This year’s Earth Hour on March 23 is no ordinary Earth Hour. Climate change is being felt around the world – ravaging communities, destroying lives and livelihoods. We are running out of time, but we can still fix this. Continue reading
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Greenpeace, Dow Jones agree: Duke not a global leader in sustainability
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A.E. Bates airship calls out Duke's dirty energy rate hike.
In perhaps the most public rebuke of Duke’s overstuffed environmental rhetoric to date, Dow Jones booted Duke from its list of greenest companies in the world today. As least as far as Dow Jones is concerned, Duke can no longer claim the mantle of ‘global leader’ in sustainability. When it comes to toxic pollution and climate change, Rogers and Duke Energy need to get out of denial and into action on behalf of the more than 7 million households they serve. Continue reading
It’s Time For Fewer Tuna Fishing Boats, Not Empty Promises
by Sari Tolvanen
There is consensus. Too many big tuna fishing boats are chasing declining tuna populations. Environmentalists know this; the tuna industry knows it and governments, scientists and fishermen know that if we want fish tomorrow, we need fewer boats today.
Tuna fishing fleets, however, have continued to expand. The International Sustainable Seafood Foundation (ISSF), whose membership includes 80% of the world’s largest tuna companies, claims that the industry is committed to change.
The ISSF obviously has the muscle to promote such change. In spite of this ability, this grouping of tuna catchers, processers and brands made the surprising announcement that it had granted itself another six months to commission even more boats that would be built between now and June 2015. Continue reading
World Water Day
By Pat C
Water is precious. All living things need it to survive.
But we are failing miserably to take care of it. Many struggle to get it while others believe their taps will never run dry.
Greenpeace campaigns in many places and on many fronts – oceans, climate change, energy, forests, toxic chemicals and agriculture — but all share one common thread. Water. Continue reading
Transforming the tuna industry
by Oliver Knowles
Greenpeace is running a long-term global campaign to make the tuna industry sustainable, to reverse the decline of key tuna populations and stop the wasteful killing of millions of sharks, rays, turtles and other marine species which are currently caught as bycatch due to destructive tuna fishing practices still used by fishing operations. Continue reading