Posts by Nick Young
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Farmers star in Greenpeace regenerative farming film
What if? Asks a new short film from Greenpeace.
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Pure Dairy. Pure Fiction – A Parody
How Greenpeace is using satire to call out NZ Dairy Bosses on their outrageous billboard.
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2016 Greenpeace NZ Annual Impact Report
When Clair Patterson, a geochemistry professor at the California Institute of Technology, was trying to estimate the age of the solar system in the 1940s,he tried to measure the age…
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Taitu and a long history of protest in boats
After confronting Statoil and Chevron seismic blasting 50 nautical miles off the Wairarapa coast in small inflatable boats, we put out a call to New Zealanders to help us buy…
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Help name our new boat
Wow we did it! Together, we’ve bought 'The People's Boat'. Almost 1,000 people chipped in and together we have bought the boat that’s going to confront the Amazon Warrior - AKA 'The Beast.'
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7 ways bottom trawling is bad for the seabed
Overfishing. Millions of tons of sea life find themselves engulfed in trawl nets each year. Trawling has been done so intensively that it’s depleted many kinds of fish in many parts of the world. Catches must be strictly managed or in a few years there’ll be little left.
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Fast fashion is drowning the world, we need a fashion revolution!
“Nothing to wear?” Well here’s something to think about: Every piece of clothing we buy has had an impact on our planet before we even bring it home. That’s before you…
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This Far, No Further
Investigations by Greenpeace have shown industrial fishing fleets using destructive bottom trawling are invading previously pristine areas of the Barents Sea in the Norwegian Arctic. As climate change steadily diminishes…
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Greenpeace and the Sisiutl: Cultural Appropriation and Reconciliation
How the Sisiutl symbol came to be part of Greenpeace’s identity is both an important part of our origins and a troubling story of cultural appropriation. Now, we're taking a closer look at our history.
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Activists scale Parliament House to expose National failure
Four Greenpeace campaigners have evaded security and climbed to the roof of Parliament House with a delivery of eight solar panels. They also plan to unfurl a large banner targeting…