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Apple, Amazon, Microsoft choose dirty energy to power growing cloud
Press release – 17 April, 2012Greenpeace International report evaluates 14 IT companies’ energy choicesSydney/ San Francisco, USA, 18 April 2012– The current explosion in cloud computing offered by major IT companies is driving significant new demand for dirty energy like coal and nuclear power, according to a new report from Greenpeace International. The report, “…
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The future we want? Between hope and despair on the road to the Rio Earth Summit
Blogpost by Daniel Mittler – January 17, 2012 – I have been up at night a lot over the last ten days thinking about the future. You do not have to feel bad for me as the reason was a joyful one: I was carrying around my new born daughter. As I stared at her…
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Save the Amazon, veto the new Forest Code
Blogpost by Laura Kenyon, Greenpeace International – December 7, 2011 We are edging closer to an “ecological calamity” in the Amazon rainforest and a vote in the Brazilian Senate has pushed us closer to the brink. Yesterday it voted to approve destructive changes to the laws governing forest protection – called the Forest Code –…
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Let’s Occupy Oceans
Blogpost by Alex Hofford, photographer on board the MY Esperanza, Defending our Pacific ship tour 2011 Currently I’m on assignment for Greenpeace as the photographer on board the ‘MY Esperanza’ as part of the ‘Defending the Pacific‘ tour 2011. I arrived at the ship from my adopted home, Hong Kong, about two weeks ago, expecting…
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Deni celebrate their forest homeland in the Brazilian Amazon
September 11, 2001 was not only a day of major tragedy in the US, which changed the world we are living in, it was also a day of hope for the Deni. The Deni are an indigenous group living in semi-isolation in a very remote part of the Brazilian Amazon rainforest, whose land at that…
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A chance to change history
Executive Director of Greenpeace International, Kumi Naidoo, is in Indonesia for the Rainbow Warrior’s ‘Turning the Tide’ tour. I’ve arrived in Indonesia – a country at the frontier of deforestation and climate change. Indonesia is the planet’s third largest greenhouse gas emitter, largely due to deforestation. Its indigenous communities are losing their homes and livelihoods.…
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A Mother Of A Victory For This Rainforest
We’ve been celebrating an enormous win over the past few days. More than one-third of Canada’s Great Bear Rainforest — the largest intact area of temperate rainforest in the world — is officially and legally off-limits to logging. It’s an area half the size of Switzerland. One person who’s especially jubillant at the news is…
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Was climate change a key factor in Darfur?
It’s a question posed by Stephan Faris in his new book Forecast: The Consequences of Climate Change, From the Amazon to the Arctic. Tee Lim, our volunteer Communications Intern, reviews the book. Forecast is a relatively quick and accessible account of the many and varied ways in which climate change is affecting regions and communities,…