Greenpeace USA
Greenpeace is the leading independent campaigning organization that uses peaceful protest and creative communication to expose global environmental problems and to promote solutions that are essential to a green and peaceful future.
REBLOG to help launch our campaign demanding Apple, Amazon and Microsoft quit coal and power the cloud (and the data centers that host it) with clean, renewable energy like wind and solar!
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Greenpeace International head to dye beard green at Rio+20 for Earth Hour
Kumi Naidoo, the Executive Director of Greenpeace International, has pledged to dye his beard green at the RIO+20 conference later this year if 10,000 people commit to Earth Hour this year. The challenge is part of the Earth Hour I WILL IF YOU WILL campaign. Head to YouTube.com/EarthHour to accept Kumi’s IWIYW
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¿Hay razones por las cuales no cuidar al mundo?
Infographic: 'Changing Forests'
Intact Forests: Natural ecosystems relatively undisturbed by human activity.
Fragmented Forests: Forests disturbed by roads, logging or other human activity.
From the New York Times:
The world’s 9.9 billion acres of forest absorb roughly a quarter of human emissions of carbon dioxide, and help limit the increase of the gas in the atmosphere. While many healthy forests are robustly absorbing carbon, others are threatened by a warming climate.
The infographic accompanies the article, ‘With Deaths of Forests, a Loss of Crucial Climate Protectors’.
Victory: Mattel and Barbie Drop Deforestation!
Mattel’s new packaging policy means they won’t buy from Asia Pulp and Paper, a company destroying Sumatran tiger habitat for paper products.
