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‘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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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“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,...
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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...
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Ethical Christmas Fair Pt 2 'The Empire Strikes Back'

In a galaxy far far away ... The Rebellion gains momentum, from a secret base somewhere in the Grassmarket, they strike the Empire where they least expect it:...
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It’s not Santa-science at the ‘Ethical Christmas Fair’, we all can make a difference!

Life can be hard and unfair to you or others. Whether it is to you or someone else, we are all directly or indirectly interlinked and one’s unhappiness can...
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Street Communications Training - Saturday 10th December

This was a training day designed to help volunteers to find their feet at a Greenpeace stall, whether starting from scratch or working towards refreshing and...
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Edinburgh Pub Quiz 2011

Alison organised our annual Pub Quiz, which was held upstairs at the Beehive Inn. It was, as always, a fun evening, and an impressive turn out, despite the...
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Taking on Dirty Oil at the Department for Tar Sands (DfT)

On Monday, Greenpeace activists from around the UK, including Edinburgh, descended on the Department for Transport to shut the two main entrances to the...
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Chopped down Boreal forest near a tar sands mine in Alberta, Canada

kaleidoscope festival 2011

At first sunny and mild like those days that seem to be rare in Scotland then on the next it all became real chilly and wet.As I am great that was never an...
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Cairn Trial Nov 2011

Cairn Energy Trial – Wednesday 23rd November 2011   Everyone will be aware by now of the fantastic news that the first of the 17 activists who were on...
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Meeting the new Warrior

The world has a new warrior – Rainbow Warrior III – and I was lucky enough to meet her last Sunday. And she is amazing. I joined thousands who waited...
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Non-Violent Direct Action (NVDA) training - Saturday 29th October

Non-Violent Direct Action (NVDA) training - Saturday 29th October  Brainstorm ideas about non-violence, listen to real accounts from Greenpeace activists...
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Tarnished Earth Exhibition and Toxic Fuels

It seems the EU Fuel Quality Directive still hangs in the balance.  If passed, this legislation would set limits on how dirty an oil source can be before...
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Alex Salmond vows to scrap Trident in an independent Scotland

First Minister Alex Salmond has vowed to get rid of Trident nuclear weapons if the SNP win independence for Scotland. On Scotland Tonight Salmond said that in...
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Kumi Naidoo

Kumi Naido is coming to Edinburgh

I've Just received this notification from Friends of the Earth Scotland: Head of Greenpeace International to attend El Salvador event Kumi Naidoo, Head of...
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Kaleidoscope Festival 2011

What a great time we had at this festival! Despite a fair amount of haar on the sunday, we did have some sunshine too and had a good weekend of campaigning...
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Your OCEAN ACTION is urgently needed!

Fisheries are globally being depleted at exponential and unsustainable rates. The European Union (EU)’s fisheries policies have since the 1970s aimed to...
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