Sushified

The newspapers and blog sites have been full of Nobu's bluefin shame over the past week or so. And quite right too. The spotlight of the imminent release of The End Of The Line which features the plight of endangered bluefin, is putting the celebrity-favourite restaurant under increasing pressure.




On Friday Greenpeace ran a full page advert in the London Evening Standard that we designed at UHC, and the story of celebrities' bluefin backlash has been reported from Hello! to the New York Post.

Follow the action on twitter:
@Greenpeace

SWIMMING TOWARDS A COAL SHIP

ACOUNT FROM AONE OF THE ACTIVISTS... "Around midnight three of my colleagues eased themselves off one of the Greenpeace inflatable speedboats and into the cold water of the river Medway in Kent.

It's difficult to imagine what must be going through your mind in that situation - in the dark, in the cold water, with the looming lights of a large ship getting closer. But however difficult to imagine it is, it must have been even more difficult to do, because Cathy, Emma and Hannah knew that they were swimming out into the channel to block a coal freighter carrying twenty thousand tonnes of coal from docking at the Kingsnorth jetty."



Follow the action on twitter:
@Greenpeace

GAS ZAPPERS

GAS ZAPPERS is a series of interactive online art game that tackles climate change. The game’s protagonist is the polar bear—that victimized, yet cuddly symbol of global warming. Players embody the polar bear as it progresses through different climate change scenarios: Venice under water, a forest threatened by bulldozers, and an altercation with vicious oil derricks. Fucking great.




Also check out more of kenneth tin-kin hung's work now at the Urbis.
www.gaszappers.com

REPRESSION IN PERU

On June 5, World Environment Day, Amazon Indians were massacred by the government of Alan Garcia in the latest chapter of a long war to take over common lands-a war unleashed by the signing of the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between Peru and the United States.







Killed for protecting their Amazon homeland from Multinational companies intent on creating more profit whatever the cost. You can lobby your MP to urge the Government to sign the only international law for tribal and indigenous people here website

PROTESTERS HIT AGAIN

Campaigners from the group Manchester Plane Stupid targeted the aviation industry's gala dinner being held at the town hall tonight. Protestors scaled two lamposts and erected a 15m banner reading, "Aviation Industry Conference - Climate Criminals Inside".



The banner drop created a lot of attention from the public and continued the pressure on the aviation industry who are attempting to greenwash the climate issue. The Aviation conference included the launch of a new initiative to make airports carbon neutral. However, this does not include the emissions from flights which currently account for around 13% of the UK's greenhouse gas emissions.

"It's time for the aviation industry to wake up and to start a just transition to replace aviation jobs with emerging sustainable industries such as wind turbines.' Vanessa Hall, former city councillor and Green parlimentary candidate for Manchester Central.

"There is no such thing as a 'carbon neutral' airport, 'carbon neutral' is a term used for offsetting projects that rarely result in any real reduction in emissions. This project is even more deceptive as it won't include the massive emissions from planes." James Alden, Green parlimentary candidate.

GREENWASH

Campaigners disrupted an airport industry conference today using rape alarms tied to helium balloons. The protesters from the group Manchester Plane Stupid entered the Manchester Central conference venue and sent the helium balloons reading 'Happy Retirement' to the top of the ceiling where they remained with the alarms ringing.

This occurred just as the industry delegates were posing for a photo shoot for the launch of a new carbon reduction scheme at European airports - which will not include emissions from aircraft. Meanwhile, other protesters held a banner outside the entrance reading, 'Aviation Industry Conference – Climate Criminals Inside'.

The group were protesting against the aviation's growing contribution to climate change. Megan Sims from Manchester Plane Stupid said, "The airport industry is recklessly pushing ahead with expansion plans across the UK and Europe despite all the warnings about climate change. We cannot pursue this growth agenda if we are serious about tackling global warming."

"Their latest back-patting exercise is yet more greenwash from the airport industry. They provide the growth of the facilities for aircraft to operate and encourage more flights,and more climate change."


The three day conference was being hosted by Airports Council International. The conference was suspended whilst house staff struggled to remove the floating alarms from the ceiling.

EXT INKED  
is a new art project from Ultimate Holding Company, in conjunction with the Marine Conservation Society, Buglife (The Invertebrate Conservation Trust) and the People's Trust for Endangered Species.

In celebration of Charles Darwin’s 200th birthday in 2009, the artists will invite 100 volunteers to become the ambassadors of 100 endangered UK species -by being permanently tattooed with the image of their chosen mammal, invertebrate, bird, reptile, fish or plant.


To keep EXT INKED free and avoid sponsorship, we need to raise £5,000 from you the public. This keeps the event free to attend and to participate in, hopefully attracting a new wave of interest in conservationism.

With every successful free tattoo the project will create a new ambassador for another threatened species - a living exhibition of Charlie’s other angels!

EXT INKED aims to show that our generation cares about the future of all species and is prepared to prove it in blood, sweat and tears.

Let’s Make It Happen

If you think EXT INKED is a good idea, we're going to need your help! Please keep checking back here to find out more soon. We really feel that Darwin would appreciate our desire to creatively celebrate evolution, the sheer beauty of these species and the human effort needed to save them.

"It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth, and to relfect that these elaborately constructed forms, so different from each other, are dependent on each other in so complex a manner, have all been produced by laws acting upon us..."
-Charles Darwin 'On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection'

Taken from EXTINKED facebook page, join here website

GOOD STUFF!

Good 50×70 is a design contest/collection of social-conscious posters addressing seven of the critical issues affecting today’s world. Posters were chosen as the media for the contest as they’re the most direct way to convey a message and can be easily translated to other media. The creativity unleashed through the competition is then supplied freely to charities. Here's a few...









and many more here websitethanks to Gems Sty