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21 unusual facts about Greenpeace


2013 Belgian Grand Prix

Greenpeace activists went to the track and put up a number of banners protesting against Shell drilling in the Arctic.

Greenpeace used the Belgian Grand Prix as a main point of protests against Shell, a principal sponsor of the race.

5uu's

In 1976 the band played at a Greenpeace Festival in San Diego, California, calling themselves, "Farmer Fred Genuflects to A-440".

Albert Bigelow

Bigelow's story would go on to inspire fellow Quaker Marie Bohlen to suggest the use of a similar tactic to members of the Vancouver-based Don't Make a Wave Committee (later to become Greenpeace) in 1970.

Baron Melchett

He held political office under James Callaghan in the late 1970s and was later Executive Director of Greenpeace UK.

Energy policy of the United Kingdom

Greenpeace challenged the Government's process of consultation on proposals to develop nuclear power and following a judicial review requested by Greenpeace, on 15 February 2007 the consultation process was ruled 'seriously flawed', and 'not merely inadequate but also misleading'.

However, following a judicial review requested by Greenpeace, on 15 February 2007 elements of the 2006 Energy Review were ruled 'seriously flawed', and 'not merely inadequate but also misleading'.

Ether Ship

One collaborator -- Will Jackson -- undertook synthesizer experiments with wild Pacific whales as crewmember of the Greenpeace V anti-whaling expedition of 1975.

Goldene Kamera

And in 1995 the categories expanded to more public interests, such as pop groups and organizations, for example Greenpeace.

Infinity Within

To further show their support of the environment, Deee-Lite pledged a portion of the album's profits to Greenpeace.

Leibstadt

In 2003 a Greenpeace activist was able to climb on top of the reactor dome before being noticed.

Low-speed vehicle

E-jeepneys or minibuses, supported by Greenpeace started plying Manila / Makati City streets on July 1, 2008.

Mettur

However despite protest from both international groups such as Greenpeace and locals such as West Gonur Farmers' Association or SpeakOut Salem! the local authorities have failed to bring the problems under control.

Nukukehe

This album is dedicated to Greenpeace and all the other environmental groups around the world for caring enough to do something about it.

Pipavav

It features large drydocks which could accommodate the salvage of oil tankers but had had no business at the time of a visit by members of Greenpeace.

Pressure wave supercharger

The Greenpeace SmILE concept car uses a Hyprex pressure wave supercharger developed by the Swiss company Wenko AG.

Save the Greenback

In the TV campaigns, the group was portrayed as a group similar to Greenpeace, with a mission to save money.

Stacy Townsend

The Eighth Doctor, having left Sam Jones at a Greenpeace rally, responded to the Dreadnoughts distress call and defeated the Cybermen, but not in time to save the ship's crew, except Stacy.

Swietenia

International environmental organizations such as Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, and Rainforest Action Network have focused on Swietenia so as to expose illegal traffic in the wood, notably from Brazil.

William R. Huntington

Their act of non-violent protest against the testing of nuclear arms and the nuclear arms race attracted worldwide media coverage and inspired similar actions by members of the Vancouver-based Don't Make a Wave Committee (which later became Greenpeace).

Yatağan, Muğla

There have been campaigns to shut it down by Greenpeace since 1994, and several shutdown court orders have been issued, only to be overruled or ignored because of the energy shortage.


Annie Leonard

The work of Greenpeace and other organizations led to the 1992 Basel Convention, an international treaty to protect less developed countries from the dumping of hazardous waste by transnational corporations based in developed countries.

Anti-whaling

Paul Spong, a New Zealand scientist who once studied the intelligence of orcas and friend of Canadian author Farley Mowat, helped convince then Greenpeace director, Robert Hunter, that the organization should confront Russian whalers in the Pacific.

Australia–Denmark relations

Greenpeace protested outside the Australian environment ministry to show their opposition to the shipment of Hexachlorobenzene from Australia.

Chan Koonchung

He is the founder of Green Power (綠色力量), Green Garden Organic Farm (綠田園有機農場) and the Hong Kong Film Directors Association (香港電影導演會) among other organizations, and is currently on the international board of directors of Greenpeace.

Criticism of Greenpeace

In 2010, when Cairn Energy found initial traces of natural gas in one of its test wells that indicate the possibility of much larger hydrocarbon deposits, Greenpeace sent its ship, the Esperanza, into a stand-off with the Danish navy near Cairn's oil platforms.

Dennis Delaney

In 1980 Dennis Delaney was recruited by David McTaggart (Chairman of Greenpeace International) and several Trustees of the newly formed Greenpeace USA, and soon thereafter was chosen as the first National Administrative Director of Greenpeace USA.

DeSmogBlog

The site's project manager was Kevin Grandia, who left to become the Director of Online Strategy at Greenpeace .

Earthtrust

Earthtrust was founded in 1976 and continues to be directed by Don White, who also was involved in the founding of a related NGO, Greenpeace.

Emily Hunter

Emily Hunter was born in Vancouver, a daughter of the late Robert Hunter, Greenpeace’s founding president.

Foreign espionage in New Zealand

On occasion, foreign spies may be active in New Zealand for reasons not connected with the country itself — the French bombing of the Rainbow Warrior was aimed at Greenpeace rather than New Zealand, and China is sometimes alleged to target New Zealand-based Chinese democracy activists and Falun Gong members more often than it targets the New Zealand government.

Gérard Royal

Le Parisien quoted Antoine as saying "...he was called upon in 1985 to go to New Zealand, to Auckland Harbour, to sabotage the Rainbow Warrior. Later, he told me that it was him who planted the bomb on the Greenpeace ship".

Greenpeace Australia Pacific

In 1974 the ship La Flor, from Melbourne, Australia, skippered by Rolf Heimann, a children's author, set out for Mururoa via New Zealand as Greenpeace IV but arrived after the final nuclear test for the year.

Heidi Hautala

In a protest against Arctic ice drilling a year earlier, members of Greenpeace had illegally boarded the multipurpose icebreakers Fennica and Nordica operated by the state-owned company Arctia Shipping under contract to the Royal Dutch Shell.

Jamie Durie

He was invited and then trained with former US Vice President Al Gore as a Climate Change Presenter (now named Climate Reality), launched Clean up the World Day with The UN in New York, and is an Ambassador for Greenpeace, Australian Conservation Foundation, Planet Ark and National Tree Day.

Jan Beránek

In 2011, he acted as a head of the Greenpeace’s global crisis response team to Fukushima nuclear disaster.

Mark Cojuangco

As the main proponent of the Bill is Representative Mark Cojuangco's presentation at the Congressional hearing on February 2, 2009 came under scrutiny from the Bill's oppositors for citing Wikipedia articles about nuclear plants in other countries and quotes from non-experts like Patrick Moore, who left Greenpeace in 1986, to argue for the re-commissioning of the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant.

Paul Côté

Côté was co-founder of Greenpeace and headed many successful business ventures in Canada and the United States, including Genstar and Newland Group.

Radiation monitoring in Japan

Greenpeace sent radiology experts to the villages of Iitate and Tsushima in the Fukushima Prefecture.

Robert Gass

Robert was the former Board Chair of Greenpeace, and coaches and consults to leaders and organizations such as the NAACP, Sierra Club, MS Foundation, Green for All, Service Employees International Union(SEIU), Reform Immigration for America (RIFA), the Democracy Alliance, Rainforest Action Network, Center for Community Change (CCC), Gore’s Alliance for Climate Protection, and MoveOn.org.

Ross Dependency

Greenpeace maintained its own Antarctic station in the Ross Dependency called World Park Base from 1987 to 1992, which was on Ross Island.

Second Balkenende cabinet

Important partners within Keer het Tij are the three main left-wing political parties, PvdA, SP and GroenLinks), the largest trade union, the FNV, environmental organisations like Greenpeace and Milieu Defensie, and organisations of migrants.

Simon Prast

In 1992 he starred in the drama movie about the French terrorist attack on a Greenpeace boat in Auckland Harbour in 1985.

Terrorism in New Zealand

Greenpeace had planned to use the Rainbow Warrior as part of protest efforts over French nuclear testing at Moruroa, and DGSE divers sank the vessel by detonating mines against its hull while it was berthed in Auckland.

The Monkey Wrench Gang

The types of actions are said to have influenced the formation of environmental organizations such as Greenpeace and the Earth Liberation Front.

University of South Australia Students Association

The Greenpeace Design Awards was a poster design award in 2009, presented by Greenpeace Australia Pacific and UniLife Inc, in association with the University of South Australia.

Uri Fruchtmann

Fruchtmann is currently the Chairman of the Board along with film-maker Terry Gilliam, Executive Director of Greenpeace UK John Sauven and music producer Brian Eno.