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Greenpeace reports progress on Amazon deforestation practices
By Ashley Phillips
Green Right Now
In June, Greenpeace released “Slaughtering the Amazon,” a three-year investigation into deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. Greenpeace found that people were taking over protected lands in order to expand their cattle ranches. This was not only illegal, but large quantities of greenhouse gases were being released into the atmosphere as a result of the rapidly depleting forests.
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Deforestation accounts for around one fifth of global greenhouse gas emissions, more than all the world’s trains, planes and cars combined, and Greenpeace estimates that the cattle industry is responsible for 80 percent of all deforestation.
Now, just four months after the release of “Slaughtering the Amazon,” positive steps are being taken by some of the big companies implicated.
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Tags: · Adidas, Bertin, cattle ranches, deforestation, Greenpeace, JBS-Friboi, Marfrig, Minerva, Nike, Slaughtering the Amazon, Timberland
Kimberly-Clark will use sustainable paper; in accord with Greenpeace
strong> By Barbara Kessler
Green Right Now
Kimberly-Clark, the world’s largest personal paper products company, announced new policies today in which the paper maker will greatly increase the use of recycled and sustainably grown wood fibers in its products, which include the Kleenex, Scott and Cottonelle brands.
 The move will help save forests around the globe and make the Dallas-based company a leader in producing sustainable paper products, said Greenpeace media officer Daniel Kessler. “We worked with Kimberly-Clark on this policy and it’s a landmark for forest protection; 100 percent of Kimberly-Clark’s fiber will come from sustainable sources.”
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Tags: · Cottonelle, Forestry Stewardship Council, FSC, Greenpeace, Kimberly-Clark, Kleenex, recycled paper fiber, Scott, sustainable forests, sustainble forests, virgin wood fiber
Greenpeace activists jump off a cliff to make a point about global warming
By Barbara Kessler
Green Right Now
You gotta love it when people show they care. Greenpeace activists made their passion for the environment manifest in yet another creative way today, posting a sign urging Obama to show strong leadership on global warming.
On Mount Rushmore.
Next to Lincoln, our president’s favorite president.
They were arrested, which for Greenpeacers is not a negative. Though the group noted in the news release that the sign posters were all trained rock climbers, so no lives were endangered. The “heads” were unharmed and the activists took care to use established climbing anchors used for routine cleanings.
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Tags: · BarbaraKesslerBlog, climate activism, Copenhagen Climate Talks, G-8 summit, global warming, Greenpeace, Mount Rushmore, President Obama, protest
Greenpeace zings Trader Joe’s for being last on seafood sustainability list
From Green Right Now Reports:
Greenpeace followed up the release this week of its latest Carting Away the Oceans scorecard with a friendly and fishy demonstration outside Trader Joe’s stores in San Francisco.
 Greenpeace members, two of whom dressed as orange roughy and others who parodied Trader’s by wearing Hawaiian shirts mimicking the store’s trademark uniform, handed out information on why its important to select and buy seafood that can be replenished and also asked prospective customers to sign petition postcards to privately held grocery company.
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Tags: · Carting Away the Oceans, Greenpeace, groceries, Oceans, overfishing, Retailers, seafood, seafood Red List, sustainability, Trader Joe's
Despite global ban, Japan, Iceland and Norway still hunting whales
By Melissa Segrest
Green Right Now
In 1986, the International Whaling Commission banned the catching and killing of whales for commercial purposes worldwide. Whale populations – such as the North Pacific gray and the North Atlantic right whale – were threatened because of centuries of unrestricted hunting.
That ban is still in effect, with two exceptions: aboriginal peoples whose survival depends on whaling (Alaska, St. Vincent, the Grenadines, Denmark and the Russian Federation) and whaling for scientific purposes.
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Tags: · commercial whaling, Greenpeace, Humane Society International, Iceland and killing whales, International Whaling Commission, International Whaling Commission 61st meeting, Japan and killing whales, Minke whales, Norway and killing whales, Pew Whale Conservation Project, Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society, whale populations, World Wildlife Federation
Greenpeace scores groceries for seafood sustainability
By Barbara Kessler
Green Right Now
When you fish for seafood at your local grocery, it can be difficult to tell whether you are supporting sustainable fishing practices.
Was the snapper you selected caught using legal, sustainable fishing practices? Should you even be buying it? Is the Chilean Sea Bass you just purchased on the “Red List” of jeopardized marine species? Does the grocery you’re patronizing buy seafood certified by the Marine Stewardship Council?
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Tags: · Carting Away the Oceans scorecard, food sustainability, Greenpeace, groceries, Marine Stewardship Council, ocean health, seafood, sustainability
Coal protest planned for the Capitol
By Diane Porter
Green Right Now
Next Monday, in what is billed as the largest mass civil disobedience rally for the climate in U.S. history, organizers expect thousands of people to join in a protest at the Capitol Power Plant in Washington, D.C. Hoping to bring attention to the issues of climate change and green jobs to the new administration and new Congress, the protestors are expected from around the country, spurred on by support and videos from actress and activist Susan Sarandon and NASA’s James Hansen.
“We want to send a clear message to Congress and the Obama administration that Americans aren’t satisfied with the action that’s been taken on climate yet,” said Mike Crocker, a spokesperson for Greenpeace. “We need robust policies in place as soon as possible, certainly in time for (the next United Nations Climate Talks) in Copenhagen in December 2009.”
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Tags: · Capitol Power Plant, carbon pollution, Greenhouse Gases, Greenpeace, James Hansen, Pew Center for Global and Climate Change, protest, Susan Sarandon, Washington DC
Show some enthusiasm for recycled TP
By Barbara Kessler
Green Right Now
There’s a funny scene in the Larry David show Curb Your Enthusiasm in which Larry, and the displaced New Orleans family encamped in his house, wink and smirk over the toilet paper that his wife has installed in the bathrooms.
Being an environmentalist – as is her real life counterpart Laurie David – Cheryl David had outfitted the water closets with recycled TP. The running joke was that everyone had noticed the difference. And they weren’t in love with the experience.
Such is the reputation of recycled TP. Although, it seems as though I have successfully slipped it by my family. Has it gotten better (I think it has)? Or are they smirking behind my back? Probably a bit of both. I don’t really know, and it doesn’t matter because we won’t be returning to conventional stuff.
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Tags: · 365, Angel Soft, BarbaraKesslerBlog, Charmin, deforestation, Earth Friendly, Fiesta Green, Green Forest, Greenpeace, Kleenex Cottonelle, Natural Value, Recycled Paper, Seventh Generation, toilet paper, Whole Foods Market
Greenpeace issues new guide for choosing recycled personal paper products
By Barbara Kessler
Green Right Now
Greenpeace, guardian of oceans and forests, has reissued its Recycled Tissue and Toilet Paper Guide to help people make the switch to recycled paper.
The new pocket guide endorses brands such as Green Forest, Earth Friendly, Natural Value and Seventh Generation, which are made of recycled paper. It recommends that shoppers avoid products such as Kleenex, Cottonelle, Charmin, Angel Soft, Bounty, Brawny and the Target and Wal-Mart house brands because they are not made from recycled wood products.
Using recycled personal paper products can make an impressive impact in curbing global warming, according to Greenpeace, among others — far greater than one might suspect from contemplating the lowly roll of toilet paper.
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Tags: · Angel, Bounty, Brawny, Charmin, Cottonelle, Earth Friendly, Green Forest, Greenpeace, Kimberly-Clark, Kleenex, Natural Value, paper towels, Seventh Generation, Soft, Target, toilet paper, Wal-Mart
Green groups need your year-end donations
By Barbara Kessler
Green Right Now
Now that you’ve worn off the magnetic strip on the credit card buying presents for everyone, gotten the letter that your health insurance premiums are doubling and your job is being “redefined,” it’s time to think about those year-end donations. Sigh.
While environmental groups will likely have an easier time on Capitol Hill next year talking policy with a new Administration that sees global warming as a real threat, they paradoxically could be facing headwinds with donors.
Consider first that some of their large contributors may have been dragged down in the Bernard Madoff securities/Ponzi scheme, which savaged many charitable foundations. While the extent of that damage is being assessed, it’s safe to assume that even nonprofits that escaped that five-alarm fire, have been singed by the economic meltdown.
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Tags: · BarbaraKesslerBlog, Defenders of Wildlife, Earthjustice, Environmental Defense Fund, Environmental Working Group, Greenpeace, National Wildlife Federation, Natural Resources Defense Council, Nature Canada, The Nature Conservancy
Green agitators agitate
By Barbara Kessler
Green Right Now
Don’t know if it’s the financial crisis, the change of seasons or just the usual grumpiness over the incessant despoiling of the mothership, but the green agitators seem especially edgy lately.
Reuters reported Monday that Greenpeace had blockaded palm oil ships leaving an Indonesian port bound for China and Europe. Their point: harvesting palm oil in that region is destroying rainforests and wildlife and contributing to greenhouse gases (remember those warm climate forests are especially valuable carbon sinks).
The activists were reportedly bobbing in rubber boats out in front of the palm oil ships and one Greenpeacer was seen jumping aboard the anchor of a ship, where he or she presumably clung for dear life.
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Tags: · BarbaraKesslerBlog, coal, Greenpeace, Kimberly-Clark, palm oil, recycled tissues
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