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  • Dorothy Metcalfe (right) with Dorothy Stowe and Rex Weyler, 2004. © Rex Weyler
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    About Us, 50 Years

    The women who founded Greenpeace

    Although men got most of the headlines in the early Greenpeace campaigns, many strong and visionary women helped bring Greenpeace to life. The family of Greenpeace co-founder Dorothy Stowe –…

    Rex Weyler •
    17 September 2010
    6 min read
  • Dorothy Stowe and Rex Weyler. © Greenpeace / Alan Katowitz
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    About Us, 50 Years

    Pillars of Greenpeace leave a legacy

    Jim Bohlen and Dorothy Stowe both lived full lives as agents of social change, that leave us much to ponder and to emulate.

    Rex Weyler •
    6 August 2010
    7 min read
  • Dorothy Stowe, Co-founder of Greenpeace. © Greenpeace / Alan Katowitz
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    About Us, 50 Years

    Dorothy Stowe 1920 – 2010

    The most fitting memorial for Dorothy Stowe is that we all get up each morning and go back to work in the service of peace, justice, and the living Earth.

    Rex Weyler •
    23 July 2010
    3 min read
  • Commemorative Plaque Unveiling Vancouver. © Greenpeace
    Stories
    About Us, 50 Years

    Jim Bohlen 1926 – 2010

    The morning Jim and Marie told the Vancouver Sun they would be taking a boat to Amchitka was, arguably, the moment that Greenpeace was born.

    Greenpeace International •
    6 July 2010
    3 min read
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    Annual report 2009

    December 2009 – the UN’s Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, where the talks were meant to avert catastrophic climate change.

    Greenpeace International •
    1 June 2010
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  • Make IT Green
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    Make IT Green: Cloud computing and its contribution to climate change

    It is clear that as the energy demand of the internet grows, with the shift to cloud computing, the supply of renewable energy must also keep pace to prevent having negative impacts on the climate.

    Greenpeace International •
    30 March 2010
    1 min read
  • Toxic Transformers Briefing
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    Toxic Transformers Briefing

    This briefing summarises a recent report from Greenpeace that pulls together evidence demonstrating the human health and environmental impacts of electrical and electronic equipment (EEE) that contain brominated and chlorinated substances, with particular focus on the end-of-life (EOL) phase.

    Greenpeace International •
    26 February 2010
    1 min read
  • Switching On to Green Electronics
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    Switching on to Green Electronics

    It's time for the electronics industry to green-up: this report details the problems with toxic components, recycling and energy policies, explaining what the industry needs to do to lessen its increasingly negative environmental and social impacts.

    Greenpeace International •
    31 December 2009
    1 min read
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    Annual report 2008

    Throughout 2008, Greenpeace worked not only to highlight the threats of climate change, but also on showcasing the opportunities and solutions that tackling climate change can bring.

    Greenpeace International •
    1 June 2009
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    Annual report 2007

    Upon winning the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, Al Gore said that he could notunderstand why young people were not chaining themselves to coal-firedpower stations. They are…and so are we.

    Greenpeace International •
    1 June 2008
    1 min read
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