The underlying goal of all our work is a green and peaceful world - an earth that is ecologically healthy and able to nurture life in all its diversity.
Until now, modern governments and businesses have treated the Earth as a commodity to be exploited and used up to serve human needs and desires. Our whole economic system is built on the belief that a thing is only of value if it creates money.
By these standards a forest is worthless unless it is cut down and sold. When economists balance the books, they don't take into account the value of the work that forests do to provide rainfall, regulate the climate and provide habitat for most of the world's plants and animals, not to mention food and shelter for millions of local people.
Posted by jossc — 7 July 2010 at 11:34am
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Don't Make a Wave Committee members and Greenpeace founders (from left) Jim Bohlen, Paul Cote, and Irving Stowe.
There's an old joke that you can walk into any bar in Vancouver and find somebody claiming to be a Greenpeace founder. If that somebody had been Jim Bohlen, however, then this claim would have been absolutely true. It is with very deep sadness, then, that we have learned of Jim's death on 5 July, 2010, at the age of 84.
Posted by reto — 30 July 2009 at 11:20am
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This is my last day working in the UK office, and the last chance to introduce myself. I'm Reto from the Swiss Greenpeace office, where I work as a web editor. Here, I've had the pleasure to work with the UK web team during July.
This month has been an impressive experience: living and working in a really big city like London for the first time is quite different from living in Switzerland. In terms of population, Switzerland is as big as London. Luckily, the London office is located in a nice neighbourhood with good pubs and restaurants nearby, so I've really enjoyed it.
The nuclear industry has hitched a ride on the climate change
bandwagon, proclaiming that nuclear power will solve the world's global
warming and energy problems in one sweeping "nuclear renaissance."
As you might expect, there's a catch. Nuclear energy faces escalating
capital costs, a radioactive waste backlog, security and insurance
gaps, nuclear weapons proliferation, and expensive reactor
decommissioning that will magnify the waste problem.
Posted by bex — 21 November 2008 at 2:25pm
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Somehow, a harebrained idea born in the grim depths of last winter has inadvertently become a reality, and today is my last day of working for Greenpeace before I head off to cycle across Africa.
I'll be taking a lot with me from my three years in this madhouse highly effective campaigning organisation - not least a criminal record, a habit of lying to friends and family about my whereabouts (in the run up to direct actions), and an antisocial compulsion to explain the beauty of decentralised energy to every passer by.
Posted by bex — 14 November 2008 at 6:28pm
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"While the environmental threats facing Africans
are urgent and critical, Africa is in a position to leapfrog dirty
development and become a leader in helping to avert catastrophic
climate change and protect the natural environment. We are here to help
make that happen."
Amadou Kanoute, Executive Director of Greenpeace Africa.
Greenpeace Africa is here! Marking a whole new era for Greenpeace, we opened our first African office yesterday, in Johannesburg. In the coming weeks, we'll be opening two more - one in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and the other in Senegal.
Posted by bex — 7 November 2008 at 10:44am
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Greenpeace at the Climate Clinic for a debate on coal vs renewables.
We've just found out we're up for another web award: The People's Choice Website of the Year Award. If you like what we do here in cyberspace, please tootle over and vote!
Strangely, we've won two other awards in the past few weeks. EfficienCity, our virtual town showcasing decentralised energy, has won the W3 Best in Show for animation. (The W3 or World Wide Web Consortium are the folks who decide the standards for the web. The criteria they judge include creativity, usability, navigation, functionality, visual design, and ease of use, so all credit to our friends at BiroCreative who built EfficienCity.)
Posted by bex — 5 November 2008 at 1:26pm
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A glimpse of life in the Greenpeace office, courtesy of Isabel - who recently spent two weeks work experience helping us transform our presence on Bebo, Twitter, Flickr and other social networking sites, and generally helping us out.
Every
year in my school, all the pupils of year 11 are fortunate enough to be released
from the horrible grips of classwork, homework, coursework and exams to go and
complete two weeks of work experience. As one myself, I didn’t fancy doing
anything boring that would leave me with no useful experience, so I decided to
do something a little different. Through a long chain of people I managed to
land myself a placement here at Greenpeace in the web unit.
In 1969, Marie Aimee took her two children for medical treatment, a
six-day voyage across the Indian Ocean from their home on Diego Garcia
island to Port Louis, Mauritius. Her husband, Dervillie Permal, stayed
behind to work at a coconut oil factory and tend the family garden and
animals.
After visiting the doctor and picking up supplies in Port Louis, Marie
and her children arrived at the quay for the trip home. However, a
British Government agent refused to allow them onto the boat, stranding
Marie and her children in Mauritius. Throughout the following weeks,
other marooned islanders appeared, congregating in a local slum, living
in boxes or tin shacks. Two years later, Marie's husband arrived in
Port Louis with one small bag and a chilling story.
