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Let’s Talk About Climate Change: From seed to cup, coffee guru Goran Wong shares climate actions we can all take
Are you a coffee lover, a hipster perhaps? But did you know that coffee prices have spiked up recently because Brazil, the coffee giant, was affected by frost? Barista and Q-grader Goran Wong has more on how climate affects coffee production and how microclimate affects the quality of coffee. He’ll also share tips on tackling…
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Triumphs and trials: a look back at Greenpeace in Hong Kong, 2020
2020 was a year of triumphs and trials. The Covid crisis prompted us to reflect on and cherish all what we have achieved. It also made us accept a new…
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3 Everyday Foods that Contain Microplastics
Our life is plasticised! New research shows microplastics present in frequently consumed fruit and vegetables. It is time to ban throwaway plastic packaging and support research into the health impacts…
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Let’s talk about climate change: Fion Lam connects her body, mind, and soul to the love of nature
To a yoga practitioner, facilitates people to connect their body, mind, and soul might be a life-long mission. For Fion Lam, a yoga teacher and a green activist, she is definitely looking for more. “Protecting the environment is never a hobby or something to do only when you are free. It is a responsibility, an…
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Joey Leung + Greenpeace’s online cooking class: love to all mothers including Mother Earth
Greenpeace Hong Kong office invited actor and food expert Joey Leung to introduce two healthy vegetarian dishes on Mother’s day so we can express love to our mothers through cooking.…
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Let’s Talk about Climate Change: Renee, a young climate activist and vegetarian
Climate change is here, and it’s causing a wide range of impacts. As global citizens, we should not ignore the crisis we are in. Yet sometimes if not all, we…
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Shaking up China’s food system- in Shanghai and beyond
Dried flowers of the Sanqi plant Greenpeace China’s campaign to push one of China’s biggest retailers to purge pesticides triggered food safety reform across the whole of Shanghai.…
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ChinaChem to takeover Syngenta – Greenpeace statement
Beijing, 4 February 2016 - On the announcement of ChemChina to takeover the pesticide and seed company Syngenta, Philippe Schenkel, Ecological Farming Campaigner at Greenpeace Switzerland, said:
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Contamination on the great north eastern plain: What I saw
There is something special about the soil and the air of the north eastern plain. On the boundary of inhospitable wilderness – the Mongolian steppes and the frozen forests of…
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GPEA’s discovery of illegal GE corn in the corn supply chain in north east China
From May to December 2015, Greenpeace East Asia (GPEA) carried out an investigation into corn production in Liaoning province, one of China’s major corn production areas. The investigation discovered that large quantities of GE corn are being grown illegally in the city prefectures of Shenyang, Jinzhou and Fuxin. It is very likely that much of…
