Saving forests and stopping climate change: one action at a time
Only hours ago my passport was returned to me by Indonesian immigration officials who escorted me from Riau province on the island of Sumatra, where I was deported for protesting forest destruction and climate change back to Jakarta. Two days ago I joined the Greenpeace team in beginning the  shutdown of one of the world’s largest pulp and paper mills by having activists scale and hang from four shipping container cranes at the Asia Pulp and Paper’s mill, and hanging

See George Monbiot in Toronto
I’ve said it before: George Monbiot is a hero of mine.  He’s a great journalist, who sweats the details, takes on the deniers and who’s not afraid of con

Federal parties have opportunity to increase nuclear liability limit
Martin Mittelstaedt asks in today’s Globe and Mail how much a reactor operator should be required to pay out to victims in case of a nuclear accident. The Harper government doesn’t think much. It wants to short change Canadians and require less industry compensation than other w

Final voyage for Japan’s whaling fleet? Fingers crossed!
Can it really be that over 20 years after the global ban on commercial whaling went into effect the Japanese fleet has once again set sail to the Southern ocean in pursuit of almost 1000 minke and fin whales? It’s been well over a decade since these now whaling grounds were designated a whale sanctuary, but the only sanctity that will be found in the whaling grounds this year will be a splash of hope that the end to the needless, lethal, sham research may be in sight and our ailing gentle giants of the blue may

Supreme Court rejects Tokyo Two appeal for disclosure of key evidence
After weeks and weeks of awaiting, the decision by the Supreme court of Japan on whether to allow the disclosure of evidence was made and it was not in our favour. The following press release was released from Japan by our team working closely on the T2 case……our thoughts are with Junichi and Toru, and the team……. Tokyo, Japan, 18 November 2009 –