Blogposts tagged 'Press'

Marge ascends from the Greenpeace basement to write for the blog relay - a whistle-stop tour of Greenpeace staff here in the UK. Click here to catch up on the other entries.

My name's Marge and I'm the Assistant Press Officer. I lead a somewhat double life just now - being partly based in the press office on the top floor and then descending to the bowels of our building to the video suite, where I run our video archive and do bits and pieces of editing. Who needs a gym when there are six flights of stairs between your desks! When the heck are they going to invent a solar powered lift?

Anyway it's a pretty varied worklife. A typical week? Well there isn't one really. I recently spent lots of time trying to find footage of krill for a TV programme that Willie, our oceans campaigner, was involved in. I had vague memories from school of what krill is - all I remembered was that it's that stuff whales eat, but on talking to Willie I find out its pretty important 'stuff', microscopic but important. It's a tiny crustacean, like a wee shrimp, that lives in vast swarms in the Southern Ocean.