Tag: Greenpeace
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Greenpeace Activists Arrested After Infilitrating Two French Nuclear Plants
Protesters broke into two power plants, unfurling an anti-nuclear banner at one and hiding for 14 hours at another.
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Asia Pulp & Paper Fires Back at Greenpeace After Losing High-Profile Customers
"After losing several high profile customers in recent months due to the Greenpeace campaign, APP earlier this month fired back at Greenpeace in a press release that accused the activist group of making 'false allegations.'"
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Despite a Helicopter Pad, Greenpeace's New $23 Million Rainbow Warrior Ship is Greener Than Predecessors
A brand new green boat for Greenpeace was launched this week.
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HP Ranks Above Nokia, Apple on Latest Greenpeace Guide to Greener Electronics
The newest edition of the group's gadget guide is live, and reveals which electronics company is doing the most to lighten their environmental load.
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The Week in Pictures: New Zealand Oil Spill, How Steve Jobs Changed the World, and More (Slideshow)
Since the Rena, a Liberian ship, ran aground on a reef off the coast of New Zealand 10 days ago, an environmental catastrophe has been brewing. Oil is spilling into the ocean, harming wildlife and reaching shore.
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Greenpeace Misses the Boat with Grotesque Anti-Tuna Fishing Video
Greenpeace often plays the extremist of the environmental movement- the organization with goals that we green-minded folks appreciate, but with methods, often of dubious legality, that can make us cringe. Their latest stunt is no
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Following Arrest, Greenpeace Director Banned From Greenland
Greenpeace Executive Director Kumi Naidoo, arrested last week after scaling a Cairn Energy platform off the coast of Greenland, is now banned for a year from the country entirely.United Press International reports
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Big Mistake: Hiring "Greenpeace Co-Founder" Patrick Moore To Peddle Vinyl Windows
They look so cute on their polyurethane sofa, in front of the wall of vinyl windows and doors, in the stock shot from the Canadian vinyl industry. The Vinyl salesmen are also
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Libya Opens Up Waters For Bluefin Tuna Fishing, Threatening Species Recovery Plans
photo: Stewart Butterfield/Creative Commons Illegal fishing for bluefin tuna by exceeding quotas, under-reporting quotas, and outright pirate fishing mean Atlantic and Mediterranean bluefin are highly endangered. Now, as NATO forces assist rebel forces
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30,000 Confidential Government Documents About The Gulf Oil Spill Made Available By Greenpeace
Here's one for the more enterprising investigators in the TreeHugger audience: Under the Freedom of Information Act Greenpeace has collected some 30,000 confidential documents related to the Gulf oil spill and made them
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Facebook Installs Solar for Oregon Data Center (Well... Sort of)
Facebook is planning a solar array for its new Oregon data center. The problem, though, is that the array is teeeeeeensy, and certainly not enough to get Greenpeace off its back. Data Center Knowledge has details about the array and what (little) it
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If Facebook Unfriends Coal, Will Greenpeace Friend The Open Compute Project?
Greenpeace wants Facebook to "unfriend coal" but Facebook has a request of its own. The social networking company is asking the environmental group to please friend its Open Compute Project that will help make
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Greenpeace Attempting Earns a World Record with Campaign to Get Facebook Off Coal
Greenpeace has been tenacious with trying to get Facebook to ditch coal as a power source for its data centers. Starting with their own Facebook page to show
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Is Consulting Firm McKinsey Using REDD to Accelerate Deforestation?
We knew there were plenty of drawbacks to and imperfections in the REDD program, but a recent Greenpeace report points out one that was a little more unexpected, and unforgivable, than most. Greenpeace explains that many
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On 22nd Anniversary of Exxon Valdez, 10-Year-Old Girl Calls on Canadian MPs to Ban Oil Tankers From B.C. North Coast
The Exxon Valdez oil spill has apparently not left much of a legacy other than the pollution that remains in the area, even as we mark 22 years since the accident, but there's a 10-year-old girl from the Sliammon First Nation in British Columbia who
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Celebrities Tell Facebook to Ditch Coal (Video)
Awhile back, Greenpeace launched a campaign against Facebook telling the company to "unfriend" coal as a power source for its data center slated to go up in Oregon. The activist group wants Facebook to publicly
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Marine Stewardship Council "Dupes" Consumers on Sustainable Seafood: Greenpeace
One of the main bodies that issues certifications for sustainable seafood, the Marine Stewardship Council, is potentially doing more harm than good, according to Greenpeace. Mat's written about the skepticism of MSC
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The Sun Rises on a Solar-Powered Mosque in Turkey
When residents of the Turkish village of Büyükeceli decided to install a set of solar panels to demonstrate how renewable energy could be a viable
