Should $50 Billion Fund War or Climate Impacts?
The $50 billion annual investment in Afghanistan ignores a better investment: funding those most affected by the changing climate created by human impacts.
The $50 billion annual investment in Afghanistan ignores a better investment: funding those most affected by the changing climate created by human impacts.
Posted 12.09.2009 | Green
In light of the President's trip to the climate conference in Copenhagen, and on the eve of the Nobel presentation ceremony in Oslo, Greenpeace releas...
Andrew Winston | Posted 12.08.2009 | Green
Who said that tackling climate change is separate from helping the poorest among us? The issues are all integrally related and the poorest are being hit hardest by climate changes already.
Posted 12.08.2009 | Green
A new Greenpeace/tcktcktck.org ad depicts President Obama in 2020 as an old man with white hair apologizing for failing to stop global warming. The ad...
AP | ROB GILLIES | Posted 12.07.2009 | Green
By Rob Gillies (AP): TORONTO -- Members of Greenpeace easily breached security and scaled two Parliament buildings in Ottawa to stage a protest on t...
Elyssa Pachico | Posted 12.03.2009 | Green
Mexico's decision to start growing genetically modified (GM) corn is sowing nothing but trouble.
BBC | Posted 11.16.2009 | Green
The new head of Greenpeace, South African Kumi Naidoo, has told the BBC he will make human life more of a priority for the environmental group. Mr Na...
Avaaz.org | Avaaz.org | Posted 11.06.2009 | Home
The clock is ticking on climate change. In one month, 192 countries will meet at the international climate summit in Copenhagen to negotiate a new glo...
Avaaz.org | Avaaz.org | Posted 11.06.2009 | Home
The clock is ticking on climate change. In one month, 192 countries will meet at the international climate summit in Copenhagen to negotiate a new glo...
Kevin Grandia | Posted 10.10.2009 | Green
We only need to look at how fast world leaders acted during the global economic crisis to see how quickly they can get things done when they have the political will.
Daniel Kessler | Posted 11.30.2009 | Green
The bill's nuclear section reads like it was lifted off the Nuclear Energy Institute's (NEI) website, despite its lack of veracity. Nuclear power is unsafe, uneconomical & unnecessary.
Posted 11.24.2009 | Green
As G20 world leaders arrive in Pittsburgh, Greenpeace took action Wednesday. The environmental activists daringly hung a sign reading, "Danger, Climat...
Jon Reiss | Posted 11.21.2009 | Entertainment
The hardworking folks at The Age of Stupid have done with limited means what corporations spend millions of dollars trying to do: create a world wide cinematic event.
AP | TOBY STERLING | Posted 11.17.2009 | Green
AMSTERDAM — Greenpeace said Thursday it has uncovered new evidence linking a major oil trading company to toxic waste that killed 15 people in I...
Daniel Kessler | Posted 11.16.2009 | Green
Carbon offsets often do not deliver promised results. The use of these sorts of offsets would not only give big polluters a giant loophole, it could actually increase global warming pollution.
Kevin Grandia | Posted 11.11.2009 | Green
To say that the Copenhagen Summit is a key moment in our history would be the understatement of the century. Will we continue to allow the unabated burning of dirty fossil fuels like coal and oil?
Chi-Town Daily News | Adeshina O. Emmanuel Jr. | Posted 09.21.2009 | Chicago
A local chemical plant could endanger more than 1.5 million people, says an environmental advocacy group pressing federal lawmakers to support legisla...
Huffington Post | Barbara Fenig | Posted 09.20.2009 | Green
On Thursday, Greenpeace volunteers installed solar panels atop of the roof of President Obama's Step-Grandmother, Mama Sarah's home and on the roof of...
Kevin Grandia | Posted 09.20.2009 | Green
Members of the Texas Public Citizen group attended the rally against the Waxman-Markey clean energy bill, and as they rightly report these were more of a company picnic than a spontaneous uprising of citizens.
Kevin Grandia | Posted 09.19.2009 | Green
There was a glimmer of hope that the planet may still be saved in a no-holds-barred softball match on the lawns of the Monument
Mark Engler | Posted 09.11.2009 | Green
In 2007, a group of Greenpeace activists in Britain sent tremors through an emerging global movement determined to use direct action to combat the depredations of climate change.
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 09.06.2009 | Green
Now available on Apple iTunes! Subscribe for FREE here!... IN TODAY'S AUDIO REPORT: 'Cash for Clunkers' -- now with more cash!; 'Astroturfing' -- no...
Daniel Kessler | Posted 09.05.2009 | Green
North American forests have had a good day today. Kimberly-Clark announced stronger fiber sourcing standards, and a San Francisco court reinstated the Roadless Area Conservation Rule.
Huffington Post | Barbara Fenig | Posted 09.05.2009 | Green
On Wednesday morning, the Kimberly-Clark Corporation, maker of Kleenex, Scott and Cottonelle tissues, announced that it will adjust its production sta...
Philip Radford | Posted 09.03.2009 | Green
Simple, inexpensive, and common sense changes, like substituting or reducing the amount of lethal gases stored on-site, would protect millions of people from harm.
Alexia Parks | Posted 12.11.2009 | Green