Edinburgh / Dùn Èideann Group updates
A Gentle Day at the Farmers' Market, 19 May 2012
On Saturday 19 May a few of us from the Edinburgh Greenpeace group manned an information stall at the Edinburgh Farmers' Market on Castle Terrace.
Although we...
May 21 at 04:56pm
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How to shut down a corporate building in three minutes
You will need:
A strong purpose
Lots of people
High-visibility jackets
Courage
Step one: Get in the way
It's really quite remarkable how much...
May 10 at 06:47pm
“Countdown to zero” in Brass Monkey pub
Between 7 and 9:30 pm of Thursday the 26th April, in the Brass Monkey pub, the documentary “Countdown to zero” traced the history of the atomic bomb, up until...
April 27 at 02:28am
Thanks, Mandy!
Just wanted to say a HUGE thanks to Dr Mandy Meikle, who kindly presented for us an utterly amazing talk on unconventional oil at last week's meeting. A truly...
April 23 at 07:23pm
Sunshine on the Dark Side
The VW campaign is drawing to a close in the UK so we took our group's remaining action cards to the east end of Princes Street on Sunday. A glorious, but...
April 16 at 12:11pm
Add your name to the Nae Nuclear map!
One for anyone living in Scotland:
Scottish CND has created an online map for people to show that they don't want nuclear weapons in Scotland. More than 400...
April 12 at 08:55am
Stockbridge Farmers' Market, 1 April 2012
We were at the Stockbridge Market last Sunday with a Greenpeace stall for Fossil Fools’ Day!
It seems clear that VW is being a Fossil Fool as it has been...
April 04 at 09:49pm
Another Total disaster to deal with!
While Gulf of Mexico is still suffering the consequences of the largest ecological disaster in the USA history (April 2010!), a serious gas leak from an oil...
March 28 at 05:53pm
'Countdown to Zero' film showing
We will be having a film showing of 'Countdown to Zero' at the Brass Monkey on Drummond Street on Thursday 26 April 2012. The event will start at 7pm but we'll...
March 28 at 12:55pm
Edinburgh Farmer's Market 17th March 2012
It was another lovely fresh day at Edinburgh farmer’s market with the delicious aromas of fresh bread and frying onions in the air. Our Greenpeace stall was...
March 23 at 10:07pm
Hinkley flooded by 1000 protesters
Over 1000 people gathered a few steps away from Hinkley Nuclear Power Station (Sommerset) on Sunday the 11th March 2012 for another successful blockade,...
March 13 at 05:56pm
Dumfries & Galloway Environment Fair
Saturday 3rd March
Four of us from Edinburgh ventured south for a day in search of signatures, support and just some good conversation from visitors to...
March 07 at 06:24pm
Shell, Stay Out Of The Arctic!
A Shell drill ship has been prevented from leaving New Zealand to head for the arctic by Greenpeace activists and we were showing our support yesterday by...
February 26 at 11:34pm
The Nuclear Renaissance
In the news today, David Cameron is meeting Nicolas Sarkozy to sign a deal to strengthen co-operation on civil nuclear development. The deal is to create 500m...
February 17 at 11:30am
‘Cakes Against Climate Change’ at Edinburgh University, 3 February 2012
On a very cold Friday afternoon last week a group of us assembled to collect signatures for our current VW campaign, and also to give away pieces of our...
February 08 at 10:17pm
SATURDAY FARMER’S MARKET@ CASTLE TERRACE CAR PARK, EDINBURGH, On the Greenpeace stall and loving it! 14th JAN 2012
What a perfect crisp, clear day. It made the early rise this Saturday so much easier, dear reader, than rain and darkness would have rendered it. I write...
January 22 at 11:56pm
Wharf visits to the Rainbow Warrior 3
On the 12th and 13th November 2011 a masterpiece of sustainable naval engineering could be visited right in the heart of London. The ‘Rainbow Warrior 3’ is...
January 17 at 05:01pm
Edinburgh 2011 – the force was with us
It’s been an amazing year of positive action by Greenpeace, from making John West change its tuna and shaming Cairn Energy over its oil spill response, to...
January 09 at 07:59pm
“All for one, one for all!” …when forest creatures call.
Nymphs from the Edinburgh’s wilderness occupied stores and shopping centres at the beginning of September 2011. Their heart was soaring because of Mattel,...
December 27 at 05:27pm
Hinkley point fallout
Converging from all over the UK and even from as far as Belgium, Germany and France, ca. 400 protesters joined together to blockade Hinkley Point nuclear power...
December 27 at 05:19pm
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