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Protecting Antarctica, the heart of the ocean
For many people the Antarctic is little more than a far-away frozen region, literally at the edge of the world; with sterile glaciers, icebergs and colonies of not-so ‘Happy Feet’ penguins, buffeted for much of their lives in the extreme Antarctic wind.
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10 reasons why Arctic drilling is a really stupid idea
Our climate can’t afford it. As the impacts of climate change become more visible and the danger becomes greater, drilling for and burning more fossil fuels is pretty much the last thing we should be doing, especially in somewhere as fragile and untouched as the Arctic.
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Success: Barbie and Mattel drop deforestation!
Mattel recognized it couldn’t allow its supply chains to include products coming from deforestation and that toy packaging shouldn’t come at the costs of rainforests and tiger habitat.
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Why De-Growth? An interview
The Degrowth movement addresses the growth of human consumption, driven by economic growth, population growth, and the impacts of resource extraction.
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Mattel’s controversial career choice for Barbie: rainforest destroyer
She has had a lot of different professions over the years but Mattel’s latest choice for Barbie: ‘Rainforest Destroyer’, is arguably the most controversial career choice yet.
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The women who founded Greenpeace
Although men got most of the headlines in the early Greenpeace campaigns, many strong and visionary women helped bring Greenpeace to life. The family of Greenpeace co-founder Dorothy Stowe –…
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Pillars of Greenpeace leave a legacy
Jim Bohlen and Dorothy Stowe both lived full lives as agents of social change, that leave us much to ponder and to emulate.
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Dorothy Stowe 1920 – 2010
The most fitting memorial for Dorothy Stowe is that we all get up each morning and go back to work in the service of peace, justice, and the living Earth.
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Jim Bohlen 1926 – 2010
The morning Jim and Marie told the Vancouver Sun they would be taking a boat to Amchitka was, arguably, the moment that Greenpeace was born.