Greenpeace New Zealand Weblog

Two more weeks gone since I last wrote and we’re now fast closing in on the office move, no more than two and a bit weeks away. It’s kind of scary in many respects when I look around because it still looks like we have quite some way to go.

The plasterboard fixers and plasterers are still onsite and hard at work, G8 interiors and Brown holdings doing the hard yards in the weekends as well. Most of the paint priming work is now complete on the first floor area and the Greenpeace volunteers, staff and also a couple of our Auckland Voting Assembly members showed up to help and all have been hard at work over the last week to help make this happen. We’re working nights in the week now as well as the weekends to make this happen. Biopaints have given Greenpeace a full donation of product for this which is simply fantastic and I have to say the finish is really starting to look good. I’ve been a bit hard on everyone making sure we sand between coats but the finish makes it all worth while. We have a couple of volunteers who are very sensitive to things like paint fumes but they’ve been working as hard and as long as anyone else with no ill effects whatsoever. Brilliant product and all naturally based with plant and water based products. Well recommended to anyone interested in painting.
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In the UK today, six brave Greenpeace souls will be appearing at Maidstone Crown Court for the start of a trial centring around Kingsnorth, coal and climate change. In October last year, they took a personal stand to protect the environment and climbed to the top of the smokestack at Kingsnorth coal-fired power station in Kent.

Now, the Kingsnorth Six (Ben Stewart, Emily Hall, Huw Williams, Kevin Drake, Tim Hewke and Will Rose) are being prosecuted for criminal damage and trespass.

The trial could last for up to two weeks. While we’ll be restricted in what we can write for legal reasons (including switching off commenting on some blog posts - sorry), the Greenpeace UK team will be blogging and twittering from Maidstone every day.

Originally posted by Lisa on making waves

Greenpeace Australia-Pacific has launched our Forests for Climate tour with a colourful welcome in Papua New Guinea. Our ship, Esperanza, will tour the region protecting forests and highlighting the effect of deforestation on global warming.

To the sounds of beating drums and singing, the Esperanza docked in the tropical heat of Port Morseby. The ship’s crew was welcomed by traditional Huli, Kairuku, and Oro dancers along with Asaro mud men from coastal and highland regions. Dancers’ costumes were made from the fibres of tapa and pandanus trees, leaves, bird of paradise feathers and, naturally, mud.

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