Southampton Group updates
Chase words, find ice, #savethearctic
Blogs, newspapers (on- and off-line), books, magazine and journal articles - column-inches proliferate, but words can get lost, and it's hard to choose the...
July 17 at 03:06pm
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Riding high on #iceclimb waves
Yesterday, this was everywhere, an #iceclimb Twitter-and-news-storm as 6 volunteer climbers scaled the thousand-foot Shard at the heart of Shell's office-land...
July 12 at 11:37am
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Funding the fundamentals
Chuggers. We all know what they are - 'charity muggers' - or that's what many a stand-up-comedian-on-a-panel-show would have us believe. Of course, that's not...
June 28 at 12:34pm
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Saying Yes 2 Wind
We've been working on the 'Save the Arctic' and 'I luv Arctic' campaigns for a while now - local action but looking to change the behaviour of huge companies...
June 11 at 01:40pm
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Loving the Arctic is easy 'cos its beautiful
By now, you know that we're going to Save the Arctic - companies like Shell may have nearly all the money, but they haven't got the passion and committment of...
May 08 at 02:10pm
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Getting MPs to show the Arctic some love
We spend a lot of time asking members of the public to sign this, have their photo taken with that, and so on. However, although we often write to MPs, we don'...
May 07 at 02:49pm
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Another dread-ful pun
You might have seen a recent post by Southampton group volunteer Alix about being sponsored to have her dreadlocks cut off to raise money for Project Pod on 'I...
April 21 at 04:44pm
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Please Donate. Shaving my hair off for I Love the Arctic!
On the 20th of April it's national I Luv The arctic day. Together we will call on our political leaders to protect the Arctic from activities that put this...
March 31 at 05:42pm
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Personally...
I have been asked me to write a personal blog about my experiences being a Greenpeace volunteer so here goes....
I have been an active volunteer for a good...
March 29 at 05:44pm
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Who wearz bearz? We wearz bearz
We do like costumes - stormtroopers, giant mackerel, chickens (remember them?), and now polar bears, but why? Well, I can't deny that dressing up is fun, and...
March 10 at 05:13pm
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Old dog, new tricks
It's great when we get new volunteers joining our group - it doesn't matter whether or not they've got campaigning experience because meeting new people is...
February 13 at 11:57am
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Six Soak up Saturday Sunshine at Super-Sunny Shirley Shell
The Obama administration has warned them it's too risky to drill in the Arctic, their drilling rig has run aground (again, the latest in a litany of disasters...
January 27 at 03:10pm
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Chasing Ice, Finding Support
Chasing Ice is a new documentary about a photographer's heroic work charting the retreat of glaciers due to climate change - and his journey from climate...
January 07 at 01:22pm
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A quick delve into 2012
As 2012 draws to a close, and us poor over-worked volunteers take a bit of time out over the festive period, it's a good time to look back at the many...
December 17 at 05:10pm
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Bring 'Chasing Ice' to Southampton
'Chasing Ice' is a new film charting the retreat of glaciers due to climate change - it's not currently due to be screened in Southampton but maybe we could...
December 10 at 12:33pm
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A few of my favourite Greenpeacy things
Follow the initials as I versify my favourite things...
Rainbow Warriors, one, two and three,
Ice-bears and foxes that we will look after,
Canonbury...
November 23 at 10:45am
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KFC - better but more needed
Just over a week ago, I wrote about KFC's ongoing unwillingness to sever links with some of the worst forest-trashing companies such as APP when sourcing pulp...
November 06 at 05:49pm
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Are you a bad hippy? If so, we'd love to meet you.
Inspired by a post by the Waltham Forest group entitled 'Confessions of a bad hippy', I decided to mercilessly plagiarise the idea - not just because it's...
October 30 at 01:02pm
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M&S good, KFC bad... but you can help!
We raise environmental issues with a lot of companies. Some you hear little about - they listen to the evidence and act accordingly. Others need a bit more...
October 25 at 04:41pm
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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...
October 11 at 02:24pm
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