A protracted protest last night conducted by Greenpeace members who illegally took over a crane near the White House to make an anti-Trump political statement included several representatives from the Bay Area, the Chronicle reports, including Greenpeace board chair Karen Topakian of San Francisco.

“It was a little chilly this morning when we arrived at the crane site, but it was a lot chillier in the Oval Office when President Trump decided to sign those executive orders reinstating the Keystone Pipeline [and] the North Dakota pipeline," Topakian quips during the below Facebook live video from atop the crane. Topakian was reportedly one of four Bay Area protestors expected to appear today in a Washington DC court on charges related to commandeering the crane and climbing 300 feet to hang a hand-painted banner. Others included Pearl Robinson, a national Rainforest Action Network organizer in San Francisco.

They were all arrested shortly after 10 p.m., as the Metropolitan Police Department issued a statement declaring the actions "extremely dangerous and unlawful.”

Meanwhile, a subtler, more legally hung banner in the Bay Area, this one atop Twin Peaks, has been up since at least this past weekend. This one, placed in the same spot where a pink triangle is annually set up during Pride, reads "Protest is Patriotic," and I took the below video on Sunday. KRON 4 has also commented on the banner but doesn't appear to have any idea who put it there.

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Greenpeace flew a blimp over Silicon Valley today to champion tech companies that have gone emerald green and shame those who are more of a tea green. The latter? Amazon, Twitter, Netflix and Pinterest.

“Apple, Facebook and Google are racing each other to build a greener online world, and that’s a race that we all win, since it means a greener offline world for everyone too,” said Greenpeace Senior IT Analyst Gary Cook. “Amazon, Twitter, Pinterest and Netflix can still join the vanguard of the green internet and avoid permanently chaining their fast-growing services to dirty energy if they commit to powering their operations with 100% renewable energy now.”

Wait, Twitter has a garden on its roof. And Pinterest has, like, employees who ride bikes. Surely they're all verdigris, aren't they? Not so, according to Greenpeace. (No shade, techies! Why, just this morning I tossed away a compostable carton into the trash. It happens.)

"At Greenpeace we love using Twitter and Pinterest, but we want to use them knowing they're not hurting the environment," David Pomerantz, Greenpeace Press Officer, explains to SFist. "Right now both companies are using rapidly growing amounts of electricity to power the data centers that store all of our Tweets and Pins, and most of that electricity for both companies is coming from polluting sources of energy like coal and gas. Facebook committed to 100 % renewable energy, and now is well on its way to that goal. We think Twitter and Pinterest can do the same."

Based on a report Greenpeace released on Wednesday, Twitter uses only 21 % clean energy for its data centers. Pinterest, as a customer of Amazon Web Services, uses only 15% clean energy. Unlike Facebook, neither Twitter nor Pinterest have made any commitments to renewable energy, according to Greenpeace.

And just to show you Greenpeace isn't only about wagging its finger, today's airship also tipped its hat to companies doing well. Behold:

Greenpeace crunchies inflated a giant tiger to celebrat International Day of Forests, holding a banner calling attention to one of Indonesia's most noted rainforest destroyers: "APRIL."

“APRIL is Indonesia’s second largest pulp and paper producer and is cutting down the last remaining natural rainforests and tiger habitat to feed its mills.” Said Dr. Amy Moas, Senior Forest Campaigner with Greenpeace.

Read all about it.

Deep breath. Wow. Jesus. Okay, here we go:

Well, it seems that Greanpeace and UC Berkeley student organizers will host an, um, "Toilet-Trees" event on Sproul Plaza on the UCB campus tomorrow, Thursday, from 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. Why? To alert the student body of the clear-cutting practices of Kleenex Brand's parent company, Kimberly-Clark.

What is a "toilet-trees" event? We....oh God, is it what we think it is? The press release, which you can find after the jump, proudly declares that "[t]here will be great visuals and photo opportunities!" So...will be people be urinating and defecating in public? Under a tree? In plain view? Please advise. Someone. Anyone.

While there is clearly no one more green and environmentally astute than SFist, college students need all the assistance they can get in maintaining proper physical hygiene. (Really, most of these kids hardly know how to wipe themselves properly -- not because they're "hippies," but because they're dirty teenagers.) We can't get behind anything that might steer them away from pristine cleanliness.

Now, please excuse us. We need to go bathe in a tub of bleach.

Update: Whew. We just talked to GP, and there will be no public defecation and/or urination. It's simply a public display of "trees being flushed down toilets" -- a symbolic event, if you will, about clear-cutting. So..there you have it. (Although we must admit, pooping would be much more effective.)

We're still taking a dip in some Clorox, though.