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Real race is tackling climate change

Posted by bex — 5 April 2005 at 8:00am - Comments

A flood reaches almost four feet high on a flood height marker


Today Prime Minister Tony Blair announced the general election. Some party leaders have already hit the campaign trail, but the most important race we now face is tackling climate change.

Article tagged as: climate change, energy savings trust, EU, fossil fuels, fuel poverty, policy, renewable energy, tony blair, VED

Garden Furniture Guide 2005

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

Following the success of our garden furniture work in 2004, we undertook new research in Spring 2005. This revealed that in their quest to supply garden furniture Wyevale, Britain's largest garden centre chain, were trashing endangered rainforests and helping to fund one of the most brutal military dictatorships in the world.

Article tagged as: forests, FSC, garden furniture, illegal timber, wyevale

Tax gas-guzzlers off our roads

Posted by bex — 15 March 2005 at 9:00am - Comments

Exhaust of a 4x4

Climate change is already killing 150,000 people a year. If the government takes climate change as seriously as it says it does, Gordon Brown will tax gas-guzzlers off our roads tomorrow when he presents the budget.

Earlier today the Chancellor made a keynote speech describing climate change as an issue of justice and recoginsed that the millennium development goals cannot be met without stabilising the climate. He also declared his ambition to make British business the world leaders in environmental productivity.

Article tagged as: 4x4s, climate change, congestion charge, fuel efficiency, gordon brown, road transport, tax, transport, VED

Londoners say charge 4x4s more

Posted by bex — 7 March 2005 at 9:00am - Comments

A banner reading "charge 4x4s 20 pounds"

More than a hundred volunteers from Greenpeace and the Alliance Against Urban 4x4s took to the streets to poll Londoners about a proposal to increase the congestion charge to £20 for gas-guzzling vehicles like 4x4s. Of the more than 5000 people randomly polled throughout London, 85 percent agreed that the Congest Charge should be higher for gas-guzzlers.

Article tagged as: 4x4s, climate change, congestion charge, direct actions, land rover, road transport, transport, VED

Authors visit threatened Finnish ancient forests

Posted by admin — 2 March 2005 at 9:00am - Comments

10 young Sàmi people and Greenpeace volunteers use charcoal on a frozen river to say 'enough' to the Finnish Government

A group of Europen writers have arrived at our Forest Rescue Station, situated 300 kilometres norh of the Arctic Circle in northern Finland, to see for themselves the effect of relentless logging on the last Sàmi reindeer forests. The Sàmi are indigenous reindeer herders who rely on Lapland's remaining old-growth forests to provide vital food for their herds during the cold winter months. The reindeer forests have been reduced piece by piece by the government's own logging company, Metsähallitus, which carries out most of the logging in Lapland.

Article tagged as: authors, book campaign, finland, forest rescue station, metsahallitus, sami

Next Harry Potter to save ancient forests

Posted by admin — 23 February 2005 at 9:00am - Comments

Hedwig delivers an 'owler' to Harry Potter's publishing company, Bloomsbury

JK Rowling's UK publisher Bloomsbury has just confirmed to Greenpeace that 'Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince' will be printed on a part ancient forest friendly paper. This will be the first best selling book to be printed on such a paper in the UK.

Article tagged as: authors, bloomsbury, book campaign, forests, FSC, harry potter

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