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Plastic Free July: recycling is the ambulance at the bottom of the cliff. It’s time to teach kids to demand real change from the worst plastic producers
Plastic Free July has rolled around again and we’ll all be hearing about reducing plastic use in our daily lives. Much of the messaging is targeted toward young people through…
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Bringing back Repair Skills 2 | GUEST POST
We need policy change to make sure products that are designed to be repairable and durable, not to be thrown away.
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Making Waves – 50 years of making history in Aotearoa | GUEST POST
For fifty years Greenpeace has been making history by confronting and stopping environmental destruction. It has also investigated and documented environmental crimes and pollution, and organised scientific studies, legal cases,…
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2021 Annual Impact Report
In 2021 we got used to campaigning on the climate and biodiversity crises while living through a global pandemic. But it wasn’t the same. We didn’t do a lot of real-world actions because of all the lockdowns and other Covid restrictions.
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Standing up for seamounts
Earlier this week Sealord CEO Doug Paulin wrote an opinion piece for the Herald outlining how the fishing company plans to protect seamounts. Greenpeace Aotearoa Oceans Campaigner Ellie Hooper responds, standing up for seamount protection.
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Sea turtle love on World Turtle Day
Turtle appreciation on World Turtle Day. A global network of protected ocean sanctuaries would help help turtles survive.
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How Bitcoin is fueling the climate crisis and a software change that could clean it up
Bitcoin uses an outdated technology called proof-of-work to validate transactions. This proof-of-work method, at least as it currently operates, uses massive amounts of energy, and is a huge source of climate pollution.
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Spills, explosions and looming disasters: the last thing the world needs is more oil
This year didn’t start well. In January, off the coast of Thailand, thousands of litres of oil leaked into the sea from an underwater pipeline courtesy of Chevron’s subsidiary. The resulting spill blackened waters and beaches, killing local wildlife and threatening the livelihoods of communities reliant on the sea.
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A seamount is a seamount, no matter what Sealord tells you
Seamounts, or underwater mountains, are biodiversity hotspots and home to a stunning array of deep sea marine life. Every seamount should be protected not just the tall ones.
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Call received to freeze Russian oligarch assets in Aotearoa
Alongside the veteran protest yacht Vega today in Auckland’s Waitematā Harbour, Greenpeace Aotearoa Programme Director Niamh O’Flynn presented a petition to Minister of Disarmament and Arms Control, Phil Twyford, calling…