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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.
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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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A chat with the first Rainbow Warriors
Greenpeace pioneers gathered to mark the 25-year anniversary of the first voyage.
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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.
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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.