Posts Tagged ‘Greenpeace’
By NunoXEI • Jul 29th, 2009 • Category: Blog
Just a few short weeks after Greenpeace released Slaughtering the Amazon, Nike has announced new standards for keeping leather made from Amazon destruction out of its shoes. Nike now wants to work towards a new leather sourcing policy that doesn’t contribute to the destruction of the Amazon or climate change. They’ll be adhering to the new [...]
By NunoXEI • Mar 25th, 2009 • Category: Videos
This creative Greenpeace video on the importance of clean air in our environment is amusing and entertaining. Without being prolific in its obvious connotations, it succeeds in being controversial enough to become viral based solely on the audio and visual cues.
By NunoXEI • Mar 25th, 2009 • Category: Videos
This creative Greenpeace video on the importance of keeping our oceans clean captures a soothing, yoga-inspired, moment of reflection. The stop motion video captures are varied and all represent the awesome nature of our oceans. Unlike some of there more controversial videos, this one does the trick without being in your face.
By NunoXEI • Mar 25th, 2009 • Category: Blog
Greenpeace has hit the waters again and flagged down another pesky pirate ship. Okay, maybe that’s too dramatic, but here’s the actual current news on the situation. Greenpeace has uncovered evidence that the Spanish company, Vidal Armadores S.A. is receiving government subsidies equalling over 3.5 million Euros, and is still securing contracts and licenses to [...]
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 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 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, [...]
By NunoXEI • Apr 19th, 2008 • Category: Blog
On the eve of the annual general meeting in Paris of Areva, the world’s largest nuclear company, Greenpeace called on governments and investors who may be contemplating building a nuclear reactor to think again, warning that new French reactors can seriously harm their energy sector and their financial situation. Areva is one of three companies [...]
