Tag: Greenpeace

Ocean creatures showcased on giant screens as free immersive film experience opens in London

Stuart Mitchell

Scientists have stated we are entering Earth’s 6th mass extinction event, with up to a million species at risk of being lost. To highlight this, Forsaken is playing on Outernet London’s immense floor to ceiling wrap around screens at Tottenham Court Road to highlight the mass extinction of life on earth. The short film will run on a loop every day for an hour at 11am, 6pm & 9pm until mid-February.  This work takes inspiration from the remarkable Immortal Jellyfish, which is able to regenerate and begin its life cycle…

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Giant octopus rises from the Thames at Parliament to demand sea-change in ocean protection

Stuart Mitchell

An inflatable octopus larger than a double decker bus rose from the Thames recently outside the Houses of Parliament to demand a sea-change in the UK government’s approach to ocean protection. Despite this week’s welcome news that the government will back a moratorium on deep sea mining, the government has recently stated an intention to delay until after the next general election the ratification of the Global Ocean Treaty – a key step towards making this landmark agreement legally-binding. At the same time, ministers have also approved a raft of…

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Indigenous Pacific leaders call on countries to support ban on deep sea mining

Stuart Mitchell

Video projections featuring civil society leaders from the Pacific region calling for a halt to deep sea mining were seen throughout the weekend in Mexico City, Mexico, Toronto, Canada, Dover, UK, and Kingston, Jamaica. Greenpeace organisations created these videos while working with these leaders at the International Seabed Authority (ISA) in Kingston to share Indigenous perspectives about the impacts the industry would have on their region’s cultural heritage, food security and livelihoods. “The story of our creation begins in the ocean in the deep seas. Our role as humanity is to create…

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Vast profits of 20 biggest food corporations could meet basic needs of 230m most vulnerable people

Stuart Mitchell

The world’s 20 biggest food corporations delivered $53.5 billion (£44.8bn) to shareholders in the last two financial years – enough to provide for the basic needs of 230 million of the most vulnerable people on Earth, according to a new analysis from Greenpeace. The 20 corporations – the largest companies in the grain, fertiliser, meat and dairy sectors – made huge windfall profits in 2020-21 and 2021-22 as a result of soaring food prices during the COVID-19 pandemic and Russian invasion of Ukraine.  At the same time, rates of food…

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Open call for artists and activists to create work to disrupt the UK’s industrial food system

Stuart Mitchell

Three grants of £10,000 will be awarded as part of a brand new open call for UK-based artists and activists launched by Greenpeace UK.  Bad Taste is a project that sits at the intersection of art and activism to foster imaginative strategies that create change. It marks the first time Greenpeace UK has fully opened its action design process to external collaborators.  Through the project, Greenpeace aims to support and collaborate with three artists and/or activists inspired to create works that disrupt public, political or corporate narratives around the industrial…

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