Greenpeace UK

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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 new online home for our network of active supporter groups across the country.

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.

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.

We've bought a piece of land slap bang in the middle of the proposed third runway site at Heathrow. We're not going to let the runway get built and we need your help.

You can join in by becoming a benficial owner of our Airplot land and stand beside us to help resist all attempts to build the runway. You'll be in good company - Oscar-winning actress Emma Thompson, comedian Alastair McGowan and former Ecologist Editor and prospective Tory candidate Zac Goldsmith all have their names on the deeds.

So join Airplot now - the plot to stop airport expansion starts here!"

Before you do anything else,

watch Coalfinger. I'm just going to babble on about how much fun it was to make it which isn't nearly as amusing as watching the animation. While you're at it, share it with your friends because we need to expose the real coalfingers of the world and their carbon cronies and the threat they pose to our climate.