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A new report released today says that if we shift our economy — to a greener, low-carbon economy — we will have more jobs, not fewer. Earlier this week, Tony Blair (former prime minister of the UK) and the Climate Group reported that if we worked to avoid climate change we’d create 10 million new jobs by 2020 — worldwide. Another recent study by Greenpeace and the European Renewable Energy Council says that such a shift could increase employment in the EU by 2.7 million jobs by 2030.

Photo via daylife Computer and electronics manufacturer HP announced today its goal to reduce its energy consumption and green house gas emissions of its products to 40% under its 2005 levels, all by 2011. As the Greenpeace tagging incident underscored, HP doesn't always stick to its target dates; however, it plans on meeting not only that goal, but also another big goal for 2013 that targets one giant C02-spewing area of its operati... Read the full story on TreeHugger

Last weekend saw the 20th annual Waveney Greenpeace Fair . It was a fun day for families filled with hippy arts and crafts, good food, fine ale, decent music and a whole heap of progressive politics. I spent the afternoon serving drinks behind the bar and the evening propping up the bar from the other side. Takings from the bar exceeded £7000 and the profits were split between Greenpeace and the Green Party. With over 400 cars turning up at last year’s fair, causing traffic congestion and under

This article from Treehumper explores Kimberly-Clark’s efforts to save trees by replacing their traditional paper based Kleenex tissues with kitten based tissues. While the move was considered a huge win by Greenpeace, now PETA is getting bent out of shape. Check out Treehumper for all the details on this hilarious environmental story and for gripping [...] Related posts: Sunday Funnies: The Empire Goes Green? In a move to clean up their image around the... Sunday Funnies: Man vs. Ear

Praise must be given when it is due even it if it is for your worst enemy and Greenpeace is humble enough to do that. You would think that Greenpeace could not possibly have anything to do with McDonald’s but recent steps taken by the ultimate junk food co of the world has made it a favourite for the eco organisation. McDonald’s recently launched their very first HFC/HCFC-free restaurant, something they had been promising for quite a while now, and Greenpeace is extremely proud of this first b