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Airplot - Heathrow court victory...

If you haven't already heard, the campaign against the Heathrow 3rd runway has won a major court victory with the judge, Lord Justice Carnwath, agreeing that...
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Our man in Prague

Here's some info from Ben, who's currently working in the Greenpeace office in Prague; Corporate interests vs public and environmental well-being. Action...
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Nestle' and the orang utans (2)

A lot more news from yesterday's action - East Croydon was transformed with ‘Killer’ Kitkat logos, plus a troupe of orang utans - meanwhile climbers hung...
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Nestle' and the orang utans...

Orang utans were in action at Nestle' HQ this morning - see here for more details.
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Get yer green head on

If you've been thinking about getting involved, but haven't quite made it, have a look at our New Members' event on April 9th at The Art House. We've got a...
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Ask the Climate Question

Did you know that Greenpeace is part of a coalition of NGOs (including Christian Aid, WWF, CAFOD and others) called 'Ask the climate question?' It asks...
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Our group was fine in 2009!

Well, what a year! I don't think I've ever written an annual round-up like this before - it must be the new website going to my head... So, what did we...
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Help design 'Fortress Airplot'

Today, Greenpeace launched a competition to design a structure to protect the Airplot and prevent development of the Heathrow 3rd runway. There's one...
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The 'Southampton Green Book'

 The long-awaited 'Southampton Green Book' will soon be launched. It aims to promote all aspects of green living in the area - Environmentally Friendly, Fair...
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Campaigning against Aldermaston nuke factory

Despite the snow and ice causing difficult travel conditions, 19 volunteers turned out on Saturday 9th January to help build public opposition to the new...
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Airplot tree rescue!

If you've been following our local campaigning, you'll know that we had a tree-planting event at the Dolphin as part of the Airplot campaign against Heathrow...
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Climate rally in Southampton

By James Maden from the Daily Echo website (http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/4791529.Climate_change_protest_in_city) - a good event but a cold one, took place...
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News from Copenhagen pt.1

First of all, a huge thank you to everyone who turned up on Saturday for The Wave. More than 50,000 people turned up in London and Glasgow to tell our leaders...
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Greenpeace at The wave

Tens of thousands of people formed the Wave yesterday and sent a powerful message to politicians - Gordon Brown's even been making the right noises recently -...
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Southampton tree twinned with Airplot

Along with many other groups around the country, we planted a tree on 21st Nov, ours is at The Dolphin pub in St.Denys - it's twinned with Sipson, the location...
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Airplot tree-planting sweeps the country...

The outcome of all our efforts to plant trees twinned with the Airplot orchard? Read on... www.greenpeace.org.uk/blog/climate/greenpeace-supporters-get-...
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Success - tree-planting venue found!

We looked high and low in Eastleigh and Southampton for somewhere to plant just one little tree. Everyone said 'ooh yes, what a good campaign' and were very...
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Link to Parliament climate action

To find out more about the action at the Houses of Parliament, including images, videos, interviews etc, go to http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/
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Cattle industry moves to stop Amazon destruction

In the last few months our campaign to protect the Amazon rainforest has gone from strength to strength, but we've just found uot about the most...
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Kingsnorth shelved!

On the evening of Oct 7th, the controversial proposal to build a new coal-fired power station at Kingsnorth in Kent was been thrown into doubt by an email...
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