Green Peace

A week of bad news about the global climate crisis points up need for real solutions

Last week brought us a series of disturbing news stories that point up the severity of the climate crisis we’re facing: nine polar bears were spotted swimming in open waters; one of Greenland's largest glaciers cracked, and further disintegration is feared by experts; and Fay flooded Florida with more than two feet of rain. (read more)

Wall*E + Kleenex = Iron*E

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In what must surely be the absolute height of tragic irony, Kimberly-Clark is using a movie about conservation to sell Kleenex, a disposable paper product containing absolutely no recycled content. (read more)

Greenpeace activists keep the pressure on Kimberly-Clark

Several Greenpeace activists locked down the main entrance to Kimberly-Clark’s global administrative headquarters in Knoxville, TN today as part of their ongoing effort to pressure the company into adopting business practices that protect rather than devastate North America’s remaining Boreal forests. While the lockdown was under way, another group of activists deployed a 30 ft. by 20 ft. banner from the facility’s parking garage that read: “Kleenex: Wiping away ancient forests.” (read more)

Kimberly-Clark can't hide environmental devastation

Several Greenpeace activists visited the Kimberly-Clark (KC) offices in Roswell, Georgia today to show the company’s officials that they can’t hide from the devastation they have wrought on the North American Boreal Forest. (read more)

Green Olympics? Lessons from Beijing

China made big promises to clean up Beijing for the 2008 Olympic Games. How well did they do? Greenpeace’s new Olympic report has the answers. (read more)

High tech toxic trash causing horrendous pollution in Ghana

The latest place where we have discovered high tech toxic trash causing horrendous pollution is in Ghana. Our analysis of samples taken from two electronic waste (e-waste) scrap yards in Ghana has revealed severe contamination with hazardous chemicals. (read more)

Offshore Drilling – It’s NOT the Answer to High Gas Prices at the Pump

Record high gas prices have been making the news headlines for the past few months. Each week gas prices top the previous week, resulting in a new all-time high. Unless you are fortunate enough to live, work and play within walking distance from your home, you have been affected by these high gas prices like the rest of the nation.

While the public continues to be outraged about gas prices, some politicians (McCain, Bush, and Gingrich) are taking advantage of the dire situation by organizing a push to drill for oil along our coastlines and lift a 27-year moratorium. (read more)

Major Supermarkets Pull Unsustainable Seafood!

Two large supermarket chains – Stop & Shop and Giant Food - are going to stop selling shark, orange roughy and Chilean sea bass until their populations rebound. It's a huge victory for the oceans! (read more)

Congress Announces Ban on Toxic Chemicals

In an exciting victory for children in the United States, President Bush signed into law national product-safety legislation that will ban certain chemicals from being used when producing toys. In an agreement announced on July 28th, Congress proposed legislation that will ban the use of six toxic chemicals, called phthalates, that are added to vinyl plastic to make it flexible. Thank you to the 8,000 Greenpeace activists who took action and wrote their members of Congress on this very issue. Your support helped over come heavy lobbying by ExxonMobil who manufactures phthalates. (read more)

Kleercut activists lock down Kimberly-Clark Kleenex mill in Fullerton, CA

Greenpeace's Kleercut campaigners continued their efforts to stop Kimberly-Clark from destroying ancient forests to make its disposable products today by locking down a Kleenex factory in Fullerton, CA. Activists blockaded the entrance to the facility by chaining themselves to toilets with trees protruding from them, while a 40-foot banner that read "Stop flushing forests" was unfurled on Fullerton’s busy Orangethorpe Blvd. (read more)

Take action: Contact the Prosecutor about the real whaling scandal

What would happen if Japan's Supreme Public Prosecutor's office was inundated by letters calling for the whale meat investigation to be re-opened? Join us to find out! On this page we've prepared a card you can print, stick and post yourself, and a list of talking points you could use if you prefer to write a personal letter instead. Be creative! (read more)

Where Are Presidential Candidates & Congress on Chemical Security Legislation?

After eight years of the Bush Administration’s environmental record – or lack thereof – it’s time for a breath of fresh air. But how fresh will the air be under a new administration? And how healthy will our oceans be? How safe will you and your family be from toxins? We wanted answers to these burning questions, so we took them directly to the candidates and have their answers to share with you. (read more)

Whale meat scandal: Many questions

Why would we believe the whaling industry when it says it is innocent? The institutions behind the Japanese whaling operation have apparently now investigated themselves and cleared themselves of any wrongdoing over the whale meat embezzlement scandal exposed by Greenpeace in May. (read more)

Activists charged for exposing whale meat scandal

Our Japanese activists Junichi Sato and Toru Suzuki were charged with theft and trespass today by the prosecutor in Aomori after they exposed a major scandal around the embezzlement of whale meat from the Japanese government-sponsored Southern Ocean whaling programme.

Junichi and Toru continue to be held in detention in Aomori, where they have been since their arrest on June 10th, despite widespread international protest. (read more)

Greenpeace sues to protect rare Islands wolf

Greenpeace and Cascadia Wildlands Project filed a federal lawsuit today against the U.S. Forest Service for violating environmental laws in its planning of four logging projects in Alaska’s Tongass National Forest. The federal agency has not only deliberately under-reported the effects of logging ancient forests in its environmental impact statements on the logging projects over the past decade, but has also continually refused to disclose or even consider legitimate criticisms of the projects. (read more)

G8 - Environment Nil!

When you're in the business of saving the future - and you give yourself a specific deadline, such as 2050 - you need to make sure that every single day between then and now counts. Unfortunately, the G8 Summit was a waste of three whole days. Gathering in Toyako, Japan, G8 leaders offered nothing new on the food crisis, gave the wrong answer to rising oil prices and deferred climate action. (read more)

Mediterranean pirates busted by Greenpeace

Activists aboard our ship Arctic Sunrise confronted an illegal vessel, the Luna Rossa, fishing with a driftnet this morning in international waters west of Sicily in the Mediterranean Sea. The Luna Rossa’s crew immediately cut the net and fled from our ship at high speed. (read more)

Mr. Splashy Pants Rescue

Mister Splashy Pants just heard that two of his Greenpeace pals have been arrested. He, too, is amazed that they've been locked up for exposing the truth -- and he's going to do something about it. Are you? (read more)

Kimberly Clark Receives a 2-Ply Confrontation by Greenpeace

Greenpeace activists showed up at Kimberly-Clark offices in Chicago, Illinois and Franklin, Massachusetts to confront the giant tissue maker about its continued use of non-recycled materials that contribute to the destruction of the ancient boreal forests in Canada. (read more)

Greenpeace Holds Peaceful Protest Outside Japanese Embassy

Update: The court has ruled Junichi and Toru will spend the maximum time in custody without charge permissible under Japanese law - 23 days. In a message to supporters, sent via their lawyers, Junichi and Toru welcomed the outpouring of efforts from people all over the world, adding: "We still need your help. We have been ordered to remain in custody for ten more days without charge. Please encourage your friends to send an email to the Japanese government, if they have not already." (read more)

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