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Why don't you want an oil job?

Posted by jamess — 14 January 2011 at 12:13pm - Comments
The question is: has big oil ever had the brightest minds? (BP boss Hayward in f
All rights reserved. Credit: Daniel Beltrá / Greenpeace
The question is: has big oil ever had the brightest minds? (BP boss Hayward in front of world's worst oil spill)

Want to be this man? Apparently not.

Yesterday someone pointed me to an article on the BBC lamenting the drop in young brains chasing jobs in the dirty oil sector. It seems that having lost the battle for our hearts many moons ago, the oil industry has now officially lost the battle for our minds, too.

Article tagged as: beyond oil, BP, climate, go beyond oil, jobs, students

Video: Remember George, green bank = new jobs

Posted by jossc — 19 October 2010 at 3:38pm - Comments

Greenpeace climbers scaled the Treasury building on the eve of the government's spending review, to hang a banner urging Chancellor George Osborne to create a Green Investment Bank which could create tens of thousands of new jobs by funding low-carbon programmes across the country.

Article tagged as: climate change, george osborne, green investment bank, jobs

George's top 10 green promises

Posted by jamess — 19 October 2010 at 6:44am - Comments

A few moments ago, four of our activists scaled the Treasury building where George Osborne works to deliver him a reminder: Green Bank = New Jobs. Right now he’s finalising the package of government cuts and spending that’s going to be released tomorrow, but we don’t want to see the potential for a green economy and new jobs squeezed out by the spending review.


A few moments ago, four of our activists scaled the Treasury building where George Osborne works to deliver him a reminder: Green Bank = New Jobs

Right now he’s finalising the package of government cuts and spending that’s going to be released tomorrow, but we don’t want to see the potential for a green economy and new jobs squeezed out by the spending review.

Article tagged as: climate change, george osborne, green investment bank, jobs

Like working for International Rescue?

Posted by jossc — 16 November 2009 at 1:22pm - Comments
Toby Osmond

Our latest recruit Toby reflects on life as an intern here at Canonbury Villas...

Hello people! At the mo I'm interning for Greenpeace UK at their head office in London, which is fun. Before this I was volunteering on various projects and in different departments in the office.

The difference between interning and volunteering is that an internship offers more of a set role with in-depth work and projects that you can get your teeth stuck in to, whereas general volunteer work can vary daily - depending on what work needs doing in the office. Interning requires a commitment from both the individual and the organisation to basically help each other achieve their goals, be it the organisation's campaign goals or the individual's desire to gain experience in a certain field.

Article tagged as: internships, jobs, volunteering

Greenpeace appoints a new leader

Posted by jossc — 11 June 2009 at 10:37am - Comments

Kumi Naidoo, Executive Director, Greenpeace International

Greenpeace will soon have a new leader. Kumi Naidoo will take up the role of Executive Director of Greenpeace International on the first of November 2009, when Gerd Leipold steps down after nine years as our activist-in-chief. Kumi was part of the successful struggle against apartheid in his native South Africa. He is an activist and a Rhodes Scholar. For ten years he was the General Secretary of CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation. Today he sits on the board of Greenpeace Africa and chairs the Global Campaign for Climate Action (GCCA).

He was one of the founders of Global Call to Action Against Poverty, which has grown since 2005 into a coalition of anti-poverty campaigners from over 100 countries. They apply public pressure on leaders to fulfil promises on aid, trade, debt, climate change and gender equality.

Article tagged as: jobs

Rhetoric vs reality

Posted by bex — 24 September 2008 at 10:44am - Comments

Yesterday: "I want British companies and British workers to seize the opportunity and lead the world in the transformation to a low carbon economy and I believe that we can create in modern green manufacturing and service one million new jobs" - Gordon Brown.

Today: British Energy is sold to French nuclear company EDF for £12.5 billion, exporting thousands of potential UK jobs to France, dealing a hammer blow to our chances of meeting our legally binding Renewables Obligation. 

Article tagged as: climate change, EDF, jobs, nuclear power, rhetoric versus reality

Sparking off the energy revolution

Posted by bex — 19 October 2004 at 8:00am - Comments
wind turbine manufacturing

wind turbine manufacturing

This man may not look like much of an environmentalist, but he is helping to build a future that is not only clean and green, but one that will generate jobs and create a new industry in Britain.

Wind power is the world's fastest growing energy source, and because of the government's commitment to have 20% of our electricity coming from renewable sources, it has really taken off in the UK too.

Article tagged as: climate change, jobs, renewable energy, wind power
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