Edinburgh Group Updates

Get active

Meet. Talk. Campaign. Have fun. Get results.

'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

Comments

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

Comments

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

Comments

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

Comments

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

Comments

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

Comments

‘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

Comments

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

Comments

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

Comments

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

Comments

“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

Comments

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

Comments

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:...

December 17 at 11:51pm

Comments

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...

December 16 at 05:42pm

Comments

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...

December 15 at 10:41pm

Comments

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...

December 15 at 09:36pm

Comments

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...

November 30 at 07:10pm

Comments

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...

November 29 at 06:21pm

Comments

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...

November 26 at 01:08am

Comments

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...

November 16 at 10:29pm

Comments