Greenpeace proudly documents their criminal activity

The small (wet) figure above is a crew member of the Greenpeace ship Esperanza. Darkness has fallen on the port of Dumai (Indonesia) since this photograph was taken several hours ago, but our climber is still there, in the dark, occupying the anchor chain and preventing the tanker from setting off to the Netherlands with its 27,000 tonne cargo of palm oil. As Jamie wrote on the Forests for Climate blog, it takes only one person to stop a giant palm oil tanker.

Dumai is the second largest port in Indonesia in terms of palm oil exports, and the Gran Couva is only one of several palm oil-carrying ships in the port today. The crew members of the Esperanza have been busy daubing the sides of the Gran Couva and three other ships with 'Forest Crime' and 'Climate Crime' in bright yellow letters.

Greenpeace - Making Waves: Windmill warriors

I didn't get a wink of sleep the night before in the Belgian warehouse thanks to a couple of loudly snoring activists but some coffee and an urge to personally give coal the finger - helped me wake up at 5am and get on the bus to Antwerp.

When we arrived we climbed over a fence (using ladders) and began setting up the windmills while other activists painted a giant windmill on the tarmac along with the message "Flanders, Quit Coal". There were over 80 people from Belgium, France, Germany and Luxembourg who had come as volunteers to take part in the action.

Sticking toy windmills in the ground seemed a little funny to me at first but after I had created my own miniature windfarm of some several hundred windmills I stepped back and admired my achievement. Many of my windmills were spinning happliy in the breeze and when the sun finally came out the metallic ones were all sparkling like glitter. It was quite a sight. I wondered how much energy we might actually be able to get from all of them if they were hooked up in such a way (yeah ok - probably not technically possible at all but bear with me). I bet you I could have powered my laptop from my windfarm at least.

So what actually IS powering your laptop?