Da Vinci's Vitruvian Man recreated on Arctic sea ice by John Quigley
As I write, major oil companies like Shell, ExxonMobil and Chevron are planning their moves into the Arctic to exploit its vast mineral resources. The five Arctic states are beginning the process of carving up the high north. Meanwhile, the ice keeps melting – we’ve now lost 75 per cent of Arctic sea ice in just 30 years. The global battle to protect the Arctic - from oil exploration, from industrialisation and from climate change – needs to be ambitious, bold and successful. So we’re asking you: what do you think we should we be doing to save the Arctic?
Make no mistake; nuclear weapons are a problem today. There are approximately 30,000 nuclear weapons in the world, belonging to nine countries: US, Russian Federation, UK, France, China, Israel, India, Pakistan and North Korea. More than 1,500 of them ready to launch at a moment's notice, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Although some may consider them an unfortunate relic from the Cold War, the truth is that the nuclear weapons states are clinging to them as hard as they can, reinventing new roles and designs for them, and making proposals for smaller 'useable' weapons. And all this despite plenty of speeches, promises and legally binding treaties to get rid of them!
From its start Greenpeace has campaigned against nuclear weapons: we have tracked plutonium and nuclear waste shipments around the globe; highlighted the dangers of reprocessing; protested against nuclear-powered and nuclear-armed warships or submarines and confronted the nuclear weapons states about their weapons programmes.
And people are with us: the majority of people and states want disarmament now!
Posted by jamie — 10 December 2008 at 1:38pm
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I've just received an email about this action being spearheaded by the UK Youth Delegation at Poznan. Pick up the phone and make the call!
Right now, Gordon Brown is preparing to meet with other European heads of state to sign a crucial climate change deal. This deal is the first of its kind - and the rest of the world will use this as their example. If it’s not ambitious enough (and all signs point that way) this deal will jeopardise our future.
We have a small window of opportunity to change this.
In the next 24 hours let’s get as many of us as possible to call Gordon Brown and ask him for the strong climate deal that we deserve!
1. Call this number - 0207 930 4433 (No.10 switchboard)
2. Say who you are, where you’re from and ask to leave a message for Gordon Brown
3. The operator will tell you that you can’t leave a message and should
send a letter instead. Tell him/her that this is urgent, and you want
to see Gordon push for a strong climate deal on Thursday
4. Call three friends and get them to call Gordon too
5. Forward this video on to everyone you know
6. Feel warm and fuzzy that you’ve exercised your democratic right!
Posted by jamie — 31 July 2008 at 3:53pm
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The bad news is that the vote on illegal timber amongst members of the European Commission has been delayed (they're looking at legislation to ban dodgy wood from Europe) and now probably won't take place until September. The good news is that it gives us all a chance to have some fun in the meantime (and do some creative campaigning at the same time).
We all love forests and we want you to show the powers that be in the EU just how much. The forests have already made their own effort, but here's what we'd like you to do:
Posted by jamie — 23 June 2008 at 10:19am
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Just one of the many actions we've taken to expose the government's shoddy approach to illegal timber
Over the past few years, we've done plenty of
work to highlight the problem of illegally
logged timber being imported and sold in the UK - remember the government's repeated
foul-ups in this area? It's insane, but we still don't have any laws
preventing illegal timber from places like the Amazon and south-east Asia
reaching our shores, nor does any other country in Europe.
Posted by jamie — 29 April 2008 at 3:59pm
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Just some of the men, women and things who have told Dove to stop trashing rainforests
Our Dove campaign is rolling along and at the weekend it broke out into town centres up and down the country. Groups of Greenpeace volunteers were asking members of the public to pose for photos which are now part of our growing Flickr gallery full of people who think it's a bit mad to chop down rainforests just to make soap. We've had young 'uns, old 'uns and even a Cyberman - if you've had your picture taken, see if you can find it and send it to the people behind Dove (details below).
