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FAD Watch (And It’s Not About Trendy Fashion)
Date: Tuesday, 31 August 2009 Location: High Seas Area 1, Western Pacific Ocean Weather conditions: Sunny day, clear skies, light breeze Objective: To look out for FADs A few days ago, we arrived in the High Seas of the Pacific. Since yesterday, we have been on constant watch, scanning the horizon by day, the radar…
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Meet Your New Webbie For The Pacific Tour
Hello! My name is Mary Ann and I am from the Philippines. As I write this, we are sailing over the big blue expanse of the Pacific Ocean. It has been more than 12 years since I first got involved with Greenpeace. Way back in 1990, I first read about Greenpeace on a register…
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Coalition Tries To Put Coal Into Renewables Law
In the world of the Mad Hatter, up is down, green is grey, logic is silly and absurdity is profound … But even the Mad Hatter could never have imagined a world in which fossil fuels are actually renewable energy sources. “If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would…
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We Need A 20% Renewable Energy Target
In November 2007, after intense campaigning from Greenpeace and many other environmental organisations, Kevin Rudd promised that, if elected, he would expand Australia’s renewable energy target to 20% by 2020. After sitting in limbo since the election, the legislation is finally being debated this week. Apart from the unnecessary delay in implementing the legislation, the…
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July In Pictures: Booze, Art And Two Oceans
In July, we continued our ship tour of the Pacific, launched the Alcoholic Drinks edition of the Truefood Guide and caught up with an Australian explorer helping Greenpeace in the Arctic. Click on the arrows to move to the next image.
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Community Day Of Action At Hazelwood Power Station
Despite the increasing climate warnings, the coal industry continues to pollute like there’s no tomorrow. Australia’s dirtiest power station – Hazelwood, in Victoria’s Latrobe Valley – has been the subject of increasing protest over recent years, including recent actions by Greenpeace. This polluting old dinosaur spews an average of 17 million tonnes of CO2 into…
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Win Double Pass To "The Cove"
Filmmaker Louie Psihoyos, former on-set dolphin trainer for Flipper and an elite team of activists team up to uncover a dark secret in what otherwise looks like the dolphin-friendly town of Taijii in Japan. What they discover is both a shocking instance of animal abuse and a serious threat to human health. Award-winning documentary, The Cove,…
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Humanity, The Climate Crisis And The Case For Hope
Simon Roz will be talking at the Australian Museum in Sydney on “Humanity, the Climate Crisis and the Case for Hope” this Saturday 15th August at 12.30pm. He shares his thoughts here on some of the lessons we can learn from our previous triumphs over seemingly insurmountable challenges. When President John F Kennedy told the…
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CPRS – "Continue Polluting Regardless Scheme"
In the absence of any political will to make the difficult decisions to replace polluting industries with clean alternatives, the Rudd Government have gone to great lengths to design a scheme that makes it look like they’re taking action on climate change, without actually having to do anything or make any hard decisions. In order…
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Forget Watergate, We Now Have Cairns'gate
International climate negotiations just got dirty, even if the final stage hasn’t started. Australia and New Zealand’s corrupt and underhanded means of getting their way inside the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) carries the stench of colonialism. It is no secret that in this fora they continue to use their small contributions to our poor countries…
