Posts Tagged ‘activism’
By NunoXEI • May 20th, 2008 • Category: Blog
Reuters, ENN–Greenpeace and more than 100 other environmental groups denounced projects for burying industrial greenhouse gases on Monday, exposing splits in the green movement about whether such schemes can slow global warming.
By NunoXEI • May 20th, 2008 • Category: Blog
Treehugger–No Free Refills has been launched to highlight the fast-food industry’s major role in the deforestation of the Southern forests of the US. Their website states that: “Packaging symbolizes the disposable society we have become. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the fast food industry.”
By NunoXEI • May 19th, 2008 • Category: Blog
Justin Piercy, The Star–A 25-year-old Fredericton man is behind bars today after surrendering to police because he refused to pay a fine for skateboarding on the streets. Bylaw S-9 makes it illegal to use a sled, toboggan, wagon or skateboard on the streets of New Brunswick’s capital.
By NunoXEI • May 19th, 2008 • Category: Blog
Melissa Allison, The Seattle Times–Starbucks pushes to green itself up in the next two years. Some environmental groups have partnered with Starbucks over the years and laud it as a company that embraced environmental awareness before it came into vogue.
By NunoXEI • May 18th, 2008 • Category: Blog
Greenpeace News–Greenpeace displayed a cardboard box filled with the best cuts of whale meat, smuggled ashore by the crew of the Japanese whaling factory ship, Nisshin Maru, for illegal trade and personal gain, at the Japanese taxpayer’s expense.
By NunoXEI • May 18th, 2008 • Category: Articles
Nicole McCallum–The issue of climate change has seen ferocious debating about its validity. The internet and ever-emerging web tools out there have allowed for interest and action in the green movement to quickly reach an individual level. Desmogblog has shown us a fine example of this.
By NunoXEI • May 18th, 2008 • Category: Blog
Leonora Oppenheim, Treehugger–There has been a flurry of publicity surrounding the ongoing Chevron Texaco case in recent weeks. Pushing the point home most forcefully of all is this animation created for Amazon Watch by political cartoonist Mark Fiore.
By NikkiJade • Apr 30th, 2008 • Category: Articles
Nicole McCallum gives a brief summary of Greenpeace’s “Road to Recovery” report concerning the issue of over fishing and international marine reserve networks. She critiques the proposal’s lack of economic consideration.
By NunoXEI • Apr 30th, 2008 • Category: Blog
Joshua S Hill, Planetsave–Greenpeace founder Patrick Moore was quoted at a chamber breakfast in Idaho Falls and the Idaho Environmental Forum in Boise this past week, as saying that the world needs to turn to nuclear power.
By NunoXEI • Apr 22nd, 2008 • Category: Blog
About 60 percent of the world’s tuna stocks come from the Pacific, and scientists believe that two key species – bigeye and yellowfin – are in danger of becoming overfished.
To help stop this Greenpeace is touring the Western Pacific Ocean in the ship, Esperanza, to gather evidence of illegal and excessive tuna fishing practices.
On Sunday, [...]
