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Cheap as chips
The truth about your rising power bills Greenpeace| If you’re anything like me, the arrival of your quarterly electricity bill fills you with dread. For many people around the country, particularly people on low incomes or pensions, every cent counts, and high power prices can mean a choice between eating and keeping the lights on.…
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Scorched Earth – the world in drought
Coal doesn't just damage the climate, it worsens drought...
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We interviewed singer Novo Amor about his latest music video
We chatted to Welsh singer Novo Amor about his latest music video, which highlights the problem of plastic in our oceans. An underwater diver drifts freely, gliding past majestic sea turtles, huge manta rays and schools of shimmering fish… and an enormous whale made from plastic waste? |||| Have you seen the incredibly moving music…
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The National Energy Guarantee does nothing, and it does it badly
Criticism of the National Energy Guarantee has rightly slammed its low target, but its design is even worse than we thought Steam towers at Bayswater Power Station, adjacent to Liddell. Liddell is a coal fired power station near Muswellbrook in New South Wales, Australia. It was opened in 1971 and is due to shut down…
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Tackling plastic pollution at its source
Together let’s take on plastic pollution at its source: the corporations that produce it.
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Pacific activists unite to stop pipelines
Tar sands are one of the dirtiest fossil fuels on the planet, producing more than twice the carbon emissions of an average barrel of oil. By Kelvin Anthony, Pacific Island Represent activist On Saturday, 7 July, Pacific Island Represent activists in Fiji staged a demonstration at a beach. I was extremely lucky to be…
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The Most Atrocious Plastic Packaging Sent in by Our Supporters
Like life, fruit and veg in plastic are not at all fantastic. ||||||| As you may know, we’ve been campaigning against excessive plastic use in the produce aisles of Coles and Woolies. To get a handle on the extent of the problem, we asked our supporters to send in their most absurd encounters of ridiculous…
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The environmental disaster you’ve never heard of
On the other side of the world is an environmental disaster waiting to happen but you’ve probably heard of it. A series of toxic tar sands oil pipelines are set to be built throughout North America – that’s unless the community manages to stand in their way. Greenpeace Australia Pacific activists have installed a life-sized…
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New coal doesn’t stack up – just look at Queensland’s renewable energy numbers
There are calls from the backbench and elsewhere for the federal government to safeguard the future of coal. But do those calls make economic sense? A look at Queensland’s energy landscape suggests not. This article was originally published on The Conversation. As the name suggests, Windy Hill near Cairns gets its fair share of power-generating…
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Here are 8 Times People-Power Made A Difference For The Earth in 2018
These inspiring people-powered successes will renew your hope and feed the activist fire in your belly. Campaigning, calling, and protesting. The generosity of donors. These are the working parts of Greenpeace: this is how we get things done.
