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Nuclear scars: The Lasting Legacies of Chernobyl and Fukushima
To mark the 30th and 5th anniversaries of the Chernobyl and Fukushima disasters, Greenpeace commissioned reviews of scientific literature examining radioactive contamination and health effects linked with the accidents.
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Overcoming the Impossible: Safeguarding the Great Bear Rainforest
It’s Monday and I am standing in a room, waiting to speak at the media conference that announces the completion of the Great Bear Rainforest Agreements – safeguarding an area of forest larger than Vancouver Island, bigger than Belgium. This day is twenty years in the making.
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Celebrating twenty years of campaigning to safeguard the Great Bear Rainforest
At long last, today we celebrate the culmination of over twenty years of campaigning to safeguard the Great Bear Rainforest. We started with conflict in the mid-1990s: exposing to the…
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Great Bear to the Boreal: 7 Ways to Shorten a Campaign for Forest Protection
We are getting much closer to the end of the long and winding road that has been the Great Bear Rainforest campaign. As I mentioned in a recent blog, along the way to completing the Great Bear Rainforest Agreements we have encountered pot holes, forks, stop signs, and late last year, a couple of big…
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Protecting Intact Forests & FSC’s Motion 65: Getting the Facts Straight
The term Intact Forest Landscape (IFL) is well recognized in scientific literature and certification standards, and within the supply chain and in the policies of major forest product companies. IFLs…
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How the Federal Parties Rate on Climate
Short Version: What You Need to Know Conservatives: The Conservatives are at least clear: they don’t even pretend to care about climate change or that they will really do anything about…
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Building a Solar Dream in a Tar Sands Nightmare
After dealing with three decades of intensive oil, gas, logging, fracking and tar sands exploitation in our homeland, my community of Little Buffalo decided to forge a new future and become powered by the sun.
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Energy Revolution 2015 – The latest documentation
Dynamic change is happening in energy supply, but the change needs to happen faster. This Energy [R]evolution scenario proposes a pathway to a 100% sustainable energy supply, ending CO2 emissions and phasing out nuclear energy, and making redundant new oil exploration in the arctic and deep sea waters such as off the coast of Brazil.
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Energy Revolution 2015 – The latest documentation
Dynamic change is happening in energy supply, but the change needs to happen faster. this Energy [R]evolution scenario proposes a pathway to a 100% sustainable energy supply, ending CO2 emissions…
