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Macken Sense: Mark Twain
When Mark Twain reminded his readers that there were three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics, he was actually describing the joy of arranging his figures, an occupation that “beguiled” Twain. And why wouldn’t it? Twain was smart enough to know that numbers – and their arrangement – carried enormous power. In a…
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Protecting Antarctica, the heart of the ocean
For many people the Antarctic is little more than a far-away frozen region, literally at the edge of the world; with sterile glaciers, icebergs and colonies of not-so ‘Happy Feet’ penguins, buffeted for much of their lives in the extreme Antarctic wind. Blogpost by Veronica Frank, Greenpeace International – May 21, 2012 The ice-covered waters…
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From Cronulla to the Kimberley
Last week, treasured Australian writer Tim Winton delivered this powerful speech (read the full transcript here) to parliament in Canberra calling for protection of our vital oceans. While oceans give us life, we plunder them of fish and choke them with pollution. To cure our oceans crisis we need to create large areas of marine…
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Macken sense: It’s time for Martin
If the Prime Minister is fair dinkum about creating a clean economy future and developing a diverse and robust economy that will carry us through the gloom following the boom she needs to move the Minister for Resources, Energy & Tourism, Martin Ferguson, out of his portfolio and separate the Energy and Tourism portfolios. Of…
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Shell: Dear Greenpeace, We know where you live…
On Wednesday, staff at Greenpeace Germany received an important-looking letter from Shell – well, Shell’s Legal Services department. Over the next 24 hours or so, identical letters arrived at other Greenpeace offices, including here in Australia, Mexico, UK, France, Hungary, Nordic, Japan, Mediterranean, Poland, Greece, Czech Republic, Belgium, Canada and even Greenpeace’s Science Unit. I…
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Where is the forest protection in Asia Pulp and Papers ‘new’ forest protection policy?
This morning in Jakarta APP invited journalists to the launch of what it’s PR people grandly referred to as the ‘biggest announcement yet’ which would ‘reveal APP’s greatest commitment to natural forest protection as part of its sustainability program’. Blogpost by Bustar Maitar, Forest Campaigner, Greenpeace SEA Greenpeace was deliberately stopped from entering the press…
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Meet Jarren, our awesome activist in Brissie
National Volunteers Week is on the 14 – 20 May. Greenpeace Australia Pacific is lucky to currently have 22 volunteers working in our Sydney, Suva and Port Moresby offices and the Sydney Warehouse, over 75 people working as Community Activists in their local neighbourhoods and a great team of Armchair Activists. We’d like to take…
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Apple can be an environmental leader again
Apple has so many fans because the company knows how to take something great and make it even better. The Green My Apple campaign worked the same way. Greenpeace built some simple tools and let Apple-lovers create unique messages to send directly to Apple. …
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Macken sense: Fortunes, fairy tales and what real dollars could do
Having watched more Budget night speeches than is probably healthy for any woman, I have to say there is always a touch of la lunar about the whole thing. It’s like everyone on the government’s side agrees to take stupid tablets while the Opposition gets tanked on laughing gas, both sides face off and either…
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“Homeless” Sumatran tigers call to action to save their forest homes
Commuters in this morning’s notorious Jakarta rush-hour did double-takes as hundreds of homeless Sumatran tigers descended on Indonesia’s Ministry of Forestry to urge the Government to take action to stop companies like Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) from destroying their forest homes. Blogpost by Zul Fahmni, Greenpeace Forest campaigner – April 19, 2012 Greenpeace activists…
