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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 –…
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
