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Kumi Naidoo

An Open Letter to Barack Obama: We Are Running Out of Time

Kumi Naidoo | Posted 02.04.2013 | Green
Kumi Naidoo

The world needs your leadership now -- and for the first time you have immense popular support, with a majority of Americans believing that climate change is a real threat.

Africa's False Dilemma

Kumi Naidoo | Posted 12.26.2012 | Green
Kumi Naidoo

Ecological and economic welfare are two sides of the same coin and having to choose between developing economies and societies on one hand, and protecting the environment on the other, is a false dilemma.

Joanna Zelman

'Running Out Of Time': Arctic Sea Ice Loss Hits Record Low

HuffingtonPost.com | Joanna Zelman | Posted 09.20.2012 | Green

As Arctic sea ice levels hit a new record low this month, scientists and activists gathered to discuss how to bridge the gap between scientific facts ...

For African Environmentalists, Time to Get Beyond Polar Bears

Eileen Flanagan | Posted 10.23.2012 | Green
Eileen Flanagan

How does Greenpeace -- which has historically been associated with not only white people, but often with furry, white animals -- grow roots on a continent where environmental devastation has often been perpetrated by Westerners?

A Post-Fukushima World: Truths and Confusion About Global Energy

Vivian Norris | Posted 04.03.2013 | Business
Vivian Norris

If renewable energy is less costly than fossil fuels and nuclear, then why aren't we ramping up the move to a planetary renewable energy policy?

Get It Done! Youth to UN on Internationally Binding Climate Treaty

Tina Gerhardt | Posted 02.11.2012 | Green
Tina Gerhardt

As the sun had risen in Durban, the Durban Platform was passed at the COP 17. Yet in a replay of Copenhagen two years ago, backroom texts emerged at the 11th hour and the process was thrown into disarray.

Head of Greenpeace Calls for Civil Disobedience in Durban

Anuradha Vittachi | Posted 02.05.2012 | Green
Anuradha Vittachi

The head of Greenpeace International has called for non-violent civil disobedience at the UN climate talks in Durban.

WATCH: Greenpeace Leader Says 'Civil Disobedience Is The Most Powerful Maker Of Change'

Posted 12.18.2011 | Green

Greenpeace International Executive Director Kumi Naidoo has scaled an oil rig, protested apartheid, performed hunger strikes, been expelled, exiled, a...

Don't Make a Wave: Greenpeace at 40

Kumi Naidoo | Posted 11.14.2011 | Green
Kumi Naidoo

Greenpeace's ultimate success will be measured when we are no longer necessary. Hopefully, in forty more years we will have averted climate chaos, ecology and economy will be balanced with considerations of equity and our job will have been done.

How I Became Arctic Prisoner Number 22

Kumi Naidoo | Posted 08.21.2011 | Green
Kumi Naidoo

Instead of welcoming us and engaging in conversation, they chose to douse us with a freezing jet of water fired from a powerful water canon. We were then arrested once we finally made it to the top of the 30-meter ladder.

WATCH: Greenpeace Head Arrested On Oil Rig

The Huffington Post | Posted 08.17.2011 | Green

Two Greenpeace activists, including the head of Greenpeace International, Kumi Naidoo, were arrested Friday after scaling an oil rig off Greenland in ...

Fukushima: Never Again

Kumi Naidoo | Posted 08.05.2011 | Green
Kumi Naidoo

My guide, when I went to visit Chernobyl on the 25th anniversary of the accident, was a Greenpeace campaigner from Germany named Tobias Muenchmeyer. T...

Working With Facebook for Renewable Energy

Kumi Naidoo | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Kumi Naidoo

Facebook is just the kind of highly visible, innovative company that can best demonstrate the bold and transformative leadership required to face the global realities being discussed this week in Davos.

Weekly Mulch: Was Cancun Climate Conference a Success?

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
The Media Consortium

by Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium Blogger The United Nations-led Climate Conference at Cancun was not a diplomatic disaster, but for climate activis...

Climate 2010: An Exclusive Conversation With Kumi Naidoo, Executive Director of Greenpeace

Jerry Cope | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Jerry Cope

Kumi Naidoo leads two of the most influential global NGO's working aggressively to promote solutions and viable scenarios for individuals and policy makers to prevent climate chaos.

UN: Japanese Authorities Breached Human Rights of Greenpeace Anti-Whaling Activists

Kumi Naidoo | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Kumi Naidoo

Two of my colleagues face up to 10 years in jail for exposing institutional corruption in the Japanese government's whaling programme. Meanwhile, the UN contends that Japan repeatedly violated the activists' human rights.

Hoping in Copenhagen

Gillian Caldwell | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Gillian Caldwell

I hoped against hope that one man could pick up the pieces of these broken negotiations and make things right again. ...And then I woke up.

Kumi Naidoo, New Greenpeace President, "Disappointed" In Obama

BBC | Posted 05.25.2011 | 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...

Climate Deal Flop Reveals Leadership Crisis

Sarah van Gelder | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Sarah van Gelder

The failure of world leaders to come to terms with the climate crisis provoked anger and disappointment. My colleague at YES! Magazine, Brooke Jarvis, reported on the early responses to the climate deal.

Lament for G20 Failure to Help People Worst Hit by Crisis

Kumi Naidoo | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Kumi Naidoo

The G20 has failed to consider the plight of the people who have been least responsible for this global financial crisis but who are suffering the most, men women and children in developing countries.

What Obama Needs to Do to Tackle Global Poverty

Kumi Naidoo | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Kumi Naidoo

What we need from your presidency, Mr. Obama, is a vision of how every man woman and child on our planet is connected and poverty can be changed.