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Happiness, joy, amazement, tears – the baptism of the Rainbow III on 14/10/2011
There it is, the Rainbow Warrior III! A cry goes through our bus. With the towering masts and the Greenpeace Rainbow she is not to be overlooked. In bright sunshine it flashes brand new. A small delegation of staff time went wrong with the bus clock by 10 in Hamburg, because we were at the baptism of the Rainbow Warrior III to be there!What a godsend that will be crowned at this special event even higher powers of the day by a super weather.
On the trail of dirty laundry – Part V
As part of the detox campaign Manfred Santen, chemistry expert at Greenpeace, and Simone Miller, spokeswoman for Greenpeace, one week in China in order to make himself an image and get an impression of the Chinese textile industry. Simone Miller tells of the events and impressions from China in the Greenpeace blog.
The truth behind the TIME article, “Fukushima – Stress and radiation”
The TIME article, “Fukushima – Stress and radiation,” by Hans shoe in the tradition of reporting after the Chernobyl reactor disaster in 1986: He distorts the facts and he played down. One can criticize many aspects of the article. Here represent just some of the fog trails, half-truths and deceptions.
Greenpeace and Volkswagen: An exchange of letters.
Volkswagen main building have attached a banner Greenpeace activists today. “Climate change made in Germany” stand on it there. The requirement of the Environmental Protection Agency, among other things, that the car company's responsibility for climate justice is. Action on the Volkswagen responded with a press release.
People at Greenpeace – Sonja Hochgesand
Hochgesand Sonja is a stroke of luck for Greenpeace. For six years she has been a volunteer in the Dusseldorf group Greenpeace worked for Greenpeace, in addition to her full-time job as a chemical-technical assistant. Even as a child and loved Sonja Greenpeace has paved the walls of her nursery with pictures of animals.
Volkswagen claims on climate
We get more inquiries about our new climate campaign and I have asked my colleague Wolfgang Lohbeck, answer a few questions. Why did Greenpeace Volkswagen just picked as a campaign opponent? VW itself has stated they want the biggest and soon to be world's most sustainable car manufacturer.
On the issue over …
Yesterday Greenpeace protect the stones were still Sylt on the agenda of the Environment and Agriculture Committee of the Schleswig-Holstein Landtag. At the request of the CDU, it was the agenda item “The impact and the potential dangers – including for the fishing – the by Greenpeace in the North Sea island of Sylt sunken rocks.
# 15 greenbites – Greenpeace podcast: porpoises threatened
The number of porpoises in the North and Baltic Sea decreases rapidly. Greenpeace activists create in the Sylt Outer Reef with the sinking of stones protection areas in which the stocks can recover. Thilo Maack, marine expert at Greenpeace says in the podcast, such as fishing threatens the porpoises and why the policy does not guarantee the protection to which it is required by law.
A legend is built on
First I see the Rainbow Warrior III from the other side of the river. She is already adorned with the white dove and the rainbow. Today – just before the anniversary of the sinking of the Rainbow Warrior – the so-called pile transport is the new flagship of Greenpeace. This means that the Rainbow Warrior from the land moves on the water.
260 000 signatures, 30 degrees and a lawn sprinkler
Without him we would have been at times in a fix: the front lawn sprinkler Federal Chancellery in Berlin. Yesterday he took care not only about the watering of lawns in the Government District, but also the cooling of many Greenpeace activists. The wind was perfect and always has once again blown over a few refreshing drops to us.