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Greenpeace Finland protesters targeting the other end of the palm oil chain, photo: Greenpeace Finland

I’m not entirely sure that this is the type of civil disobedience Al Gore was talking about at the Clinton Global Initiative meeting back in September, but maybe I’m wrong...

The Greenpeace ship, Esperanza, arrived in Jakarta on Halloween calling for urgent action to protect forests in order to save the global climate and bearing new evidence of the mounting threat to Papua’s forests. Greenpeace is calling on the central government to provide legal support to the Riau governors in declaring a moratorium on forest co...

Photo via The Show Must Go On

In an odd twist, Greenpeace is giving the thumbs up to Apple for their ever-greener products, and thinks that PCs would be wise to follow suit.

Let's face it, our country is addicted to oil. Even George W. Bush, a former oil peddler, has admitted this addiction. And like any sickness, our addiction to oil has serious consequences: higher temperatures, melting glaciers, more violent storms and $4 a gallon gasoline to name just a few.
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Photo: Sony Ericsson GreenHeart Concept Phone, via Sony Ericsson

The Sony Ericsson was once reigning supreme on GreenPeace’s Electronics ranking guide. It was recently usurped by Nokia, but it clawing its way back to the top with a couple cool new moves.

Photo credit: Ben & Jerry's

It is now possible to reduce your carbon footprint (but not your actual footprint) by choosing ice cream from a climate-friendly cooler thanks to new “Greenfreeze” technology created by Greenpeace, Ben & Jerry’s, and Unilever....

Greenpeace's ranking of the greenest electronics manufacturers once again has put Nokia at the top. The ranking offers consumers a snapshot of what’s going on in electronics manufacturing and the changes that are made to improve environmental standards.

New photos released today reveal a massive stockpile of old-growth logs from the Boreal forest destined to be made into Kleenex and toilet paper for tissue giant Kimberly-Clark. As recently as August 30th, Kimberly-Clark has claimed that "much of [the] fiber from the Canadian Boreal forest comes to K-C in the form of wood pulp produced from sawdust and chips – or leftovers – of the lumber pr...

Jacques Rogge, IOC president
Yesterday was a good day for Greenpeace to give Beijing its report card on greening up for the Olympics. Due to low winds, emissions from Beijing's burgeoning, if temporarily restricted, car population along with smog from some distant factories was trapped over the city, making it hard to see down the street. Officials said they might need to implement an emergency contingency plan on top of the existing anti-smog measures ...

In an update on our previous post, we now have more information on the two Greenpeace activists who were arrested in Japan following a four-month investigation into activities onboard the Japanese factory whaling ship and what happens to the whale meat that is processed following their ’scientific’ research.

Who says coal and environmentalists -- even the most hardcore take-no-prisoners kind of activists -- can't get along? Or at least listen to each other. And who says that just because coal companies can rally under deceptively-titled front groups like Americans For Balanced Energy Choices, green groups do the same?

Japanese police have arrested two Greenpeace activists for exposing a whale meat scandal involving the government-sponsored whaling program.

The two activists, Junichi Sato, 31, and Toru Suzuki, 41, are being investigated for allegedly stealing a box of whale meat which they presented as evidence.

Here in Japan, the government funds massive "research" projects to kill whales in the South Pacific and elsewhere, very far away from Japan's coastal waters, where whaling was indeed a traditional way of life - a long time ago.

Greenpeace Australia is running an extremely cute campaign against Japanese whaling where one gets to make an origami whale and send it swimming to the Japanese Prime Minister. Much easier than actually learning origami!

If you want to send a whale you have to enter an Australian Postal Code-they are four digits long.Due to popular demand they have added an "I don't live in Australia" checkbox. ::Greenpeace via ::Notcot...

Senate Estimates have shown the true lack of commitment from the Rudd Government on the fight against whaling in our Antarctic waters.
Under questioning, it was confirmed that the 2008 budget held no funding for a continuation of the customs ship Oceanic Viking (or any other ship) to monitor Japanese whaling fleets in our Southern and [...]