Keeping in touch with Greenpeace

Posted by jamie — 12 November 2007 at 6:04pm - Comments

Keeping up with everything that's happening at Greenpeace is a challenge - I work here and sometimes I find it a struggle. But we have got some nifty services to make that a whole lot easier and instead of coming here to find out what the latest news is, we can come to you instead.

For instance, there's a automated service which will send an email when we publish new stories or information on the site. It's a daily digest so you won't be bombarded with emails, and if we don't publish anything you won't receive anything. Also included are links from our del.icio.us page which we use to bookmark interesting news items, blog stories and videos from elsewhere on the web, so you can see what we've been reading in the office.

Follow this link to subscribe to (almost) daily updates from this blog (it takes about two seconds), but we also have email updates for other sections on the site such as press releases, report or videos. Or you can pick the campaign topics you're interested in and updates on those - here's the full list.

This isn't to be confused with our ebulletin which is hand-crafted work of art sent out whenever we have a new action you can get involved with or we have a 'stop the press' kind of story. To receive that, subscribe here.

We also have a whole library of RSS feeds - I've left those until last as people's eyes often glaze over when I mention them. These are also updated everytime we publish new stories on the site, although you'll need to install a newsreader on your computer or create an account on a web-based one. Confused? This video might help:

If you want to try this out, find out more about RSS feeds, or if you just want to find the right feed, here's all you need to know.

(Thanks to Darren Rowse of Problogger for the idea.)

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Dear Caitlyn,

thanks for your questions. You can find out about what Greenpeace does, where we do it, and why we want to save the planet by clicking here.

Generally speaking sharks eat fish (but there are lots of different types of shark - so there may be the odd one or two who don't).

There are two types of whales when it comes to what they eat.
Baleen whales sieve the seawater to catch tiny crabs called krill - they have to eat thousands of them every day because the krill are very small and the whales are very large. Other whales eat fish, squid, and other marine life.

Rather than try to save specific animals, we try to protect the world in which they live from being poisoned or destroyed - this is the best way to help them. At the moment we are campaigning to prevent tropical forests being chopped down (which will help to protect orang-utans and gorillas in Indonesia and Africa), stop overfishing emptying our seas (to protect fish like tuna and cod), and to limit climate change.

This last is the most important of all - our earth is getting warmer, and this will change the types of trees and grasses that grow in particular places, meaning that the animals that depend on them for food will have nothing to eat. So we have to do everything that we can to stop the climate changing in ways that make it difficult for all animals (including ourselves) to have enough food and water.

Thank you again for asking such interesting questions - I'm sorry that I don't have time to answer in more detail - but there is lots of information on our website which can help you, and even more on the internet if you Google it!

Good luck with your homework.

Joss
Greenpeace web team

By jossc - 27 May 2009 at 1:49pm

Dear Caitlyn,

thanks for your questions. You can find out about what Greenpeace does, where we do it, and why we want to save the planet by clicking here.

Generally speaking sharks eat fish (but there are lots of different types of shark - so there may be the odd one or two who don't).

There are two types of whales when it comes to what they eat. Baleen whales sieve the seawater to catch tiny crabs called krill - they have to eat thousands of them every day because the krill are very small and the whales are very large. Other whales eat fish, squid, and other marine life.

Rather than try to save specific animals, we try to protect the world in which they live from being poisoned or destroyed - this is the best way to help them. At the moment we are campaigning to prevent tropical forests being chopped down (which will help to protect orang-utans and gorillas in Indonesia and Africa), stop overfishing emptying our seas (to protect fish like tuna and cod), and to limit climate change.

This last is the most important of all - our earth is getting warmer, and this will change the types of trees and grasses that grow in particular places, meaning that the animals that depend on them for food will have nothing to eat. So we have to do everything that we can to stop the climate changing in ways that make it difficult for all animals (including ourselves) to have enough food and water.

Thank you again for asking such interesting questions - I'm sorry that I don't have time to answer in more detail - but there is lots of information on our website which can help you, and even more on the internet if you Google it!

Good luck with your homework.

Joss
Greenpeace web team

By jossc - 27 May 2009 at 1:49pm

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