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If you've been visiting our website regularly, you may have spotted a small but significant change which occurred a couple of weeks ago, when a new 'Community' link appeared in the navigation box to your left. That weeny grey box leads to a whole new section of the website we've been developing over the3 past year, namely the for our network of active supporter groups across the country.

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Over the past five years, our Kleercut campaign has pressured Kimberly-Clark, (the makers of Kleenex tissues) to help save Canada's Boreal forest. Today, in what can only be described as 'a tremendous victory for ancient forests' the company has announced a new policy that places it among the industry leaders in sustainability, and which brings the Kleercut campaign to a successful completion.

Soon after we released our Slaughtering the Amazon report, Nike got in touch with us. The report showed that demand for shoe leather is one of the key drivers of deforestation in the Amazon, as rainforest is cleared to make room for the expanding cattle ranching industry. So Nike was keen to make sure that their business wasn't contributing to Amazon destruction.

We're hiring!

We're currently looking for a direct marketing whizz to join our supporter development team. If that's you, there are more details and an application pack on our website.

Good luck!

Bluefin tuna is an endangered species, and it's the oceanic equivalent of a tiger, rhino, or panda - yet it is still being served up as expensive sushi in restaurants. In London alone, there are dozens of venues serving up bluefin, although the celebrity hang-out Nobu is probably the most high-profile culprit.

Make your pledge and Boycott Bluefin

Do you remember the six Greenpeace volunteers who made history last year when they were acquitted for defending the climate?

They were accused of causing £30,000 of criminal damage to Kingsnorth coal-fired power station. Their defence of "lawful excuse" was accepted by the jury - because they were acting to safeguard property around the world "in immediate need of protection" from the impacts of climate change, caused in part by burning coal.

Internationally acclaimed director Nick Broomfield was so inspired by this story that he has just completed a 20 minute film celebrating the spirit of direct action. The film tells the story of the activists who scaled the 220m chimney at Kingsnorth and the landmark case with supporting testimony by the world's leading climate scientist Dr James Hansen of NASA.

Watch the trailer above, or see the whole film in indulgent HD.

It's a remarkable behind the scenes look at Greenpeace and the brave people who are willing to put their liberty on the line for what they think is right. Definitely worth a watch. And if it leave you feeling inspired, you'll be pleased to know you don't have to climb a tower the size of Canary Wharf to take a stand against climate change...

If you're in the UK, we would like to invite you to join thousands of people on July 4th to form a human band around Kingsnorth power station in Kent and show your opposition to dirty new coal. The event is being organised by Oxfam and includes a diverse range of communities and organisations such as Christian Aid, People and Planet, the Women's Institute, the World Development Movement, National Union of Students, Woodcraft Folk, RSPB and, of course, us.

We're not asking you to do anything illegal, you just need to come out and show your opposition to dirty coal. Please come and take a stand with thousands of like-minded people on the greatest issue of our time. You can find out more and book your spot on the UK site.

Tomorrow is Earth Day, although over on the international dateline in the Pacific it's already Wednesday 22 April so we're launching our new video now. It's called Inspiring Action and hopefully that's just what it will do - we want to turn 3 million people into climate activists, starting with you.





Join us now, and become a climate activist.

When we took our first action in 1971, we were a rag-tag group of hippies sailing against a US nuclear weapons test. We were sailing into impossible odds, with an impossible demand.

But the individuals who set off on that voyage inspired an impossible number of people to achieve impossible things. We've had three decades of experience in making the impossible happen - an end to nuclear testing, protection of Antarctica from oil and gas exploration, a moratorium on commercial whaling, a ban on ocean dumping and a ban on trade in toxic waste, to name only a few.

We've not only made those changes happen, we made them look inevitable. Scientists are sounding more and more alarms about the fate of the ice caps, the acidification of our oceans, the loss of our equatorial rainforests and the consequences all these things will have on low-lying countries, on our health, on our ways of raising food, and the foundations of our civilization. There are ample reasons for despair.

But many years ago, one of our activists bagged a quote from another famous activist, and summed up the Greenpeace ethos: "The optimism of the action is better than the the pessimism of the thought."

If you agree, we want you, and 2,999,999 people like you to sign up as climate activists. When the UN Climate summit convenes in Copenhagen this December, delegates there will be deciding the fate of the Earth. It's looking more and more likely they will bring us a lot of hot air, not a cooler planet.

It's time to get involved. It's time to get your friends involved. It's time to get your parents or your kids involved. Our first mission is to get the message out that we want our leaders to take personal responsibility for stopping climate change.

This Earth Day, please join us and inspire others to action. Please send this video to your
friends. Inspire your friends on Facebook. Inspire your followers on Twitter. Post it to your blog.