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  • Suncor Oil Refinery. © Greenpeace / Colin O'Connor
    Stories
    Oil 50Years

    The World’s Biggest Carbon Bomb

    ...And the fuses that threaten to set it off.

    Rex Weyler •
    20 Sep 2011
    7 min read
  • Solar Energy in Thailand. © Athit Perawongmetha / Greenpeace
    Stories
    Consumption 50Years

    Why De-Growth? An interview

    The Degrowth movement addresses the growth of human consumption, driven by economic growth, population growth, and the impacts of resource extraction.

    Rex Weyler •
    27 Jun 2011
    9 min read
  • Mattel Product Barbie. © Greenpeace
    Stories
    Forests

    Mattel’s controversial career choice for Barbie: rainforest destroyer

    She has had a lot of different professions over the years but Mattel’s latest choice for Barbie: ‘Rainforest Destroyer’, is arguably the most controversial career choice yet.

    Laura Kenyon •
    25 Jun 2011
    2 min read
  • Dorothy Metcalfe (right) with Dorothy Stowe and Rex Weyler, 2004. © Rex Weyler
    Stories
    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
    Stories
    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
    Stories
    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
    Stories
    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
  • The Phyllis Cormack at dock. © Greenpeace / Robert Keziere
    Stories
    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
  • Ben Metcalfe talking on the Phyllis Cormack's radio. © Greenpeace / Robert Keziere
    Stories
    AboutUs 50Years

    Amchitka: the founding voyage

    In 1971, a small group of activists set sail to the Amchitka island off Alaska to try and stop a US nuclear weapons test.

    Greenpeace International •
    14 May 2007
    10 min read
  • Bob Hunter and Ben Metcalfe in Canada. © Greenpeace / Robert Keziere
    Stories
    AboutUs 50Years

    Bob Hunter 1941 – 2005

    Perhaps more than anyone else, Bob Hunter invented Greenpeace. His death marks the passing of a true original, one of the heroes of the environmental movement.

    Greenpeace International •
    2 May 2005
    5 min read
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