Southampton Group updates
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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Saving forests at home and abroad
It's been a good week or so for forest campaigning - following on from last year's success with Nestle over palm oil use and links to the evil Sinar Mas (...
February 18 at 11:02am
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Paving the way to scrap Trident?
A new independent commission has just been launched to look at Trident replacement. This comes at a time when the Armed Forces Minister, Nick Harvey, has said...
February 11 at 10:24am
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Facebook vs whaling
The International Whaling Commission (IWC) is scheduled to meet at the Hotel de France in St Helier in July. About 450 delegates from 88 member countries are...
February 09 at 02:53pm
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Southampton’s 2010 top ten
OK, January’s whizzing along so I thought I’d post a round-up of the Southampton group’s greatest hits from last year although there were lots of other...
January 18 at 03:15pm
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STOP PRESS *** Tesco tuna U-turn
Tesco have got wind of our new tinned tuna 'league table' - especially the fact that it was going to come last - and has done a spectacular u-turn. After...
January 09 at 04:33pm
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Tune(a) in to Hugh's Big Fish Fight!
2011 is still young, but it's already looking like a big one in our campaign to end the plunder of the oceans. With fish stocks plummeting and other marine...
January 06 at 06:47pm
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