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May 30, 2006
© Greenpeace / Andreas Varnhorn
28 May 2006, Frankfurt, Germany "Amazonia is burning for our food". 300 Greenpeace activists covering 2000 trees with flame posters to demonstrate against destructive logging for soya plantations in the Brazilian Amazon area.
My name is Brian Fitzgerald and I'm head of Digital Communications at Greenpeace International. I joined Greenpeace on February 11th, 1982 and have been put to work or volunteered over the years since then as an activist, deckhand, hot air balloon pilot, disarmament wonk, fundraiser, computer geek, speechwriter, gopher, senior manager, translator, press officer, legal assistant, and organic olive picker.
I live in Amsterdam. I don't own a car.
I proudly confess to having once been a long-haired hippy. In their day, Hippies led the charge to stop a war, challenged consumerism, questioned the worship of material wealth at all cost, and championed the values of love and respect for nature. Check, check, check, check, check. Hippy am I still.
You'll find more of my harumphs and hallelujahs at my personal website.
Hi - I'm Dave Walsh, I'm from Ireland, and I'm a roving Greenpeace web editor. Right now I'm sitting at a desk on dry land, but I've spent a lot of the last couple of years on board ships like the Rainbow Warrior and the Esperanza, on trips like the 2006 Defending Oceans pirate fishing trip off West Africa and the 2007 trip to the Antarctic.
I'm recently back in Dublin after a year in the west coast of Ireland. I'm obsessed with bicycles and otters, but not at the same time. And I run a website called blather.net. Don't believe all you read there...
© Greenpeace / Kurt Prinz
At the opening of the EU - Latin America Summit in Vienna, a Greenpeace activist dressed in the Brazilian football team's uniform, waves a banner reading 'Don't play around with the Amazon!'. We're calling on the Brazilian
President, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva taking part of the meeting, to stop the destruction of the Amazon rainforest.
I bet they never expected this! Evangelina Carrozzo, the Carnival Queen of Argentina, showed up today at the EU - Latin American Countries Summit in Vienna, wearing a rather provocative outfit, to implore Presidents Vazquez (Uruguay) and Kirchner (Argentina) to find a solution to the pulp mills conflict that has led both countries to the International Court of Justice of The Hague.
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Our guys in Argentina have been shortlisted for the "Best messaging app: Public Sector/not for profit" of the
Mobile Messaging Awards. The Mobile Messaging awards are open to all companies with a suitable messaging product, service or initiative which has been launched after May 2005. Well done to Hernán and team...
The Zero Waste campaign was the first initiative of Greenpeace Argentina in which mobile-activism was the primary tool used to achieve a goal. We used the mobiles phones for pressing local legislators with calls and text messages. Greenpeace Argentina has presented a “Zero Waste” initiative in the Parliament of Buenos Aires. The city, with a population of 3 million, produces between 4-5,000 tons of waste daily, all of which goes to landfills situated in the suburban areas. Shortly after introducing the legislation to Parliament, we launched a communication strategy aimed at influencing specific targets.
The Greenpeace web community is currently obsessed with Google Trends ("See what the world is searching for").
There's still more love than war in the world
However, Brian's found that War is preferable to Britney Spears. It's a sad state of affairs when we need more Britney.
© Greenpeace / Daniel Beltra
Greenpeace activist parachutes over a deforested area in Belterra, in the west region of Para state, with the message "100% Crime", to protest against the soy expansion which is leading illegal deforestation, land grabbing and violence against local communities in the region.
Two oil pipelines on Alaska's North Slope are going to be shut down because of internal corrosion. At least something's happening - this was the cause of a huge spill earlier this year in the aging Prudhoe Bay oil field.
"The line was not producing a continuous flow. An X-ray of the pipe showed internal corrosion in an arrow shape, indicating the damage was being aided by the velocity of fluid moving through the pipe, Johnson said."
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