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There’s something about Surbiton...

Last year Richard Briers (star of The Good Life which was based in Surbiton) supported Greenpeace’s airplot campaign by planting carrots in the allotment and...

May 15 at 08:11pm

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Our orang-utan poster's attracting attention in all the right places

Perhaps the sunshine brings out the best in people, perhaps people who go to Twickenham Farmers market are simply very well informed. Either way, Ben and I had...

April 24 at 09:04am

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How do you turn a “yes” for spending £97 billion on Trident into a good result?

It was a good start – I met a lady at the bus stop and sought her view on spending the £97 billion – a clear “no”. The the bus came... The bus driver...

March 13 at 12:20am

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2009 - The highlights

If you're new to this site you may be wondering what's involved in "getting active" with Greenpeace. Here's a flavour of the wholerange of things we...

February 14 at 07:05pm

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2010 planning - brave the snow! Meeting 20th January

We're meeting as usual on the third Wednesday of the month which is tomorrow, 20th. Our guest with a 10 minute slot is from Kingston Peace Council. Also on the...

January 19 at 09:09am

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Recipe for successful tree planting

Take:*1 tree (M27 rootstock for the technical minded)*compost*2 spades and a fork *20+ people from Greenpeace, Ham United Group, Transition town Kingston, Jo's...

November 24 at 01:33pm

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Copenhagen - Nick Stern puts the numbers nto plain English

Nick Stern gave a public lecture at LSE last week, on the subject of "Green growth" - listen to the podcast - he takes the complicated subject of the...

September 30 at 09:55am

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Huge success at Kingston University Green Freshers Fayre

We set up our our stall in a small marquee between the New Internationalist and Kingston Cycling campaign at 10.00 a.m. and waited for the hordes.... Luckily...

September 23 at 02:41pm

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(Boris) Johnson announces awards for 'low carbon zones'

http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/johnson-announces-awards-for--low-carbon-zones-1781014.htmlWe'll be right in the centre of this as Ham...

September 06 at 04:58pm

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Costs of adapting to climate change significantly underestimated

Interested in learning more about the technical aspects of climate change? See attached link - press release from International Institute for Environment and...

August 31 at 09:48pm

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What's the best way of making sure we attract people from both Richmond and Kingston to the group?

Ideas wanted to make sure we can attract people from the whole of our geographical area - not forgetting Twickenham, Teddington - how far should we spread the...

July 19 at 09:37pm

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