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Greenpeace
Trademark protest
Issue Date: Oct 15, 2010
International environmental NGO, Greenpeace, is in the copyright soup over its campaign to save Olive Ridley Turtles.
Online networking guzzles energy
Issue Date: Sep 30, 2010
Facebook is under pressure to shift to renewable energy.
News Snippets
Issue Date: Apr 30, 2010
>> Greenpeace has called on technology giants like Apple, Microsoft, Yahoo and Facebook to power their data centres with renewable energy sources. Greenpeace estimates their data centres will use 1,963 billion kilowatt hours by 2020—more than the power currently consumed by France, Germany, Canada and Brazil combined.
News 360° - Briefs
Issue Date: Apr 30, 2010
Customary land rights
Palm oil firm loses to Kayans
Indonesia gets angry
Issue Date: Dec 31, 2009
The government of Indonesia believes promoting industries at the cost of forests that support the worlds second highest level of biodiversity, is justified. This was why it recently deported two foreign journalists for covering a Greenpeace demonstration against forest destruction on the western island of Sumatra.
Nuclear info
Issue Date: Dec 15, 2009
Greenpeaces Romanian chapter has won a lawsuit against the countrys economy ministry over access to information on the location of future
nuclear power plants. In March 2009, Greenpeace asked the ministry for a list of 100 locations canvassed as possible sites for the construction
of the plants in Romania.
The ministry had claimed that revealing the candidate sites for future nuclear power plants would lead to protests at the sites, according to a
Greenpeace's word play
Issue Date: Sep 30, 2009
News>> Climate Change UK
Climate sceptics are cock-a-hoop over an omission in a Greenpeace story. A sentence in the story posted on the environmental pressure group's site notes, "we are looking at ice-free summers in the Arctic as early as 2030." Greenpeace actually meant "sea ice-free summers". The organization's executive director, Gerd Leipold, admitted the omission in a BBC Hardtalk interview.
Gas about oil
Issue Date: Sep 15, 2009
An e-mail that found its way to Greenpeace shows the US oil and gas lobby will give Barack Obama a tough time. The lobby is
planning to stage public events to give the appearance of a groundswell of public opinion against a legislation that is key
to the US president's climate change strategy. The e-mail has the president of the American Petroleum Institute Jack Gerard
outlining plans to stage events during the autumn congressional recess to put a "human face" on opposition to energy
reform.
Captain speaking
Issue Date: Aug 31, 2009
When the employees of Hewlett-Packard checked their mail box on June 30, they got a bit of a shock.
William Shatner--or Captain Kirk of Star Trek-- had left each one of them a pre-recorded message, politely expressing his regret that the computer company had failed to keep its eco-promises.
ACCORDING TO REPORT
Issue Date: Aug 31, 2009
China V UK: China's three biggest power companies emitted more greenhouse gases last year than the whole of the United Kingdom, a Greenpeace report said. Inefficient plants and heavy reliance on coal were hindering the country's efforts to tackle global warming.
Amazon releasing more CO2: As loggers move into denser regions of Brazil's Amazon forest, US researchers warned trees in the interiors will release 25 per cent more carbon into the atmosphere than the trees on the outskirts. They analyzed Brazil's deforestation data from 2001 to 2007.
