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Executive Director of Greenpeace to CEO of Facebook: Unfriend Coal!

Blog entry by Jodie Van Horn | 1 September, 2010 30 comments

We've been talking a lot about Facebook lately. We were alarmed in January by the company's announcement that it would build a coal-powered data center in Prineville, Oregon. So we started a little group to ask the company not to use...

At the World Economic Forum: Calling for a real transformation - now!

Blog entry by Kumi Naidoo | 26 January, 2012 5 comments

If I bump into Professor Klaus Schwab, who started and still runs the World Economic Forum here in Davos, I will challenge him on the purpose of the event. Schwab has described the WEF as “a platform for collaborative thinking and...

Facebook responds to Greenpeace demands

Blog entry by dkessler | 2 September, 2010

Yesterday, Greenpeace International Executive Director Kumi Naidoo wrote to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerburg about the social network's coal use. The full letter was posted on this blog , and in the blog's comments section a Facebook...

Two bullets per person: the trillion dollar military spending club

Blog entry by Kumi Naidoo | 17 April, 2012 28 comments

What would you do with $1,738 billion (US dollars)? If you were told you had to spend it this year on making people safer, what would you spend it on?  $1, 738bn is how much was spent on the world’s military last year, according to...

Davos failed to address fundamentals – will the next Earth Summit in Rio?

Blog entry by Kumi Naidoo | 2 February, 2012 6 comments

At the World Economics Forum in Davos last week, no one was denying that we face serious economic, social and environmental crises. When even the Financial Times runs a series of articles on " Capitalism in crisis ", it´s obvious that...

From the keel up, building a new campaigning ship

Blog entry by Eoin Dubsky | 13 July, 2010 1 comment

In this blog post, long-time Greenpeacer Peter Willcox takes us from the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior 25 years ago, to the keel laying of the new, purpose-built Rainbow Warrior in Gdansk, Poland last Saturday. Click here to chip in...

Iran Nuclear Crisis Needs ‘Disruptive Diplomacy’, Not Shock and Awe

Blog entry by Kumi Naidoo | 14 April, 2012 18 comments

Disruptive diplomacy may be the only way out of the Iran-Israel nuclear crisis, the only way to pierce the hegemony of hypocrisy dominating the power politics of nuclear weapons control, of those who have them, and of those who are ...

World Wetlands Day - Save our Forests

Blog entry by LisaV | 2 February, 2011 1 comment

Today is World Wetlands Day and this year, in the UN International Year of Forests , the theme for today is 'Wetlands and Forests'. Greenpeace is working to save the rainforests and carbon rich peatlands of Indonesia.  Only 20...

Kumi Naidoo delivers petition during the UN Climate Summit

Image | 7 December, 2009 at 17:21

Kumi Naidoo, chair of TckTckTck.org and Executive Director of Greenpeace delivers a petition of 10 million signatures to the Prime Minister of Denmark at the UN Climate Summit in Copenhagen.

Introducing Kumi Naidoo as new Executive Director of Greenpeace International

Video | 1 December, 2009 at 14:35

In December 2009 Kumi Naidoo became Executive Director of Greenpeace International. Here he talks about his history as an activist, and his belief that the environmental and poverty issues have become inextricably linked by the challenge of...

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