Somehow, a harebrained idea born in the grim depths of last winter has inadvertently become a reality, and today is my last day of working for Greenpeace before I head off to cycle across Africa.

I'll be taking a lot with me from my three years in this madhouse highly effective campaigning organisation - not least a criminal record, a habit of lying to friends and family about my whereabouts (in the run up to direct actions), and an antisocial compulsion to explain the beauty of decentralised energy to every passer by.

"While the environmental threats facing Africans are urgent and critical, Africa is in a position to leapfrog dirty development and become a leader in helping to avert catastrophic climate change and protect the natural environment. We are here to help make that happen."

Greenpeace Africa is here! Marking a whole new era for Greenpeace, we opened our first African office yesterday, in Johannesburg. In the coming weeks, we'll be opening two more - one in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and the other in Senegal.

Yay - Rex Weyler's latest Deep Green column has arrived!

Rex Weyler was a director of the original Greenpeace Foundation, the editor of the organisation’s first newsletter, and a cofounder of Greenpeace International in 1979. He was a photographer and reporter on the early Greenpeace whale and seal campaigns, and has written one of the best and most comprehensive histories of the organisation, Greenpeace (Raincoast, 2004). His book, Blood of the Land, a history of the American Indian Movement, was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. “Deep Green” is Rex’s monthly column, reflecting on the roots of activism, environmentalism, and Greenpeace’s past, present, and future. The opinions here are his own.

Since the late Pleistocene, 100,000 years ago, when a few thousand Homo sapiens poked around Africa, Asia, and the Mediterranean, human population has doubled 22 times. We have one more such doubling left, and that's it. Human population will likely level off at 10 to 14 billion sometime around 2100, exceeding the Earth's carrying capacity. Mass human starvations are already underway in degraded environments.
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Redesigned, restructured, rebuilt, relaunched – the new www.greenpeace.org.uk is here! After years of faithful service, our old (and somewhat creaky) website has been retired, and we've launched this shiny new site instead. Here's a quick overview of the new site (visit our guide for more in-depth stuff):