Archive for October 22nd, 2008

Follow The Esperanza In Google Earth

Follow the Esperanza in Google Earth

Jamie is blogging from aboard the Esperanza as they travel through Indonesia as part of the Forests For Climate tour .. and you can now follow their progress on Google Earth! Just download this Googe Earth layer and you can see when and where the highlights on the tour have occurred. (You’ll need to have Googe Earth installed as well, of course.)

New placemarks will appear automatically as jamie updates the journey, so check back often to see what we’ve been up to and how the campaign is progressing. If you don’t want to install Google Earth, you can also see where we are in your web browser.

Symposium For Sustainable Sushi

  International Marine Environment Symposium Tokyo
© Greenpeace/Masaya Noda

Who would have thought that prominent conservationists and leading members of Japan’s fishing industry could come together under the banner “Marine Reserves for Sustainable Sushi? Or that one of the speakers used to represent Japan on whaling issues? Or that Greenpeace Japan would be behind the whole event? It’s a strange world we live in. Read more »