greenpeace Archive

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  Battling battery blunders - by frog

  
  
  
  More revelations about the Exide battery recycling plant in Petone have come out in today’s Dominon Post. Greenpeace has also come out in favour of keeping the ability to recycle this hazardous waste here in New Zealand. This echoed Dave Clendon’s call last week in the house and his post about the need to uphold [...] read more
  August 8, 2011 1:53 pm - 7 Comments
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  Petrobras activists are heroes - by Gareth Hughes

  
  
  
  I think the activists, some of them friends of mine, floating in the ocean to stop the Petrobras seismic testing ship are heroes. They are extraordinarily brave to put their bodies, and possibly criminal records, on the line. If the Crown Law experts decide there is some law they’ve broken by swimming in the ocean, [...] read more
  April 12, 2011 11:16 am - 84 Comments
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  Another day, another oil platform explosion - by frog

  
  
  
  Another oil platform off the Louisiana coast has experienced an explosion and fire. Fortunately, no lives were lost and earlier reports of a mile long slick have been recanted. read more
  September 3, 2010 11:27 am - 9 Comments
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  Tourists speak out on mining National Parks - by frog

  
  
  
  Greenpeace has taken a more serious angle with their latest video, which has our fearless duo, Lucy Lawless and Robyn Malcolm, talking to tourists about John Key’s plans to mine our National Parks. read more
  April 30, 2010 9:24 am - 20 Comments
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  38 Genetically engineered ingredients in our food - by Sue Kedgley

  
  
  
  Over the past decade four large multinational corporations -Monsanto, Aventis, Syngenta, Dow Agro Sciences, have been quietly applying for approval to add more and more genetically engineered ingredients into our food. read more
  December 10, 2009 10:09 am - 6 Comments
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  Tokelau navigates towards cleaner, greener future - by frog

  
  
  
  Core Green issues of transport, energy and Pacific climate change were raised in a meeting with our MPs Keith Locke and Kennedy Graham.  A delegation from Tokelau – that included the three high chiefs of Tokelau – Faipule Foua Toloa (Ulu o Tokelau/leader of Tokelau) , Faipule Kuresa Nasau, Faipule Pio Tetimuatoga Tuia Iosefo and officials – [...] read more
  September 20, 2009 8:00 am - 8 Comments
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  “I feel a change coming on” - by frog

  
  
  
  Fonterra has more than just its financial restructure head-ache to mull on this weekend. Its dogged support for rainforest-destroying palm kernel feed (PKE) must now be giving them a cracking migraine. read more
  September 19, 2009 9:37 am - 24 Comments
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  Greenpeace occupies palm kernel shipment - by frog

  
  
  
  They’re at it again! The World Bank may have changed it’s mind about funding palm kernel and the destruction of our rainforests, but Fonterra and this National-led government still have their heads in the sand. (Like so many issues, it seems) Twelve activists have boarded the Easy Ambition and chained themselves to prevent the shipment [...] read more
  September 16, 2009 10:28 am - 106 Comments
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  Casting about for leadership - by frog

  
  
  
  Those silly gnomes have been at work again – casting about for leadership on climate change. I needn’t tout the Green’s credentials on the matter, but I do question how our government can so callously dismiss the need for emissions reductions without doing even the most basic analysis as to how we might achieve them. [...] read more
  September 8, 2009 1:25 pm - 8 Comments
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  Sober Sunday reading - by frog

  
  
  
  Kim Knight at the Sunday Star Times provides welcome investigative journalism today in a story and major feature on the origin of the massive amount of palm kernel expeller (PKE) that New Zealand imports for supplementary feed on dairy farms. She writes: It looks like Armageddon. It’s just a palm plantation. Palm oil is a [...] read more
  August 23, 2009 10:32 am - 57 Comments
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  Greenpeace’s new fishing video - by frog

  
  
  
  This new vid from Greenpeace features TV fishing personality and extreme stunt fisherman Matt Watson talks about fishing and sustainability, echoing what Metiria Turei wrote on World Oceans Day. read more
  June 23, 2009 3:03 pm - 2 Comments
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  Fair Trade Forests - by Catherine Delahunty

  
  
  
  This week in London, Chatham House are hosting the 14th conference in a series on illegal logging. With deforestation accounting for at least 20% of greenhouse gas emissions, not to mention the loss of 137 plant, animal and insect species per day, action is urgently needed. Of equal, if not greater, concern is the ruthless [...] read more
  June 23, 2009 9:56 am - 5 Comments
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  Dumping on Communities - by Catherine Delahunty

  
  
  
  The Taranaki Marfell Park toxic drums saga is sadly typical of the difficulties communities face getting support in dealing with toxic sites. In 1993 my partner and I (while working for Greenpeace) toured the country speaking with virtually all the Regional Councils about the contaminated sites in the region. Our main focus was PCP (a [...] read more
  June 11, 2009 4:11 pm - 5 Comments
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  Morning Sickness: NZ’s Real Life David Brent - by Catherine Delahunty

  
  
  
  What a great way to start the day! What if a woman woke up feeling pretty okay about herself and then accidentally watched “Breakfast” on Wednesday March 25? Let it be a warning to all women who are too small, too large, too muscular, and too weak at the knees, too bald, too hairy, and [...] read more
  March 27, 2009 10:35 am - 133 Comments
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  Reasons not to believe in John Key’s leadership - by frog

  
  
  
  The Energy [R]evolution is Greenpeace’s plan to save the planet from catastrophic climate change. Susan Sarandon narrates the first of three ‘Reasons to Believe’. This one explains why energy efficiency is so important and also so easily achieved, just by small changes such as a switch from traditional lightbulbs to more energy efficient ones. In [...] read more
  March 24, 2009 3:41 pm - 22 Comments
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  Good Wood Guide - by frog

  
  
  
  Greenpeace has done it again, bless their socks, and updated the Good Wood Guide just in time for your summer/Christmas shopping spree. Want to know what the most sustainable wood products are? Start here. Want to know which species are which? Start here. Want to know which sustainable timber certifications are for real? Start here. [...] read more
  December 19, 2008 10:14 am - 3 Comments
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  Countdown to Copenhagen - by frog

  
  
  
  Greenpeace has turned it’s front webpage into a giant countdown clock leading to Copenhagen to highlight how little time we have left to cut a real deal on climate change. I quite like it. Temperature increases, global emissions and loss of ice at the Arctic and Antarctic have now overshot scientists’ worst case scenarios. The [...] read more
  December 1, 2008 3:08 pm - 12 Comments
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  Greenpeace’s guide to greener electronics - by frog

  
  
  
  Yesterday, Greenpeace International published its Guide to Greener Electronics, and called on all manufacturers to do more to respond to climate change. Of the 18 market-leading companies included in the Guide, only Sharp, Fujitsu Siemens and Philips show full support for the necessary cuts of 30 percent for industrial nations by 2020. Only HP and [...] read more
  November 26, 2008 10:13 am - 15 Comments
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  The Coaly Moleys - by frog

  
  
  
  Another laugh out loud video from Greenpeace Australia. It seems that Rudd wants to pay $1.2 billion in subsidies to the coal industry as part of their emissions trading scheme! At least when we subsidise our polluters, it is because they are trade exposed. Export coal isn’t covered by Kyoto. So what’s up? read more
  November 24, 2008 11:15 am - 2 Comments
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  Vote for the Environment - by frog

  
  
  
  The third party group Vote for the Environment (which comprises ECO and Greenpeace) released its analysis of each of the parties environmental policies earlier this week. We got a heartening 97 percent.  The stand out feature of the survey was how badly both the old, major parties performed.  (It’s also yet another example of who [...] read more
  November 4, 2008 3:13 pm - 11 Comments