online learning is not the next big thing, it is the NOW big thing. Jack Messman, former CEO at Novell emphasises that “online learning is rapidly becoming one of the…
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Cameroon government pushes new logging plans amidst a global coronavirus crisis
Yaoundé, 26 March 2020 – Greenpeace Africa joins a call by local people in Cameroon’s Littoral Region to immediately cancel government plans to turn an area of nearly 150,000 hectares…