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News from Copenhagen: The Red Carpet activists have been charged

Posted by davewalsh - 10 March 2011 at 4:07pm - Comments
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I’m typing these words from the Greenpeace office in Copenhagen, about a ten-minute walk from the Danish Parliament, where nearly 15 months ago, three Greenpeace activists were arrested for politely and peacefully calling on some 120 heads of state attending a royal banquet to take urgent climate action.

Article tagged as: activism, climate change, copenhagen, red carpet

Esperanza heads north to investigate ocean acidification

Posted by davewalsh - 3 June 2010 at 1:45pm - Comments

It's a long, long way from Germany to Svalbard, but the Esperanza has arrived at Ny Ålesund, just 1,231km from the North Pole, for the start of the Arctic Under Pressure expedition. Around 2,500 people and about 3,500 polar bears live in Svalbard, an archipelago set of islands 60 per cent covered by glaciers (that's about 36,500 sq km of ice!). We're very, very far north in a wild, wild place.

Article tagged as: arctic, climate change, esperanza, ocean acidification, oceans, ships

Only three weeks to get your piece of Airplot!

Posted by davewalsh - 8 April 2010 at 10:21am - Comments
Greenpeace Airplot campaign
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Airplot - the plot to stop a third runway at Heathrow

There’s just three weeks left before we finalise the deed of trust for Airplot; the names of all Airplotters will be included, and everyone will be issued with a certificate of beneficial ownership. If you're not signed up yet, now's the time. If you are, then please ask your friends and family to join the plot, along with Greenpeace, Emma Thompson, Alistair McGowan and Zac Goldsmith and 77,500 other people!

By the time the deeds are finalised on May 1st, we aim to have 100,000 airplotters. We need your help to achieve this, so that the next UK government gets the message: that it's answerable to a huge body of people that oppose Heathrow's third runway.

Article tagged as: aircraft, airplot, climate change, emissions, heathrow

Updated: Heathrow Third Runway Slammed by High Court

Posted by davewalsh - 26 March 2010 at 12:47pm - Comments

Campaigners leave the High Court victorious this morning after the result of a judicial review into the planned third runway at Heathrow declared that the plans were 'untenable'.

UPDATED 20 April 2010: Fantastic news! Both the climate and common sense have scored a major victory at the High Court today, where the Government's plans for a 3rd runway at Heathrow have been dealt a huge blow.

Article tagged as: airplot, climate change, heathrow, high court, judicial review, third runway

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