April 2009

Why non-violence is at the absolute heart of Greenpeace's message

Posted by jossc — 30 April 2009 at 1:41pm - Comments
Next in line for our spring blog relay is Jo from our Active Supporters Unit. The relay is a whistle-stop tour of Greenpeace staff here in the UK. Click here to catch up on the other entries.

Jo helps a member of the constabulary with his enquiries

It’s amazing that the blog baton has actually reached me - although I've worked for Greenpeace for over 14 years, I am only in the UK office once a month - I work from home in Manchester (England’s greatest city!)

I have one of the best jobs in the world. I'm the Network Developer for the North, one of five staff in the Active Supporters Unit. Active Supporters are the people who support Greenpeace with their own precious time and energy, taking the campaign messages to the public on the streets and at local events in their stylish green tabards, going to visit their MPs, giving talks, taking risks on direct actions. They are inspiring and brilliant people, often working full-time in demanding jobs, then giving their weekends and evenings to Greenpeace.

Article tagged as: active supporters, blog relay

Planet Earth: Too Big to Fail

Posted by jossc — 29 April 2009 at 12:18pm - Comments

New Greenpeace USA Director Phil Radford has only been in post for three days, but already he's been arrested for taking action against climate polluters - he's one of the climbers in this banner hang outside the US State Department in Washington on Monday. 

Article tagged as: barack obama, climate change, fossil fuels, green new deal

What's inside your box of Kleenex?

Posted by jamie — 27 April 2009 at 4:46pm - Comments

This new video has just been produced by our colleagues on the other side of the pond as a reminder that Kimberly-Clark, the makers of Kleenex, are still ravaging forests in North America to produce their tissues.

Article tagged as: boreal forests, Cottenelle, forests, kimberly-clark, kleenex, recycled paper, Scott

At last a glimmer of leadership on climate

Posted by jossc — 23 April 2009 at 2:55pm - Comments

Ed Miliband

It's certainly far from everything we've been asking for, but when Ed Miliband announced his new consultation on coal policy in the House of Commons this lunchtime it was clear that something had changed. For starters, E.ON isn’t going to get its way over Kingsnorth, at least not with its current plan.

Showing admirable signs of climate leadership in the face of resistance from Whitehall officials and his cabinet colleagues, the Energy and Climate Change secretary told MPs that no new coal-fired power stations would be built in Britain unless  equipped with at least some carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology. In a key departure from previous policy, he said that from now on power companies planning to build new coal plants will be required to fit full CCS by 2025 at the latest, provided that the Environment Agency is convinced that the technology works. 

Article tagged as: CCS, climate change, coal, ed miliband

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