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Nestle says it drops palm oil supplier after Greenpeace report

Greenhouse Neutral Foundation Comment Although on the surface this statement from Nestle on the report of its palm oil consumption by Greenpeace, it begs the question if the statement by Reuters that Sinar Mas is Indonesia’s biggest palm oil producer and the second biggest in the world, where and to who its production is going. [...]

Greenpeace reveal that Nestlé are driving rainforest destruction pushing orangutans to brink of extinction

GREENPEACE STATEMENT – Nestlé, maker of Kit Kat, uses palm oil from companies that are trashing Indonesian rainforests, threatening the livelihoods of local people and pushing orang-utans towards extinction.
We all deserve to have a break – but having one shouldn’t involve taking a bite out of Indonesia’s precious rainforests. We’re asking Nestlé to give rainforests [...]

Is Twitter a Human Right? One Chinese Activist Thinks So

Katherine Ventura of the Huffington Post writes about Monday’s discussion between Twitter Founder Jack Dorsey and Ai Weiwei:
“Twitter is the people’s tool, the tool of the ordinary people, people who have no other resources,” Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei said at the Paley Center for Media in New York Monday night, after challenging Twitter founder Jack Dorseyto make Twitter’s [...]

The last waltz – Bob Dylan and the band – I shall be released – HD

In a classic song of struggle “I Shall Be Released” performed By Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Eric Clapton, Van Morrison, The Band and Ron Wood, is as needed as a wake up call for many causes today, as it was when first performed.

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Time to step up the pace to BAN THE BAG.

On World Environment Day June 5th 2009 the Greenhouse Neutral Foundation with the help of its dedicated staff and all of you, launched the STOPlasticBags – Global action to Ban the Plastic Bag; forever. On September 26th 2009 we held the first ‘Say NO to Plastic Bags Day’. The petition is going strong with over [...]

Time to Choose: Elephants or Ivory?

In 5 days, 2 African governments will try to pry open the worldwide ban on ivory trading — a decision that could wipe out whole elephant populations and bring these magnificent animals closer to extinction.
Tanzania and Zambia are lobbying the UN for special exemptions from the ban, but this would send a clear signal to [...]

Beached whales killed by ingesting plastic

Greenhouse Neutral Foundation Comment: – Although this incident occurred in December 2009 it came to our attention recently via a contact in the United States. As many will know we are endeavouring via the STOPlasticBags campaign to highlight how our profligate consumption of plastic bags impacts on our world. This is another stark example of [...]

All aboard, please take your seats and fasten your seatbelts. There is a 25% chance this plane will crash.

By Bob Williamson – Greenhouse Neutral Foundation
The reality of that welcome to us would be our reply, “I’m not getting on this flight!”
Yet we are all in fact on that flight with climate change and the plane has taken off.
Much has been promoted in the media lately that climate change science is somehow conspiring to [...]

Does your breakfast cause rainforest destruction?

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‘When You Look At The World’

The Foundations good friend and collaborator on a number of projects J.P. Taylor is an inspirational environmental teacher. In ‘When You Look At The World’ J.P. calls us to action to take a stand at a personal level to save the destruction of the Worlds remaining forest lands from clear felling for palm oil plantations.
As [...]