May 2014

Following the European elections felt a bit like checking the weather forecast constantly, hoping for beautiful sunshine instead of the guaranteed sleet and gale-force winds. Particularly in the last week before voting day - the polls were all a little on the purple side (although it must be said that the Greens were polling better than they ever have done before). The climate sceptic, anti-renewable energy Kippers seemed to have captured enough (of the low turnout) hearts and minds to make me pretty worried about the possibility of ever seeing the cleaner, greener future that I hope for.

Then the results came in, and they’re pretty bad. 

Moments ago, ten Greenpeace activists were in the rafters of Estadio da Luz, high above the Champions League Final. They'd hoped to unfurl a banner, but were arrested before getting the chance. Here's why they did it.

Jewson is selling timber from the Amazon - where more than half the logging is illegal. Jewson says it trusts its suppliers, but we thought we'd investigate further - and you'll never guess what we found out. 

Can you see the sharks shaking their tail fins and turtles clapping their flippers? CAN you?!

They’re doing their happy dance because of the recent good news from Asda. 

The supermarket – which is part of the global Walmart group - has committed to applying the same sustainability standards to all the brands of tinned tuna they sell, not just their own brand.

Sea turtles live in the ocean. They don’t loiter around so much as cruise the whole sea, taking in shallow coastal lagoons, stopping by seamounts, and crossing the open ocean on high seas highways, only ever returning to land to lay eggs.

They are truly creatures of the ocean. And they are pretty special.

Today is World Turtle Day – so what better excuse to shell out a bit of love and respect to these most iconic ocean ambassadors?

Today is World Turtle Day, a great opportunity to celebrate some of the world’s oldest creatures as well as draw attention to the sea turtles' plight. Terrific turtles have been swimming the world's oceans for more than 100 million years, but now face many dangers as they travel the seas.

75,000 of us have told Jewson to stop selling suspect decking from the Amazon rainforest. But Jewson doesn't get it - so maybe this video explaining how the loggers loot the Amazon will help.