In Indonesia, foreign activists with the environmental group Greenpeace and two foreign journalists are being deported. The activists were involved in conservation efforts and protests to publicize the environmental damage caused by deforestation. The Indonesian government says they misused their visas. Tom Keunen, a Belgian activist with the environmental group Greenpeace, says the Indonesian police [...]

Cast your vote in the Angry Mermaid Award and help decide which company or lobby group is doing the most to sabotage effective action on climate change. Voting is open until Sunday 13 December 2009. Crucial UN climate talks take place in Copenhagen this December. While people, organisations and social movements around the world are calling [...]

A famed environmentalist came to Chico State University on Saturday to give a serious talk about the environment, but with the way he played to the crowd at times, he could just as easily have been a comedian. Capt. Paul Watson, subject of the Animal Planet and Discovery Channel series “Whale Wars,” was a keynote [...]

The bombing of Pearl Harbour on December 7th woke up the USA and brought the reluctant world power into the Second World War. Here we sat 68 years later awaiting the arrival of December 7th 2009 when again the reluctant nations would be asked to join the world in the biggest fight the planet has [...]

“A BELIEF in man-made climate change and the alleged resulting moral imperatives is capable, if genuinely held, of being a philosophical belief for the purpose of the 2003 Religion and Belief Regulations.” Those were the words of an English High Court judge, Mr Justice Burton, on November 3rd as he ruled that green beliefs deserve [...]

Well I have just completed the easiest protest I think I have ever done. As I wrote in ‘How to be an armchair activist’, I have just finished the COPENHAGEN CLIMATE CHANGE – WORLD HUNGER STRIKE. My 5 day commitment to this protest started at midnight on Sunday October 18th and was concluded at midnight [...]

A Reality Check From the Brink of Extinction PLEASE NOTE. The Greenhouse Neutral Foundation determined this provocative discussion in the article below deserved full exposure on the site and has reproduced the piece in its entirety. It gives full credit to AlterNet.org and to Chris Hedges. Chris Hedges in TruthDig channels the radical thinking of [...]

There is a little quotation that I have printed out and have attached to my desk pad cover; it reads Press On Nothing in the world can take the place of perseverance. Talent will not. Nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not. Unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will [...]

It struck me that this is the easiest damn protest I have ever been on! I’m on the COPENHAGEN CLIMATE CHANGE – WORLD HUNGER STRIKE. Here I am sitting in my favourite armchair with a glass of tomato juice in the privacy of my own home, and with others already taking part around the world, [...]

UK border police used anti-terrorist legislation to prevent a British climate change activist from crossing over into mainland Europe where he planned to take part in events surrounding the forthcoming United Nations summit in Denmark. Chris Kitchen, a 31-year-old office worker, said he feared his treatment by police could mark the start of a clampdown [...]