UK and Tar Sands Oil

Today 50 Greenpeace UK activists blocked their Department for Transport with two immobilised cars parked in front of the entrances and a giant handshake. This is because the UK government is trying to scuttle legislation that will block tar sands oil from being sold at UK petrol pumps. Next week, officials will meet fro...

Tar Sands In Your Home

Several NGO’s, including Greenpeace and Sierra Club, have a website about the Alberta tar sands that features a map of the tar sands that can be placed ...

Princes To Help Protect Oceans

Greenpeace UK is celebrating that Princes, a leading tinned tuna company, will change the way they get their tuna. After receiving over 80,000 emails from G...

Hidden Chainsaw Barbies

If you’re going to be in the UK in the next month or so, there’s an unusual activity that you can do. Greenpeace has had a campaign urging Mattel to stop using rainforest tre...

Deforestation Update

According to National Geographic, areas of forest the size of Panama are lost each year to deforestation. Farmers “slash and burn” acres at a tim...

Palm Oil News

As forests around the world are destroyed to make way for palm oil plantations, any good conservation news seems like a ray of sunshine. Singapore-based Golden Agri-Resources has announced that it will work with the Indonesian government and green gr...

Greening the Energy Grids

A recent report demonstrates how a revised global energy “revolution” could create 3.2 million jobs, with 8.5 million in the renewable energy sector alone.  All while reducing energy related CO2 emissions globally by over 80% by 2050. The June 2010 ...

Wild Weather Solutions

Weather and humanitarian efforts are becoming more and more linked. The UN and its aid partners have appealed for $1.9 billion for this year for Sudan, Africa, which makes it the world’s largest humanitarian operation. Along with tribal and political...

Conservation Quotes

Have you ever looked up wildlife conservation quotes online?  Leading quotation websites include conservation and the environment.  Here are a few of my favorites from this week’s readings: From the Quote Garden  : Don’t blow it –...