Although this Greenepeace ‘Detox’ commercial has some sort of message about how Nike and Adidas are polluting the environment or something, I was too busy looking at all the cool sneakers to notice it.

In press conferences and perpetually looped commercials, BP has repeatedly promised to cleanup every drop of oil that was spilled even if it wasn’t all their fault. Then what’s with all the tarballs Greenpeace found on Horn Island near a “protected turtle nest”?

|video: Greenpeace UK . ad via: twitpic |

Greenpeace activists dressed as oil barrels, trees, animals, and solar panels were removed by authorities in Brazil during the BRIC summit on Thursday.

Greenpeace hates billionaire oil tycoon David Koch (his brother too) and set up a “Climate Crime Scene” outside of the theater at Lincoln Center bearing his name in Manhattan today.

Photo: Michael Nagle/Greenpeace

Today, as President Obama threw out the first pitch for opening day at Washington Nationals Stadium, Greenpeace unfurled a banner asking him to respect a moratorium on commercial whaling. Unfortunately, he was too busy throwing like a girl to notice.

Photo: Robert Meyers/Greenpeace 

Remember the episode of The Office when the ‘Nard Dog couldn’t remember the product name from the Kit Kat jingle? Well, I just wanted to put that tune in your mind to get you hankering for those créme-filled chocolate wafers. Are ya hankering? Now, make sure you’ve got a garbage can handy to boot into as you watch this video from Greenpeace UK.

Yummy syrupy cherry filling! It’s a pretty lame parody of the actual Kit Kat spots, and like with many 60 second-spots, it should have a been :30 which would have made it more shocking. Anyway, the organization says that Kit Kat maker Nestlé gets their palm oil from companies that are destroying Indonesia’s rain forest, which is consequently edging the orangutan towards extinction. More info here. So, switch to carob bars, and help save some great apes, I guess. |Video: osocio|

I think we can all agree that the icebergs are melting. Good! Safer shipping lanes. Easy Gore, I’m kidding. Here’s the latest climate change video from Greenpeace trying to guilt you into buying a hybrid. Warning: it’s got a cold deadly twist.

It’s yet another global warming polar bear snuff film!—though not as gory as the last one. I wonder, can polar bears drown? Apparently, yes! Anyway, the video is by Greenpeace Germany, agency unknown. Rough copy translation: “In 30 years, the Arctic will be ice-free in the summer. The climate needs you.” I’d like to see the source for that statement. Here’s the accompanying website. Creatively, I like the simplicity of the spot; it’s got that AHA! moment that gets ad people hard. But the fake dead bear looks a little too fake. No way to avoid that, I guess…I’m now depressed for the rest of the day. |Video via: comunicadores|

The UN Climate Change Conference (look, penguins!) begins Monday in Copenhagen. Greenpeace and TckTckTck have collaborated to greet the leaders of the free world with dour Photoshopped-aged visages of the men (and Germany’s Angela Merkel) from the year 2020. The posters, which all feature the same lame fake scare-quote, have been erected all over the city’s airport. (click gallery) President Change looks so hopeless, Nicolas Sarkozy looks so angry and bloaty, and the UK’s Gordon Brown looks exactly the same, except grayer. Eight leaders in all are tweaked. Who knows? Maybe appealing to these egomaniacs’ vanity will accomplish something. |Images via: Creative Review|