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Why Rudolph the Reindeer really has a red nose!
He’s found on our Holiday greeting cards, on our festive napkins, sweaters and cushions. Toy manufacturers love him and children’s clothing brands use him profusely. He is indeed the most famous of all reindeers; our beloved Rudolph.
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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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Banking giant HSBC rules out financing controversial Keystone XL pipeline
20 April 2018 (TORONTO) — HSBC, Europe’s biggest bank, confirmed today that it will no longer provide project finance for new tar sands projects, including the construction of any pipelines.…
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How does solar work in the Arctic?
Solar in the Arctic at first seems to be an oxymoron. After all, it is dark in the Arctic for nearly half the year. But then again, it's light for half the year too – just like on the rest of the earth!
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A World Without Greenpeace? How One Corporation Is Attacking Your Right to Speak for Forests
Your right to speak out is being threatened right now in a dizzying variety of ways, not only by oppressive governments around the world, but also by underhanded corporations who want to suppress speech through expensive lawsuits.
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Kwakwaka’wakw & Greenpeace: An Inevitable Alliance
Indigenous peoples are bound to the land; a connection created when our ancestors first walked the earth has been passed down from generation to generation. The desire to protect Mother…
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Canada bans microbeads! Another move to tackle plastic pollution…and more needed!
When you google “microbeads,” calls to ban them pop up in the search results even before the trusty Wikipedia definition. That’s because scientific studies and environmental organizations have shone a…
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2017 Tuna Ranking reveals more green tuna products but not enough green tuna aisles
Our 2017 Canned Tuna Sustainability Ranking is out and with it comes more intel than ever before about the state of canned tuna aisles in well-known supermarket chains across Canada. There’s some good and some bad news to share, but overall Greenpeace is happy to report that there has been progress by ranked brands when…
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Don’t let Greenpeace disappear
Today, we’re halting our normal communication with you to talk about something urgent.
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Greenpeace supports Squamish Nation in the face of Kinder Morgan court ruling and urges governments to do better on Indigenous rights
24 May 2018 (VANCOUVER) — In response to the B.C. Supreme Court’s ruling against the Squamish Nation in Squamish Nation v British Columbia (Environment), Greenpeace Canada Climate & Energy Campaigner…
