Greenpeace International's blog

With the familiar hype, the latest "revolutionary" iPhone 3G is released by Apple this Friday. In all the promises of faster, better, cheaper, there's not a peep about it being any greener than the first iPhone.

Well there is a rumour that the iPhone will be partly packaged in potato starch trays instead of plastic. » read more

I’ve heard a lot of people mention how many football fields of forest disappear every second/ hour/day.
I don’t know about others, but I personally didn’t have the remotest
idea of the actual size of a football field until I wrote this post.
According to our resident football expert, Maarten, there isn’t even a
standard size. So why do we keep talking about football fields? It
helps visualize, since most people, unlike me, have a clue. » read more

Breaking news - two Japanese Greenpeace activists, Junichi and Toru, have been arrested for exposing the stolen whale meat scandal which led to the ongoing investigation by the Tokyo Public Prosecutor of the government's Southern Ocean whale hunt.

They're being investigated for allegedly stealing a box of whale meat - yet they delivered the meat to the public prosecutor a month ago, as evidence of a systematic whale meat smuggling operation. » read more

It is an interesting moment when you brainstorm for cool things to do on a campaign, just to notice two days later while doing a Google search that someone else did it. This happened to me yesterday, when I stumbled upon the new Google Earth disappearing forests layer, created by Google Earth genius David Tryse.
It showcases which primary forests around the world are depleted, as well as the data comparing what was there originally and what is left now. » read more