The Cool IT campaign has just unveiled Version 3 of the Leaderboard, our third assessment of Information Technology (IT) companies’ efforts to fight climate change. If the world is going to end its reliance on dirty energy, sweepingly incorporate renewable energy into our electricity grid, and boost energy efficiency, IT companies represent a key link in the chain to get us there. At today’s Green:Net conference in San Francisco, where we launched Version 3 Leaderboard scores to an... [weiterlesen]

Thirty Greenpeace activists in Stockholm have shut down the office of state-owned energy company Vattenfall, calling for 100 percent renewable energy © Greenpeace / Johanna Hanno In Stockholm Greenpeace activists have occupied the offices of state-owned energy company Vattenfall, blocking employees from entering, ahead of the annual general meeting (AGM). Drums painted with radioactive symbols block the doors, and there is a banner on the roof, calling for 100 percent renewable energy and condemning investments... [weiterlesen]

Greenpeace Forest Campaign Coordinators Paloma Neumann from Mexico, and Hernnán Giardini from Argentina are in Cochabamba, Bolivia for the World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth. The Conference, which sees 20,000 participants from 129 countries, has been organised by Bolivian President Evo Morales. It aims to put people and not economic interests back into the heart of climate... [weiterlesen]

Greenpeace activists yesterday dumped manure in front of the entrance of the Brazilian Agency for Electric Energy in a protest against the building of the Belo Monte hydro power plant. The signs Greenpeace activists put up in front of Brazil’s National Electric Energy Agency yesterday left no doubt what it was they had piled next to them: A “beautiful mountain of shit”. Indeed. “This was the only way to show, in one image, the terrible legacy... [weiterlesen]

Hopes dashed: Obama's plan to expand US oil drilling causes controversy. President Barack Obama has announced plans to expand oil drilling off the US east coast - in a reversal of his 2008 campaign strategy, when he argued that lifting curbs on offshore drilling would take years to have impact and would not provide sufficient extra energy to be justified. The decision has outraged many environmentalists and Obama supporters who have raised concerns about the... [weiterlesen]

This is an editorial I wrote together with Friends of the Earth International Chair Nnimmo Bassey. It was first published as an OpEd in the Daily Monitor. Genetic engineering is a technology in search of a problem; a product in search of a market. Lobbyists from the genetic engineering (GE) industry are offering Africa a stark choice between hunger and GE crops. This is a false choice. Hunger can be... [weiterlesen]

Greenpeace activists do a die-in protest at the gate of the Cilacap coal power plant (Indonesia), to expose the true cost of coal. Your internet server can have a huge negative impact on the environment (contributing to climate change), or it can begin going up the ladder towards a green revolution, which is sadly, at the moment, not the main priority for companies like Facebook. Yesterday Greenpeace released a report on the negative impact that the Internet... [weiterlesen]

Americans are the most lied-to people on Earth. The global perception of “the Ugly American” is not that Americans are ugly, but that they are so clueless about what is going on in the world. Our government craps on other peoples’ nations, while we are told that those people love us, sit up nights to admire us, and lead good moral lives so that when they die, their souls will go to America. There is... [weiterlesen]

Following his last blog on the tragedy of bluefin tuna, here is John Frizell's lastest commentary on the mockery that governments are making of this year's CITES meeting. Just as rivers have rapids and smooth stretches, so does CITES. When the meeting returned to work on Sunday, after the Friday/Saturday weekend, the ferocity of the bluefin tuna battle was forgotten and debate flowed smoothly again. When Honduras put forward a species of iguana for listing, comments were calm and favorable.... [weiterlesen]

Increasing sea levels due to climate change or global warming is one of the major concerns for the coastal nations all over the world. Battling the threat from rising sea levels, the Maldives government in collaboration with Dutch Docklands/Dutch Watervalley has planned to develop several floating facilities for the islands, which will provide luxury retreats to the inhabitants, as they also integrate a convention center and golf courses. The brainchild of architect Koen Olthuis of... [weiterlesen]