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Posted by jossc — 13 March 2009 at 11:10am
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Greenpeace climbers making their point at the Jozwin II B site last December
Great news just in from Poland, where work on the giant Jóźwin IIB open-cast pit and coal mine near Konin has been suspended. Following a legal challenge submitted last December by Greenpeace, a Polish court has ruled that there were problems with the environmental assessment process undertaken before work began on the site. Construction has now been halted while the process is reviewed.
This is a big victory - Jóźwin IIB was the site for our most recent Climate Rescue Station, set up last winter to remind delegates at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in nearby Poznań that tackling climate change and building new coal-fired power stations are fundamentally incompatible aspirations. It will be particularly well-received by many of the peaceful activists who were attacked by mine workers at the end of last year during the protests.
Posted by jossc — 26 February 2009 at 3:27pm
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An old Philips TV at a scrap yard in Ghana
Last week we broke the shocking story about what actually happens to our electronic waste; instead of being safely recycled in the UK or Europe, much of it is instead being exported as 'second-hand goods' to places like Nigeria, China and India. Once there it's either sold for scrap, illegally dumped, or broken apart for recycling by some of the poorest people in the country, with no safety measures to protect them from the dangerous toxic chemicals like mercury, cadmium and lead which the e-waste contains.
Posted by jossc — 7 January 2009 at 3:40pm
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Apple's detox promise: close but not quite there yet
Mac fans in our office (and there are more than a few) were getting excited yesterday - we were expecting an announcement from MacWorld 2009 in San Francisco, confirming that Apple would as promised be removing all toxic PVC plastic and brominated flame retardants (BFRs) from its entire new product range.
Confidence was high that this was going to happen because we've had the word from the man himself - Apple CEO Steve Jobs - from as far back as May 2007 that toxic PVC and BFRs in Mac computers would be history by the end of 2008. His enthusiam for the subject, of course, initially stemmed from the success of our Green my Apple campaign, which generated huge support and discussion from Mac addicts worldwide.
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One of the largest single stores of carbon on the planet is a step closer to lasting protection, according to the environmental group Greenpeace. The Indonesian province of Riau has pledged to halt the destruction of its carbon rich peatlands and forests in a move which could prevent billions of tonnes of carbon from entering the atmosphere.
Posted by bex — 10 July 2008 at 2:30pm
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Primary rainforest, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia. © Davison/Greenpeace
Regular visitors to our
website might have noticed that a few days ago, we launched a cyber action
against the Italian company Ferrero, a major user of palm oil and maker
of Nutella and Ferrero Rocher.
Well, we’re delighted to
report that, before we even had the chance to email our supporters about
it, we’ve had another success in the protection of Indonesia’s rainforests and
peatlands - and of the threatened species that live there and, of course, the climate.
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Posted by jossc — 27 May 2008 at 4:42pm
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