Our past campaigns

We’ve been campaigning for people and our planet for over 50 years. Learn more about some of the work that we’ve done in the past, but aren’t currently actively working on.

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Monsanto Nap Hal Wheat in Germany. © Heiko Meyer / Greenpeace
Close-up shot of “Nap-Hal” wheat. “Nap-Hal” patent is owned by Monsanto. © Heiko Meyer / Greenpeace
Agriculture
Polar Bear on Labrador Sea Ice. © Jiri Rezac / Greenpeace
A polar bear on the Labrador Sea ice, off the coast of Canada. Polar bears cannot survive without sea ice. The loss of ice threatens vulnerable species like polar bears who depend on multi year ice to raise their young, to travel and to hunt for seals; their primary food source.
© Jiri Rezac / Greenpeace
The Arctic
Activists Bring "Skull of Satoshi" to Fidelity's Offices in New York City. © Tracie Williams / Greenpeace
Art and activism merge in the striking art installation called the Skull of Satoshi, created by art activist Benjamin Von Wong and Greenpeace USA to highlight Bitcoin’s record of climate destruction. The Skull of Satoshi makes its New York debut. This thought-provoking art installation is 11 feet tall and features smoking stacks representing the fossil fuel and coal pollution generated by Bitcoin mining, eyes adorned with bitcoin logos and red lasers, and cables protruding from its neck. The skull is made with electronic waste donated by Unirecycle, representing the millions of computers used to validate Bitcoin transactions, known as mining.
© Tracie Williams / Greenpeace
Bitcoin
Art and activism merge in the striking art installation called the Skull of Satoshi, created by art activist Benjamin Von Wong and Greenpeace USA to highlight Bitcoin’s record of climate destruction. The Skull of Satoshi makes its New York debut. This thought-provoking art installation is 11 feet tall and features smoking stacks representing the fossil fuel and coal pollution generated by Bitcoin mining, eyes adorned with bitcoin logos and red lasers, and cables protruding from its neck. The skull is made with electronic waste donated by Unirecycle, representing the millions of computers used to validate Bitcoin transactions, known as mining.
Fire Drill Fridays
Fiby Urskog Nature Reserve in Sweden. © Christian Åslund / Greenpeace
Fiby Urskog is a nature reserve located by Lake Fiby, about 16 kilometers west of Uppsala in Sweden. The area spans 87 hectares, of which most is land with unspoiled forest and hiking paths. The area is characterised by its uprooted and fallen trees and moss-rich ground. © Christian Åslund / Greenpeace
Forests
Projection for Final Shutdown at Emsland NPP. © Lars Berg / Greenpeace
Greenpeace activists are protesting simultaneously against unsafe nuclear power and for the legally regulated phase-out at the three remaining nuclear power plants Neckarwestheim, Emsland/Lingen and Isar/Essenbach. Using powerful projectors, the environmentalists are projecting expired TÜV seals and the words “Expired, shut down” onto the cooling towers of the nuclear power plants. With their action, the activists draw attention to the fact that the three nuclear power plants have long needed a complete safety check and must now be consistently shut down on 15 April 2023 when the “lifetime extension” expires. © Lars Berg / Greenpeace
Nuclear
iCloud Action at Apple Store in Budapest. © Anna Veljanovich / Greenpeace
Greenpeace activists protest outside an Apple store in Budapest. They place a big model of an apple, they make it dirty with “coal” and then clean it with water pistol. Other activists hold a banner reading ‘Think Different – Clean Our Cloud’. Greenpeace’s international Clean Our Cloud campaign is calling on industry laggards Apple, Microsoft, and Amazon to join the growing number of tech companies who are taking steps to power their electronic data centers substantially with renewable energy instead of coal. © Anna Veljanovich / Greenpeace
RethinkIT
PVC Action in USA Baton Rouge. © Greenpeace / John Novis
Greenpeace action against Louisiana’s polluting vinyl (PVC) production facilities, USA. © Greenpeace / John Novis
Toxics