Edinburgh Group updates
Letter from Brazil: Greenpeace at the WYD 2013, Rio de Janeiro
Right now, I'm in Rio de Janeiro, and have spent most of the last week helping Greenpeace Brazil with our presence at the World Youth Day (WYD) 2013, a...
July 26 at 04:26am
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Knockengorroch Festival 2013: Dancing with Polar Bears
After having an amazing and successful time at Knockengorroch Festival last year, we decided that we definitely wanted to come back again this year if we...
May 28 at 02:07pm
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May the fourth be with the Arctic!
We took the polar bear out once again on a sunny Saturday in Edinburgh on 4 May 2013 to ask people to sign up for the I ❤ Arctic campaign.
There was a great...
May 10 at 11:57am
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Arctic Visitor Comes to Edinburgh
The 20th April – the I Love Arctic International Day of Action – saw a sad looking polar bear on The Mound in Edinburgh. She was roaming the streets of...
May 09 at 12:33pm
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Napier University Students love the Arctic and the Polar Bear !
Last Wednesday 24th April Greenpeace Edinburgh took themselves along to the Sighthill Campus of Napier University to promote one of Greenpeace's current...
May 03 at 08:28pm
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Scrap Trident weekend: a great success!
Last week, on Monday 15 April 2013, Faslane naval base was shut down for three solid hours by hundreds of people in a peaceful blockade of the gates to the...
April 24 at 01:03pm
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Greenspeakers Talk at Napier University , Save the Arctic and Successes.
I was very pleased to accompany Sally from Greenpeace Dundee along to speak to some of the students at Napier University's sighthill campus on Tuesday.
There...
March 15 at 11:56pm
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Five reasons why we love going to the Dumfries Environment Fair
Even though it means we have to leave Edinburgh before 7am to get there and we don’t get home until well into the evening, we’ve been going all the way down to...
March 12 at 04:35pm
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Greenpeace Edinburgh Ceilidh - Dancing with Polar Bears.
This month Greenpeace Edinbugh held a foot stompin' ceilidh and celebration of our national bard Robert Burns in The Counting House, Nicolson Street. ...
January 30 at 12:04pm
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Bear in the Dock
It emerged in January that the Shell exploration rig Kulluk that was beached off the coast of Sitkalidak Island in the Gulf of Alaska, ended up there because...
January 27 at 09:54pm
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Don’t Panic! A guide to your first meeting with Edinburgh Greenpeace
If you think you might be interested in getting involved with Greenpeace here in Edinburgh, the best thing which you can do is to come along and meet us at a...
January 16 at 05:57pm
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Edinburgh Waitrose customers say: Dump Shell !
On a cold but dry Saturday afternoon a few volunteers from the Edinburgh group visited Waitrose in Stockbridge for a little bit of gentle protesting. Why...
December 10 at 12:53am
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I'm feeling some bad 'VIBES' about this ...
Every now and again you read something, and you just think, 'What on Earth were they thinking?'
Today was the awards ceremony for the VIBES Environmental...
November 29 at 05:45pm
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Another Wonderful Night at the Pub Quiz!
Thank you so much to everyone who came along to the Edinburgh Greenpeace Winter Pub Quiz on 7 November 2012 at the Beehive Inn and helped us to raise £79 for...
November 22 at 07:18pm
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One day like this a year would see me right ...
Some days, when I wake up in the morning and think of all the enormous challenges which face us today, I want to just roll over and go back to sleep, to hide...
October 19 at 11:45pm
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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...
October 11 at 02:24pm
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Sharing skills and curries in Stirling, Scottish Skillshare 2012
I would like to say a huge Thank you to everyone who ran/took part in Greenpeace skill share this weekend. It was a brilliant event with all of the Scottish...
October 08 at 12:41pm
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Septemberfest at Broughton High School, 22 September 2012
On Saturday 22 September, whilst others in the group joined forces with Glasgow Greenpeace for Shell Day 2, a number of us from the Edinburgh group took a...
September 24 at 11:01am
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Rise Up Singing at Faslane
Trident Ploughshares and Faslane Peace Camp put on a “Rise Up Singing” weekend from Saturday 15th to Monday 17th of September 2012. This was not a Greenpeace...
September 21 at 07:46pm
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The Disappearing Arctic? Challenging The New Oil Rush
Environmental and Social Justice Space (ESJS) - https://www.facebook.com/groups/508960165785179/
ESJS hosted this event in the Forest Cafe and some volunteers...
September 20 at 09:17am
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