Greenpeace History
“World changers, artists, and social misfits stumble upon history and make the best of it. Or they make a mess of it. In either case, they ‘touch the flesh of the matter,’ as Greenpeace strategist Ben Metcalfe once dreamed.”
From Greenpeace: How a Group of Ecologists, Journalists and Visionaries Changed the World, available in September.
This book is, in fact, a history of ideas, an examination of how certain inspirations and actions bubble up through the moil of history and become manifest.
Greenpeace, the book, is also an account of an era both vastly different and strangely similar to our current era. One detail seems clear: the struggle for global peace and for the preservation of a wild, more-than-human world continues.
But the founding of Greenpeace is instructive because the story reveals how private citizens – armed with little more than their vision, courage, and the democratic right to redress their concerns – can literally change the world.
In this section you’ll find a summary of the characters and events that shaped this extraordinary history.
For excerpts, reviews, notes, and other resources from and about the book, see The Greenpeace Book.
For links to Greenpeace and other social innovators, see Links.
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