All articles by Rex Weyler
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The great carbon capture scam
Carbon capture has always been a fossil fuel industry scam, designed to take attaention away from measures to cut emissions by phasing out coal, oil and gas.
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Searching for warm data
I’m trying to be a new kind of person. I don’t mean a kind of person that has never existed before, but a new kind for me, personally. This may…
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Susi Newborn, 1950-2023
Susi Newborn — one of the most skilled and effective activists in Greenpeace’s 52-year history — passed away on the last day of December 2023. She is remembered fondly by…
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Remembering Mr. Mindbomb – Bob Hunter
Mr. Mindbomb is a biography of Greenpeace co-founder Robert Lorne Hunter (1941-2005), told by his friends and family. The book was edited by Bob’s wife, 1970s Greenpeace organizer Bobbi Hunter.
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Limits to Growth: 50 years later
Last year marked the 50th anniversary of Greenpeace, and this year the 50th anniversary of a book that set much of the ecological agenda for the five decades since: The Limits…
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Ecology? Look it up! You’re still involved
This year has been the 50th Anniversary of Greenpeace; 2022 will be the 50th anniversary of the Limits to Growth study. During this era, a half-century ago, citizens around the world began seeing…
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Don’t Look Up, the film
We may witness over time whether or not this film can alter our cultural trajectory. In any case, the film exposes a full range of social blind spots, biases, conceits, and deceits, with humour and poignancy. It is powerful satire.
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Photographic memories – Part II
From 1974 to 1982, I served as photographer on Greenpeace campaigns. Here are a dozen more photographs from those years along with some memories that they evoke:
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Thoughts for young activists
As a young anti-war activist in the 1960s, I met older radical Ira Sandperl at the Institute for the Study of Nonviolence, in California, which he had founded with pacifist…
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Photographic memories of Greenpeace’s early years
From 1974 to 1982, I served as photographer on Greenpeace campaigns. Here are a dozen photographs from those years and some memories that they evoke: