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Corruption in the Spanish fishing industry
Greenpeace have exposed massive and destructive corruption in the Spanish fishing industry - this is driving overfishing, trashing marine ecosystems and...
October 11 at 09:51am
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Southampton Greenpeace joins the YouTube revolution!
A brief and very recent history - on Saturday I went to London for a Greenpeace 'Skillshare' and came back particularly inspired by one workshop which covered...
October 04 at 05:45pm
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Fisheries ideas Cameron needs to hear
You may have seen information about the EU's Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) and our campaign to have it reformed. Currently the CFP makes overfishing worse by...
September 29 at 04:50pm
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I recognise that handwriting...
A few days ago, an envelope landed on the doormat. Nothing unusual about that, except that this one was addressed to me in my own handwriting. Now, I know that...
September 27 at 03:50pm
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Happy birthday to us, happy birthday to us...
Yay - Greenpeace is 40 today! There's a great little film on YouTube showing that corporate types may not always so happy about our campaign wins and that...
September 15 at 04:04pm
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What can you get Greenpeace for its birthday?
If you don't already know, Greenpeace turns 40 on September 15th - as I sit here typing, that's a mere 6 days away and is a date that will mark 40 years since...
September 09 at 03:35pm
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Why the Barbie Hunt was so important
Some weeks back you may remember a lot going on around mysterious chainsaw Barbies popping up all over the place - in trees, up lamp-posts, on bandstands, by...
September 05 at 04:49pm
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Why we have to act against new oil exploration
Though a huge industry, this might seem simple, and on such a huge scale it is - fossil fuels cause climate change, we need to tackle climate change, so we...
August 21 at 05:21pm
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Epic Win!
Yup, after a lot of campaigning, many thousands of emails and some mysterious stickers, John West have finally committed to change from FADs (destructive Fish...
July 26 at 11:06am
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Jedi training use against VW you will...
Get your Jedi training to use against VW until it stops trying to block action on climate change. What does the training involve? Visit here for an example (...
June 28 at 03:37pm
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Volkswagen have joined the dark Side
Volkswagen have joined the Dark Side and are opposing key environmental laws. Visit here to become a campaign Jedi!
June 28 at 10:15am
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Lobbying my MP for Greenpeace
Spotlight on Andrew Blake, a newly-trained Greenpeace political lobbyist
I’ve been a Greenpeace financial supporter ever since I started earning a salary 21-...
June 16 at 03:34pm
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John West still John Worst
I saw the sticker in the photo on some tins of John West tuna in Tesco, Eastleigh today. Anyone know how it got there? Maybe it's related to this campaign....
June 01 at 02:35pm
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So, what did Chris Huhne say?
As you may have seen from the previous post, members of several NGOs visiting Chris Huhne last Friday to ask him a range of questions about the Energy Bill,...
May 24 at 09:34am
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Eastleigh - the big climate reconnection
This afternoon, Eastleigh constituents representing Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, Eastleigh Transition Network and Christian Aid (under the umbrella of the...
May 20 at 06:45pm
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Environmental Rock 2011
Another fine event at The Hobbit - this year we were there with the Go Beyond Oil campaign and Rainbow Warrior III info (rattle that tin...). One last batch of...
May 03 at 11:32am
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Just one company to go...
All the UK supermarkets have pledged to stop using FADs, the most destructive fishing methods, and move towards more sustainable practices, and so has Princes...
April 13 at 12:22pm
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Southampton schools visit Greenpeace in droves...
Last Thursday 10th March, Southampton Greenpeace, along with a variety of other green organisations, attended the Upper Shirley Learning Community’s Green Fair...
March 16 at 10:33am
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Princes finally see the light, but who's next?
Great news - Princes has (finally) got the message that bycatch destroys marine life and has announced that it will clean up its tinned tuna by ending the use...
March 09 at 07:36pm
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Our legal challenge to deepwater drilling
Yesterday something big happened - very big. Having filed papers to the High Court back in November, Greenpeace UK finally got the go-ahead to mount a legal...
February 25 at 12:54pm
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