{"id":234,"date":"2018-05-14T12:41:07","date_gmt":"2018-05-14T12:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/k8s.p4.greenpeace.org\/defaultcontent\/?page_id=234"},"modified":"2025-04-09T16:53:01","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T16:53:01","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About us"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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About us<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Greenpeace is a global network of independent campaigning organizations that use peaceful protest and creative confrontation to expose global environmental problems and promote solutions that are essential to a green, just, and joyful future.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Our work<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The fight to save the planet and everyone who calls it home is at a tipping point. The devastating impacts of climate change, an extractivist, racist, and inequitable socioeconomic system, the destruction of ecosystems by greed-fueled corporations and governments, and the deterioration of our oceans grow more dire by the minute. The time for gradual change has passed. What we need is a transformational change \u2014 and the stakes are too high to wait.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Greenpeace activists stand with the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge & Texas flag behind them, holding signs for a recent campaign aimed at Energy Transfer in Dallas, Texas.\nGreenpeace USA began running a series of advertisements targeted at oil company Energy Transfer (ET) near their corporate headquarters, over the company\u2019s attempt to use the legal system to intimidate and silence critics. The ads, running messages like \u201cDon\u2019t Mess With Free Speech\u201d and \u201cDemocracy Runs on Free Speech, Not Oil and Gas\u201d appeared in Dallas. The displays and accompanying yard signs are part of a new campaign to defend freedom of expression in the United States and save Greenpeace USA from a corporate intimidation tactic designed to shutter the storied environmental and climate organization.<\/figcaption>
\u00a9 Laura Buckman \/ Greenpeace<\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Energy Transfer’s $300M Lawsuit<\/a><\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Short finned pilot whales seen during the journey to the Sargasso Sea. The Arctic Sunrise is en route to the Sargasso Sea. The Sargasso is one of Greenpeace’s three priority sites for protection under the new Global Ocean Treaty. Protecting it is essential to stay on track with a landmark global target to protect at least 30% of the world\u2019s oceans by 2030.
\u00a9 Tavish Campbell \/ Greenpeace<\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Protecting the oceans<\/a><\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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A crab was trapped inside a discarded Zagu milktea cup in Verde Island Passage, the epicenter of global marine biodiversity, in Batangas City, the Philippines.
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Fighting plastic pollution<\/a><\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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The continued forests and peatland fires in Palem Raya village, North Indralaya Ogan Ilir in South Sumatra, Indonesia, have worsen the air quality to an unhealthy level in Palembang city in the last few days.
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Ending the climate crisis<\/a><\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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The continued forests and peatland fires in Palem Raya village, North Indralaya Ogan Ilir in South Sumatra, Indonesia, have worsen the air quality to an unhealthy level in Palembang city in the last few days.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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California climate emergency<\/a><\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Greenpeace activists deploy a banner on a construction crane near the White House reading “RESIST” on President Trump’s fifth day in office.The activists are calling for those who want to resist Trump’s attacks on environmental, social, economic and educational justice to contribute to a better America.
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Defending democracy<\/a><\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
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Our vision<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Greenpeace USA is committed to transforming the country\u2019s unjust social, environmental, and economic systems from the ground up to address the climate crisis, safeguard our planet for future generations, advance racial justice, and build an economy that puts people over profits.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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How we win<\/h2>\n\n\n\n