Tag: Greenpeace

‘Artivists’ create giant murals around the world as part of Greenpeace’s 50th anniversary

Stuart Mitchell

Influential Swiss artist duo Queen Kong kicked off a six month international art project with Greenpeace, Hope through Action, which will see giant murals painted in 12 countries around the world. The murals are part of Greenpeace’s 50th anniversary commemoration, which on 15 September 2021 marked five decades of campaigning, creative activism and nonviolent direct action. The first mural appeared this month in Zürich. “‘Artivism’ was a presence in the first ever Greenpeace voyage in 1971, when the crew painted a banner combining both the ecology and peace symbols onto…

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Waitrose ranked first for efforts to reduce plastics in Greenpeace report as it confirms latest plans for refillables test

Stuart Mitchell

Waitrose has topped the EIA (Environmental Investigation Agency) and Greenpeace table of UK supermarkets for efforts to reduce plastics across its shops and products for the second year in a row. The report acknowledges that Waitrose reported an absolute plastic reduction of 6.1% since 2017 across both its own-brand and branded ranges – the lowest plastic use per unit market share of the supermarkets, while also highlighting its refillable pilot scheme.   Waitrose pioneered the launch of its refillable range in some of its shops in 2019 with ‘Waitrose Unpacked’…

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Wagner Moura and Greenpeace release animation to expose the destruction of forests for meat production

Stuart Mitchell

Greenpeace UK and Brazilian actor Wagner Moura teamed up to release “There’s a monster in my kitchen”, a powerful short film that highlights the devastating impact industrial meat production is having on forests like the Amazon. Wagner Moura, who plays drug lord Pablo Escobar in the popular Netflix series Narcos, narrates the animated video, a sequel to the viral hit RangTan. “There are few more incredible and precious places on earth than rainforests like the Amazon. Yet many don’t know that the meat and dairy products sitting in our refrigerators…

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UK supermarkets can halve throwaway plastic by 2025 by reducing plastic across 54 grocery categories

Stuart Mitchell

The report from Greenpeace models how the UK supermarkets could make significant reductions to the amount of plastic they produce by focusing their attention on the packaging for ​54 grocery categories​. ​The analysis also shows that ​changing the packaging for just 13 categories of popular groceries, like fizzy drinks, fruit and vegetables, and household detergents, supermarkets could reduce plastic by approximately 35%, remove 45 billion pieces of supermarket plastic, and more than 300,000 tonnes of plastic. This is the equivalent weight of 7,000 supermarket delivery lorries, that if lined up…

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Turtle Journey, an Aardman and Greenpeace collaboration, wins major animation award

Stuart Mitchell

In response to the recent announcement that Turtle Journey, an animated film created by Aardman in collaboration with Greenpeace, has won the Jury Award for a Commissioned Film at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival, Will McCallum, head of oceans at Greenpeace UK, said: “Many of us in the team here at Greenpeace grew up watching Aardman animations, so it was a bit of a dream come true to work with them. Seeing them convey the serious plight of our oceans in such a touching, personal story has brought more…

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