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Posts Tagged ‘Greenpeace’
Conservation, Wildlife & Flora, Mar 21st, 2010,
Many products contain catchy jingles and slogans in their advertising schemes. Some are extremely well-known, such as those by Oscar Meyer, McDonald’s, Hershey’s, and Geico. However, one company’s catchy commercials may end up costing them dearly.
Nestle’s KitKat jingles have embedded it into our brains that if we want a break, we need a piece of [...]
Tags: campaign, deforestation, environmental destruction, Greenpeace, Indonesia, Kitkat, Nestle’s, orangutans, palm oil
Conservation, Politics, Science & Technology, Wildlife & Flora, Feb 24th, 2010,
The Japanese whaling season in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary is drawing to a close. Sea Shepherd has managed to keep the Japanese from killing any whale for the past 19 days and it looks to stay that way until their campaign ends. On an even more positive note, there has been no further ship [...]
Tags: embezzlement, Greenpeace, IWC, Japanese Whaling, proposal, Sea Shepherd, Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary, Tokyo Two, trial, Whale Wars, whales, WWF
Climate change, Health, Pollution, Feb 22nd, 2010,
Social networking giant Facebook has received a lot of press lately and most of it hasn’t been good.
First, news came out that their new data center would be powered by coal. Then, Change.org ran a petition in an attempt to get them to switch to a more renewable power source. Now, Facebook comes head-to-head with [...]
Tags: coal power, complaints, controversy, Facebook, Greenpeace, new data center, Pacific Power, petitions, renewable energy
Green basics, Pollution, Recycling, Science & Technology, Jan 24th, 2010,
The latest ‘Guide to Greener Electronics’ from Greenpeace, updated for January 2010, still has Finnish cell phone gods Nokia in first place for the most eco-friendly electronics company, followed by Sony Ericsson and Toshiba. Apple is moving up in the ranks in line with their successful green image, while Samsung has plummeted from 2nd to [...]
Tags: electronics, Green, Greenpeace, guide, Guide to Greener Electronics, latest
Climate change, Conservation, Videos & Documentaries, Wildlife & Flora, Jan 23rd, 2010,
Deforestation is one of the main, direct causes responsible for Global Warming, habitat destruction, and loss of ecosystems.
The Swedish branch of Greenpeace released a very important video (shown to the left here) that shows the effects of deforestation and how quickly it can happen. The text you will see in the movie basically states that: [...]
Tags: climate change, deforestation, forests, global warming, Greenpeace, habitat loss, old growth, rainforest, Sweden, trees, video
Climate change, Videos & Documentaries, Jan 17th, 2010,
‘The Sundarbans, a network of islands that spans the mouth of the Ganges delta from eastern India to Bangladesh, are sinking rapidly. The seas around the islands in the Bay of Bengal that support a unique mangrove ecosystem are rising faster than anywhere else on Earth, and the lives and livelihoods of more than 4 [...]
Tags: Greenpeace, India, Peter Caton, photo, photograph, sinking, Sundarbans
Climate change, Dec 4th, 2009,
In a campaign to persuade – or scare – key players at the UN climate talks in Copenhagen to agree upon key legislation to stop climate change, a dramatic series of posters welcomes arrivals at Copenhagen Airport. The startling placards by environmental group Greenpeace represent a grim future where today’s leaders have failed to act [...]
Tags: Airport, climate, climate change Copenhagen, cop15, Copenhagen Airport, environment, Greenpeace, Obama, posters
Climate change, Nov 19th, 2009,
Greenpeace now has a new director, and one with years of experience in the field.
Kumi Naidoo, 44, is the first African director of this great organization and also the first executive director to come from outside of the organization (i.e. he wasn’t promoted from within). He is certainly passionate about the work he does, however. [...]
Tags: Apartheid, climate change, copenhagen, environmental organizations, global warming, Greenpeace, Kumi Naidoo, South Africa
Climate change, Oct 16th, 2009,
Numerous efforts have been made to elicit publicity and drive home the message that we need to take action to stop global warming. Of late, seven hundred men and women volunteered to pose nude in a French vineyard to warn people about the dangers of global warming. This human art installation was initiated by artist [...]
Tags: climate change, environmental activism, Greenpeace
Climate change, Oct 6th, 2009,
Last September 15th, members of Greenpeace Canada infiltrated the Albian tar sands and shut themselves within the dump trucks and crane cabs used onsite, effectively ceasing all activities for about 30 hours.
Tar or Oil sands are one of the dirtiest ways to extract fossil fuel from the earth, involving the destruction of the boreal forests [...]
Tags: carbon emissions, climate change, Greenpeace, tar sands