2007 is being hailed as the year in which the environmental movement turned a corner and climate change leapt to the top of the agenda. Al Gore and the IPCC won the Nobel Peace Prize; Climate Camp became a household name; and an unsuspecting humpback whale named Mister Splashy Pants became a global phenomenon.
So what were you most interested in? This list of our ten most-read blogs on our website last year (well, since we launched the blog in April) shows, unsurprisingly, that for most of our readers, it was climate change, climate change, climate change. Oh, and Mister Splashy Pants...
The energy debate ruled a lot of 2007, and our film on nuclear power vs decentralised energy was far and away our most popular blog of the year, with around three times more traffic than any other story. With the government about to make its announcement on nuclear (again), the debate's as relevant now as it was then - so it's worth a watch if you haven't seen it yet.
2. Biofuels: green dream or climate change nightmare?
2007 was also the year in which the biofuels debate came of age, with the government latching on to biofuels as the clean, green solution to climate change. So we pointed out that, if biofuel production isn't properly managed, it could
spell disaster for rainforests, food and water supplies - and the climate.
3. Your personal guide to saving the climate
This brochure from our international office laid out how personal action can help save the climate - from singing in the shower to efficient electricity and heat distribution.
4. Aviation industry takes five million people to court
This was the environmental story of the summer: BAA took five million people - including many of its own staff and, arguably, the Queen - to court in an attempt to ban one-twelfth of the country from Heathrow and all routes to the airport in the run-up to Climate Camp.
5. Why Tony Blair is wrong about nuclear power
More on the energy debate - this time a rebuttal of the reasons Tony Blair gave for his love affair with nuclear. Worth reading if you want to know why we keep saying nuclear power won't stop climate change.
6. Greenpeace shuts down coal fired power station
In November, we took over Kingsnorth coal fired power plant for three days, sending the message to Gordon Brown that building the first new coal fired power station in the UK in 30 years was sheer lunacy. The decision on Kingsnorth is due soon - watch this space.
As a Greenpeace web editor, it was a joy to watch this story unfold. Our international office held a whale naming competition. "Mister Splashy Pants" made it to the final list. The story was BoingBoing-ed and Reddit-ed and the meme did what memes do. There's now a humpback whale called Mr Splashy Pants swimming around the Southern Ocean.
8. Choose the right biofuel or the orang-utan gets it - now on video
Our campaign for rigorous controls on biofuels went through a magical transformation to video, to help spread the word that, if rainforests are cut down to make way to grow 'green fuels', it will destroy homes for animals like orang-utans and be catastrophic for the climate.
9. Greenpeace activists shot at as climate conference opens
We're vaguely used to having harpoons flying over our heads, water jets pointed at us and even the odd bit of tear gas, but as far as I know, being shot at while climbing a coal-fired power station was a new one for our colleagues in Indonesia last year.
10. Are your toilet tissues wiping away the last remaining forests?
Our product guides always seem to be popular on the web, and our tissue product guide was no exception. You can search the guide to find out which brands of toilet roll, kitchen towel, and tissues are kind to forests as well as your nose.
All in all, we seemed to pass an important milestone last year. However belatedly, the battle moved on from exposing the problems and into the arena of promoting solutions. But it was still, largely, a year of rhetoric. If we're to win the battle on climate change, 2008 needs to be the year the world takes real action.
