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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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