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The future of the Amazon uncertain
Blog entry by Jessica Miller | October 19, 2012 2 comments

For ten years, the fate of Brazil’s forests have hung in the balance as the future of the Forest Code has been up for grabs. We’ve see the debate over the law come to a head over the last few years, as the agribusiness sector pressed...

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Food, Fuel, Forests and Climate – the BiofuelsConundrum
Blog entry by Sini Harkki | October 18, 2012 3 comments

Fossil fuels are killing our climate and we need to find alternatives. It’s a simple message that most people get, but what happens when one of the supposed alternatives also becomes not just a climate killer, but a driver of hunger...

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Fuel for thought on World Food Day
Blog entry by Julian Oram | October 16, 2012 3comments

On this World Food Day, I am in Rome where government ministers attending the World Committee on Food Security are facing up to a sobering reality: the food world system is badly broken. From climate change, to biofuels and GE foods,...

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Global Campaigning 2.0
Blog entry by Kumi Naidoo | October 15, 2012 4 comments

‘Clicktivism’ has come of age as the digital driver of the#PowerOfWe. Malcolm Gladwell’s infamous dismissal of online activism as ineffective signature gathering missed the point in 2010, when he coined the phrase; sharing information...

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Two ships, one vision for our oceans
Blog entry by Steve Smith, Greenpeace International | October 12, 2012 2 comments

Thousands of miles apart, two Greenpeace ships propelled our global oceans campaignforward today. This morning in Taiwan – home to the world’s largest tuna fishing fleet – Greenpeace activists took action at the largest...

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In search of a greener cloud: Google vs. Microsoft
Feature story | October 10, 2012 at 20:38 1 comment

Microsoft wants the world to think it has its groove back – that it’s moved beyond the ignominy of the Mac vs. PC Apple ads, Windows 95 andClippy, the helpful mascot everyone loved so much. Microsoft is looking to the cloud to change its...

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Shh! Swedish nuclear plant security missed Greenpeace activists for 28 hours
Blog entry by Brian Blomme | October 10, 2012 14 comments

On Tuesday, we told you about the 70 activists who poured onto two nuclear sites in Sweden in an effort to show how lax the security is at these plants. Wedidn’t tell you that at least six of them hid overnight at two of the...

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Greenpeace Sweden exposes lax security at nuclear plants
Blog entry by Brian Blomme | October 9, 2012 2 comments

They poured onto the sites of two nuclear reactor plants in Sweden this morning with minimal problems: more than 70 Greenpeace activists, from five countries, conducted peaceful stress tests of thesites. The goal: to show how weak...

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South Korea can't deny the risks of nuclear power forever
Blog entry by Jan Beranek | October 8, 2012 8 comments

I am at a detention centre at South Korea's airport, quickly writing these few words as best I can on a mobile phone. Together with my colleague, Dr. Rianne Teule, I have been denied entry to South Korea. We have done nothing wrong.[pic]
Peaceful activism: 1, billionaire oil company: 0
Blog entry by JulietteH | October 5, 2012 9 comments

It’s not often that one of the world’s richest companies doesn't get what it wants. But today in a Dutch court, Shell not only failed to win the sweeping injunction it applied for, but was told in quite forceful terms that it must...


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The future of the Amazon uncertain
Blogentry by Jessica Miller | October 19, 2012 2 comments

For ten years, the fate of Brazil’s forests have hung in the balance as the future of the Forest Code has been up for grabs. We’ve see the debate over the law come to a head over the last few years, as the agribusiness sector pressed...

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Food, Fuel, Forests and Climate – the Biofuels Conundrum
Blog entry by Sini Harkki | October...