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Reclaiming Energy with People & Planet

“Reclaiming Energy” with People & Planet Two weeks ago, Greenpeace made an appearance at a full-day event here in St Andrews hosted by OneWorld, in...
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Greenpeace Scotland skillshare John Sauven

Bursting the Bubble: the benefits of skillshares

St Andrews is constantly referred to by its student residents as ‘The Bubble’, a nickname that, despite being incredibly irritating, becomes a more and more...
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October Get Active newsletter

Let’s sort out our Energy Future by Richard George, Energy Campaigner We are standing at an energy crossroads and a new law, the Energy Bill, will set out the...
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St Andrews Freshers Week Pub Quiz

On Wednesday the 12th of September 2012, Greenpeace St Andrews hosted its first event of the academic year; a pub quiz at Aikmans. A night filled with music,...
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People protesting outside a Shell station

September Get Active newsletter

Your chance to #TellShell to stop Arctic drilling by Vicky Wyatt, Climate Campaigner Over two weekends in July Greenpeace supporters took action to shut down...
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August Get Active newsletter

Shell-Day 2 Saturday 22nd September by Sara Ayech, climate campaigner Last month saw two huge days of action against Shell in the UK in support of our...
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Greenpeace Netherlands action at Shell HQ - the Hague

July Get Active Newsletter

Shell-Day Saturday 21st July by Vicky Wyatt, climate campaigner At 6.30 this morning 70 + Dutch Greenpeace volunteers, including their executive director...
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Stop Shell - Save The Arctic street signs

June Get Active newsletter

Sod the Olympics, what about the Arctic? by Richard George, climate campaigner Shell’s summer of risky oil drilling got off to an inauspicious start this...
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Secret Garden Egg Hunt

On Wednesday the 11th of April, Greenpeace St Andrews got in swing with Spring with a Secret Garden Egg Hunt & Bakesale Fundraiser. Photos to follow soon...
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Put yourself on the map!

No nuclear weapons here!  Put yourself on the map if you want a world free of nuclear weapons! Today all British nuclear weapons are based on the Clyde...
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40 years of making waves + ship image

Open mic night: now in glorious technicolour!

Here is a fabulous video of our open mic birthday party for Greenpeace. There were some absolutely fantastic acts, and hopefully we'll have many more events...
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Happy 40th, Greenpeace! St Andrew's Greenpeace birthday party

We’d been tinkering with the idea of putting on some sort of awareness-raising music event for a while and the University’s Green Week provided us with the...
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Greenpeace activists climb Suffolk's Sizewell B nuclear power station to demonst

NVDA Training

I'd been a member of Greenpeace St Andrews for just over a year when the chance came to do Non-Violent Direct Action (NVDA) training. Up until then, while I...
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SPOT THE STORMTROOPER St Andrews Competition

Young St Andrews padawans, Greenpeace's Stormtrooper will be raiding the streets of St Andrews, campaigning for a greener Volkswagen and a New...
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Turn VW Away From The Dark Side - four days of Star Wars and Greenpeace!

  Description http://vwdarkside.com/ REBEL MANIFESTO: Our home—Earth—is in trouble. VW opposes key environmental laws we need if we’...
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Greenpeace St Andrews Film Screening

YOUNG PADAWANS far and wide: Greenpeace & the University of St Andrews' FilmSoc have used THE FORCE in a fantastic partnership to bring you a screening of...
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Oh My Cod! Letters galore at the St Andrews CFP stall

The first stall of the academic year was a huge success, with well over 100 letters signed and decorated to tell David Cameron to Change the F***ing Policy! A...
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Greenpeace St Andrews at the University's Volunteering Fayre

New members recruited at the University of St Andrews Volunteering Fayre!
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Kumi Love

Greenpeace St Andrews members share their thoughts on meeting Greenpeace Executive Director, Kumi Naidoo. Neyme Veli: People often warn that it’s bound to be...
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Meeting Kumi

  As I walked into “The Last Drop”, heart thumping and mind numb with anticipation to meet someone I have read so much about and harbor such deep respect...
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