Greenpeace Australia Pacific. KFC no good for rainforests. Save the Amazon. The Amazon is the planet's largest remaining rainforest, teeming with more wildlife than anywhere else on Earth.
But this majestic rainforest is caught between the twin destructive forces of deforestation and climate change. Greenpeace is campaigning for an end to deforestation in the Amazon by 2015 and globally by 2020. 22 March 2012 The Rainbow Warrior sails through the Amazon river. The new protest vessel, in Brazil for the first time, is passing through the Amazon and down the Brazilian coast, to support campaigns for a zero deforestation law. The Amazon is a vast and majestic rainforest teeming with an estimated quarter of all known land species. It is also home to over 20 million people including hundreds of indigenous peoples, some of which have never been contacted by the ‘outside world’. And finally, the Amazon stores 80 to 120 billion tonnes of carbon, helping to stabilise the planet's climate.
Clean up the dirtiest thing on the internet. Every day, we use the Internet to stay connected to our friends and the things we care about.
As the Internet spreads around the world, it needs huge amounts of electricity, and we get to decide if that electricity should come from clean energy, like the wind turbines and solar panels we are seeing more every day. The smartest companies in the world have made a decision to embrace the future: Google and Facebook are plugging their Internet infrastructure into the wind and sun, and now Apple is doing the same thanks to people like you who asked them to embrace clean power! If other companies follow them, then the growing Internet help clean energy grow faster too, creating a brighter future for everyone. Unfortunately, other Internet companies are still stuck in the past: Microsoft and Amazon still get their power from coal power, a 19th-century fuel that causes climate change.
Asia Pulp and Paper is using ILLEGAL rainforest timber at their pulp mill! Asia Pulp and Paper (APP), one of the world's largest producers of pulp and paper, has been caught red-handed with an internationally protected species, ramin, at their main pulp mill in Indonesia.
This violates Indonesian laws governing the logging and trade in this protected species and shows that APP's public claim to have "zero tolerance for illegal timber" is yet more inaccurate greenwash. Ramin grows in peatland swamp forests - which are also habitat for the endangered Sumatran tiger, only 400 remain in the wild. Inside forest concessions now controlled by APP areas of peatland swamp forest twice the size of New York City have been cleared since 2001 - when logging in ramin was officially banned.
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A bit of this and a bit of that..: last minute. Tonight i am sitting at my computer doing my Modern History multi-modal presentation.. oh yes, the whole thing.
From the research book to the actual essay to the powerpoint. No sleep for me tonight, but not to worry! I am prepared this time.. and by this time yes i do mean there was another time i have left my assignment to the last minute. I keep saying that i will never do it again but somehow i just get sidetracked and end up not sleeping a whole night just to pass the damn subject. If school doesn't work out for me (but i'm really hoping it does) then i will learn to play the guitar and become a musician instead.
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