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Five reasons why we love going to the Dumfries Environment Fair

Even though it means we have to leave Edinburgh before 7am to get there and we don’t get home until well into the evening, we’ve been going all the way down to...

March 12 at 04:35pm

by Edinburgh

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Shell on the ropes over Arctic drilling

Shell's Arctic oil exploration programme is in trouble - and it's not just Greenpeace who are saying so. There's an interesting blog article from Chatham...

March 12 at 01:23pm

by Berkshire

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Craft stall and polar bear in Kingston

At the last meeting of the Richmond & Kingston group we decided that for Climate Week we would try something new: a craft and cake stall right in the...

March 12 at 12:58pm

by Richmond & Kingston

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Strike fossil fuels out of our electricity supply for good! Tell your MP to stand up to George Osborne

Greenpeace folks, including some from West Yorkshire, have been out and about locating these posters in various Leb Dem constituencies to try to get Lib Dem...

March 12 at 12:14pm

by Huddersfield

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Mystery of Energy Bill posters

Last Wednesday while on a visit to the seaside at Torquay we happened to pass the rather shabby-looking Lib Dem office. To our immense surprise, amongst the...

March 11 at 08:59pm

by West Dorset

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Careers Advice: My Week Working for Big Energy

It’s not often that you get the chance to go from unemployed (or ‘professional volunteering’, as I like to call it) to working for two companies in the energy...

March 11 at 04:12pm

by Southwark

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Belfast Group Meeting and Request for Books

Belfast group had a very successful meeting on 10th November in which we discussed how we can raise money for Pod 3. We also handed out pod leaflets near...

March 10 at 09:50pm

by Belfast

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The Frackers are coming to town...

Two members of the Southwark group became workers for Frack and Go, during their gas exploration adventure earlier this week. True to form, they arrived...

March 10 at 09:30pm

by Southwark

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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...

March 10 at 05:13pm

by Southampton

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Burning the Forests

In the name of saving carbon, our politicians have just taken a disastrously wrong decision on the issue of biofuels. They have agreed to subsidise power...

March 10 at 10:41am

by Norwich

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Wind cheaper than gas

Imagine a wind turbine so big that it would take Usain Bolt 19.32 seconds to run across the 200m diameter of its blades (before plunging tragically into the...

March 09 at 01:56pm

by Cardiff

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CALLING ALL GREENPEACE GROUPS - SW LONDON GREENPEACE QUIZ

Who has the smartest Greenpeace group in London?? Well now you can find out thanks to the South West London Greenpeace 'Save The Arctic' quiz. All proceeds...

March 08 at 07:18pm

by South West London

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Mysterious happenings in Simon Hughes’ constituency…

Those of you with your ears to the ground may have heard about some strange occurrences in the vicinity of MP Simon Hughes’ office towards the end of last year...

March 08 at 03:10pm

by Southwark

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Cheltenham Lib Dem MP Martin Horwood gets a gentle reminder to stop the "dash-for-gas"

I happened to be in Cheltenham yesterday evening and passing Lib Dem MP Martin Horwood's Office I noticed that somebody had put up lots of posters all along...

March 08 at 01:42pm

by Bristol East

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International Women's Day: Greenpeace's Warrior Princesses

This is one of my favourite days of the year. It's a day when I feel energised, inspired and able to move mountains. Because today is International Women's Day...

March 08 at 11:09am

by Waltham Forest

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Newcastle Community Green Festival needs your help

The Newcastle Community Green Festival an annual event that takes place in Leazes Park, has also suffered from the cuts that have hit the public services in...

March 08 at 01:28am

by Newcastle

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Labour's Jim Murphy pushes for new nuclear weapons

More pro-Trident drum-banging from the Labour Party front bench, who seem determined to lose the next election. Labour's defence spokesperson, Jim Murphy...

March 08 at 12:02am

by Peace & Disarmament

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West Dorset Fish March on Parliament

Who wants to go diving around the UK? I mean, the marine life is meant to be fabulous to look at (if you're lucky enough to be able to find an area that...

March 07 at 08:47am

by West Dorset

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Fish March on Parliament

So, while I’m catching up on my blog writing, here’s another recent event that took place lately. This one was similarly icy (no one ever organises a...

March 07 at 08:36am

by Southwark

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VW move away from the Darkside.

In the summer of 2011 Greenpeace turned their climate change campaign focus to one of the most influential car manufacturers in the world. VW, who like...

March 06 at 08:17pm

by York

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