National Zero Waste Week 2009 – What’s your pledge?
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This week the Prince Of Wales launched a new campaign to raise awareness of tropical deforestation and encourage action to end it. The campaign was launched on social networking sites across the web, urging people to show their support by signing up…
Earth Day marks the anniversary of the birth of the modern environmental movement in 1970 and you are invited to be a part of this history. Celebrate the Earth and channel the energy into building a clean, healthy, diverse world for generations to come…
As government ministers in the UK were approving plans for a third runway at Heathrow airport, Greenpeace and other environmental campaigners were busy buying up land on the proposed site of the new runway…
Campaigner, Georgina Downs, has won a legal victory in a long-running battle with the UK government over the use of pesticides for spraying crops. A High Court judge ruled Georgina, from Chichester, West Sussex, had produced “solid evidence” that residents had suffered harm…
The Rainbow Warrior is leading the peaceful armada of Greenpeace boats down the Medway towards the Kingsnorth power station. The boats are carrying dozens of campaigners who plan to board Kingsnorth’s coal jetty and walk to the site where E.on wants to build a new coal-fired power station.
The Energy Bill covers a wide range of issues from fossil-fuels and nuclear power to renewable energy but history shows that the UK Government has always been happier spending public money on nuclear power rather than on developing safe and sustainable energy.
Following on from the Climate Camp protest at Kingsnorth power station, and the successful defence of six Greenpeace activists who scaled the chimney in an effort to shut down the power station, Greenpeace have launched their ‘Give Coal the Boot‘ campaign.
