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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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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...
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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,...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Autumn Leaves

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...
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Peter Mandelson

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...
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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...
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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...
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Apple: clean our cloud

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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Earthquake and tsunami damage at Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant, Japan

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...
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