Tonight, the winner of the inaugural Greenpeace Design Awards will be announced at a presentation ceremony in Adelaide. We had an overwhelming response to our call for poster designs that deliver the message ‘Be a Part of the Action’ – 1500 creatives from 77 different countries.
Judges shortlisted 29 finalists, which will be exhibited at […]
Mili Vuki, from Fiji, is a volunteer cook on Greenpeace’s ship, the Esperanza. She’s be on board for the recently finished tour of Pacific Island nations that was documenting climate change impacts and activism in the region.
Here’s a blog post from her.
As the spray from the ocean hits the deck I know we are getting […]
Our first “Voices from the Frontline” presentation in Sydney last Thursday was a success. People came from all over to hear two visiting community leaders from the Pacific share their experiences of climate change impacts in their region.
But, don’t take my word for it. Sam Molko, our campaigner in Papua New Guinea, was also […]
The Esperanza is winding up its tour of the Pacific after visiting its last destination – Vanuatu. The last Greenpeace ship to visit the country was the first Rainbow Warrior in the mid-80s.
Here’s an update from Emily, aboard the Esperanza.
The Pacific Voices ship tour is nearly over - we have finished our last stop in […]
Meet Australian polar explorer and guide Eric Philips. He’s in the Arctic with the Greenpeace team that’s documenting climate change impacts in the region. Eric is there to give safety guidance to the team in this beautiful, yet hazardous, natural environment.
In these two stunning, short videos, Eric talks about some of the dangers involved with […]
The fact that multinational miner Rio Tinto is lobbying the federal government (as reported in the Australia, on July 27th, 2009) is striking and curious for a number of reasons.
Firstly, as Australia’s number one uranium miner, it should be no surprise that Rio are looking to develop market share in the nuclear energy production in […]
Packed to the brim with scientists, explorers and high-tech gismos, Greenpeace’s ship the Arctic Sunrise has embarked on a three-month mission to chart the impacts of climate change in the Arctic.
So far the signs have been worrying. “The veneer of fractured ice over the Arctic Ocean is changing, disintegrating before my eyes,” explains Australian expedition […]
Three Pacific Islander community leaders will be speaking in Sydney (23 July), Brisbane (28 July), Melbourne (30 July) and Cairns (2 August) in the coming weeks. It’s part of “Voices from the Frontline: Taking Action on Climate Change in the Pacific”, co-hosted by Greenpeace.
Here’s an introduction to the speakers.
Pelenise Alofa Pilitati, Kiribati
Pelenise is a […]
Michelle Hunt is one of our interns working on public engagement. She’s finishing up on Wednesday after busily organising a series of public talks on climate change.
When I started at Greenpeace three months ago I was the classic armchair (or closet) activist. I really cared about a large number of environmental and humanitarian issues but […]
Greenpeace ship, the Esperanza, is currently touring the Pacific to document how people in Pacific Island nations are adapting and dealing with climate change. The ship and its crew were recently in Samoa, and met with a number of inspiring people who are involved in activism on climate change, including the country’s own Prime […]
We’ve just had another update from Greenpeace ship, the Esperanza. The ship is currently touring the Pacific to document efforts in Pacific Island nations to adapt to climate change impacts.
This update is from Emily.
We’ve been and gone from Samoa, and are now making our way slowly west across the north of Fiji towards Vanuatu, our […]
This post is just in from Junichi Sato. Junichi is one of the two Greenpeace activists known as the “Tokyo Two” that were arrested when they presented evidence of corruption in Japan’s whaling industry to Japanese authorities.
While Japan’s Criminal Justice System may look OK from a distance once you get close enough to smell and […]
Chino Uelese is currently aboard Greenpeace ship, the Esperanza, as a deckhand.
Kia orana/ Talofa lava,
As well as being a deckhand on the Esperanza, my ancestral roots and language have given me a unique role on this ship tour. My mum is part Samoan/ Fijian and my dad originates from Samoa and the Cook […]
It was an action-packed week for Greenpeace in Australia and globally. From investigating climate impacts in the Arctic and Pacific, to the tops of coal power plant smokestacks in Italy and the heights of Mount Rushmore.
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The dust has settled from the G8 meeting in Italy where politicians gathered to discuss the greatest challenge facing our civilisation. I was going to write ‘world leaders’ but ‘politicians’ is a more accurate term. Leadership implies vision and decisive action. All we got from the G8 was hot air.
We have 145 days to go […]
As I write this, I’m 200 metres above the most polluting power station in Italy. Brindisi (which I’m assuming is Italian for “blows a gale”) is a long way from home but six other Greenpeace activists and myself have made it our temporary home, occupying the top of the massive smoke stack.
This is by far […]
The Greenpeace international team have been taking action all over the world to try to build pressure around the crucial G8 meeting and Major Economies Forum (MEF) in Italy.
The statement that just came out of the MEF is little more than hot air, with no mid-term emission reduction targets and no money on the table […]
The G8 meeting in Italy has just wrapped up, to be followed today by a meeting of the Major Economies Forum (MEF). It is a crucial moment in the leadup to the Copenhagen meeting in December when world leaders will thrash out the detail of a new global climate deal to replace the Kyoto Protocol.
Reports […]
“Salt-tolerant GM plants could help feed the world” reads the headline in today’s copy of The Age. Sounds impressive huh? Until you read the actual scientific article that the report is referring to and discover that the research is still at proof of concept stage and was done in rockcress (Arabdopsis) - hardly an important […]
Seni Nabou is our Political Advisor in the Pacific region. She normally works out of our office in Suva, Fiji, but currently Seni is aboard Greenpeace ship, the Esperanza, for its Pacific “Our Climate, Our Future” ship tour. So far, Seni’s met with Cook Island Government officials as well as residents on the islands.
It’s […]