Filed under: Eliminate toxic chemicals | Tags: Ecological Waste Coalition, PCB, Philippines, Polychlorinated biphenyl, Super Heroes, The PCB Eliminator
Our allies in the EcoWaste Coalition has recently introduced their new champion for chemical safety – The PCB Eliminator!
He is the latest addition to EcoWaste’s own league of green heroes with a special mission of protecting people and ecosystems from harm caused by exposure to these harmful substances.
Filed under: Eliminate toxic chemicals, Project Clean Water | Tags: Beau Baconguis, conversations, Dumpsites, greenpeacebuzz, Lito Atienza, Philippines, Taytay residents, Water Patrol, Water Project
Greenpeace Toxic Campaigner presents to DENR Secretary Lito Atienza a bottle of toxic water collected from the waste collected from the Taytay dumpsite.
Organizationally we promote open, informed debate about society’s environmental choices. We use research, lobbying, and quiet diplomacy to pursue our goals, as well as high-profile, non-violent conflict to raise the level and quality of public debate.
Such can be said of the event that we did yesterday, we did a direct action in order to ignite well informed conversation around the issue of dumpsites. Conversations are the ideal form of communication in some respects, since they allow people with different views on a topic to learn from each other.
Filed under: Eliminate toxic chemicals, Project Clean Water | Tags: EcoWaste, greenpeacebuzz, Mayor Gacula, Philippines, Taytay, Taytay Dumpsite, Water Pollution
A Greenpeace Water Patrol activist wearing a protective suit shovels trash to take samples from a dumpsite in Taytay.
6:30AM
By the crack of dawn, we were already onsite, as we got off our vehicles we were met with a handful of onlooking wastepickers at the dumpsite in Barangay Muzon along Laguna Lake.
In no time, the gates of the dumpsite was already locked-shut, with chains and padlocks; and in no time the activists were already busy assembling the scaffolds that will serve as reinforcement to the chains and padlocks that we used to secure the dumpsite’s gates.
Filed under: Stop climate change | Tags: Climate Change, Countdown to Copenhagen, International Herald Tribune, Yes Men
Greenpeace distributes 35,000 copies of spoof International Herald Tribune in Brussels.
Readers of a free copy of the International Herald Tribune in Brussels today may have done a double take when they saw headlines like “Markets Soar on News of Copenhagen Climate Deal” and “Atmosphere Named World Heritage Site.” That’s because the newspaper, datelined six months into the future, was brought to them by Greenpeace and the Yes Men.
Filed under: Greenpeace, Life at work, Stop climate change | Tags: Activism, ADB, alien, Asian Development Bank, Climate Change, coal, greenpeacebuzz, Philippines
A group of unidentified aliens visited the Asian Development Bank headquarters during an on-going high-level dialogue on climate and clean energy.
The discussion of the need to prevent climate change continues apace. Honestly, I am not fed up about the issue but I’m fed up reading what the deniers have to say about it through the social media. So, I visited some blogs containing other topics to somehow get off from the usual blogs that I follow.
After browsing a couple of blogs, I came to stumble upon a quote that’s quite striking. It says, “You cannot f*ck the future, sir — the future f*cks you.” It came from a theology blog but then upon reading the quote, the issue on climate change began crawling inside my mind. Though I’m not sure of what the quote’s context is, I came to concoct my own understanding of it. Hell yes, nobody can mess up with our future here in this planet but I guess the future itself will eventually give its final say whether we’re going to have a f*cked up one or not. In my humble opinion, what we need to do now is to welcome the choice of a solution that might actually motivate some action for once, even on alien’s method, rather than standing vainly in its stead.
Filed under: Stop climate change | Tags: Climate Change, Energy [R]evolution, Susan Sarandon
From Making Waves
The final installment of a trilogy is out today. The last of the three Reasons to Believe films narrated by the charming and talented Ms Susan Sarandon has been released – ‘Reasons to Believe: Servers‘. These films give us three out of an endless list of reasons to believe that an Energy [R]evolution is possible and necessary to change our energy habits and reduce emissions contributing to climate change.
Filed under: Greenpeace, Stop climate change | Tags: Climate Change, human rights, Ken Saro-Wiwa, Nigeria, Shell
From Making Waves
This week, Shell paid $15.5m to the Ogoni people in Nigeria, an out of court settlement after a 13 year struggle. I read that Shell’s lawyers apparently once said that Shell would only settle when “hell freezes over” and they were “skating on it” – (perhaps that explains why Shell is now the most carbon intensive oil company on the planet – a desperate bid to keep hell nice and cosy).
Filed under: Greenpeace, Life at work | Tags: campaigns, japan, t-shirts, Whaling
Mai Suzuki of Greenpeace Japan and Fanny Lee of Greenpeace China at exhibition of Greenpeace t-shirts in Aomori, Japan, where two Greenpeace activists are on trial.
A new exhibit in Aomori, Japan, gives a glimpse of Greenpeace history through one of our iconic communication tools: the t-shirt. Over the years, our campaigns have spawned many, many tees — from the funny to the shrill, the plain and functional to the artistic.
They have been used as action tools, as when activists aboard the Greenpeace ship Sirius were being escorted out of the Soviet Union, and in front of whirring cameras revealed the message “Stop Nuclear Testing” in Russian on the t-shirts beneath their sweatshirts. Or when activists in the high-security zone around a Star Wars missile test wore “Don’t Shoot” tees — messaging both the missile masters and the gun-toting guards.
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Filed under: Defending our Oceans | Tags: greenpeacebuzz, Philippines, UNEP, United Nations, United Nations Environment Programme, World Oceans Day
Greenpeace volunteer collects plastic rubbish from Manila Bay, Philippines.
Greenpeace volunteer collects plastic rubbish from Manila Bay, Philippines.
“The first observance of World Oceans Day allows us to highlight the many ways in which oceans contribute to society. It is also an opportunity to recognize the considerable challenges we face in maintaining their capacity to regulate the global climate, supply essential ecosystem services and provide sustainable livelihoods and safe recreation.”
Ban Ki-moon
Secretary General
United Nations
World Oceans Day (WOD), was officially declared by the United Nations as June 8th each year beginning in 2009.
The Oceans cover more than 70 per cent of the Earth’s surface – they have a significant effect on our climate and play a crucial role in maintaining the many ecosystem services such as fisheries.
Filed under: Greenpeace, Life at work, Stop climate change | Tags: Activism, Countdown to Copenhagen, Ecology, greenpeacebuzz, Philippines, United Nations, World Environment Day
I didn’t realize that a year has already passed since we commorated last year’s World Environment Day (WED) , in Iloilo City, where we launched the Climate Defenders Camp to gather support against the coal expansionist push by the government.
Greenpeace Southeast Asia 