Environmental Actions
Video (5min 1sec): Obama: Green Jobs for a Green Future: Green Roofing.
"This is the kind of stuff that President Obama gets super excited about.
We're trying to figure out as many ways as we can..., with as little money as possible.
He's gonna be super happy to hear about this..."
"This is reality. This is urban America. They're getting healthier. Saving money. Out there getting jobs, training, working together..
Video (3min): Greenpeace - This Fragile Earth Needs Action.
Greenpeace exists because this fragile Earth deserves a voice. It needs solutions. It needs change. It needs action.
Greenpeace is an independent global campaigning organisation that acts to change attitudes and behaviour, to protect and conserve the environment and to promote peace by:
Video (1min 17sec): Reasons to Believe: Lightbulbs (with Susan Sarandon).
The Energy [R]evolution is Greenpeace's plan to save the planet from catastrophic climate change.
Susan Sarandon narrates the first of three 'Reasons to Believe'.
This one explains why energy efficiency is so important and also so easily achieved, just by small changes such as a switch from traditional lightbulbs to more energy efficient ones.
In the one minute you will spend watching this film solar energy could power a country the size of Portugal for one week. In one minute.
Video (12min 30sec): Marine Reserves may be the Key to Reversing Global Fisheries Decline.
A growing body of scientific evidence that demonstrates what Greenpeace have been saying for a long time: that the establishment of large-scale networks of marine reserves, urgently needed to protect marine species and their habitats, could be key to reversing global fisheries decline.
The ocean is a place of mystery and wonder.
Only in the past few decades have we been able to see for ourselves what's really going on beneath the waves.
Video (1min 12sec): Cate Blanchett Talks SolarAid.
Cate Blanchett, patron of new charity SolarAid, explains how solar power can be used to fight poverty and appeals for support.
"Imagine - night in Africa without electricity. A normal sundown for millions of African households.
You want and need light for all sorts of reasons - homework is just one.
Your choice is invariably an early night or, if you can afford it, a kerosene lamp that will spew foul air not to mention greenhouse gas.
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