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Sending a message: Greenpeace ad campaign brings attention to overfishing
Greenpeace has launched an ad campaign in Halifax and Ottawa that reads: “There’s probably no cod. Now let’s stop overfishing & think of the future.” The simple message highlights the growing and devastating problem of overfishing. Right now, the experience of the collapsing of Canadian cod stocks is being repeated around the world with species such as bluefin tuna, orange roughy and sharks.
Read more about Greenpeace’s ad campaign and take action.
Check out Greenpeace’s Redlist of unsustainable seafood.
Read the science behind the campaign.
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Documenting damage: Greenpeace-produced film exposes the tar sands
Greenpeace Canada is pleased to announce that Petropolis: Aerial Perspectives on the Alberta Tar Sands will make its North American debut at the Toronto International Film Festival this September.
To read more, click here.
To watch ‘webisodes’ from Petropolis, click here.
To take action on tar sands development, click here.
Demanding climate action: Greenpeace activists visit Canada’s Premiers and territorial leaders
Greenpeace activists visited an annual meeting of premiers and territorial leaders in Regina this month to send a strong message: now is the time for real action from Canada’s leaders to stop climate change. At the same time, Greenpeace, along with a broad coalition of leading Canadian organizations, held a news conference calling for more ambitious climate change action for Canada.
To read more, click here.
To take action, click here.
To read a blog from the news conference, click here.
Targeting destruction: Greenpeace volunteers take on XEROX over Boreal Forest destruction
In late July, Greenpeace volunteers declared the XEROX building in downtown Montreal a forest crime scene. Holding banners saying XEROX: DON’T BUY BOREAL FOREST DESTRUCTION at the entrance and handing out flyers, the volunteers were protesting the fact that XEROX buys and sells paper made from the destruction of intact areas of the Boreal Forest in Canada.
To read more, click here.
To take action, click here.
Making change: Kimberly-Clark and Greenpeace agree to historic measures for the Boreal Forest in Canada
At a joint news conference in August in Washington DC, Greenpeace and the Kimberly-Clark Corporation, the world’s largest tissue-product manufacturer, announced an historic agreement that will ensure greater protection and sustainable management of the Boreal Forest in Canada. The agreement also will stand out as a model for forest-products companies worldwide.
To read more about this victory for ancient forests, click here.
To take action and send your congratulations to Kimberly-Clark, click here.
Green tips: advice from Greenpeace’s new enviro headquarters
Thanks to the Steelworkers Toronto Area Council (the owners of our new building in Toronto), Greenpeace Canada has found a new home that not only reduces our overhead costs but also allows us to work in a great, green space. This office is one of four that Greenpeace operates in Canada (Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver and Edmonton) and is our national headquarters. Learn more about how we created our green space and get advice on geothermal systems, tips on energy reduction, details about Forest Stewardship Council Certified Flooring and much more.
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