Edinburgh Group updates
Professor Pongoo joins the ‘Save the Arctic’ campaign in support of his antipodean brothers and sisters for Shell Day, 21 July 2012
Greenpeace volunteers will be staging a protest outside the Shell garage on the junction of Glasgow Road and Meadow Place Road this coming Saturday (21 July)....
July 19 at 07:59pm
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Friendly police at a Shell forecourt protest - 10/07 Craigleith Road
We were out again on Tuesday, talking to passers by and drivers about Shell's plans for the summer, they will be drilling for oil in the fragile Arctic. The...
July 14 at 11:35am
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Look what I saw!
So, I stumbled across some strange posters in my local Shell garage, something about 'Oil at any Cost'. It seems Shell are planning to drill for oil in the...
July 14 at 10:53am
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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...
July 13 at 02:01pm
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T in the Park 2012: Music, Merriment and Mud. Lots and Lots of Mud.
Despite having been working at festivals for over 6 years now, this year was my first time going to T in the Park festival in Kinross, which this year is the...
July 11 at 07:38pm
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Shell Garage Protests 25th June and 1st July
The ice in the Arctic has been melting, is this an invitation, or a warning?
Shell are exploring for oil this summer in the Arctic, something only made...
July 05 at 11:04am
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Peace March from Glasgow to Faslane
The Peace March left George Square in Glasgow at 12 noon on Thursday 21 June and arrived in Faslane early evening on Friday. Despite the heavy rain, our...
June 25 at 07:49pm
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Talking Rubbish at Portobello High School Changeworks Summit, 19 July 2012
On Tuesday 19 June 2012, a couple of volunteers from Scottish Greenpeace groups headed across to Portobello High School for the day to take part in their...
June 22 at 07:39pm
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Scotland could be free from nuclear weapons in just two years!
From Scottish CND:
Scottish CND has published a new report, Disarming Trident, which shows how nuclear weapons can be de-activated within 7 days, removed from...
June 18 at 03:56pm
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Pub Quiz – Wednesday 6th June
The Edinburgh Greenpeace group have now officially made our annual Pub Quiz, well, rather more bi-annual. On Wednesday 6th June, we held our very first Summer...
June 14 at 09:15pm
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Edinburgh Marathon Festival - Sunday 27th May
Scotland’s biggest running event, the Edinburgh Marathon Festival, celebrated its 10th anniversary this year. A record-breaking 23,000 runners took part...
June 08 at 11:52pm
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#SaveTheArctic at Knockengorroch World Ceilidh
Volunteering with Edinburgh Greenpeace can take you to all sorts of interesting places: perhaps a visit to your MP, an energy company's headquarters, the...
June 08 at 09:35pm
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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
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“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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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