Greenpeace Greenpeace Bennett Metcalfe ( October 31, 1919 - October 14, 2003) was a Canadian journalist and first chairman of Greenpeace, founded 1971. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ben Metcalfe"
Britta Böhler (born July 17 1960) is a controversial German lawyer. She is a long time resident of The Netherlands. Her law practice is also located in that country. ...more on Wikipedia about "Britta Böhler"
David Fraser McTaggart ( June 24, 1932 - March 23, 2001) was an Canadian-born environmentalist who played a central part in the foundation of Greenpeace International. ...more on Wikipedia about "David McTaggart"
The Don't Make a Wave Committee was formed in October 1969 in Vancouver, Canada to protest and attempt to halt underground nuclear testing by the United States in the National Wildlife refuge at Amchitka in the Aleutian Islands of Alaska. The name of the committee was reputed to have come from a placard which said Don't Make a Wave. It's Your Fault if Our Fault Goes. A 1969 demonstration of 10,000 people blocked a major US-Canadian border crossing, protesting that the tests may trigger a tidal wave similar to one generated by an earthquake in 1964 which struck the west coast of North America. ...more on Wikipedia about "Don't Make a Wave Committee"
Greenpeace is an international environmental organisation founded in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada in 1971. ...more on Wikipedia about "Greenpeace"
Jim Bohlen, an American physicist who worked for NASA, emigrated to Canada after becoming disillusioned with the US government's nuclear policy during the Cold War. ...more on Wikipedia about "Jim Bohlen"
Kleercut is the name of an active campaign conducted by Greenpeace, the Natural Resources Defense Council, and the Environmental Direct Action Network towards the Kimberly-Clark Corporation. Kimberly-Clark is the world’s largest manufacturer of tissue products, most notably the Kleenex brand. Its products are a source of controversy because they are partly derived from pulp and paper from old growth forests. The corporation has been alleged to have participated in the clear-cutting of such forests in Canada and the United States, including forests that are home to threatened wildlife like the woodland caribou and wolverine. The Kleercut campaign is an international campaign whose main goal is to pressure Kimberly-Clark into ending its practice of using pulp and paper from old growth forests in its products. ...more on Wikipedia about "Kleercut"
In 2000, Dr. Moore published Green Spirit - Trees are the Answer, a photo-book that provides a new insight into how forests work and how they can play a powerful role in solving many of our current environmental problems. ...more on Wikipedia about "Patrick Moore (environmentalist)"
Rainbow Warrior is the name of a series of ships operated by Greenpeace. The first ship was sunk by the French secret service ( DGSE) in Auckland harbour, New Zealand, on 10 July 1985. The current ship using the name was launched in 1989. ...more on Wikipedia about "Rainbow Warrior"
Robert (Bob) Lorne Hunter ( October 13, 1941 – May 2 2005) was a Canadian environmentalist, journalist, author and politician. A member of the Don't Make a Wave Committee in 1969 and co-founder of Greenpeace in 1972 with Patrick Moore and several members, Hunter was a long-time campaigner for environmental causes and helped lead a successful campaign to ban commercial whaling. He was named by Time as one of the ten "eco-heroes" of the 20th century. ...more on Wikipedia about "Robert Hunter (journalist)"
Rockall is a small, rocky islet in the North Atlantic but is probably better known as one of the British Sea Areas named in the Shipping Forecast broadcast on BBC Radio 4. The status of the surrounding ocean floor is disputed between the United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, Denmark (for the Faroe Islands), and Iceland. ...more on Wikipedia about "Rockall"
The sinking of the Rainbow Warrior, codenamed Operation SATANIC, was a special operation by the "action" branch of the French foreign intelligence services, the Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure ( DGSE), carried out on July 10, 1985. It aimed at disabling the flagship of Greenpeace, the Rainbow Warrior, in the port of Auckland, New Zealand, to prevent her from interfering in a nuclear test in Mururoa. ...more on Wikipedia about "Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior"
World Park Base was a non-governmental year-round Antarctic base located on Ross Island in Ross Dependency. ...more on Wikipedia about "World Park Base"
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