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Greenpeace creates “Green Amazon Web Services” since Amazon hasn’t yet

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When most people think of Amazon.com, they think of e-books or online shopping. But Amazon is also responsible for storing and delivering the data behind a massive portion of the Internet via its Amazon Web Services (AWS) business, including Netflix, Pinterest, Spotify, and Smugmug. Amazon won’t say exactly how many servers it has keeping the Internet humming, but a recent study estimated that one third of all daily internet users will access an Amazon AWS cloud site on average at least once a day.

Unfortunately, much of the massive AWS cloud is powered by dirty sources of energy like coal, which is why Greenpeace has asked AWS to follow other leading Internet companies, like Google and Facebook, to switch from dirty to clean energy.

Since AWS has failed to seize this opportunity, Greenpeace launched a hoax “Green AWS” website last week at re:Invent, Amazon’s biggest conference for its customers, in Las Vegas. Continue reading →

Google shows off its data centers, powered increasingly by clean energy

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Ever wondered what the Internet looks like? If so, you’re in luck: Google has drawn back the curtains of its data centers, the facilities that compute and store all of our gmail, youtube videos, and searches.

Google’s data center in Hamina, Finland by Connie Zhou

Google’s photos are beautiful. They express the amazing legacy of innovation that technology companies have built in data storage, a legacy we’re hoping they can apply to clean energy. They also convey the massive scale of the data that we’re increasingly sending to the cloud. For three years, Greenpeace has been drawing attention to the fact that all that data requires a massive amount of electricity, but also that companies have the potential to make sure that energy comes from clean sources. Continue reading →

The future of the Amazon uncertain

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Overview of the Amazon © Rodrigo Baléia / Greenpeace

For ten years, the fate of Brazil’s forests have hung in the balance as the future of the Forest Code has been up for grabs. We’ve see the debate over the law come to a head over the last few years, as the agribusiness sector pressed the Congress for major changes to the law and the scientific community and 80% of the public opposed drastic changes to the law. Continue reading →

The Amazon has lost a warrior

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The rainbow usually seen floating above the Amazon is shining less brightly than usual. Some might even say it is a little dull.

And it’s because of sad news: we lost one of our own this week. Tatiana de Carvalho, Greenpeace Brazil’s Amazon campaigner, has left us following a fatal accident at a waterfall near Brasilia, Brazil.

Tati, as she was affectionately known, was bursting with pure joy, authenticity, courage and spontaneity. Continue reading →

JBS caught red handed again in Brazil

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by Sarah Shoraka

Report The cattle industry is renowned for being the single biggest cause of deforestation globally and a few years ago, Greenpeace confronted the industry’s practices in Brazil. With your help we achieved a huge victory within months of launching the campaign and it seemed the cattle industry was ready to clean up its act.

But Brazilian company JBS, the world’s biggest meat producer, has failed to stick to its promises and has forced us back into the saddle again. Continue reading →

Our 10 day Amazon blockade is suspended as talks begin to fix pig iron industry

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Yesterday was a dramatic day here on board the Rainbow Warrior and in the capital of Brazil too. Our ten day blockade was suspended to give space for a meeting in the capital which we hoped would be an important step towards cleaning up the pig iron trade and stopping slave labor and deforestation from entering the supply chain of big car companies like GM and Ford. Continue reading →

Video: The Amazon approaches its moment of truth

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I’ve written a few blogs since I’ve been on the Rainbow Warrior, but my time in Brazil has given me enough material for thousands more. I worked as a journalist before Greenpeace and that is how I have approached this trip, trying to tell you the stories that happen every day in this magical country and do some justice to the people who live in it. Continue reading →

The Rainbow Warrior in Action!

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Less than a year old, and the Rainbow Warrior is causing trouble already. But being a Greenpeace ship that’s just what nature intended.

Five days into a major direct action here in the Amazon and the new ship is holding up well. We’ve been painting banners below deck, taking urgent media calls from the campaign office and eating Walter’s fantastic food in the shiny new mess. Occupying an anchor chain for nearly 140 hours has required all the tools at our disposal, and we’ve been hoisting inflatable boats on and off the ship like clockwork. The Bosun’s workshop has seen sawing, chopping, gluing and creative improvisation (we’re cooking up a pretty dramatic little number right now – watch this space). The conference room has been turned into a makeshift recreational area, allowing the crew somewhere to listen to music and chill out in between shifts for the action. Continue reading →