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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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Polar Bear Resists Temptation to Eat Mackerel at Easton Arts Trail

Bristol East were at the Easton Arts Trail this weekend, campaigning for reform of the Common Fishing Policy and helping to Save the Arctic.  So to get a...
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Save the Arctic! Follow the Bear!

Saturday was International Day of Arctic Action.  2000 volunteers in 200 cities in 20 countries took to the streets to campaign for a global sanctuary...
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A Fun Fund-Raising Sunday (Updated 2nd July)

On Sunday (17th June) many members of the Bristol East group were out and about raising funds for Greenpeace.  Richard L, Loz and Sue were taking part in...
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small black&white review of BIG GREEN WEEK!

Here is a small review of a selection of BIG Green Week events, some attended in a Greenpeace capacity, more attended because they looked interesting. ...
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Bristol's Big Green Week 2012 (Update)

It's been months in the planning ... and now here it is.  Bristol's first BIG Green Week which aims to be a great inspiration for change.  BIG GREEN...
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An Exemplary Jamboree

Greenpeace Bristol East went along to a local jamboree to help the Scouts with their Environment Badges.  The scouts were great fun and seemed to enjoy...
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'Be A Fisherman's Friend' Campaign Goes National

Bristol East Greenpeace were at the Harbourside to help publicise the national launch of the new campaign to get reform of the EU Common Fishing Policy. ...
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Plymouth Humanists

Went to Plymouth yesterday afternoon to give a talk to the Plymouth Humanists group in the evening. Had a bit of time to look round the Hoe in the sunshine...
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Goblin Combe Skillshare Predicts Busy Times Ahead

The best thing about skillshare is not only the meeting up again with Greenpeace mates you have met before from previous events, but also the making of new...
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BigMack Captures the Castle

Following our successful CFP campaigning on party-minded College Green at the weekend, it was interesting to try BigMackerel out on the lunch hour Castle Green...
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Five Hundred and One Fabulous Fisherman's Friends

What a fantastic launch for the ‘Be a Fisherman’s Friend’ campaign!  It was a winning combination of great sunny weather, a wonderful 6ft mackerel costume...
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I Spy Big Bills

On Monday I was one of a group of Greenpeace activists who visited Centrica in Windsor.  As it happened, another high-profile visitor was in Windsor that...
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Greenpeace Gently Grapple with Apple

Greenpeace UK visited the flagship Apple store in Regent Street on Wednesday to urge Apple to purchase more of its cloud computing energy mix from renewable...
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Plucking Plastic (and Polystyrene) On World Earth Day

A huge 'well done'and thank you' to the hardy souls who turned up and braved the showers (and hail) on the first organised Avon Gorge Towpath Cleanup. ...
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Film Show in Bristol - 40 Years of Making Waves!

To celebrate 40 Years of Greenpeace, we put on a film show last Wednesday evening. We began the evening by chatting and sampling the delicious snacks (...
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Wiltshire College Trowbridge

Wiltshire College invited Greenpeace Bristol East to their annual Carbon Roadshow on the Trowbridge campus so we popped along to meet the mostly 16-18 year...
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Green Volunteer Fair - too hot for polar bears!

The courtyard at The Bristol Folk House was basking in wonderful sunshine throughout the day at the Green Volunteer Fair.  It was a great opportunity to...
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Blockading Hinkley

A member of East Bristol Greenpeace stayed on at the gates of Hinkley Point nuclear power station to help man the blockade.  Here is his first hand...
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