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Greenpeace is an independent global campaigning network, founded in Canada in 1971 by a group of environmental activists.Greenpeace states its goal is to "ensure the ability of the Earth to nurture life in all its diversity" [3] and focuses its campaigning on worldwide issues such as climate change, deforestation, overfishing, commercial whaling, genetic engineering, anti-war [4] and anti ...
Jim Bohlen (July 4, 1926 – July 5, 2010) was an American engineer and activist who worked as part of the Atlas ICBM missile program and went on to be one of the founders of Greenpeace. [ 1 ] Bibliography
Patrick Albert Moore (born June 15, 1947) is a Canadian industry consultant, former activist, an early member and past president of Greenpeace Canada. Since leaving Greenpeace in 1986, [2] Moore has criticized the environmental movement for what he sees as scare tactics and disinformation, saying that the environmental movement "abandoned science and logic in favor of emotion and ...
He considers himself a founding member of Greenpeace and Greenpeace International, a claim Greenpeace disputes despite being pointed out in the documentary, How to Change the World [63] which shows that Watson was indeed one of the original founding members of Greenpeace. [64] [65] Watson has since accused Greenpeace of rewriting their history ...
Robert Lorne Hunter (October 13, 1941 – May 2, 2005) was a Canadian environmentalist, journalist, author and politician. He was a member of the Don't Make a Wave Committee in 1969, and a co-founder of Greenpeace in 1971 and its first president.
Irving Harold Stowe (né Strasmich; July 25, 1915 – October 28, 1974) was a Yale lawyer, activist, and a founder of Greenpeace. [1] He was named one of the "BAM 100" (Brown University's 100 most influential graduates of the 20th century).
Between 1973 and 1982, Weyler served as a director of the original Greenpeace Foundation, campaign photographer and reporter, and as editor of the Greenpeace Chronicles magazine. He was a co-founder of Greenpeace International in 1979. [15] [16] [17] In 1975, Weyler sailed on the first Greenpeace whale campaign, and subsequent whale and seal ...
In 1972, Stowe and the other co-founders changed their group's name to Greenpeace. [3] While not as publicly visible as some other members of Greenpeace, she worked hard as a behind-the-scenes organizer. In 2005, when Irish rock band U2 played a concert in Vancouver, they invited Stowe, and Bono dedicated the song "Original of the Species" to ...