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Think Outside the Can: Inside Out Salmon Sushi Roll

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By Melissa Iwai, Cross-posted from The Hungry Artist

I was recently invited by Greenpeace to enter their “Think Outside the Can” recipe contest.  They launched the contest to raise awareness on the destructive and irresponsible tuna fishing practices of large companies, such as Chicken of the Sea. The hope is that by raising awareness, these companies will realize their customers care about environmental practices.

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Want to help us Think Outside the Can? Share your tuna free recipe with us and you could win a $250 gift card to Williams-Sonoma! Show your support for sustainable fishing and be canned tuna-free. First 25 contest entries win a free Greenpeace Mug! It’s also a great way to get the fame and recognition your blog deserves!

By helping us Think Outside the Can, you’ll be telling Big Tuna that sustainability is possible, and that it’s past time for them to stop ripping up our oceans.

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It’s Time to Think Outside the Can

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Vegan "Tuna" Salad Sandwich!

When my partners and I set out to start a restaurant in San Francisco, we had a novel idea: to give people the opportunity to savor the beauty and delicacy of Japanese cuisine while at the same time protecting the fragile biodiversity of the world’s oceans.  We immersed ourselves in the art of sustainable sushi, came up with a remarkable number of delectable alternatives environmentally dubious choices like bluefin tuna, eel, and hamachi — and in the process became a major cuisine destination for the Bay Area.

It is possible — in fact, it is imperative — to find ways to enjoy the foods we love without destroying the oceans. Unfortunately, this lesson is lost on some of the major seafood brands like Chicken of the Sea.  These companies continue to employ destructive fishing practices such as fish aggregating devices (FADs) and conventional longlines, despite the overwhelming evidence that they are ripping up the oceans.

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Greenpeace staff blocked from entering South Korea as Government cracks down on nuclear opposition

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Greenpeace Press Release

kumi marioSeoul, South Korea, 2 April, 2012: Three Greenpeace senior staff members accompanying the organisation’s International Executive Director Kumi Naidoo were today denied entry and deported from South Korea, highlighting the Government’s growing willingness to suppress voices speaking out against its nuclear energy expansion ambitions.

With the environmental organisation’s ship M/Y Esperanza due to tour South Korea in mid April to launch its local Energy [R]evolution and no-nuclear campaign (1), Naidoo and Greenpeace East Asia Executive Director Mario Damato were visiting the country to promote the launch. The two were also to meet with the Mayor of Seoul Park Woon Soon, the Mayor of Incheon Song Young Gil, local politicians, media, and other NGOs. However, Damato and two other staff were stopped at immigration, and will be deported at 8pm today despite Naidoo being granted entry. Continue reading →

Captain’s Blog: The Warrior sets sails on the Amazon

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Blogpost by Pete Willcox, Captain of the Rainbow Warrior

Pete WillcoxIt’s 10.30 at night. I am fighting a cold, and feel like a hammered horseshoe. I look out from behind my curtain and say, “Give it a rest”. Angelo, our third mate quickly retreats. This is the Italian Stallion’s first trip with Greenpeace. He is too handsome for words, and his hard work and cheerful nature have won over every one of the crew. He has been part of the Italian action team for years and teaches climbing. There’s just one thing: he has never crewed on a sailboat before. And while he is a long way from being an experienced sailor he has figured out when to give me a shout.

I cannot lie in bed. Ten minutes later I take the two steps out of my cabin to the bridge. It is a black cloudy night. The radar screens and ECDIS (electronically chart display) light up the bridge too well. All you can see out of the window is your face looking back at you. Continue reading →

Rainbow Warrior arrives in Brazil for the launch of the Zero Deforestation campaign

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This past Tuesday morning, I joined a group of Brazilian Greenpeace volunteers to welcome the new Rainbow Warrior as she begins the Brazilian leg of her maiden voyage. From the city of Manaus, we took four boats, national TV journalists in tow, a few kilometers downstream to meet and welcome the ship at the Encontro das Águas (“the meeting of the waters”), where the dark Rio Negro meets the sand-colored Amazon River.

From Manaus, the ship is about to embark on a multiweek journey out of the Amazon, followed by a tour around the coast of Brazil in time for Rio +20 in June.

This morning, however, was the main event- the launch of the Zero Deforestation Initiative. The Brazilian Constitution allows Brazilian voters to advance a ‘public law, where, if supporters can collect the signatures of 1% of the population, the Brazilian congress will be required to vote on the law. Today, Greenpeace Brazil announced launched its new campaign to collect the signatures of 1.4 million voters to support a national Zero Deforestation law.

Greenpeace International Executive Director Kumi Naidoo, Greenpeace Brazil Executive Director Marcelo Furtado, and Amazon Campaign Director and United Nations Forest Hero, Paulo Adario presented the campaign in the hull of the Rainbow Warrior, which was packed with journalists, local government representatives and NGOs. Our allies, including indigenous groups, unions from the Amazon region, and the Federal Public Prosecutor joined the presentation and pledged enthusiastic support. It was inspiring to see that Greenpeace was far from being alone in this mission and also a solemn reminder to hear from those who live on the front lines of deforestation and are impacted by the violent land conflicts occurring in the frontier areas of the Amazon.

 

This past year, the world witnessed the Brazilian congress pass Forest Code legislation that would severely weaken the country’s forest protections, despite the Brazilian public opinion being overwhelmingly opposed. In addition, we watched Brazilian President Dilma weaken the authority of the federal government to enforce environmental laws. This petition-like effort allows the Brazilian public to take back the future of their forests.

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If you hadn’t already, write to Brazilian President Dilma, and urge her to not turn her back on the Amazon.

If you are Brazilian, or have Brazilian friends, you can help make Zero Deforestation in the Amazon a reality and help save the Amazon once and for all.

World Water Day

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By Pat C

Water is precious.   All living things need it to survive.

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But we are failing miserably to take care of it. Many struggle to get it while others believe their taps will never run dry.

Greenpeace campaigns in many places and on many fronts – oceans, climate change, energy, forests, toxic chemicals and agriculture — but all share one common thread. Water. Continue reading →

Let’s not blow up Mars before we get there, we just might need it!

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By Jackie Dragon

Teaming with life: Shortraker rockfish, crinoids, brittle stars, basket stars, anenones and more seen on the sea floor in the Bering Sea.

There are some amazing places where discovery still awaits us – if we are careful to not blow them up before we even get there! The Bering Sea, up near the top of the world between Russia and Alaska, is one of those places. Here, new research, soon to be published in a peer-reviewed journal,  from a first of its kind expedition down into the largest submarine canyons in the world found fragile corals that play an important role in the life-teaming ecosystem of the Bering Sea.

At 60 miles wide and nearly 9000 feet deep Zhemchug canyon  is larger than Arizona’s Grand Canyon, as is Pribilof canyon, which cuts into the continental shelf just 25 miles south of St. George Island where Alaska Natives have lived on the bounty of the Bering Sea for millennia. Canyons like these are rare, occurring in only 4% of the world’s oceans, and they are important drivers in the highly productive zone coined “the green belt” by scientists.

Both of these “Grand Canyons of the Sea” revealed the existence of vibrant corals and sponges in their depths. The joint expedition into the canyons, which included explorers from Alaska, a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration scientist, and advisers from many of the world’s leading oceanographic institutions, confirmed the belief that the canyons contain coral and sponge habitat that plays an essential role for commercially important fish and other marine life.

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The next Fukushima nuclear disaster is waiting to happen

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Blogpost by Jan Beránek
Day of Action- Indonesia

Fukushima. Greenpeace activists during the Global Day of action to commemorate the first anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear disaster. 03/05/2012

Greenpeace activists in 19 countries took action today to remind their governments that the next Fukushima disaster will be their fault.

The nuclear disaster at Fukushima has shown us once again that nuclear reactors are fundamentally unsafe. That’s why Greenpeace activists are staging flash mobs, hanging banners on prominent buildings, holding events in public squares and at busy intersections and delivering messages to governments. Continue reading →

After sticking it to coal in the U.S., Rainbow Warrior sails for Amazon

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rainbow warrior sets sailIt’s never a dull day when a Greenpeace ship is in town, and that’s certainly been true for the last month.

Our flagship, the new Rainbow Warrior, sailed into port in New York City for her maiden voyage to the United States in the end of January. From there she sailed south, stopping in Baltimore to meet Greenpeace staff and activists and promote offshore wind energy before finally making her way into the belly of the beast of our Quit Coal campaign: North Carolina, where Duke Energy is headquartered.

Duke is poised to merge with Progress Energy to become the largest electric utility in the country. Its CEO, Jim Rogers, has talked profusely about how he’d like to save the climate for his grandchildren but his company’s not walking his talk. Duke is hiking its rates for North Carolina families only so that it can build more dirty coal plants. We made sure that Duke got the message that Greenpeace and North Carolina ratepayers won’t let them trash our lungs and the climate any longer.

From North Carolina, the Rainbow Warrior sailed to Florida to pay a visit to Progress Energy, the bride in the unholy marriage between two massive polluters. Continue reading →