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07-29-2009, 11:26 AM #1
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Greenpeace paints "Hazardous Products" on the roof of HP Building in Palo Alto
LA Times Article
Photo credit: Kim White/Greenpeace; used with permission
Let this be a lesson to electronics companies everywhere: If you don't heed demands to remove toxic materials from your products, Greenpeace is going to paint your roof.
Luckily, they'll use nontoxic finger paint. The negative advertising, visible to passing birds and helicopters, won't last longer than the time it takes to power-wash it away.
Unless someone snaps a picture. Or films it.
It took about 10 minutes for a handful of activists to complete the mission, Greenpeace International toxics campaigner Casey Harrell said. Dressed in haz-mat suits and armed with motorized paint-sprayers, they scaled the building with industrial-strength ladders and blasted the words "hazardous products" on the roof of Hewlett-Packard's Palo Alto headquarters. And they didn't even get arrested.
The action followed demands by Greenpeace that Hewlett-Packard fulfill a promise to stop using hazardous materials such as PVC plastic and brominated flame retardants, which have been linked to thyroid hormone disruption in animals.
"Greenpeace will not stand idly by while companies that commit to environmentally responsible action backtrack on commitments," Harrell said in a statement Tuesday. "As the number one seller of PCs worldwide, HP has both the responsibility and the ability to make sure the company no longer deserves the moniker 'Hazardous Products.' "
HP said in a statement that the company was committed to eliminating brominated flame retardants and PVC from its PC products by the end of 2011, according to wire reports.
-- Amy Littlefield
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I can dig some of what Greenpeace stands for, but it took me watching about 30 seconds of that retarded show Whale Wars (before we pulled the plug on cable) to realize that that organization is full of completely nutso whackjobs.
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07-29-2009, 11:31 AM #2
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I dont think Greenpeace has anything to do with the crackpots on Whale Wars.
Originally Posted by Lane Meyer
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07-29-2009, 11:35 AM #3
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The captain is one of the co-founders of Greenpeace, until the organization kicked him out for being "too radical." Originally Posted by gonehuckin
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07-29-2009, 11:38 AM #4
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GP threw the Whale Wars skipper out in the '70s.
Originally Posted by Downbound Train
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07-29-2009, 12:45 PM #5
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I would have thrown him out for being retarded.
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08-04-2009, 03:29 PM #6
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I fucking love Whale wars. It's a total car crash, you can't help but watch the whole thing unfold. The collective stupidity on that boat is amazing, I can't believe none of them have died yet...
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08-05-2009, 01:32 PM #7
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This is so true, what a shit show. How about the prop fowler? Are you kidding me? HOw hard is it to get that thing around the boat. Originally Posted by 1080Rider
I was watching the last episode, they guy had not even thrown the acid and he fell and cracked his eye open.
I can not imagine if they will get any support after this train wreck.
One last thing, what happened to the other skipper, the guy with the glasses and the curly hair. He did not know how to navigate in the ice and then had a meltdown, did they toss him overboard?
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08-05-2009, 04:55 PM #8
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Seriously, I saw one episode where they bumped one idiot overboard in a zodiac and I was convinced that there are not the brightest seamen in the ocean.
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08-05-2009, 08:28 PM #9CravenurdotterII Guest
Why not build a torpedo and do the job properly?
Or toss a satchel charge......need to just do the right thing before the Japs take every inch of life out of the oceans.
Recruit one of the guys that bombed the USS Cole......give them a job that benefits everyone.
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