Greenpeace
Advocacy Group and Nonprofit Organization
Fish fight crucial to survival of islanders...Kai Jie 1 pulls in a tuna in the Pacific. Taiwan, which has the biggest tuna fleet on the high seas, is accused of overfishing. Photo: Greenpeace Some Pacific nations need a future beyond climate change, and protecting their tuna may be... In this article: Pacific Ocean, Kiribati, Greenpeace, Taiwan, European Union, Canberra, Culprit, and Climate change |
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New Kerala | 3 days ago
Synthetic fertilisers polluting Punjab groundwater: Greenpeace
...Nov 26 : The excessive use of chemical fertilisers in Punjab has led to high levels of nitrate contamination in the groundwater, Greenpeace has said in a study conducted across some Punjab districts. Nitrate contamination in water can...
In this article: Punjab, Nitrogen, Bathinda, World Health Organisation, and Stomach cancer
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AP Online | 3 days ago
Indonesian police stop Greenpeace forest protest
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - Police broke up a protest by the environmental group Greenpeace against deforestation on the Indonesian island of Sumatra on Thursday, arresting 12 foreign and six Indonesian demonstrators, an official and an...
In this article: Asia Pulp and Paper, Indonesia, Deforestation, Slash-and-burn, Climate change, Global warming, Carbon, and United States
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washingtonpost.com | November 16, 2009
New Greenpeace chief has fought apartheid, poverty
...against apartheid the importance of being "strong in our voice and our actions." Leipold, a German who once headed Greenpeace's nuclear disarmament campaign, said Naidoo's appointment is a watershed for the organization that was founded...
In this article: Climate change, Copenhagen, Nelson Mandela, Global warming, Global Call to Action Against Poverty, African National Congress, Oxford, and Johannesburg
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PR Newswire: Energy Industry | August 22, 2008
''Green Olympics'' Success: Haier Plays a Major Role in Making Beijing 2008 ''Green''
...home appliances to all Olympic venues. (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20080822/CNF016 ) In pre-Olympics reports, Greenpeace and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) have recognized the efforts of the Beijing...
In this article: Haier, Beijing, United Nations Environment Programme, China, Coal, and Beijing 2008 Olympics
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PR Newswire: Energy Industry | April 14, 2009
Greenpeace USA Announces New Executive Director, Phil Radford
...how to put ideas and people together for change." Before joining Greenpeace, Radford founded Power Shift, a non-profit organization dedicated to creating clean energy market breakthroughs. As executive director, he worked with the cities...
In this article: Global warming, Twitter, USA, Coal, Natural gas, and Trademark
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Boston Globe -- Today's paper A to Z | November 16, 2009
New leader takes reins of Greenpeace
...sea otters. Gerd Leipold, his predecessor at Greenpeace, said Naidoo's appointment is a watershed, both because he is the first African and because he is the first executive director to come from outside the organization. After battling...
In this article: Global warming, Sea otter, South Africa, Johannesburg, Alaska, and United States
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Wikipedia | September 16, 2009
Public Interest Watch
...for PIW has been provided by business organizations". In September 2003, the then PIW Executive Director, Mike Hardiman, rejected calls from Greenpeace that PIW disclose its funding sources. "I don't have to reveal my funding because I am not...
In this article: Public Interest Watch, Internal Revenue Service, Tax, Washington Times, Mike Hardiman, and Fiscal year
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Greenpeace is an international non-governmental organization for the protection and conservation of the environment. Greenpeace utilizes direct action, lobbying and research to achieve its goals. Greenpeace has a worldwide presence with national and regional offices in over 40 countries, which are affiliated to the Amsterdam-based Greenpeace International. The global organization receives its income through the individual contributions of an estimated 3 million financial supporters.
Greenpeace, originally known as the Greenpeace Foundation, was founded in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada in 1972. On September 15, 1971, the Don't Make a Wave Committee sent an eighty foot halibut seiner “Phyllis Cormack”, from Vancouver, to oppose the United States testing nuclear devices in Amchitka, Alaska. While the boat never reached its destination and was turned back by the US military, this campaign was deemed the first using the name Greenpeace.
In 1972, the Greenpeace Foundation evolved in its own right to a less conservative and structured collective of environmentalists who were more reflective of the days counterculture and hippie youth movements who were spearheading the social revolution of the 1960s and 1970s. The social and cultural background from which Greenpeace emerged heralded a period of de-conditioning away from old world antecedents and sought to develop new codes of social, environmental and political behavior.
The focus of the organization later turned from anti-nuclear protest to other environmental issues: whaling, bottom trawling, global warming, old growth. nuclear power, and even genetically modified organisms.
On its official website, Greenpeace defines its mission as the following:
- Name:
- Greenpeace
- Type:
- Non-governmental organization
- Location:
- Amsterdam, Netherlands (international)
- Founding Date:
- January 01, 1971
- Key People:
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- Gerd Leipold, Executive Director
- Lalita Ramdas, Chairman
- Revenue:
- €212,316,000 (2007)
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