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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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Remembering Fukushima - Hinkley Point Rally and Surround.

Six members of Bristol East joined several hundred other protesters when they ventured down to the mist-laden coast of Somerset to the rally and 'surround' at...
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VW Campaigning at The Wildlife Fair‏

When Bristol East Greenpeace heard that on Saturday 18th February there was to be a Big Wildlife Fair in addition to the Wildlife Photographer of the Year...
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How Green is Bristol City Council?

Last night Councillor Barbara Janke and Sustainable City Service Manager Alex Minshull delivered the following presentation on Bristol City Council's...
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Dates for your diary from the February meeting

Here are dates for your diary and news updates following our meeting last week in The Cornubia In brief: Weds 15th Feb – Open meeting with Bristol Council...
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Stormtrooper Brian meets Friendly Earth-dwellers

At the end of January Stormtrooper Brian went shopping in the Tobacco Factory Sunday Market. He found the stallholders to be a delightful bunch of people who...
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Exeter Weekend - VW FIlms, Sharing, Campaigning and 2012 Resolutions

Several members of Bristol East were involved throughout a weekend of Greenpeace activity in Exeter earlier this month.  A VW film night was organised for...
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... And This Little Stormtrooper Went to Market!

Street campaigning is very much dependent on the weather and Saturday morning 21st January on Whiteladies Road offered a mixture of cold gusts of wind, drizzly...
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Dates for your diary from the January meeting

Here are dates for your diary and news updates following our meeting last week in The Cornubia In brief: Sat 14th Jan – South West Skillshare Sat 21st Jan –...
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