Edinburgh Group updates
‘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
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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...
January 22 at 11:56pm
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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...
January 17 at 05:01pm
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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...
January 09 at 07:59pm
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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,...
December 27 at 05:27pm
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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...
December 27 at 05:19pm
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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:...
December 17 at 11:51pm
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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...
December 16 at 05:42pm
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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...
December 15 at 10:41pm
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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...
December 15 at 09:36pm
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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...
November 30 at 07:10pm
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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
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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...
November 26 at 01:08am
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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...
November 16 at 10:29pm
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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...
November 09 at 10:06pm
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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...
November 09 at 12:35am
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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...
October 27 at 02:48pm
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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...
October 11 at 12:58pm
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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...
October 04 at 01:23pm
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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...
September 19 at 01:44am
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