Videos

Threats and intimidation down Amazon way

Posted by jamie — 30 August 2007 at 3:48pm - Comments

As the narrator of this startling video states, "working in the Amazon forest is not for the faint of heart." In the past, people from campaigning organisations have been bullied by land owners and workers, facing intimidation, violence, death threats and even murder.

Article tagged as: agriculture, amazon, brazil, deforestation, indigenous people, south america, videos

The yellow monster lurking underground

Posted by jamie — 3 August 2007 at 4:56pm - Comments

In making sure that nuclear power doesn't become part of the UK's energy policy, we tend to focus on the myth that it will solve climate change, the vast expense and the danger from radioactive waste. However, the other end of the supply chain is also fraught with problems and uranium mining can seriously damage your health. Just watch this video:

Article tagged as: australia, mining, nuclear, nuclear power, uranium, USA, videos

The real solution to climate change

Posted by bex — 3 August 2007 at 4:27pm - Comments

We recently launched a new film about the real solution to climate change (clue: it's not nuclear power - and the film explains exactly why not). The film's been sent to every MP in the country and is making its way around the interweb nicely. But we think its message - that the UK needs a new, and sane, energy system now - is crucial and we want to push it out further. So we've produced this new trailer.

There are plenty of ways you can help us get the word out: write to your MP asking them to watch the film; embed the film or the trailer on your website, blog or MySpace page; send it to a friend; Hugg it, Digg it or add it to your StumbleUpon favourites.

Climate change is happening. We know exactly what needs to be done to stop it. The technologies already exist. Let's do it.

Article tagged as: beer, CHP, climate change, multimedia, nuclear power, renewable energy, solutions, tidal power, videos, wave power, wind power

Coal: because "the future is later"

Posted by bex — 31 July 2007 at 3:20pm - Comments

Here's a gem for you, via Gristmill:


(If you're not entirely convinced that the coal industry should determine your planet's future, you can help stop the construction of the first coal-fired power plants in the UK for 30 years here.)

Article tagged as: climate change, coal, multimedia, videos

A little light relief from India

Posted by jamie — 25 July 2007 at 5:20pm - Comments

I've been meaning to write about these videos for some time but somehow it never seemed the right moment (and all our Woolworths work kept getting in the way), so apologies if you've already seen them elsewhere. Yet in the lull after the hard launch of our light bulbs campaign, it's worth pointing out that it's not just in the UK that a shift to energy-efficient bulbs is being sought.

Article tagged as: climate change, energy efficiency, india, light bulbs, videos

The Convenient Solution - what you can do

Posted by bex — 18 July 2007 at 5:32pm - Comments

If you like our film, please help us to make sure that the UK gets a genuinely clean and efficient energy system.

Article tagged as: CHP, climate change, efficiency, multimedia, nuclear power, videos

Woolworths won't stop selling power crazy light bulbs, so we've cleared the shelves for them

Posted by jamie — 14 July 2007 at 10:20am - Comments

A Greenpeace volunteer locked on to baskets of inefficient light bulbs

It's going to be a busy day at branches of Woolworths across the UK today as the Greenpeace Light Brigade pay them a visit to ask why they're still selling old-fashioned, power crazy light bulbs. Woolworths came bottom of our new league table, ranking light bulb retailers according to their commitments to phase out inefficient bulbs, so our volunteers have decided to take matters into their own hands.

Article tagged as: climate change, direct actions, energy, league table, light bulbs, retailers, supermarkets, videos, woolworths

Ten years in China

Posted by jamie — 2 July 2007 at 4:37pm - Comments

With Blair's recent departure, recollections of 1997 in the media have been dominated by two things: his ascension to power and the Spice Girls. On the other side of the world in China, that same year was important for a couple of other reasons. Most famously, the lease ran out on a small but strategic piece of land called Hong Kong and the British Empire lost one of its last outposts as ownership return to the People's Republic of China.

But on that same piece of land, about the same time Chris Patten was bidding a teary farewell, something else significant happened (at least, we like to think it was) - Greenpeace China opened its doors. The importance of this particular office to the organisation can't be underestimated and, as this video shows, many of our campaigns can't help but take China's astonishing economic and social development into account. And with China now possibly the world's biggest emitter of carbon dioxide, the next ten years are going to be even busier over there.

Article tagged as: china, climate change, e-waste, forests, GM, GM food, illegal timber, toxics, videos

Cheating on climate

Posted by jamie — 21 June 2007 at 3:25pm - Comments

I was chatting to the guys from the Centre for Alternative Technology earlier today (they're running the Bluetooth Takeaway in our field at Glastonbury) about some videos we might film about what they're up to at the festival. It seems, however, that they're already video stars in their own right, having filmed and starred in their own production, Cheat Neutral.

Article tagged as: CAT, climate change, co2 emissions, glastonbury, offsetting, videos

Your climate change videos

Posted by jossc — 20 June 2007 at 3:25pm - Comments

A big thanks once again to all of you who took part in our Glastonbury competition. Here are some of the best entries in the video section - it's a shame there could only be one winner in each category.

My birthday in the park (living with climate change...)



Article tagged as: art, climate change, competitions, glastonbury, images, multimedia, videos
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