All articles by Rex Weyler
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50 years of Greenpeace: Looking back and looking forward
This month, Greenpeace celebrates 50 years of environmental activism, dating from the first campaign to stop a nuclear bomb test in Alaska, launched from Vancouver, Canada, on Sept. 15, 1971.
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Irving and Dorothy Stowe: Mentors to a movement
Two of the Greenpeace founders, Irving and Dorothy Stowe, grew up during world wars, the dawn of a global peace movement, and a non-violent direct action movement inspired by Mahatma…
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50 years of Greenpeace: Q&A with Rex Weyler
With Greenpeace’s 50th anniversary on the horizon, I was asked to host a series of virtual “mailbag” calls connecting activists across generations and regions.
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The roots of Greenpeace
This September 2021, Greenpeace will celebrate 50 years of environmental activism, dating from the launch of the first Greenpeace campaign to stop a nuclear bomb test in Alaska
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How I became an ecologist
How does an eager engineering student, in the era of expanding space exploration, become an ecologist, dedicated to the Earth? In my case: Rachel Carson, the Cuyahoga River, Gregory Bateson,…
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Women in the Vanguard of Ecology
On March 8, International Women’s Day, Dr. Vandana Shiva published a short address, in which she examined the connection between the colonization of Earth and of women. She discussed food security and Indigenous…
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Social Inertia: Why is change so hard?
I saw the danger / yet I walked / along the enchanted way.
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Our Entangled World
We have squandered the real wealth of our soils by depleting and destroying these fragile networks. Merlin Sheldrake’s Entangled Life is a good reminder of the path we need to follow to restore our wounded ecosystems.
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Remembering Bob Hunter: mind bomber
May 2 of this year marks 15 years since the passing of Greenpeace co-founder Bob Hunter. Although Hunter remains legendary within Greenpeace lore, readers may not know about his life…
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Gaia: everything on Earth is connected
In Greek mythology only Chaos precedes Gaia. Gaia was the Greek goddess of Earth, mother of all life.