Nottingham City Group updates
Polar bear goes to Gay Pride Festival
Paula the polar bear got so much attention at the Nottingham Pride Festival, and we got lots of people to send texts to the Greenpeace petition then and there...
July 29 at 11:25am
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TellShell in Nottingham
When I posted this event there were only 3 people including me who had said they would be coming but we decided to go ahead anyway. As the day grew...
July 23 at 09:42pm
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A good day out at the Big Wheel
So when we were invited to this event we jumped at the chance - an opportunity to talk to loads of people about our campaign to save the Arctic and stop Shell...
July 14 at 07:55pm
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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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Arctic campaign kicks off in West Bridgford
So while some of our activists were outside the Shell Priory garage in Lenton, I was at West Bridgford farmers market trying out the new Arctic campaign with...
June 27 at 02:08pm
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Greenpeace Notts Strike Shell For 2nd Time This Week!
That's right folks! We are hot on Shell's case here in Nottingham. Following the successful action at the Shell Petrol Station in Carlton on Monday Sean, Meg,...
June 23 at 02:55pm
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Petition sent to KFC
This morning I posted a petition of over 300 signatures and a CD of pictures of Nottingham residents with Eric the orang utan to the CEO of KFC in the UK....
June 21 at 01:13pm
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Local activists visit Shell garage in Nottingham
Monday rush hour in Nottingham and a bunch of Greenpeace activists from the local group visit the Shell garage on Carlton Hill in Nottingham. This is not...
June 18 at 10:58pm
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Rain, rain, go away
Flaming June it wasn't. This is the second year running that Greenpeace Nottingham have been to an event organised by Gedling Council and the second time...
June 17 at 11:28am
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Green Festival 2012 with Eric the orang utan
Despite dire forbodings about the weather it turned out to be a lovely day at the Green Festival in Nottingham. With a bit of ingenuity we brought...
June 10 at 09:04pm
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National Greenpeace Skillshare Goblin's Combe
Getting together with Greenpeace people from other areas is always inspiring - realising that there are a lot of very committed and knowledgeable people in the...
May 26 at 12:39pm
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getting back in the groove
came back from goblin combe yesterday.should be getting on with some self directed study today! but just a quick blog cos 1. vowed i would be more active at...
May 21 at 10:08am
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Musings
Sometimes when I log on to the Nottingham Greenpeace group web page I look at the number of people who ‘follow’ us and what we do and I wonder what they are...
May 13 at 04:00pm
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Greenpeace Stall at Nottingham Mayday March/Rally
On Saturday May 5th Greenpeace held a stall in the Congressional Hall, Low Pavement. This was set to coincide with the arrival of the Nottingham Mayday March...
May 07 at 01:05am
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Greenpeace blockade Centrica HQ
On Monday this week I was legal support for a group of Greenpeace activists who had blockaded the headquarters of Centrica in Windsor. Centrica is one of...
May 03 at 05:53pm
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Apple Store Action
About 20 Greenpeace activists took part in our reminder to Apple that they need to clean up their choice of electricity supplies for 'the cloud' which is going...
April 26 at 12:51pm
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Political Lobbying to keep Tar Sands oil out of Europe
At the beginning of this month, I sent the following as an e-mail to my local MP regarding this important issue:
Dear Ms Greenwood,
My name is Peter Gray, a...
March 30 at 01:34pm
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VW campaign - well done and thanks
Earlier this month, at the Madrid Motor Show, VW announced some improvements to some of its new cars that will reduce their emissions enough to beat existing...
March 29 at 04:12pm
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Visit your local Shell garage
You will have read that local activists visited Shell garages at the back end of last month to highlight to motorists and the garage staff that Shell wants to...
March 12 at 08:48pm
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Fukishima: one year on
One year ago today the coast of Japan was hit by a tsunami as the result of an undersea earthquake of gigantic proportions, one of the five largest earthquakes...
March 11 at 10:05pm
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