Bristol East Group updates
Sun 12th June - Bike Ride then Tues 14th June Meeting
In our June meeting at 19:30 on Tuesday 14th June we will be hearing how members got on at the Bristol’s Biggest Bike Ride which takes place on Sunday 12th...
May 26 at 01:56pm
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Festival of Ideas
The Bristol Festival of Ideas has a number of interesting talks coming up end of May.
A selection of the environmentally themed events is shown below including...
May 12 at 10:01am
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Fundraising
Those nice folk at Greenpeace HQ, Canonbury Villas sent us a certificate for raising £100 on recent stalls for Greenpeace. Thank you to all those who...
April 27 at 10:26am
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Tuna Update
In March Princes and Asda committed to stop using indiscriminate fishing methods which devastate many marine species. By the end of 2014 all their...
March 31 at 06:55pm
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Carbon Roadshow at Chippenham College
Richard and Carol attended the Carbon Roadshow at Chippenham College last week - Big Society and all that! A number of environmental organisations were...
March 30 at 11:14pm
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Big Fish Fight
During our January meeting we caught up on Hugh’s Big Fish Fight, originally broadcast at 9pm on Channel 4 on Tuesday 11, Wednesday 12 and Thursday 13...
January 13 at 11:54pm
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Visit to Stephen Williams MP – Go Beyond Oil
On Friday 7th January, Sue and Carol popped in to see Stephen Williams MP (Bristol West) to ask him a few questions about the Energy Bill currently passing...
January 09 at 07:58pm
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"To Save the Whale" Documentary
Last week a few of Greenpeace went to see a documentary “To Save the Whale” by Gavin Newman, a stills and video photographer who does a lot of work with...
January 09 at 07:50pm
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Go Beyond Oil - Campaigning on College Green
We spent some time today in front of the Council House getting the public to write to their MPs about the upcoming energy bill. Laurence and...
November 16 at 09:25pm
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Go Beyond Oil - Campaigning on the Gloucester Road
On Saturday 30th we braved the Zombie Flashmob and went out to do some "Go Beyond Oil" campaigning on the Gloucester Road. We took face paints...
November 03 at 06:43pm
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Go Beyond Oil - Campaigning in Castle Park
We spent a sunny Wednesday lunchtime grabbing the office workers as they strolled across Castle Park to fetch their sarnies. Many were interested in our...
October 27 at 04:59pm
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Delivery of “No Tar Sands” posters to BP HQ
Loz and Sue went to London on Friday 30th July to visit BP’s London headquarters in St James’s Square near Pall Mall. This is Loz’s description of...
August 09 at 10:45pm
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Bristol Greenpeace Campaigning – BP and Tar Sands
Greenpeace Bristol East visited our local BP petrol station in Willsbridge on Monday 19th July and gently raised awareness about tar sands with staff,...
July 27 at 10:53pm
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Current Campaign: BP and Tar Sands - Monday 19th July Event
Hundreds of people from the Bristol area have complained to the oil company BP about its plans to extract oil from the ‘tar sands’ of Canada....
July 16 at 03:47pm
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Update on Recent Campaigns: HSBC and Palm Oil
At the Glastonbury Festival, campaigners were busy raising awareness of HSBC’s involvement with Sinar Mas, one of the worst companies responsible for ripping...
July 16 at 03:06pm
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Update on Recent Campaigns: Kit Kat – Give the Orang-utans a Break
Our spring campaign targetted Nestle - the makers of Kit Kat. Greenpeace HQ investigated the supply chain of Nestle chocolate ingredients and discovered that...
June 13 at 10:55pm
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Update on Recent Campaigns: Stop Heathrow Expansion
Picture: Amnesty Garden Party 2009 - Airplotters with their heads in the clouds! Last summer and autumn the Bristol East Greenpeace group worked hard to...
June 13 at 10:39pm
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Give Green this Christmas
Greenpeace have launched a new website that gives advice on different ways of helping Greenpeace, It also gives advice on buying environmentally friendly...
December 07 at 07:49pm
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A Time Comes
East Bristol Greenpeace is looking for a venue to show the film, A Time Comes. The film by Nick Broomfield is about the Kingsnorth Six and lasts about 20...
August 08 at 11:07am
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Airplot, Gardens and the Local MP
On Sunday 2nd August, East Bristol Greenpeace continued to focus on the 'Garden' theme in the latest stage of the Airplot campaign by putting up a stall at...
August 08 at 11:00am
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