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Greenpeace ranked #1 on Facebook!

Well this just made me button-popping proud of our little team in Amsterdam: we’ve hit #1 among all non-profits on Facebook, according to Innova & Bella, a Marketing Research firm which rated non-profits according to performance in three categories: the quality and number of interactive asks, the number of “likes” enjoyed by each group, and …

February 17, 2011 – 11:44 am | Posted in Activism, Climate, Greenpeace | Comments (0) | If this looks ugly, fix your Windoze ...
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Skepticgate: oh, sorry Congress, did I forget to mention I’m funded by big oil?

A scientist who is paid to have an opinion is not a scientist. He’s a lobbyist. And Congress isn’t supposed to call lobbyists in as expert witnesses to give scientific opinions. Patrick Michaels probably knew that when he told Congress he got less than 3% of his funding from oil. So he got to testify. …

January 26, 2011 – 5:13 am | Posted in Activism, Environmental Issues | Comments (0) | If this looks ugly, fix your Windoze ...
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Random captures from 10:10:10

People at 7347 events in 188 countries are getting to work on the climate crisis, check out the amazing pics from all over the world here here and here and here.Here’s a taste: Direct Communication in New Zealand. Penguins get to work too! Fixing Bikes Guerrilla Gardening in South Africa Sandra Antonovic is overseeing the planting of 101,010 trees in …

October 10, 2010 – 5:30 am | Posted in Activism, Uncategorized | Comments (0) | If this looks ugly, fix your Windoze ...
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Let’s get to work! 10:10:10!

–Check out TckTckTcks’s cool Flipiture of stuff already happening –Send your photos and up to 90 seconds of video of what YOU’re doing to stop Climate change today: globalworkparty@tcktcktck.org (Subject is your title, body is your description, attachment is your media. http://www.anylink.com/ in the body hyperlinks from the flip side of the photo.) –Help document the day by …

Bloggers’ Brief: Energy [R]evolution

Just finished watching Sven Teske and Kert Davies speaking about the Energy [R]evolution in New York and out over the interwebs. Great, inspiring stuff, and all the better for both of them having untold or UNDERtold stories that the world really needs to hear. In Kert’s case, he’s been digging for years into just how …

September 24, 2010 – 5:32 am | Posted in Activism, Greenpeace | Comments (0) | If this looks ugly, fix your Windoze ...
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Ryanair and climate change.

So the chief of Ryanair doesn’t believe in global warming, says this article in the Telegraph today, and Joss Garman delivers one of the best put-downs ever: “Personally, I wouldn’t trust ‘O’Really’ to tell me the price of a seat on his own airline, but to be fair his position does have the support of such …

September 10, 2010 – 5:33 am | Posted in Environmental Issues | Comments (0) | If this looks ugly, fix your Windoze ...
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Friends facing jail: verdict Monday

On Monday, two of the most committed activists I have ever known in Greenpeace get a verdict in their two-year-long trial in Japan. They are charged with stealing a box of embezzled whale meat, which they turned over to police as evidence of corruption in the Japanese whaling industry. But what’s really on trial at …

September 3, 2010 – 5:33 am | Posted in Activism, Greenpeace | Comments (1) | If this looks ugly, fix your Windoze ...
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Paul the octopus predicts the energy future

Tiny little brain. Still gets it right.

Jim Bohlen

I was glad to see one of my favorite websites mark the passing of Jim with a link to our story at the Greenpeace International site. But Kieran Mulvaney wrote thebetter piece, for Discovery Magazine.

July 9, 2010 – 5:35 am | Posted in Activism, Greenpeace | Comments (2) | If this looks ugly, fix your Windoze ...
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Small people: why I don’t accept BP’s apology.

Dear BP ChairmanCarl-Henric Svanberg, So. BP is not like the other oil companies. It cares about the “small people.” Well I enclose a picture of two small people that I care about. If YOU cared about them, you’d be getting your company out of the deadly, dirty fuels business that is coating the dreams of their future …

June 18, 2010 – 5:37 am | Posted in Environmental Issues | Comments (1) | If this looks ugly, fix your Windoze ...
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The American Declaration of Independence from British Petroleum

IN CONGRESS, July 4, 2010 The unanimous Declaration of the fifty United States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with a dirty, deadly energy source, and to assume among the powers of the Earth, the separate and equal …

June 5, 2010 – 5:36 am | Posted in Environmental Issues | Comments (0) | If this looks ugly, fix your Windoze ...
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Arctic oil drilling permits: delay is not enough

“Let’s delay these permits until we’ve mopped up the oily media mess, shall we?” That’s the conversation I expect drove US Interior Secretary Salazar’s decision, as yet unannounced, to delay permit applications for Arctic oil drilling for a year. OK, with my rose-tinted Hippy Glasses I’ll raise a glass with everyone who has been working to …

May 27, 2010 – 5:38 am | Posted in Activism, Greenpeace | Comments (0) | If this looks ugly, fix your Windoze ...
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Rebranding BP

Greenpeace UK is running a competition to rebrand BP and the squeaky green logo that they paid millions for when they toyed with the idea of moving “Beyond Petroleum.” This year, 5% of BP’s energy investment is renewables, and 95% is oil. Executive Director Tony Haywood restructured the company because “Too many people were working to …

May 20, 2010 – 5:39 am | Posted in Activism, Creativity, Greenpeace | Comments (0) | If this looks ugly, fix your Windoze ...
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Nature…

If we don’t look after it… it’ll look after itself.

May 16, 2010 – 5:40 am | Posted in Environmental Issues | Comments (0) | If this looks ugly, fix your Windoze ...
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Watching Obama at the Whitehouse via Facebook

It was great to see Obama saying some very strong stuff about BP, the oil industry, and the future of energy in America last night. It was great to see him defer further permits on offshore oil drilling, not so great to see him fail to ban drilling in the Arctic altogether. But what was …

May 5, 2010 – 5:37 am | Posted in Digital Culture, Environmental Issues | Comments (0) | If this looks ugly, fix your Windoze ...
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Did killing the whales set us on the path to global warming?

If you think the world has never hit an energy crisis like peak oil before, think again. It happened back in 1871, except the oil in question wasn’t petroleum: it was whale oil. In its day, whale oil was the fuel of choice — the world’s lamps ran on it, whaling was the 5th largest US …

April 30, 2010 – 5:42 am | Posted in Environmental Issues | Comments (1) | If this looks ugly, fix your Windoze ...
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Earth Day: Give Earth a hand

It’s 1am, I’ve been spending long hours helping migrate our 10,000 page website to a shiny new, social-media friendly design, and I really ought to be in bed. But I can’t help it watch the reviews come in for our new Earth Day video which Daniel Bird put together for us. The best reviews of …

April 21, 2010 – 11:49 pm | Posted in Activism, Environmental Issues, Forests, Kit Kat | Tagged KitKat, KitKat PalmOil | Comments (0) | If this looks ugly, fix your Windoze ...
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Volcano versus planes

More than half of Europe’s airspace was empty yesterday due to the volcano in Iceland. And while I know this is causing chaos for many, and presents a personal hardship (my partner Martha may be stranded for the next week, leaving me to single parent my two boys) — what a glorious thing to look …

April 18, 2010 – 7:42 am | Posted in Environmental Issues | Comments (1) | If this looks ugly, fix your Windoze ...
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Easter Bunny Vs Orangutan

Elaine Hill in our office put this one together, which I just find too cute for words. (Want to send it? It’s an Ecard) Mind you, I did favor a different treatment, which I call Easter Bunny Vs. Orangutan Death Match, but I guess we’ve already reached the slasher fan demographic with our original take. …

March 31, 2010 – 8:36 pm | Posted in Activism, Environmental Issues, Forests, Kit Kat, Webdesign | Tagged KitKat, KitKat PalmOil | Comments (1) | If this looks ugly, fix your Windoze ...
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Great Kit Kat Prezi

Thanks to Wiebke Herding for circulating this at the E-campaigning forum. Great overview by Scott Douglas of the first four days of the Kit Kat campaign. NESTLE KERFUFFLE on Prezi

March 24, 2010 – 10:59 am | Posted in Environmental Issues, Forests, Kit Kat, Uncategorized | Tagged KitKat, KitKat PalmOil | Comments (1) | If this looks ugly, fix your Windoze ...
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Kit Kat Downfall

Sometimes you just get lucky. When I first saw the creatives for our Kit Kat brand attack from Greenpeace UK, my gut said we had a winner. But the fact that our brand attack has turned into a rout has more to do with how Kit Kat responded to it. First, some background. The problem: Kit …

March 20, 2010 – 4:37 am | Posted in Activism, Environmental Issues, Forests, Greenpeace, Kit Kat | Tagged KitKat, KitKat PalmOil | Comments (4) | If this looks ugly, fix your Windoze ...
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SXSW: Verbatim in places, Bruce Sterling closing speech. Telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

[It’s verbatim except where it’s not, which is a fair few places, and there’s holes (Brazil, Lingerie). It’s full of typos. It’s what I captured. Until we get the full length video (ppppppleasee, SXSW?) it is, I will immodestly say, the best ASCII capture I’ve seen. But check out the artwork.] I do complain, but …

SXSW: Gary Vaynerchuk jams with the crowd

It’s a rare speaker that makes an entire room shine. Gary Vaynerchuk, the Wine Guy, is that guy. Journalist Jeff Jarvis, who was sitting in front of me during this presentation, tweeted that the key lesson of Gary is humanity. He’s a mensch. He warned us it would be interactive. He started by standing at …

March 15, 2010 – 9:21 pm | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments (0) | If this looks ugly, fix your Windoze ...
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SXSW: Never underestimate the Hummingbird

My evil Thinkpad took one look at all the Apple gear here at SXSW and threw a jealous fit, vengefully refusing to recognise the conference WIFI. Add that to the half-functionality of a European phone that I can’t put in data roaming mode, without paying an arm and a leg, and you have a perfect …

March 15, 2010 – 4:00 pm | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments (1) | If this looks ugly, fix your Windoze ...
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SXSW: the panel takeaways that went to the bar

I rolled into bed about 2:30 AM last night, soberer for the 20 minute walk home up Red River from the last stop of the night, a bar in a derelict house, plaster half gone and burned-out fireplace and all, that Andrew Davies and I found when heading late to the Frog Party. “Frog Party dead?” I asked …

SXSW: Era of Crowdsourcing

Intro: Communities of skilled people can serve as platforms for sourcing ideas, work, and solutions across industries. But how can we ensure that the new era of crowdsourcing actually empowers those that participate? There are dangerous trends in the world of crowdsourcing, and some principles are required to make this new ecosystem endure over time. …

Sxsw images

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March 13, 2010 – 5:03 pm | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments (0) | If this looks ugly, fix your Windoze ...
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Century of Self and Building a Movement against Climate Change

Phew. I’ve arrived in Austin for SXSW, on the wings of a back of a tale too long in the telling of missed connections, standby snafus, and a bus from San Antonio. (Bright side: Saw the Alamo from the bus window. Unremarkable. No wonder nobody remembers it.) My travelling companion on this journey was a …

Love Letters to the Future finalist in SXSW web awards

YouTube — Love Letters to the Fuutre video During the outpouring of efforts to get the world to pay heed to global warming talks in Copenhagen last December, some Greenpeace supporters may remember seeing a link in their email or via Facebook or Twitter to a lovely website entitled “Love Letters to the Future” where …

March 11, 2010 – 12:22 am | Posted in Activism, Greenpeace | Comments (0) | If this looks ugly, fix your Windoze ...
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Mistakes revealed: new doubt about Copernican universe

In a stunning blow to the heliocentric view of our galaxy, a newly-uncovered edition of the Vatican Index of Forbidden Books of 1635 reveals a number of previously unreported spelling errors in Galileo Galilei’s famous Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo. That work was widely regarded as the central scientific case against the …

February 19, 2010 – 10:41 pm | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments (1) | If this looks ugly, fix your Windoze ...
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