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  • Dorothy and Irving Stowe standing together wearing Greenpeace T-shirts in 1971.
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    AboutUs 50Years

    Irving and Dorothy Stowe: Mentors to a movement

    Two 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 Gandhi.

    Rex Weyler
    7 Aug 2021
    11 min read
  • Rex Weyler at Kinder Morgan Tank Farm in British Columbia. ©  Rogue Collective / Greenpeace
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    AboutUs 50Years

    50 years of Greenpeace: Q&A with Rex Weyler

    I was asked to host a series of virtual "mailbag" calls connecting activists across generations and regions. The outpouring of interest — and questions — from those at Greenpeace today was moving.

    Rex Weyler
    27 Jun 2021
    10 min read
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    Annual Report 2020

    Keeping our people safe while still forging a pathway to a better, fairer, safer and greener planet was challenging for us all, personally and organisationally. We have learned a lot.

    Greenpeace International
    24 Jun 2021
    1 min read
  • Nuclear Action Amchitka, Canada 1971. © Greenpeace / Robert Keziere
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    AboutUs Peace 50Years

    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. 

    Rex Weyler
    13 Jun 2021
    8 min read
  • Heaps Better: A Greenpeace Podcast. © Ash Berdebes
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    The resistance to extractivism in Latin America

    This past May, Greenpeace International hosted a live conversation with a panel of dynamic speakers about extractivism in Latin America and the communities that are resisting it.

    Rosario Coll & Sophie Schroder
    10 Jun 2021
    2 min read
  • Climate Emergency: Forest Fires in Siberia.
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    EnergyRevolution Oil Climate

    Letter to President Biden and President Putin: the US and Russia must embrace a just and green transformation

    A green and just transition for Russia and the US, respectively, is good for people, good for nature, good for the climate and what’s needed for a safe, prosperous future.

    Jennifer Morgan
    9 Jun 2021
    3 min read
  • Rex Weyler in North Pacific. © Greenpeace
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    50Years

    How I became an ecologist

    How does an engineering student, in the era of expanding space exploration, become an ecologist? In my case: Rachel Carson, the Cuyahoga River, Gregory Bateson, Bateson, Fools Crow, and a magpie.

    Rex Weyler
    5 Jun 2021
    10 min read
  • The Ambarnaya River runs red with a layer of petrochemicals. © Anonymous / Greenpeace
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    EnergyRevolution Oil Climate

    A year after the Norilsk disaster, where are Russia’s oil risks and what needs to be done?

    One year on from the biggest environmental disaster in Russia's history, Greenpeace is mapping risk of new oil spills and pointing to solutions.

    Greenpeace International
    29 May 2021
    4 min read
  • A building burns in a Munduruku village in the Amazon after an attack from illegal miners in May 2021.
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    Forests Amazon

    Indigenous Amazon village attacked by illegal miners

    It is not only the precious lands of Amazon Indigenous Peoples that are under threat. Their homes and their lives are in jeopardy whenever they stand up for their communities…

    Chris Greenberg
    28 May 2021
    3 min read
  • Protest at Coal Power Plant Niederaussem in Germany
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    EnergyRevolution Oil Coal Climate

    IEA says no new oil, gas or coal — Greenpeace response

    The International Energy Agency has stated in their new Net Zero Roadmap released today that there is “no need for investment in new fossil fuel supply in our net zero pathway.”

    Greenpeace International
    18 May 2021
    1 min read
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