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Stonebridge city farm

Last Sunday on the 25th of July Jane and I went to the Stonebridge city farm to try and get a few more people to sign our no tar sands petition. We arrived at...
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Nottingham Greenpeace group go to BP HQ

Last week three people from the Nottingham Greenpeace group went to BP's headquarters in St James Street near Piccadilly in London to hand over one of the 'No...
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BP tar sands protest at garage in Daybrook

For the first time ever the cry went up "can we finish now, it's too hot?"  And it was.  A fantastic contingent of 8 of us turned up at the BP...
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Sneinton festival

At the last group meeting Cath suggested we try a stall at Sneinton festival.  Now, this was on the Thursday and the festival finale was on the Saturday, so I...
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New coal fired power station proposed in Scotland - your help needed

So we all thought coal was off the agenda after the victory at Kingsnorth - at least for a while.  But I have just received an email from the Worldwide fund...
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Southwell Folk Festival

Southwell and Nottingham groups teamed up to give Greenpeace's first ever presence at the Southwell folk festival over the weekend of the 12th and 13th June. ...
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what awful weather!

Boy am I glad I made the decision this morning not to go to Sounds on the Downs.  As usual as soon as I had called off the event the weather picked up - but...
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Group Meeting 3 June

Just wanted to thank everyone who turned up at last night's meeting.  We had a good, passionate, political debate and came up with some brilliant ideas.  The...
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Nottingham Green Festival

hi, had a really wonderful day on sunday at green fest,twas roasting but we had a shady spot and were nicely ticking over all day.we had lots of interest in...
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Move over Nestle

So all our good work paid off!  Surprising us all, because we thought Nestle enjoyed the reputation of being the bad guys, they have announced a "no...
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May Day festival in Nottingham

Saturday dawned bright but windy.  We made our way to Victoria Park in Sneinton for the annual mayday festival, using my trusty gazebo to protect the stall...
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Nottingham Peoples Hustings

Normally a blog is about people's ideas and experiences but I am writing about something else as I don't know where else to put this information - it could be...
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Ken Clarke not interested in meeting Trident campaigners

In a previous blog we told you about how we campaigned on Trident in Rushcliffe, the constitency of Ken Clarke, MP.  We got 310 polling cards collected and 97...
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Trident poll presented to Rushcliffe Green Party Candidate

Nottingham Greenpeace activists presented the result of their Trident poll to Green Party candidate Richard Mallender on Saturday after campaigning in the...
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Heathrow expansion plans in tatters

It seems like that we have been doing the Airplot campaign forever, trying to stop the expansion of Heathrow Airport.  It has been one of the longest...
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Greenpeace occupies Prunerov II Coal Plant labelling it a “Global Shame”

I thought you might like to see what is going on in the Czech republic right now  Prunerov, Czech Republic,  22 March, 2010  -- Twelve Greenpeace...
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Farm Fishing - 2 interesting examples

An interesting talk on two types of fish farming....   https://owa2k.ntu.ac.uk/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.ted.com/talks/...
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Nottingham Group poll Asda West Bridgford customers

Jane, Helen, Jamie, Jake, Cath and Sue polled around 100 customers visiting Asda, West Bridgford tonight.  Overwhelming majority said "NO" to the...
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Palm oil campaign - it's Nestle!

Yesterday I acted as legal support for a bunch of Greenpeace active supporters from around the country who came together, along with some Greenpeace climbers...
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Street Comms Training - 13 March

Thanks to Jane and Steve for taking us through the Street Comms Training on Saturday.  It was good to see some new faces, meet up with some familiar ones,...
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