Photo: Business Wire. The Baked Alaska, which weighed 1, pounds and measured 4 feet tall and 4 feet in circumference, was designed to symbolize the environmental damage that drilling in this wildlife preserve would cause. Stop Global Warming," John Passacantando, Executive Director of Greenpeace, took the microphone to voice opposition to opening the Alaskan wildlife refuge to oil and gas exploration. With the consensus of international scientists showing that warming is already impacting the Arctic and its inhabitants, now is the time to end our nation's addiction to oil and stop global warming pollution.
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For those unfamiliar with the area, it is a soulless stretch of west London, dominated by traffic-clogged roads and slightly seedy mansion blocks. The hotel is decorated in a cheap, bland, "international" style, with sub-Monet prints on the walls and white bread rolls pre-laid on its lunch tables. It is, in other words, the antithesis of the quirky, homespun brand that Greenfield represents. Neither is it a place for a wealthy businessman, which he also represents.
The event featured people in cow costumes carrying picket signs, and even more strangely a minute line full of Bay Street workers waiting for a free small scoop of ice cream in a cup. Ben: Ok, we need to do some sort of good-will PR thing. Ben: You mean cool. Jerry: Is that what the kids are saying these days?