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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)....
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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...
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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...
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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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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Setting sun shines through nuclear protest flag with radioactive symbol

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...
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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...
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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...
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