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Why we’re supporting high-speed rail done right

Posted by Jamie Woolley - 17th January 2012
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HS2 is great in principle, but the plan has plenty of holes
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Last week, the government gave the thumbs-up to the first phase of the new high-speed rail network (aka HS2). Since then, debate between those for and against has filled the media including a piece in the Mail claiming Greenpeace is opposed to the project. We’re not of course, but… Read More

Vegetarians won’t change the fishing industry

Posted by Willie Mackenzie - 24th October 2011
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Without fail, anytime I blog about more sustainable fish there will be at least one comment along the lines of ‘go vegan’ or ‘no one needs to eat fish anyway!’ That is of course fine and a viewpoint I (as a vegetarian of 25 years and counting) can certainly sympathise… Read More

Success! You made Nestlé drop dodgy palm oil!

Posted by Jamie Woolley - 17th May 2010

You’ll never guess what. Nestlé has only gone and agreed to our campaign demands! And you’ve made this possible. We really, seriously could not have done it without you. Now we need to move straight on to the next big player in the palm oil industry – banking giant… Read More

Why geoengineering can’t turn down the global thermostat

Posted by Greenpeace UK - 2nd September 2009
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“Hacking the only planet we’ve got rather than simply changing the way we live shows a lack of judgment, to put it mildly.” – Alex Steffen of Worldchanging When the Royal Society do a report on something, they do it properly. Their latest, ‘Geoengineering the climate: Science Governance and… Read More

How cattle ranches are chewing up the Amazon rainforest

Posted by Jamie Woolley - 31st January 2009
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For about three years now, we’ve been working on curbing the impacts of the soya industry on the Amazon rainforest in Brazil which, before the current moratorium was put into place, was replacing the forest with plantations on a massive scale. However, there’s another agricultural sector cutting deep into… Read More