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Hey G8, What about the Climate?

Hey G8, what about the climate? Posted by Daniel Mittler - 17 June 2013 at 10:06am All rights reserved. Credit: Robert Visser As leaders of...
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IMPORTANT: Change of local group meeting time

Please note our local group meeting will now be on the 20th June at 7.30pm instead of the 13th of june as previously advertised.
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Kumi Naidoo in front of the Rainbow Warrior

The last tree or the last straw

The Greenpeace office in Istanbul has been under siege. It is in the heart of Taksim, an area in which a brutal police clampdown has been trying to end the...
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Documents reveal UK govt. support for Canadian tar sands

The UK appears set to change its position and push the EU to allow the import of carbon-intensive oil from Tar Sands. Read, search and annotate the...
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Frank & Go

Flaring-More bad news when it comes to fracking...

The UK's two largest Fracking companies have admitted they plan to burn some of the gas they extract as part of the process of drilling for oil and gas,...
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Championing small-scale fishermen in court battle for fairer quotas

Imagine if someone claimed ownership of a percentage of the sparrows in the sky or a share of the deer in our forests? Would this seem absurd to you? I...
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Save the Bees

Buzz killers: UK blocking bee-killing pesticide ban Posted by Graham Thompson - 25 April 2013 at 12:47pm - 2 Comments All rights reserved...
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Arctic/Swansea

Saving the Arctic in Swansea

We're often cynically told that green issues are of no interest to 'ordinary' people especially in these austere times. And yet today in Swansea , South...
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Wind cheaper than gas

Imagine a wind turbine so big that it would take Usain Bolt 19.32 seconds to run across the 200m diameter of its blades (before plunging tragically into the...
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Good News-Shell cancel Arctic drilling!!

An unexpected thing happened last night: One of the biggest oil companies in the world -- Shell -- made a big decision acknowledging that the oil industry...
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George Osborne

Battle For Britain

Was it when Chancellor George Osborne called us the environmental Taliban? When he announced he wanted to build 40 new gas-fired power stations and turn...
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Tar Sands: A warning against fracking

Tar Sands: A warning against fracking   Over the past few months a head of steam has built up around hydraulic shale gas extraction-commonly known as ‘...
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Polar Bear Comes To Rhiwbina

Rhiwbina and Icebergs

Rhiwbina, Polar Bears and Icebergs   Saturday 1st of December saw Greenpeace activists from Cardiff and Swansea visit Rhiwbina and raise awareness on...
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October Get Active newsletter

Let’s sort out our Energy Future by Richard George, Energy Campaigner We are standing at an energy crossroads and a new law, the Energy Bill, will set out the...
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People protesting outside a Shell station

September Get Active newsletter

Your chance to #TellShell to stop Arctic drilling by Vicky Wyatt, Climate Campaigner Over two weekends in July Greenpeace supporters took action to shut down...
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August Get Active newsletter

Shell-Day 2 Saturday 22nd September by Sara Ayech, climate campaigner Last month saw two huge days of action against Shell in the UK in support of our...
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Shell shocked-and awareness of protecting the Arctic grows.

  Well it’s been one hell of an Arctic related week! As a fundraiser for Greenpeace I spend 8 and a half hours a day, 5 days a week talking about the...
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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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Invest in saving the planet, not destroying it!

Invest in saving the Planet, not destroying it...   The First Minister has told us that he'd be happy to have Trident nuclear submarines based in Wales if...
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Let the Col. know he's finger licken' bad!!

Go to http://www.kfc-secretrecipe.com/ to let KFC know how you feel abou their destructive packaging!!        
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