How It's Used

"[Justin] Pemberton [the director of 'The Nuclear Comeback' (2007)] also manages to get nuclear officials in Britain to admit on film that no one really knows what to do with the spent nuclear fuel that will remain radioactive 'for at least 100,000 years'. Yet equal time is given to those who argue that we don't really have much choice now other than to go nuclear. Like the best documentaries, it is engaging, nuanced and avoids preaching its cause.

"'Balance is everything,' says my fellow juror Ray McCormack, the Irish director of award-winning documentary 'A Crude Awakening: the Oil Crash'. 'It was far more effective getting someone from the industry spelling out the dangers of nuclear energy than someone from Greenpeace,' he says."

—Leo Hickman, "Movies with a message: What makes a good environmental film?" The Guardian (UK), October 23, 2008.

"He says 20 years experience with GM crops worldwide has shown very little evidence of environmental harm. Conner also believes it's possible to overcome concerns from organic growers through coexistence management schemes that keep GM and organic crops separate. He hopes, too, that pest-resistant crops, allowing them to grow without the use of agricultural sprays, can be seen as a benefit to organic growers.

"As a former member of Greenpeace, he says that reducing pesticide sprays in the environment is what motivated him into GM research."

—Chris Barton, "Potato pioneer stuck in field trials," The New Zealand Herald, November 29, 2008.

"British Airways claimed that by the time the project is completed in around, new aircraft will emit 55 per cent less CO2 per passenger than planes in the year 2000. Greenpeace has purchased of a section of land on the proposed site, and is dividing it between thousands of individuals in an attempt to delay the process with legal challenges.

"John Sauven, Greenpeace's director, said: 'If it's a green light it will shred the last vestiges of Brown's environmental credibility. An expanded Heathrow would become the single biggest emitter of CO2 in Britain.'"

—Ben Webster and Philip Webster, "Heathrow gets third runway in £9bn deal; Extra capacity on condition of lower emissions Heathrow expanded with third runway in £9bn deal," The Times (UK), January 15, 2009.

"In recent years, Apple has been hammered by several environmental groups. Greenpeace singled it out for its use of toxic chemicals in 2007, and it has done poorly in rankings of the greenest corporations. The criticism is jarring for a company with a cool, progressive image and Mr. Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore, on its board.

"Now, Apple is set to launch its most aggressive effort yet to counter green critics. On Sept. 24, the company will release more of the details environmental groups have been clamoring for, on its Web site and elsewhere. Apple, for example, will reveal its annual corporate carbon emissions for the first time. Lack of disclosure of that figure has hurt the company in several rankings, especially because rivals such as Hewlett-Packard and Dell have given it out."

—Peter Burrows with Arik Hesseldahl, "Finally, a Big Green Apple? It's being more forthcoming with environmental data--and working to change the terms of the debate," BusinessWeek, October 5, 2009.

"He made everyone else in his hard-bitten industry seem gentle. He was gruff even to members of Congress and scoffed at global warming long after scientists proved it. Greenpeace called him the 'Darth Vader of global warming.'"

—Peter Maass, “Scenes from the Violent Twilight of Oil: It succors and drowns human life. And for the last eight years, oil—and the people and places that make it—was my obsession,” Foreign Policy, September/October 2009, p. 114.

Links

Beyond eAlmanac
Wikipedia article on Greenpeace
Greenpeace official Web site