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Orang-utan in Indonesia

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 (...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Tesco was bottom of our tinned tuna league table before a nifty u-turn

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...
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Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall

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...
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January meeting moved to the 20th

Just a quick note - other than to say Happy New Year, please note that the January 2011 meeting will now be on the 20th, not the 6th. This is because details...
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Greenpeace join Oxfam to lobby Chris Huhne on climate

At lunchtime today, I joined Oxfam staff and volunteers to deliver Oxfam's campaign message from Eastleigh constituents to local MP and Secretary of State for...
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Taking the Government to court

You may have heard that as of 12th November, Greenpeace UK is taking the Government to court over oil drilling e.g. granting of further licenses for...
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Eastleigh - going beyond oil...

It's taken a while, but the Southampton group were finally out campaigning for Go Beyond Oil, this time at Barton Peveril College in Eastleigh as part of...
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Fancy stopping an oil rig?

Yes? Well, that's good because you have the opportunity to help stope quite a few oil rigs... read on... Right now in Brussels, our politicians and civil...
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Support Greenpeace's Turkish activists

Greenpeace Mediterranean is inviting all of us to show support for the 58 activists who are facing 3 years’ in prison for protesting in front of the Turkish...
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A year on - the Airplot tree

Remember last year? - Airplot campaigning, street work... and tree-planting, twinning our local trees with the Airplot orchard in Sipson. Well, in case you...
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Win-win? Well maybe...

A couple of campaign wins - on Trident and the Green Bank? Well, possibly, maybe - read on... 1. Trident The Strategic Defence and Security Review (...
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Greenpeace activists on the Treasury sending a message to Chancellor George Osbo

Campaigners scale the Treasury

News just in... Four Greenpeace climbers have scaled the Treasury building in the heart of Westminster this morning as Chancellor George Osborne is...
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Bake cakes, raise money, save world!

Got twitchy oven-gloves? Fancy baking some cakes? If so, Greenpeace has just launched 'Flour Power' - our new Autumn fundraiser. If you want to wow your...
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BP's new boss - can he fix it?

BP - oil spills, dodgy deepwater drilling, dumping their plans for renewables - bad, bad, bad. But maybe they could be better. BP's now got a new boss, Bob...
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Tap, tap, tap - nails in Trident's coffin...

Six months ago (doesn't time fly...), we were out on the high street campaigning to persuade politicians to Cut Trident, and to include the cost of new...
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Breaking News: Greenpeace scale Shetland oil rig

News just in...see here for more from the Greenpeace UK site Once you've read this, you might want to write to Chris Huhne. CAMPAIGNERS SCALE GIANT OIL...
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Breaking News: Greenpeace stop deepwater drilling

News just in - about an hour ago, Greenpeace activists evaded a massive security operation and scaled Cairn Energy's controversial oil rig off Greenland,...
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