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Poet Susan Richardson with Dave from the Southampton group

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...
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Iceclimb

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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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'...
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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...
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Arctic Love 560

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...
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Polar Bear

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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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#savethearctic

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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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A giant KFC 'box' in a deforested area of Sumatra, Indonesia

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...
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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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