Dear Friends,

We've had to make the difficult decision to shut down this forum.

We realise that many of you spent a great deal of time here, and enjoyed meeting other activists and exchanging ideas. We've attempted various strategies across more than a year to try and make this work better, but we are simply unable to dedicate enough staff time to moderate and provide quality input. As we approach the most important climate summit in the history of the planet in Copenhagen this December, we're battening down the hatches and focusing all our efforts on pressuring governments to sign a deal that will stop runaway climate change.

We're cutting back on many projects to make room for this priority work, and the forum is one of them.

If you would like to keep engaging with other fellow travelers in a forum, here are a few sites that we can recommend:

• Care2
• Gaia Online
• Live Green
• Overfishing.org

If you want to connect with Greenpeace, you can do that on Facebook, Twitter or YouTube. You can also sign up to our newsletter.

Our next website design will incorporate community features, for now please try the sites listed above or the Greenpeace USA action centre.