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Volkswagen - it's no party for the planet in Ibiza

Posted by annaj - 24 October 2011 at 2:31pm - Comments

The downside of campaigning on climate change at Greenpeace is that you often end up doing actions in the most inhospitable of locations - coal stations, nuke sites, oil rigs.

When I heard that VW was hosting a conference in Ibiza, it conjured a different image. I couldn't help but imagine hundreds of car salesman sweating through their suits in one of its many 'banging' nightclubs, perhaps blowing a whistle or reaching for the lasers.

Article tagged as: climate, climate change, oil, oil spill, volkswagen, VW, VWDarkside

The Airplot Big Lunch

Posted by annaj - 21 July 2009 at 10:39am - Comments

The Airplot hosted a very special picnic on Sunday as part of the Big Lunch, which saw a staggering 2 million people sit down for Sunday dinner with their local communities to indulge in locally grown food.

Article tagged as: airplot, aviation expansion, BAA, co2 emissions, heathrow

Sipson is the new Chelsea

Posted by annaj - 26 May 2009 at 2:41pm - Comments

"Everyone gets gold!"

That was the verdict given by Tom Hoblyn, top Chelsea garden designer, to the four guerrilla gardens created yesterday in the villages under threat from a third runway at Heathrow.

Article tagged as: airplot, chelsea flower show, heathrow, richard reynolds, sipson, third runway, tom hoblyn

Chipping away at the aviation industry fortress...

Posted by annaj - 31 March 2009 at 3:51pm - Comments
Anna is next up in the spring blog relay - our quest to introduce to you all the staff members who keep the Greenpeace wheels turning here in the UK - click here to catch up on entries from other Greenpeace staff.

Just say 'no': Anna with Sipson residents outside the Department of Transport
Just say 'No': Anna with Sipson residents outside the Department of Transport

Another busy start to the week - though last week never really finished since I spent most of the weekend at the Airport Watch conference with fellow anti-airport expansion campaigners from all over the country.

It was a really useful weekend, sharing ideas, discussing how we tackle the various false solutions, like biofuels, and smoke and mirrors that the aviation industry is hiding behind, and reflecting on how far we've come. We've won all the arguments, and are gradually chipping away at the government and aviation-industry fortress, the final frontier around the out-of-date 2003 Aviation Policy that underpins airport expansion plans around the country.

Article tagged as: airplot, aviation expansion, blog relay

The view from the top

Posted by annaj - 26 February 2008 at 4:29pm - Comments

Talking to security on the cherry picker

Anna (left) at Heathrow airport yesterday

I’ve been campaigning a long time, though I've never done anything quite like this. Walking out onto the tarmac of the world's biggest airport and climbing onto a plane wasn't like any other Monday morning I've experienced. But with no sign of the government changing its mind on airport expansion, it was a step we felt had to be taken.

Article tagged as: aviation, climate change, direct actions, emissions, heathrow, transport

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