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Hedwig the owl asks for help in saving muggle ancient forests

Posted by admin — 22 February 2005 at 9:00am - Comments

Hedwig the owl visited JK Rowling's UK publisher Bloomsbury today on behalf of the Greenpeace Book Campaign. He asked them to print Harry's latest adventure, 'Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince', which is due out this summer, on ancient forest friendly paper.

By taking such a step Bloomsbury would be helping to protect some of the world's last ancient forests and the muggle creatures that depend on them.

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Global oil trading stopped

Posted by bex — 16 February 2005 at 9:00am - Comments

A policeman and a Greenpeace volunteer

Today is a day for action. After a long and arduous process the Kyoto Protocol comes into force and business as usual is not an option.

Thirty-five Greenpeace volunteers halted trading on the global oil market by occupying the International Petroleum Exchange in London. They entered the high security building near Tower Bridge shortly before 2pm, just as the world market in Brent crude was about to switch to London.

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Activists disrupt oil industry annual jamboree

Posted by bex — 16 February 2005 at 9:00am - Comments

Volunteers hold "climate crime scene" tape

On the day the world finally enacted Kyoto, the oil industry tried to hold a huge party to say, 'we don't care, it's business as usual'. We hope for at least one evening they've been forced to face the reality of what they're doing.

Article tagged as: climate change, direct actions, esso, kyoto protocol, oil, stop esso

How Harry Potter can help save forests

Posted by admin — 28 January 2005 at 9:00am - Comments

Raincoast Books, the Canadian co-publisher of the Harry Potter (in partnership with Bloomsbury), worked a little of its own magic for biodiversity and the world's forests by printing the Canadian edition of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix on ancient forest friendly paper in 2003.

The approximately one million copies of the Canadian edition are the only ones in the world to be printed on 100 percent post-consumer recycled paper. The initiative won praise from the author, J.K. Rowling, and a special message for Canadian readers:

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Greenpeace in the Amazon: helping the Deni Indians to protect their land from loggers

Posted by admin — 24 January 2005 at 9:00am - Comments

Deni Indians demarcarting their territory

In July 2003, a Greenpeace team helped the indigenous Deni Indian communities in the Amazon to demarcate their homeland. The land was under threat from a Malaysian logging company.

Article tagged as: amazon, demarcation, deni, destructive logging, forests, illegal timber

National Lottery update: Wembley project commits to FSC

Posted by admin — 22 December 2004 at 9:00am - Comments

Following on from some very positive discussion at a meeting with construction company Multiplex, the project directors for the New Wembley Stadium site have sent a message of good will by erecting a 50 foot FSC Christmas tree at the iconic Wembley Stadium - signalling their commitment to sourcing timber from legal and sustainable sources.

Article tagged as: forests, FSC, national lottery, wembley stadium

Only action will clear the air

Posted by bex — 8 December 2004 at 9:00am - Comments

Tony Blair says he is personally passionate about solving the problem of climate change, but his passion for business has dominated the agenda for too long. There is only one way Tony Blair is going to regain our trust - take urgent action on climate change.

Article tagged as: climate change, co2, government, kyoto protocol, renewable energy, tony blair

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