Greenpeace
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Campaign Spotlight
Greenpeace Hong Kong and DDB’s ‘Seabed’ initiative sheds light on plastic pollution crisis
HONG KONG — Greenpeace East Asia Hong Kong has asked the public to sleep in the “bed” it’s made. The…
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Campaign Spotlight
Greenpeace and Digitas Dubai presents launches interactive donation platform to save Lebanese cedar trees from extinction
UAE, DUBAI – The Lebanese cedar, or the Arze, is the country’s biggest symbol of pride and patriotism. This century-old…
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Campaign Spotlight: Haters Gon’ Hate in Greenpeace’s futuristic urban utopia by UltraSuperNew Tokyo
TOKYO, JAPAN — Ahead of one of the most important summits of our time, COP26, Greenpeace has launched ‘Haters Gon’…
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Sustainability
Sustainability: Top PH corporate plastic polluters revealed; Green groups renew call to ban SUPs
QUEZON CITY, PHILIPPINES — Members of the #BreakFreeFromPlastic movement today renewed the call for the government to impose a nationwide…
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Film
Film: Daang Dokyu’s #HuwagMatakot Halloween rerun presents Aswang, Alyx Arumpac’s award-winning drug war documentary
MANILA, PHILIPPINES – “Kapag sinabi nilang may aswang, ang ibig sabihin nila: matakot ka.” (Whenever they say there is an aswang around, what they really…
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Film
Film: Daang Dokyu closes with films that will be hard to unsee, “Future: Ganito Tayo Ngayon, Paano Sila Bukas”
MANILA, PHILIPPINES – Imagine behind-the-scenes footage from the sets of Lav Diaz, Erik Matti, Dan Villegas, and Dodo Dayao repurposed…
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Campaign Spotlight
Campaign Spotlight: Ars Thanea and Ogilvy Shanghai Creates Campaign Demanding Change for Greenpeace
MANILA, PHILIPPINES – There’s this chilling beauty behind three different cards posted on social media by the crafts and design…
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Campaign Spotlight: Greenpeace UK, Together with Aardman Animations, Launches “Turtle Journey” to Raise Awareness in Habitat Destruction
UNITED KINGDOM — Greenpeace UK collaborates with Aardman Animations, the studio behind Wallace and Gromit, and Shaun the Sheep, to…
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Campaign Spotlight: Duval Guillaume’s “iAmazonia” for Greenpeace Urges People to Save the Amazon Rainforest
It’s only when something is gone, that we realize how much we miss it. With this in mind, Greenpeace brought…
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Global News
LIFE: Greenpeace – 11th hour for the climate, it’s time for leadership to truly emerge
MANILA/SAN FRANCISCO — Super Typhoon Mangkhut, one of the strongest storms of the year, is forecast to hit the north of the…
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Campaign Spotlight: ‘BBQ Song’ campaign from 84.Paris for Greenpeace emulates 90s hip-hop in message about meat over-consumption
PARIS – Nearly 80% of livestock bred for consumption in France is raised through industrial production, generating serious sanitary and…
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Global News
BREAKING NEWS: Dentsu Jayme Syfu wins Gold in Outdoor Lions, Silver in Design Lions at Cannes Lions 2018 for ‘Dead Whale’
CANNES – With a Gold Lion for Outdoor Lions and a Silver Lion for Design Lions at the 65th Cannes…
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Global News
Greenpeace spearheads World Meat Free Week (WMFM) in the Philippines
MANILA – Environmentalists, youth, women, farmers and consumer advocacy groups in the Philippines are part of a growing movement that this week have put together activities to promote plant based meals, calling the attention of local officials to the need for providing citizens with healthier food options, both for their health and the environment. Greenpeace and partner groups are spearheading celebrations for World Meat Free Week (WMFW) in the Philippines to call on parents, school administrators and public officials to ‘free’ students, employees and workers from dependence on industrialized meat, and instead support healthier plant-based meals in public schools and government institutions. “Public institutions are some of the biggest purchasers of industrial meat. By encouraging them to serve less and better meat, and more plants in their canteens and during meetings and events, we reduce bulk demand for meat,” said Virginia Benosa Llorin, Greenpeace Philippines’ Food and Ecological Agriculture Campaigner. “It is high time for our policy and decision-makers to heed the call, to take concrete and proactive actions,” she added. High red meat consumption has been linked to cancer, heart disease, obesity, and diabetes. Five million deaths each year – nearly nine people dying a minute – could be avoided by 2050, if people around the world would shift to healthier diets with more veggies and legumes, and less meat [1]. “The evidence is powerful from a health and environmental perspective; people need to shift their consumption toward more plant-based diets. Governments, towns, cities, and companies need to provide the enabling environment to help people to make this change,” said Pete Smith, Aberdeen University Professor and former Convening Lead Author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). According to a recent report from Greenpeace International, global meat and dairy production and consumption must be halved by 2050 to avoid dangerous climate change [2]. Livestock releases as much greenhouse gases as all cars, trucks, planes, and ships put together [3]. In Quezon City, a food truck served plant-based siomai, gyoza and siopao, prepared by the women of Batis Aware (Association of Women in Action for Rights and Empowerment). Batis Aware received mentoring on plant-based snacks preparation, as part of their fund-raising and livelihood development, from…
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