It started out that Team Greenpeace would be running a 26.2 mile marathon in Big Sur, California to raise money to help protect the environment. But now, it’s become something more. Continue reading
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What a semester with Greenpeace has taught me about activism
This blog was written by Emily Blase, a Greenpeace Semester student with the spring 2013 class.
I’m walking away from the Greenpeace Semester program saddened to say goodbye, but empowered by all the skills now under my belt. The program aims at giving students an in-depth understanding of environmental campaigning and strategy, organizing, messaging, and non-violent direct action, a peaceful tactic to protect our natural ecosystems.. Through the course of this program, we’ve had the chance to talk to many of the people at Greenpeace working directly on environmental issues. In March, our class traveled to Raleigh, North Carolina to help with a campaign that Greenpeace is running against Duke Energy, the nation’s largest utility company and gobbler of dirty energy including coal and nukes. You can see all the action from our trip on our Tumblr. Continue reading
7 Reasons the Environmental Movement is Winning
From solar-powered emails to recycled cities, there are plenty of reasons to feel hopeful for our planet this Earth Day. Although protecting our forests, oceans and air is an endless job, we can also step back and appreciate all the really cool stuff going on all over the world thanks to people coming together and finding a better way. Big or small, these reasons all point to progress that is actually working. Continue reading
Celebrate Earth Day with a Greenpeace playlist!
Guitarist Jerry Garcia, Grateful Dead, and bassist Freebo, play a benefit concert for Greenpeace on Pier 31 in San Francisco.
In celebration of Earth Day, Slacker and Greenpeace launched a new station entitled Going Green with Greenpeace. The station will play music from some of the world’s most environmentally friendly and active artists. Tune into the station with your Slacker account or log in with Facebook. Continue reading
You may have paid your taxes, but nation’s largest utility company Duke Energy doesn’t have to
It’s the day after tax day, and while many of us may be cringing at the big checks we just wrote the IRS or celebrating our refunds, Duke Energy isn’t paying federal income taxes for the fifth year in a row. After its merger with Progress Energy, North Carolina based Duke Energy is the nation’s largest utility company and raked in more than $1 billion in profits last year.
Duke is using the deferral process to avoid paying taxes, which should have been $627 million. Instead it actually received a rebate of $46 million. Interesting timing since Duke Energy is also planning customer rate hikes to pay for investments in coal and nuclear energy. Continue reading
Greenpeace documentary about Chicago coal plant premieres at film festival
“What should we call you?” I ask Leila Mendez before our Q and A session after a screening of Monsters, Greenpeace’s documentary about Leila and Chicago’s fight to shut down an ancient coal plant . Star? Too Hollywood. Documentary subject? Too weird. Kick-ass activist? Bingo. Continue reading
At Greenpeace Action Camp, a vision of the movement we want
For a long time, corporations and governments have used the tried and true tactic of divide and conquer: they’ve tried to convince us that the immigrant rights struggle is different from the worker rights struggle, which is different from the climate justice struggle, to name just a few of the efforts to make the world a more sustainable place. Continue reading
Wanted: Polar explorers. No experience required.
In just over two weeks I will be standing on the frozen Arctic ocean, preparing to ski to the North Pole. I’ll be wearing four layers of fleece and a special hat that someone knitted for me. In my pockets I’ll carry some almond chocolate, an iPod, and a declaration of hope for future generations. Continue reading
Tell Secretary of State John Kerry: I Love the Arctic!
While several of our international Greenpeace colleagues gear up for an epic journey to the North Pole next month, volunteers and activists around the world are preparing to take the Arctic to their communities and politicians.
As part of his new role as Secretary of State, Senator John Kerry will be a U.S. delegate on the Arctic Council. A champion for global warming legislation in the Senate, Secretary Kerry now has the power to advocate for Arctic protection through the Arctic Council. The quote below from the Secretary himself gives us reason to believe that he’ll do the right thing when it comes to Arctic drilling.
“This fight against drilling in the Arctic Refuge is a fight about our principles. It’s about standing up for our environment, our families and our future, and I won’t give up this fight.”
UN report: human progress may be reversed by climate change
People of Laguna bay area, 60kms. south of Manila, try to survive as typhoon Ondoy causes floods in low lying areas
When it comes to political action on climate change, it’s the richest nations in the North that demand developing nations also act, which seems fair at first glance. Continue reading