VIDEO: Briefing from the Esperanza in the Pacific

May 13th, 2008 Comments(1)

Langi, on board our ship the Esperanza, with an update on destructive fishing in his part of the world, and what we’re doing about it.

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April 14th, 2008 Comments(3)

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Written&directed by Johannes Kuemmel
Produced by Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg
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Al Gore does a sequel slideshow

April 10th, 2008 Comments(0)

Al GoreFollowing the success of his presentation / move ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ Al Gore has released another similar video presentation.

In order to become optimistic (about climate change) we need to become incredibly active citizens in our democracy. In order to solve the climate crisis we need to solve the democracy crisis.

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VIDEO: Lyttelton coal blockade and background

March 28th, 2008 Comments(4)

This video gives some background to the Greenpeace climate change campaign in New Zealand and some footage from the Rainbow Warrior’s blockade of the Hellenic Sea coal shipment in Lyttelton on the 25th March.

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Launching the Greenpeace balloon

March 06th, 2008 Comments(3)
An early start with the balloon (C) GREENPEACE / Nick Young
An early start with the balloon (C) GREENPEACE / Nick Young

Have you ever been inside a hot air balloon? Probably not. Neither had I until this morning when I got the opportunity to walk around inside one as we prepared to launch the Greenpeace hot air balloon. I can certainly recommend it if you ever get the chance. Quite surreal - especially if the balloon is painted like the earth.

After a very early start this morning we launched our giant, planet-replica hot air balloon over Bastion Point.

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