greenpeace Archive

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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
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  CoalFinger - by frog

  
  
  
  This summer, from the people who bought you the dairy conversion of John Key’s electorate office, comes the latest blockbuster: Here’s the CoalFinger website and its international quit coal campaign. read more
  November 2, 2008 7:16 am - 3 Comments
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  Greenpeace converts Key’s Helensville office to industrial dairy - by frog

  
  
  
  Oh bless! Greenpeace carried out a “dairy conversion” on National Party leader John Key’s electorate office early this morning to highlight the issue of deforestation for intensive dairying. Intensive dairying is one of New Zealand’s biggest contributors to climate change. Photo credit: Greenpeace read more
  October 30, 2008 10:23 am - 22 Comments
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  Greenpeace’s activism reminds us about the big issue - by frog

  
  
  
  Greenpeace activists have this morning temporarily halted a massive conversion of forest land to dairy farming in Tokoroa, locking on to forest logging equipment and using rotary hoes to plough 5m-high letters reading ‘climate crime’ into fresh pasture. The call for a halt to forest conversion for intensive dairy in light of the worsening global [...] read more
  October 29, 2008 12:46 pm - 28 Comments
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  Greenpeace lays out the election issue - by frog

  
  
  
  It was guiltily good to read Bunny McDiarmid’s Greenpeace analysis of the Emissions Trading Scheme because it seems she and her colleagues have been struggling with exactly the same issues that the Green Party faced when deciding whether to vote for the legislation or not.  With the bill now law there’s a big risk that [...] read more
  September 16, 2008 12:34 pm - 8 Comments
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  White tissues, greenwash - by frog

  
  
  
  Greenpeace NZ have got their eyes on the Emissions Trading Scheme but Greenpeace USA are campaigning on paper tissues. You see Multinational company Kimberly Clark clear fells ancient forests to make its Kleenex tissues and, ironically, it has now decided to advertise those same tissues with the robot character from Disney-Pixar’s latest environmentally themed film, [...] read more
  August 23, 2008 8:46 am - 6 Comments
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  Save the tuna - by frog

  
  
  
  Greenpeace has just released its Red List of the twelve most unsustainable fish commonly eaten in New Zealand that most require urgent action to ensure the future of these species and the fisheries. Meanwhile Metiria has just launched a petition calling on the Government to take urgent action to halt the over-exploitation of one of [...] read more
  August 12, 2008 11:14 am - 8 Comments
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  Free the Tokyo Two - by frog

  
  
  
  Not only were two Greenpeace activists arrested in June after exposing corruption in the illegal whaling industry, now they are the ones who will be prosecuted! To read the full story and see the original video produced when the corruption was exposed, click here. (Be mindful that the most recent content is at the bottom [...] read more
  July 11, 2008 2:38 pm - 69 Comments
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  Greenpeace activists have just closed Australia’s most polluting powerstation - by frog

  
  
  
  Breaking news from Greenpeace Australia: This morning, Greenpeace activists entered the Eraring power station in the Hunter Valley, Australia’s largest and most polluting coal-fired power plant, and have locked on to coal conveyors, shutting down supply of coal to the plant! 12 Activists are locked on, and another 15 have been taken into police custody. [...] read more
  July 3, 2008 11:07 am - 10 Comments
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  Exxon finally admits denialists cause problems - by frog

  
  
  
  Exxon has publicly admitted that its funding of climate change deniers is causing problems for action on climate change. It took the Greenpeace campaign, ExxonSecrets, a long time but patience and hard work has born fruit and they are to be congratulated. So which groups is Exxon dropping? According to Reuters, gone from the funding [...] read more
  June 10, 2008 10:01 am - 20 Comments
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  Greenwash by governments and Barbie dolls - by frog

  
  
  
  Greenpeace’s Bunny McDiarmid has an opinion piece in today’s Dominion post exposing the Government’s greenwash on World Environment Day [not online - but a similar Greenpeace story is available here]. She uncovers New Zealand’s massive and increasing greenhouse emissions, large scale deforestation, coal exports, and backtracking over the Emissions Trading Scheme. New Zealand is pretending [...] read more
  June 5, 2008 4:07 pm - 21 Comments
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  Green Party Annual Conference - by frog

  
  
  
  I’m off to Auckland tomorrow for the Green Party’s annual meeting at Waipapa Marae.  So you probably won’t hear much from me tomorrow.  But hopefully I’ll find a computer from which I can report on the three major Conference speeches over the weekend (Nandor on Friday night, Jeanette on Saturday morning and Russel on Sunday [...] read more
  May 29, 2008 2:18 pm - 14 Comments
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  We’ll cross that bridge once it’s burnt - by frog

  
  
  
  Greenpeace’s blog points out the emergence of some new lobbyists; the Standover Group, New Zealand’s leading organisation in the fight against equitable social change. An influential union of muscular enterprises and entrepreneurs, the Standover Group is committed to furthering what is in the best interest of the most important section of New Zealand society – [...] read more
  May 21, 2008 8:52 am - 10 Comments
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  Support for ‘keep coal in the hole’ - by frog

  
  
  
  Greenpeace called last night for Labour and National to support Jeanette’s six-point plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from coal. Coal is the most climate-damaging fossil fuel. “It smacks of hypocrisy for New Zealand to claim any leadership role on tackling climate change while coal-mining continues to expand,�? said Mr Boxer. “Political parties need to [...] read more
  April 23, 2008 9:05 am - 7 Comments
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  Tahorakuri Forest: from carbon sink to industrial dairy - by frog

  
  
  
  This stunning photo that Greenpeace released today shows Tahorakuri Forest near Taupo being rapidly converted into industrial dairy farms.  The organisation doing this damage is  the government-owned company Landcorp: Greenpeace points out that up to 455,000 hectares of forestry land is at risk of being deforested and converted into industrial farms – the majority for [...] read more
  April 8, 2008 5:30 pm - 9 Comments
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  The climate change elephant - by frog

  
  
  
  The crew on the Rainbow Warrior got 2003′s cartoonist of the year, Malcolm Evans, down to Wellington’s Queens Wharf yesterday afternoon to paint an entire billboard. I had been going to show you a photo of his creation, but Greenpeace has gone one step better and provided a video: read more
  April 4, 2008 1:10 pm - 17 Comments
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  Live climate change webcast debate - by frog

  
  
  
  I’ve only just found out about this but currently there is a live webcast debate on the Rainbow Warrior today in Wellington today (2 April 2008) at 7:00 PM, NZ politicians will debate which party’s climate policy is most on target to tackle climate change. Sean Plunket from Radio New Zealand’s Morning Report is chairing [...] read more
  April 2, 2008 7:45 pm - 33 Comments
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  It’s a matter of doing, not of believing - by frog

  
  
  
  Labour’s attacks on John Key and various National MPs for not believing in climate change are interesting, but ultimately a bit of a sideshow. It doesn’t matter whether Cullen and his team believe in climate change or not if their actions are not doing anything to address the problem. Believing is a relatively easy step [...] read more
  April 2, 2008 2:48 pm - 79 Comments
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  Greenpeace, climate change and agriculture - by frog

  
  
  
  One of things that most strongly differentiates the Green Party’s holistic approach to dealing with climate change from other parties is that it does not have a blind spot on the issue of agriculture [pdf].Greenpeace, in it’s survey of political parties policies on climate change, asked all parties whether the farming sector or taxpayers should [...] read more
  March 31, 2008 12:02 pm - 13 Comments
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  Sour grapes - by frog

  
  
  
  Doesn’t the police response to the Rainbow Warrior protest yesterday sound a little bit unnecessarily miffed? It’s a bit hard to blame Greenpeace for a lone constable being attacked in a brawl in central Christchurch, when it was the police that decided protecting the property on a coal export ship was 30 times more important [...] read more
  March 26, 2008 10:19 am - 6 Comments