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This May 21, Greenpeace activists in Sweden decided to prove that nuclear energy is safe to use if and only if pigs can fly.
Long story short, the greenheads flew a paramotor glider over the Ringhals nuclear power plant in southwest Sweden and showered it with pig-shaped balloons.
“And once again we see tha... |
21 May 2013
16:41 GMT |
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I dare say I've had my fair share of shocking ads up until now, yet the video below truly is the icing on this month's cake of green-oriented campaigns.
The video was pieced together by Greenpeace, who is now desperate to save Australia's seabirds from the plastic pollution threatening their long-term... |
16 May 2013
04:51 GMT |
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News from Moscow says that three polar bears are being held hostage by oil companies. The bears have been chained to oil barrels and abandoned in front of the office building of Statoil, a Norwegian energy firm. Or so Greenpeace says.
As you have probably figured out by looking at the picture above, these bears are... |
26 April 2013
03:20 GMT |
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Everybody loves penguins, and not just because movies like Happy Feet made sure that we would absolutely and irrevocably fall for these cute looking animals.
This year's April 25 marks World Penguin Day (I am not making things up, there really is such a thing as the World Penguin Day) and Greenpeace is asking ... |
25 April 2013
10:23 GMT |
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Greenpeace members and supporters are dead set on curbing climate change and global warming.
From their standpoint, there is one sure way of achieving this goal: convincing both ordinary folks and politicians to do their best to cut down on the amounts of pollutants that get released into the atmosphere on a daily ... |
24 April 2013
16:31 GMT |
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Neither Greenpeace members nor other environmentalists are big fans of coal, simply because this energy source need be held accountable for causing tremendous damage to the environment.
This April 24, the organization took another stand against said dirty energy source and boarded a ship that was supposed to transp... |
24 April 2013
04:26 GMT |
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This April 20, thousands of people spread across 36 countries and over 280 cities gathered and formed human banners spelling I Love Arctic.
Their doing so is part and parcel of a Greenpeace campaign meant to let high officials know that countless people worldwide care about this frozen part of our planet and do not... |
20 April 2013
14:31 GMT |
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On April 7, actor Ezra Miller and several other young campaigners set off towards the North Pole. Their goal is to plant a capsule on the seabed beneath the Arctic, thus showing that this frozen region belongs to the people and must not be exploited by oil and gas companies. “The trekkers are carrying with th... |
9 April 2013
16:41 GMT |
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A new Greenpeace PSA made available to you in the video above is meant to raise awareness about the need to protect the Bering Sea canyons and the animals living in this part of the world against industrial fishing.
The PSA might be just 30 seconds long, yet it is nothing if not successful in getting the message ac... |
8 April 2013
09:14 GMT |
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As reported on several occasions, four young people are currently getting ready to travel to the North Pole and plant a flag on the seabed in this part of the world.
Their goal is to prove that the Arctic belongs to the people, and that the people do not want various companies to commence drilling activities in the... |
3 April 2013
09:31 GMT |
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This April 1, a polar bear somehow made it all the way from the Arctic to Russia's Kremlin. The picture above shows the polar bear using a paddle and its paws in order to navigate the Moskva River. “Help!” and “Arctic Not for Sale,” read the two banners that this polar bear wishes the Rus... |
1 April 2013
09:56 GMT |
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By now, most people are all too familiar with Vivienne Westwood's collaboration with Greenpeace and her agreeing to get involved in their Save the Arctic campaign. Apart from her choosing the flag for the organization's upcoming trip to the North Pole, Vivienne Westwood saw fit to create a so-called Save ... |
29 March 2013
06:23 GMT |
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Greenpeace is dead set on traveling to the North Pole this year's April and planting a so-called flag for the future meant to raise awareness about the need to protect the Arctic region.
Recent news says that actor Ezra Miller will join three conservationists on their journey, simply because he is also very mu... |
28 March 2013
05:41 GMT |
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Apple released new data on Thursday regarding its carbon footprint worldwide, confirming that the company has achieved 100 percent renewable energy across all its data centers. The Cupertino giant maintains a site entirely dedicated to disclosing information regarding “Apple and the Environment.” On the ... |
22 March 2013
08:11 GMT |
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There has been much talk about Shell's failed attempts to go looking for oil in the Arctic waters near Alaska. Still, everybody pretty much failed in summing up the whole issue as best as US Interior Secretary Ken Salazar did.
“Shell screwed up in 2012,” Ken Salazar allegedly told members of the pr... |
16 March 2013
16:21 GMT |
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It is no news that the environmentalists working with Greenpeace are nothing if not determined to save the Arctic regions and not allow various companies to commence drilling activities in this part of the world.
The organization's Save the Arctic campaign also involves the planting of a flag on the seabed at ... |
15 March 2013
16:51 GMT |
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On February 27, Shell made it public news that its Arctic drilling activities scheduled to take place in 2013 had been suspended.
The company maintains that its decision to halt 2013' Arctic operations is meant to buy some time for it to better prepare both its equipment and its employees.
However, several g... |
28 February 2013
02:34 GMT |
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This past Saturday, a group of activists working with Greenpeace took to covering Maurizio Catellan's “The Finger” with a giant green glove. For those unaware, this sculpture shows a hand lacking all but one of its fingers: the middle one. As Greenpeace explains, their putting a green glove on this... |
25 February 2013
16:21 GMT |
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This year's Milan Fashion Show has experienced a rather peculiar debut, all thanks to a group of environmentalists who went through the trouble of setting up an eco-friendly vertical catwalk. Furthermore, these greenheads even got a model to strut up and down their weird-looking catwalk, all for the sake of pr... |
20 February 2013
14:21 GMT |
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New England is currently doing its best to overcome the hardships brought about by a massive snowstorm nicknamed the Nemo blizzard.
Meanwhile, the environmentalists working with Greenpeace are busy maintaining that climate change and global warming must be held accountable for the severity of this natural phenomeno... |
11 February 2013
05:23 GMT |
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Actress Lucy Lawless is now making headlines, courtesy of her being ordered by Judge Allan Roberts, currently working with the New Plymouth District Court, to both do some community work, and pay a several hundred dollars fine.
Apparently, it was back in February 2012 when actress Lucy Lawless, together with severa... |
7 February 2013
05:46 GMT |
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Both the environmentalists working with Greenpeace and other nature enthusiasts worldwide are now busy celebrating the fact that paper giant APP (i.e. Asia Pulp & Paper) has finally agreed to cut its ties with deforestation.
It is Greenpeace's belief that the company's decision to begin paying closer atten... |
5 February 2013
16:31 GMT |
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Greenpeace members and supporters can only be glad to hear that G-Star, the internationally acclaimed Dutch denim brand, has finally agreed to let go of its toxic ways and embrace a greener working agenda. More precisely, this urban clothing manufacturer has finally agreed to get behind Greenpeace's Detox Fash... |
1 February 2013
15:41 GMT |
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Only yesterday, a group made up of polar bears (environmentalists dressed up as polar bears, to be more precise) and activists managed to shut down one of Shell's fuel stations in Davos.
This protest was part and parcel of Greenpeace's Save the Arctic campaign. Thus, the greenheads who agreed to take part... |
26 January 2013
05:26 GMT |
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Most people think about their New Year's resolutions long before a brand new (and more or less sunshiny) month of January makes its debut.
Still, when one happens to be the President of the United States, one should expect to receive “need-to-do” lists from other people, such as the environmentalis... |
24 January 2013
05:40 GMT |
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Quite a while back, the environmentalists working with Greenpeace launched an international campaign whose purpose was that of greening up the fashion industry. Recent news on this topic informs us that Limited Brands, the owner of Victoria's Secret and other similar labels, has agreed to give into Greenpeace&... |
22 January 2013
16:21 GMT |
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The Benetton Group has just made it public news that, in the aftermath of a rather aggressive campaign led by Greenpeace, it has agrees to help “detox” the fashion industry. Benetton's decision comes shortly after Zara, Levi's and several other major brands and retailers decided to give into G... |
16 January 2013
15:21 GMT |
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Besides taking on several major fashion brands, Greenpeace has also convinced Waitrose, a chain of supermarkets in the UK, to drop its plans concerning a potential partnership with Shell.
Apparently, all it took for Waitrose to change their mind about collaborating with said oil and gas company were 40,000 emails, ... |
13 December 2012
08:55 GMT |
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It was only yesterday when we reported on how, according to the environmentalists working with Greenpeace, Levi's must be held accountable for polluting several of Mexico's rivers.
Thus, Greenpeace's latest report on this issue has stated that water samples taken from nearby two of Levi's suppli... |
7 December 2012
03:18 GMT |
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The environmentalists working with Greenpeace now have their minds set on forcing Amazon Web Services to embrace a more green-oriented working agenda, and decided that the best way to so this would be to crash the re:Invent conference in Las Vegas. Thus, they created a hoax website and tried to trick conference goe... |
3 December 2012
16:51 GMT |
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A few days ago, the environmentalists working with Greenpeace pointed the finger at Zara and argued that, according to several tests they had carried out, some of the clothing items marketed by this retailer were contaminated with toxic chemicals that harmed both public health and the natural world. Given the fact ... |
30 November 2012
02:37 GMT |
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Following “Requiem 2019,” the time has now come for us to feast our eyes on this stunning trailer for a potential anime called “Detox Fashion.” Granted, nobody said anything about actually turning this trailer into a full-blown movie, but based on what I've just seen, I would gladly sel... |
29 November 2012
07:46 GMT |
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The fact that Greenpeace does not really hold KFC very close at heart is no news.
At one point in the past, they event went as far as to ask people to send personalized messages to KFC's Board of Directors and demand that this chain of fast-food restaurants immediately drop its use of paper coming from unsusta... |
22 November 2012
08:55 GMT |
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It was only yesterday when Greenpeace released a new report focusing on how several clothing brands impacted on the environment.
More precisely, this green-oriented organization wished to know which of the internationally acclaimed clothes manufacturers and marketers must be held responsible for significant amount ... |
21 November 2012
02:34 GMT |
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Greenpeace environmentalists have a habit of looking into how internationally known and acclaimed companies impact on the natural world. Thus, quite often, various green-oriented lists, whose goal is to let consumers know what companies are the most environmentally friendly, hit the public eye.
The latest such lis... |
20 November 2012
16:31 GMT |
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The Greenpeace Guide to Greener Electronics puts Apple on the 6th position this year with a score of 4.6 points. The Cupertino company remains one of the high scorers in this edition but loses points for lack of transparency on GHG emission reporting, clean energy advocacy, and more.
Greenpeace gives Apple half mark... |
20 November 2012
03:47 GMT |
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It may very well be that, as far as most people are concerned, $4.5 billion is quite a lot of money, yet the environmentalists working with Greenpeace maintain that said sum is nothing but “small change” for BP, the company responsible for the Deep Horizon oil spill. As this organization puts it, BP has... |
16 November 2012
08:10 GMT |
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Only yesterday, we reported on how, according to Greenpeace, the massive deforestations now taking place in Indonesia must be held responsible for the fact that the people inhabiting rural communities in these parts of the world are ever more often attacked by tigers. As said green-oriented organization explains, t... |
1 November 2012
08:04 GMT |
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Not long ago, we reported on how oil and gas company Shell took legal measures against the environmentalists working with Greenpeace. Thus, they tried to get a judge to forbid them from organizing future protests intended to keep some of its facilities to carry on with their daily routine. Recent news on this top... |
8 October 2012
03:21 GMT |
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Ever since Shell decided to commence drilling operations in the Arctic, environmental organization Greenpeace got busy setting up countless protests in an attempt to “Save the Arctic” from this particular oil and gas company.
Apparently, Shell has finally decided that the time has come to take legal mea... |
21 September 2012
07:29 GMT |
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Due to the setting in of the Arctic winter, and the harsh environmental conditions brought about by this new season, oil and gas company Shell had no choice but to declare defeat and quit this year's plans to drill in the Arctic.
Several environmentalists now emphasize that Shell's being unable to carry o... |
18 September 2012
04:58 GMT |
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We just talked about how, according to a recent Greenpeace report, plans to grow a new oil palm plantation in Africa are bound to translate into considerable damage being done to the environment.
To make matters even worse, the organization claims that one company is trying to pass off these deforestation campaigns... |
6 September 2012
05:27 GMT |
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A new Greenpeace report argues that plans to develop Africa's palm oil industry will result in the destruction of the rainforests still standing in this part of the world, and that whatever financial gains might be at stake are simply not worth considerably damaging these natural habitats.
According to this or... |
6 September 2012
05:07 GMT |
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As you probably already know, it has only been a few days since several Greenpeace activists engaged in a series of peaceful protests in the Pechora Sea, their one goal being to keep a Russian drilling platform from commencing its operations in this regions. After sending an open letter to the people of Russi... |
30 August 2012
09:56 GMT |
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Only last year, Greenpeace launched an attack against car manufacturer Volkswagen, claiming that its agenda does little to help protect the environment, regardless of past promises to do just so.
Seeing how Volkswagen's new Golf is just around the corner, the organization saw it fit to once again push for its ... |
28 August 2012
05:30 GMT |
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A few days ago, we spoke about how Greenpeace dispatched seven of its activists in the Pechora Sea, with one goal in mind: that of keeping Russian oil company Gazprom from drilling in this part of the world.
Recent news with respect to how things are unfolding informs us that seven new Greenpeace members have made ... |
27 August 2012
02:44 GMT |
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Earlier today, we reported on how six Greenpeace members boarded a Russian oil platform that was to begin drilling in the Pechora Sea. Now, the organization wishes to explain to the citizens of Russia exactly why it is that they decided to embark on this course of actions by sending them an open letter. Written b... |
24 August 2012
09:29 GMT |
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As of this morning, several Greenpeace members have boarded a Russian drilling platform in an attempt to keep members of the crew from carrying on with their activities of extracting oil from the Russian Arctic regions. Apparently, Greenpeace does not consider the Russian oil industry a trustworthy one, primarily b... |
24 August 2012
04:53 GMT |
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China's ever-increasing demands for energy lead to the country's high officials having to look into the possibility of expanding the national coal industry.
However, Greenpeace now warns that although having more coal mines and coal plants around will help meet new electricity needs, the strain placed on ... |
16 August 2012
09:28 GMT |
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A video just made public by Greenpeace informs us that, during one of the latest expeditions carried out by this organization in the Arctic waters, marine scientists found that the Chukchi Sea is intensely populated with Gersemia rubiformis corals, commonly known as sea raspberry. Apparently, these organisms are th... |
3 August 2012
05:24 GMT |
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