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  • Geneva Streets Painted Black to Call Out Big Oil’s Chokehold on Global Plastic Treaty Talks. © Samuel Schalch / Greenpeace
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    Plastics

    Still no Plastics Treaty: How the fossil fuel industry keeps polluting negotiations

    It’s time for world leaders to confront the elephant in the UN Global Plastics Treaty negotiation room: Big Oil.

    Sarah King •
    19 Aug 2025
    7 min read
  • "Made for the bin?!" Action against Fast Fashion in Vienna.
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    Plastics

    How fast fashion fuels climate change, plastic pollution, and violence

    We all have to wear clothes, and they need to be affordable for everyone. But there is a better way.

    Helle Abelvik-Lawson •
    22 Sep 2023
    12 min read
  • Nuclear Power Plant Philippsburg. © Bernd Hartung / Greenpeace
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    Nuclear, Peace

    6 reasons why nuclear energy is not the way to a green and peaceful world

    With the costs and efficiency of renewable energy solutions improving year on year, and the effects of our rapidly changing climate accelerating across the globe, we need to take an honest look at some of the myths being perpetuated by the nuclear industry and its supporters. Here are six reasons why nuclear power is not…

    Mehdi Leman •
    18 Mar 2022
    8 min read
  • Crew of the Greenpeace. © Greenpeace / Robert Keziere
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    50Years

    A Brief History of Environmentalism

    Anthropologists have found evidence of human-induced animal and plant extinctions from 50,000 BCE, when only about 200,000 Homo sapiens roamed the Earth. We can only speculate about how these early humans reacted, but migrating to new habitats appears to be a common response.

    Rex Weyler •
    5 Jan 2018
    8 min read

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    Annual report 2010

    The year was marked by the devastation that the relentless and reckless pursuit of profit can cause: a human tragedy and enormous environmental, social and economic devastation.

    Greenpeace International •
    1 Jun 2011
    1 min read
  • Dorothy Metcalfe (right) with Dorothy Stowe and Rex Weyler, 2004. © Rex Weyler
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    AboutUs 50Years

    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 Sep 2010
    6 min read
  • Dorothy Stowe and Rex Weyler. © Greenpeace / Alan Katowitz
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    AboutUs 50Years

    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 Aug 2010
    7 min read
  • Dorothy Stowe, Co-founder of Greenpeace. © Greenpeace / Alan Katowitz
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    AboutUs 50Years

    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 Jul 2010
    3 min read
  • Commemorative Plaque Unveiling Vancouver. © Greenpeace
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    AboutUs 50Years

    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 Jul 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 Jun 2010
    1 min read
  • Annual Report 2008 cover
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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 Jun 2009
    1 min read
  • Annual Report 2007 cover
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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 Jun 2008
    1 min read
  • The Phyllis Cormack at dock. © Greenpeace / Robert Keziere
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    AboutUs 50Years

    A chat with the first Rainbow Warriors

    Greenpeace pioneers gathered to mark the 25-year anniversary of the first voyage.

    Michael Friedrich •
    24 Jun 2007
    12 min read
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    Annual report 2006

    Inconvenient truths and unlikely allies combined in 2006 to make it a notable year for Greenpeace and the environment.

    Greenpeace International •
    1 Jun 2007
    1 min read
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