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Greenpeace launches plan to solarise half a million NZ homes
Thursday, 13 September 2018, 1:27 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Thursday, September 13: Greenpeace has unveiled a plan that would see half a million New Zealand homes solarised over the next 10 years with money currently being used to subsidise the oil and gas industry. More >>
Don McGlashan to welcome Rainbow Warrior with Anchor Me
Tuesday, 11 September 2018, 11:29 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Tuesday, September 11: The Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior will be welcomed into Auckland tomorrow by musician Don McGlashan singing his Kiwi classic, Anchor Me. More >>
Time to face climate cow in the room - Greenpeace
Thursday, 30 August 2018, 3:17 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Thurs, 30 August : Greenpeace says it’s time to face the cow in the room, following the release of the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment’s (PCE) report on methane emissions from livestock. More >>
Stop playing catch-up" with plastics
Wednesday, 22 August 2018, 3:50 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Weds, August 22: Today Greenpeace launches an ambitious new blueprint to tackle New Zealand’s plastic crisis . More >>
Greenpeace to make new challenge to Government on plastics
Tuesday, 21 August 2018, 5:13 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Tues, 21 August: Following the win on plastic bags, Greenpeace is gearing up to issue a significant new challenge to Government on plastics. More >>
Rainbow Warrior sailing to NZ to make oil history
Sunday, 19 August 2018, 12:43 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Sunday, August 19: The world famous Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior is on its way to New Zealand for a tour of the country to celebrate the Government’s recent oil ban and promote clean energy opportunities. More >>
Plastic bag ban a win for people power and the oceans
Friday, 10 August 2018, 10:56 am | Greenpeace
Friday, Aug 10th: Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and Associate Minister of the Environment, Eugenie Sage have today announced a proposal to phase out single use plastic bags by 2019. More >>
Greenpeace head and climate activist face court
Friday, 20 July 2018, 11:23 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Friday, July 20: Greenpeace Executive Director, Dr Russel Norman, and climate activist Sara Howell, appeared for sentencing today following action they took to stop the world’s largest oil and gas exploration ship searching for fossil fuels off the ... More >>
New seabed mining project threatens endangered species
Thursday, 12 July 2018, 9:22 am | Greenpeace
Thursday, July 12: Greenpeace is shocked to discover that a new seabed mining exploration permit has been awarded inside a Marine Mammal Sanctuary, and is calling on the Government to reject all attempts to mine the seabed. More >>
Krill fishing companies back call to protect Antarctic Ocean
Tuesday, 10 July 2018, 9:14 am | Greenpeace
Tuesday, 10 July - A campaign to create the world’s biggest marine reserve off Antarctica has been given props from an unexpected quarter. More >>
Activists in Fiji ‘flood’ beach to protest Citibank
Saturday, 7 July 2018, 3:56 pm | Greenpeace
Pacific Island Represent activists in Fiji ‘flood’ beach to protest Citibank’s funding of deadly tar sands pipelines in Canada More >>
Dairying in the Mackenzie - How far is too far?
Wednesday, 4 July 2018, 1:51 pm | Greenpeace
When it comes to extremes we all have different limits. And sometimes we have to reach those nasty edges to appreciate they do exist. More >>
New water rules must ban dairy conversions says Greenpeace
Tuesday, 3 July 2018, 1:01 pm | Greenpeace
Tuesday, 3 July - Greenpeace says New Zealand’s water regulations need to be updated to prevent dairy expansion and end the intensification of livestock farming across the country. More >>
Twelve arrested in Mackenzie dairy expansion protest
Monday, 2 July 2018, 4:02 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Twelve arrested in Mackenzie dairy expansion protest Mon, 2nd July: Twelve people have been arrested following a peaceful protest at the Simons Pass dairy conversion in the Mackenzie Country. Among those arrested was an 88 year old South Island man. More >>
Greenpeace activists unleash giant banner in Mackenzie
Monday, 2 July 2018, 1:20 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
45 activists arrived at the site before dawn, in freezing temperatures, some locking themselves onto diggers and trucks. Police have arrived on the scene. More >>
Greenpeace shuts down Mackenzie mega dairy conversion
Monday, 2 July 2018, 10:14 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Dozens of environmental activists have braved freezing temperatures this morning to protest at the site of a proposed mega dairy farm in the Mackenzie / Te Manahuna. More >>
Fonterra’s link to "dirty secret" in Indonesia
Monday, 25 June 2018, 1:07 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Fonterra is about to take another hit to its international reputation, this time over rainforest destruction and cow feed. More >>
Tiny district council has chance to stop dairy conversion
Wednesday, 20 June 2018, 10:29 am | Greenpeace
A tiny district council in the South Island may be all that stands in the way of an industrial dairy development in the unique and fragile Mackenzie Basin. More >>
Rich lister props up failing irrigation schemes
Thursday, 14 June 2018, 12:25 pm | Greenpeace
Thurs 14th June, It's been revealed that a rich-lister Gary Rooney looks set to bail out the ailing South Canterbury irrigation scheme, Hunter Downs. More >>
Half of all NZ emissions could be ignored under Act
Thursday, 7 June 2018, 12:32 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Thursday, June 7: Greenpeace is raising red flags that the agriculture industry, New Zealand’s biggest emitter, could escape being held responsible for nearly half of the country’s climate emissions under the proposed Zero Carbon Act. More >>
