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Video message in a bottle

November 21, 2007 – 2:47 am

GreenPeace 
Want to be part of a Greenpeace action? Help us pass a message around the world! We all need to act, but this December people representing YOU will attend a vital UN climate meeting in Bali, Indonesia. Let’s all let them know that we want action, not blah blah blah.
Check out the collaborative video we [...]

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President Bush Going the Wrong Way on Global Warming

October 1, 2007 – 5:43 pm

 
GreenPeace
September 27, 2007
 
Washington, DC, United States —
Update: All the activists have been released from jail after being arrested in front of the State Department building for participating in a global warming protest.
50 activists, including Greenpeace Executive Director John Passacantando, [...]

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GreenPeace

August 28, 2007 – 5:00 pm

 
 

30 July - Bering Sea. Soft coral found using submarines over 300 metres deep in the previously unexplored Pribilof Canyon. The Esperanza is in the Gulf of Alaska documenting the unique and fragile ecosystems threatened by destructive fishing methods. Read more from the expedition blog.
 
 

29 July - India. Activists outside the Mysore palace which uses [...]

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Iceland stops commercial whale hunt

August 26, 2007 – 11:47 am

 
August 24, 2007
 
GreenPeace
Reykjavik, Iceland —
 

In a setback to the whaling industry worldwide, Iceland’s fisheries minister has just announced he will not issue any more commercial whale-hunting quotas.

Iceland announced last year a return to commercial whaling and a quota of 30 minke whales and [...]

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Sunflowers from Apples?

June 10, 2007 – 1:49 pm

From CNN:

Materials company Pvaxx Research & Development, at the request of U.S.-based mobile phone maker Motorola (MOT.N), has come up with a polymer that looks like any other plastic, but which degrades into soil when discarded.
Researchers at the University of Warwick in Britain then helped to develop a phone cover that contains a [...]

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