The economic case for slashing carbon emissions
On Line Opinion
Both Greenpeace and UCS project substantial economic savings from emission reduction, with fuel savings much larger than the costs of investment. Both assume high oil prices - up to $140 per barrel for Greenpeace - along with rapid change i...
Greenpeace wags finger at eco-laggards
The Register
Greenpeace has released its latest "Cool IT" report ranking which tech firms are doing most to combat global warming and reduce emissions, and which are failing to rise to the challenge. The group urged companies to use the upcoming Copenha...
Greenpeace Reaction to Obama Energy Speech
Common Dreams
WASHINGTON - October 23 - President Obama gave an energy-themed speech today at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ahead of hearings on the climate and energy legislation scheduled to be taken up by the Senate next week. Statement of...
JMU Greenpeace Leads Silent March
WHSV
A small but dedicated group of students at James Madison University took part in Saturday's international day of climate action. While the club is just starting and won't be official until next semester, that's not stopping these students f...
Greenpeace Asks Tech Cos To Oppose US Chamber Of Commerce
CNN Money
Greenpeace, which released a ranking of technology companies based on environmental criteria on Tuesday, says IT firms should do more to advocate for climate change legislation. Many IT companies have made environmentally-focused projects ....
AEP Tests Coal’s Future at Alstom-Equipped West Virginia Plant
Bloomberg
The technology is still too expensive to be used on most of the nation’s existing coal-fired power plants, said Emily Rochon, climate and energy campaigner for Greenpeace, a Washington-based environmental group. The U.S. should “stop trying...
Greenpeace March Across Brooklyn Bridge
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Hundreds of New Yorkers joined the environmental advocacy group Greenpeace this past Saturday in the March for Climate Leadership across the Brooklyn Bridge. The march was part of the largest global day of climate action ever as one of more...
Climate Fools Day Conference 28th October
Right Side News
The public is the biggest's loser as Greenpeace and the Met Office do not make the effort to turn up at the "Climate Fools Day" conference to learn what has changed our climate in the past 60 years and what will change our climate in the ne...
Tests on treasured maize ignite fears in Mexico
Terra Daily
Greenpeace has led efforts to protect Mexico's maize after GM traces have turned up in samples of native varieties in the past decade, despite a moratorium on planting GM maize. The new test permits cover more than 10 hectares (25 acres) in...
SE Asia must push for climate action: Greenpeace
Space Daily
Southeast Asian leaders meeting here must end deforestation and force rich nations into "deep and binding" emissions cuts at climate talks in Copenhagen, pressure group Greenpeace said Saturday. The group pressed its demands by rolling two ...
Ocean conservancy is in! Even ‘South Park’ is making fun of it.
Examiner
The series parodied last night, Whale Wars, is a program that gives us an inside look into the efforts of one Greenpeace ship trying to stop illegal Japanese whaling in Antarctic waters. Considering that “peace” is in the word “Greenpeace ....
Greenpeace targets SA statues to push climate message
Mail & Guardian Online
The map will replace this text. If any users do not have Flash Player 8 (or above), they'll see this message. Greenpeace activists on Saturday draped banners over the statues of South African leaders to ask President Jacob Zuma to take lead...
China's Pearl River suffers from "almost impossible to remove ...
News.Mongabay
A new study by Greenpeace has found high volumes of heavy metals and organic chemicals in China's Pearl River, which provides drinking water for 47 million people. In June 2009, Greenpeace took 25 samples from manufacturing facilities' disc...
