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Yesterday organisers of the Go-Expo conference, and hundreds of Alberta oil and gas executives, got duped bad.

Attendees paid 50 dollars a head to hear a speech from the National Petroleum Council, a group that also advises the White House on oil and gas matters. It was rumoured that a new joint energy policy from the Canadian and American governments was coming.

Attendees say at first, the speech just seemed odd. But when the speaker began to talk about ‘vivoleum’, a renewable energy source nobody had ever heard of, red flags started to go up.

When the speaker asked the audience to light candles in memory of a deceased Exxon workers attendees and organizers realized they’d been had.

The men weren’t members of the Petroleum Council, but members of The Yes Men, an anti-globalisation activist group that travels the world pulling pranks at corporate events.

Continue reading ‘Exxon proposes burning humans for fuel’

YouTube - Ben & Jerry’s Climate Change College entry

We may not be able to stop clmiate change but we can certainly slow it’s advance and here’s fifty things from the celsias blog to get you started.

Global warming [climate change] is a dramatically urgent and serious problem. We don’t need to wait for governments to solve this problem. Each one of us can make a significant contribution by adopting a more responsible lifestyle - starting with little, everyday things.

Here is a list of 50 simple things that everyone can do in order to fight against and reduce the Global Warming phenomenon: some of them are at no cost, some other require a little investment but can help you save a lot of money, in the middle-long term … [ check it out ]

This is a great piss take on the Kleenex “Let It Out” TV commercials where folks stop to sit on a blue couch and share personal stories that make them cry into the aformentioned tissue. Recently in New York, Kleenex and Kimberly-Clark got more than they bargained for when Greenpeace ‘Kleercut’ activists arrived to Let Out how they feel about Kleenex making tissue from ancient forests.

Undercover Greenpeace activists performed an intervention on a Kleenex commercial shoot in Times Square, effectively hijacking the Kleenex ad campaign, and shutting down the shoot for the rest of the day.

Kleenex, responsible for vast old-growth forest destruction in Northern Canada’s Boreal Forest where asking for this one.

YouTube - Intervention on Kleenex

Slightly late for NZ but - March 15th is World Consumer Day. Send an SMS to the personal mobile number of the Agriculture Secretary of the Philippines Government, protesting the GMO rice “LL62″ which Bayer wants to sell there.

I’ve just spent the last hour playing around with rss and feedburner to generate an easy host your own Greenpeace action rss feed includelet.

A little rss, a touch of css, a smidgen of javascript and hey presto - your own self updating Greenpeace Take Action box!

Just grab the code and paste it into your template or page. You can restyle it however you like - see mine over there in the sidebar. Continue reading ‘Syndicating the Greenpeace action feed’

There’s nothing better than seeing a big corporate fall hook line and sinker. And that’s just what Solid Energy have done for the Save Happy Valley Campaign (SHVC). The small grass roots conservation group have put out a report called the ‘Solid Energy Environment Report’ that is “a little more honest than usual”. It’s revealing, it’s funny and it’s cutting.

Here’s an extract :

This year solid energy successfully extracted more than 4.7 million tons of coal, contributing 10.3 million tonnes of climate changing carbon dioxide to the global atmosphere. we made progress with our mountain top removal project (despite significant delays), and used a legal loophole in the Court to continue driving an endemic New Zealand species to extinction…

The best the folks at solid energy could have hoped for was that the report wouldn’t get too much publicity and we wouldn’t notice … but instead they began publicising it themselves by trying to have it quashed in the court. Not only did they draw attention to the report’s existence but they failed.

The report can be downloaded from the Save Happy Valley website in two parts at high res but there is a more bandwidth friendly version posted on the NZ indymedia site

Now this is cool. Zetaprints has set up a website where you can choose a postcard, enter a message about why you think Japan should stop whaling, bung your name on it, pop through to paypal www.hotissues.org.nz/, and hey presto! They print it off and send it to a randomly generated address in Japan! It’s peer to peer social lobbying. Takes about 2 minutes and costs US$1.50.

True enough. Check it out - save some whales.

The Save Happy Valley occupation has reached the one year mark apparently making it the longgest occupation of its kind ever in NZ. Go those guys! Check it out! Continue reading ‘The longest environmental protest occupation ever’