Newcastle Group updates
Uk Tar Sands Network keep up the pressure on big oil
On the 12th of April supporters of the Uk Tar Sands Network and Gulf Coast residents attended the BP AGM to ask the board some difficult questions about the...
April 24 at 12:14pm
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Grow your own food!
A group of volunteers in Newcastle have come together to form a new environmental organisation called Guerrilla Greengrocer, which aims to encourage local...
April 12 at 12:42am
Volkswagen street campaign
After the recent unseasonally warm weather four Greenpreace volunteers set out on a cold Saturday morning to inform the people of Newcastle about the recent...
April 02 at 08:58pm
Shell Action by Newcastle group in Arctic conditions!
Rakesh, Ed and Elizabeth all met at the Shell in Byker early on Saturday morning to show our solidarity for those at the top of Shell's drilling rig in New...
February 27 at 03:28pm
VW film night and social event 27th Jan - Newcastle
Volkswagen is the largest car company in the EU, and a major influence on the German government. VW markets its cars as being more efficient than its...
January 24 at 04:00pm
weekend of activities
Advance notice: Friday 27th January - Sunday 29th. There will be stuff happening. In Newcastle. OK so that's a bit vague - more info later.
November 23 at 07:17pm
Cinema Politica Presents - One Man, One Cow, One Planet
Cinema Politica gives a voice to some of the pressing issues that we face in the world today, stories from all corners of the earth that fail to grap the time...
September 06 at 07:13pm
Social meeting
We are arranging a social meeting at the new library in Newcastle. The pobjectives will be to meet anyone new to the group who wants to be more involved and...
August 24 at 09:48am
Nuclear discussion in October
A meeting about Nuclear Power. Medact Tyneside is organising a meeting about nuclear poweron Sunday afternoon 16 October 2pm at the Star and Shadow CinemaWe...
August 24 at 09:43am
Newcastle Community Green Festival
On the weekend of the 4th and 5th of June we had a stall at the Newcastle Community Green Festival, our main aim was to raise as much money as possible to go...
July 07 at 12:09am
Cinema Politica Opening night
The launch of Cinema Politica, will be showing the fantastic yet tragic documentary H2Oil, a film about the Canadian Tar Sands. A subject near and dear to...
February 15 at 02:40pm
Save our forest demo...13th Feb...
Hundreds of dedicated local and not so local people took part in the demo to help save our forests at Chopwell Woods yesterday. To get the crowd warmed up...
February 14 at 07:53pm
Save our forests...particularly our local Chopwell!
Our nations most national treasure....the government are talking of plans to sell a small percentage of our forests off to the highest bidder....this is a...
February 10 at 12:28am
Happy New Year!
Hope everyone has had a fab yule time and all the best wishes for 2011! Had a bit of a break over Christmas but it's now time to get cracking with the next...
January 04 at 09:40pm
BP HQ protest
An early start on Tuesday morning meant that we arrived in London just as the news was breaking that Greenpeace activists had managed to shut down nearly all...
July 30 at 10:18pm
A little more about tar sands by Joella
Tar sands, a brief introduction:Canada’s tar sand mining has been named ‘the most destructive project on Earth’ but what are tar sands and why are they so...
July 03 at 08:18pm
Fear and loathing at the Climate Conference
Last Saturday we were invited by the organizers to the annual climate conference at the Discovery Museum in Newcastle. Despite the weather being blissful...
June 15 at 10:37pm
A Global Problem
Greenpeace doesn't deal with the problems facing your average shark, not directly anyway, although there has been more mention of sharks in recent blogs...
June 03 at 09:26pm
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