air pollution

10 Things You Need to Know about SMMT’s 10 “Facts” about Diesel

Posted by Mel Evans - 19th April 2017
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The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) is a car industry lobby group. Their members include most major car manufacturers and therefore, it is no surprise that the group has been at the forefront of bravely defending diesel recently. Read More

7 reasons to Go Electric now

Posted by Fran Grobke - 7th April 2017
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What pops into your head if I suggested you buy an electric car? For most people, it conjures up a host of stereotypes. Electric cars are thought to be either unreasonably expensive, like Teslas; or they don’t travel far enough; or they’re just plain ugly. And up until recently… Read More

Reduce your exposure to air pollution

Posted by Emily Randall - 5th April 2017
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Air pollution is a problem. It won’t go away until politicians and the car industry come together with a plan to make truly clean travel possible for everyone. In the meantime we can protect ourselves and the ones we love by taking steps to reduce our exposure to… Read More

Why it’s time to clean up the car industry

Posted by Mel Evans - 21st March 2017
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When Greenpeace kicked off the campaign to phase-out diesel engines last year, my brother Sam was one of the first ones to look concerned. He’d just bought a diesel car second-hand. They’re supposed to be more fuel-efficient than petrol and therefore pump out less CO2 so it had seemed like… Read More

One Day Without Us

Posted by Aakash Naik - 20th February 2017
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Today Greenpeace is coming together with thousands of people from across the country to support ‘One Day Without Us’ a celebration of migrants in the UK. Why is this our business you might ask? Well, because Greenpeace couldn’t function without immigrants who work and live in this country. From… Read More

Tension in the Air: making Mary Poppins fly

Posted by Mel Evans - 26th January 2017
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This weekend at Somerset House in London – after a week of high alert air pollution – you can see Mary Poppins fly, just like she did on 6th January, merely a week into 2017, when the UK breached its air pollution limit for the entire year. Tension in the… Read More