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How the plastic industry is exploiting anxiety about COVID-19

March 26, 2020

Ivy Schlegel

The plastic industry is using COVID-19 to exploit people’s fears around sanitation and hygiene to interfere with legislation banning or regulating the use of single-use plastic bags.

Alone, Together: how Greenpeacers are finding hope and connection amid a pandemic

March 23, 2020

Focus on the beauty around you. It’s there if you look for it, even in the tiniest things. Flowers bursting from the ground this spring, the chorus of birds singing in the trees, even the way the light streams in the window. Know that humanity will get through this, hopefully emerging into a world that is better because we can refocus on what is really important.

Why Bumble Bee Tuna Should Concern You (Hint: It’s Human Rights and Destructive Fishing)

March 19, 2020

Andy Shen

Bumble Bee Foods’ new owner shows potential connections to modern slavery and illegal fishing practices.

For my birthday, all I want is a healthy forest

March 17, 2020

Sylvie Djacbou Deugoue

Working with communities—learning to see the forest through their eyes, hearing their cry the forest is destroyed in the name of “development”—makes me more eager to continue to stand with them and for their rights.

Bail out workers, not oil billionaires

March 13, 2020

Tim Donaghy

Trump wants to bailout oil and gas companies. As usual, it is the exact worst response you could think of. We need a plan to protect workers, communities and the climate.

You can stop the Trump oil bailout

March 13, 2020

Caroline Henderson

What would you rather see right now in the midst of the COVID-19 outbreak? A fossil fuel bailout or paid sick leave for all?

Wet’suwet’en Solidarity Statement from Greenpeace USA

March 11, 2020

Valentina Stackl

We cannot have climate justice without respecting, upholding, and fighting for Indigenous rights.

This 8th grader is fighting to make California schools plastic-free

March 10, 2020

Perry Wheeler

Jinali has a plan to move her school away from single-use plastics… at the age of 13! But she’s not stopping there — she’s fighting to make reusables the norm at schools throughout California.

10 inspiring women who bring environmental stories to their crafts

March 9, 2020

To celebrate International Women’s Day, Greenpeace puts the spotlight on female visual storytellers from around the world and their work on nature and the environment. From documenting rivers to climate change and ruminations about sustainable landscapes, these women all share a common passion in bringing their voice to environmental stories that they care about.

International Women's Day: Stand 4 Women fish processors of West Africa

March 8, 2020

“Many voices deserve to be heard this International Women's Day. The West African women fish processors have been struggling to get their voices heard for better change. Let us amplify their voice to better the livelihoods, economy and marine ecosystem of West Africa."

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