Greenpeace Protesters Facing Arrest Over Enbridge Demonstration

Four Greenpeace protesters have been arrested and released following a non-violent demonstration on the sixth floor of 505 Burrard Street yesterday. Four Vancouver residents, three women and one man ranging in age...

Greenpeace Co-Founder Jim Bohlen Dies In Vancouver

Jim Bohlen Dies At 84, Helped Start Make A Wave Committe Precursor To Greenpeace InternationalA small unexpected decision started what became the international environmental organization that is Greenpeace - a...

B.C. First Nations Come Together To Make Tar Sands Announcement

" What: British Columbia First Nations to make announcement of national significance. When: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 at 10:00 a.m. Where: Oceanview Suite 3, Pan Pacific Hotel 999 Canada Place Vancouver "

Tokyo Two J. Sato, T. Suzuki to Stand Trial Feb. 15

The two Greenpeace activists, Junichi Sato and Toru Suzuki, also known as the Tokyo Two, that exposed corruption in the Japanese whaling industry are to go on trial charged with theft and trespass.  According...

Greenpeace Releases Ads Featuring Aged World Leaders - PHOTOS

The pro-environmental organization Greenpeace has released ads featuring world leaders as a gray-haired old men and women in year 2020. The slogan next to the aged politicians says, "I am sorry. We could have stopped catastrophic climate change...We didn't." On its website...

Greenpeace Climbs Colosseum To Urge For Action in Copenhagen

As attendees of the COP15 Climate Change Summit that is taking place in Copenhagen, Denmark are trying to come up with viable solutions to the problem of climate change, pro-environmental organizations like...

Greenpeace targets Parliament Hill for Protest in Ottawa

Greenpeace protesters put a giant banner on the West Side of Parliament Buildings this morning.  Protesters were also hanging on the side of the Parliament buildings with the aid of climbing equipment....

Copenhagen - An Enormous Carbon Footprint

The United Nations estimates that the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference will leave a 40,584 tons carbon footprint.  This is equivalent to Morocco's footprint in 2006. The conference will be attended by...

Amazon deforestation dropped by 45%

A good news on Environmental front. A report from Brazil says that the deforestation in Amazon dropped by 45% last year. It is lowest in 21 year of surveillance period. " The rate of deforestation in the Amazon...

Illegal wildlife trade!

Scientists back bluefin tuna trade ban: Greenpeace and WWF ...Illegal wildlife trade... Scientists who advise fisheries regulators support a ban on trade in Atlantic bluefin tuna, a sushi staple, to protect...

Norway, Japan Prop Up Whaling Industry With Taxpayer Money!

Norway, Japan Prop Up Whaling Industry With Taxpayer Money, Report Finds (June 18, 2009) — The governments of Norway and Japan are using taxpayer money to subsidize their unprofitable whaling industries, according to a first-time analysis of the economics of whaling ......

Greenpeace Announces Staffer Wins Right Livihood Award

Greenpeace announced that staffer Rene Ngnongo has won the Right Livihood Award which many view as an alternate Nobel Prize.  Rene Ngnongo has worked tirelessly in the Republic of the Congo to save as much of the rainforest as possible.  In addition to his efforts...

Greenpeace Gives Bravo to Apple

Greenpeace USA is giving a bravo to Apple for its stand on climate change legislation.  They have been part of a large group of lobbyists who are becoming disenchanted with the attitude of the U.S. Chamber of...

GREENPEACE: Thai Rice Region Is Endangered?

Rice it is the grain that has shaped the cultures, diets, and economies of billions of people in Asia. Like the Thai's people... Rice is the staple food since ancient time, they depend from glutinous to...

Activists Block Oil Sands Mine In Alberta

Greenpeace activists have shut down a 155,000 barrel a day operation in Shell's Albian Sands mine just north of Fort McMurray, which is located in northern Alberta, Canada. The 25 activists from Canada, the U.S. and France are trying to attract attention to the...

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