Posted by jossc — 24 October 2008 at 11:53am
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Chinese farmers are discovering that resurrecting the old tradition of keeping ducks in their rice fields allows them to cut down on the amount of pesticides and artificial fertilisers they need to use to grow their crops.
Posted by jossc — 16 September 2008 at 1:35pm
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Company scores plummeted in the previous edition of Greenpeace's Guide to Greener Electronics, when new criteria on climate change were introduced. However, leading brands like Nokia and Samsung are now making significant progress in greening their electronics products, with improved environmental policies responding not only to these new energy criteria, but also to the more stringent chemical and e-waste criteria.
Posted by jossc — 25 June 2008 at 11:50am
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With expanded and tougher criteria on toxic chemicals, electronic waste and new criteria on climate change only Sony and Sony Ericsson score more than 5/10 in our latest Guide to Greener Electronics. Nintendo and Microsoft remain rooted to the bottom of the Guide.
The Greener Electronics Guide
is our way of getting the electronics industry to face up to the
problem of e-waste. We want manufacturers to get rid of harmful
chemicals in their products. We want to see an end to the stories of
unprotected child labourers scavenging mountains of cast-off gadgets
created by society's gizmo-loving ways.
Posted by jamie — 8 January 2008 at 11:25am
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Those pesky biotech companies never give up. After recently spinning the line that GM crops can be used to safeguard food production from the ravages of climate change, their latest wheeze is to try and convince us that GM technology can help reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Posted by jamie — 4 October 2007 at 3:43pm
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I had one of those meetings this morning where I was doodling on my notebook rather than listening as attentively as perhaps I should have been, but the words 'China', 'light' and 'bulbs' caught my attention. I started paying even more attention when I realised it related to the news that China will be phasing out incandescent bulbs in the next 10 years.
Responding to the news that the European Commission has agreed to extend the 66% import tax on Chinese energy efficient lightbulbs for another 12 months, Greenpeace Climate and Energy campaigner Laura Yates said:
"Given the urgency of climate change, it’s scandalous that the EU have responded to Osram’s whingeing. It’s now going to take another year to abolish this unnecessary and protectionist tax on efficient lightbulbs, and if the industry cartel has its way it will be at least another ten years until incandescent bulbs are banned completely."
Stretching right across South East Asia, from Sumatra and Borneo to New Guinea and the Solomon Islands, the Paradise Forests form a wonderfully diverse region.
Posted by jossc — 30 July 2007 at 4:45pm
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One of the most serious consequences of the dramatic floods which swamped parts of England in recent weeks was the loss of clean drinking water. Even now that the citizens of Tewkesbury have running water once again, it will be a few more days before they can safely start drinking their tap water.
Posted by jamie — 2 July 2007 at 4:37pm
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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.