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Greenpeace: The Inside Story
Rex Weyler on the Internet
Publishers
Greenpeace
Ecologists & Environmental Groups
Peace & Disarmament
Important Social Activists
Remarkable People & Organizations
Greenpeace: The Inside Story
Buy the new paperback edition at Amazon.ca
Read about the book at Raincoast Books
Rex Weyler books at Abe Books
Rex Weyler on the Internet
“Ashcroft Pursues Greenpeace” on Alternet
“Pirates versus Patriots” in Conscious Choice, Chicago: “Greenpeace and John Ashcroft square off over free speech in Biscayne Bay” in
“Waves of Compassion,” Greenpeace history at Utne Reader:
“Due Process” and “State of Siege,” excerpts from Blood of the Land at Leonard Peltier site.
Publishers & Media
“The Standard” on Rogers, Omni-10
Raincoast Books: Distinguished Canadian Publisher is a global leader in printing on recycled paper, including the Canadian editions of Harry Potter as well as Weyler’s Greenpeace.
Rodale Press, US: The organic gardening pioneer publisher is publishing Weyler’s Greenpeace in the US and in UK, Australia, and New Zealand with Rodale UK
New Society Publishers: Excellent list of environmental and social justice titles
Naturegraph: Publisher of the original Warriors of the Rainbow in 1962, a book that influenced Greenpeace and is still in print.
Centre for Media and Democracy
The Tyee: Feisty online news from Canada’s west coast
Conscious Choice in Chicago
Evergreen Monthly in Seattle
Shared Vision in Vancouver
Common Ground in San Francisco
Whole Life Times in Los Angeles
Harper’s Magazine: Literature, politics, culture, and the arts since 1850.
The Sun: Exceptional essays, fiction, interviews, poetry, and photographs.
Adbusters: Heirs to the Provos and Greenpeace, the cutting edge of creative media activism at the dawn of the 21st Century.
The Onion: Crass and insensitive. As Wavy Gravy says: “Without a sense of humour, it’s just not funny anymore.”
Muckraker: The Centre for Investigative Reporting.
Reuters World Environment News Comprehensive, global environmental news and web links.
Inquiring Mind: A journal of Buddhism in the West, edited by Wes Nisker, and featuring Jack Kornfield, Sharon Salzberg, Thich Nhat Hanh, Joanna Macy, Gary Snyder, and other Buddhist-inspired writers.
E / The Environmental Magazine
The Ecologist: The pioneer of environmental journalism.
The Columbia Journalism Review: America’s media monitor.
Institute for Media, Policy and Civil Society (IMPACS): Promoting democracy, an articulate civil society, and accountable media. IPMACS facilitates a free, accessible, and accountable media in countries during transition to democracy.
Markets Initiative: A coalition of Friends of Clayoquot Sound, Greenpeace, and Sierra Club, encouraging and helping publishers and other paper users to find recycled paper that does not deplete ancient forests.
New Leaf Paper: A pioneer of environmental responsibility in the paper industry, creating and distributing high quality recycled paper for printing and office. Their site contains links to environmentally responsible printers.
Greenpeace
Greenpeace has organizations in 43 countries and regions. For a complete list of offices with websites, email addresses, and phone numbers, see Greenpeace International Contacts:
Canada
USA
UK
Australia
New Zealand
Germany
Netherlands
Austria, Central and Eastern Europe
France
Spain
Sweden
Turkey
Brazil
Chile
Mexico
India
China
Argentina
Greenpeace Argentina wins homeland for the Wichi indians
Greenpeace European Unit, Belgium:
Ecologists & Environmental Groups
Eyes of Fire, by David Robie, history of the Rainbow Warrior.
Orcalab: News from Dr. Paul Spong’s wild whale observation laboratory, in operation since 1970. Spong inspired the first Greenpeace whaling campaign and remains a devoted whale advocate and researcher.
Sierra Club: A North American pioneer of environmentalism and early influence on Greenpeace.
Greenspirit: Dr. Patrick Moore, one of the founders of Greenpeace, maintains he is helping corporations become more ecologically conscious. His detractors claim he is too soft on the resource companies, fish farmers, and so forth, and too tough on environmentalists. You decide.
Sea Shepherd Society: Founded by Paul Watson, another controversial Greenpeace veteran. Watson and Greenpeace split over tactics and policy in 1977. He went on to ram the infamous pirate whaler Sierra and continues his environmental actions to the present day.
The Varda Group: Consultants on environment and sustainability, founded by Kelly Rigg and Greenpeace France co-founder Rémi Parmentier.
Waterkeeper: Founded by Robert Kennedy Jr. to monitor and solve water quality issues.
EarthWorks: Protecting communities and the environment from mining impact and toxic releases.
Environmental History Timeline is an excellent resource for the history of ecological ideas and action.
Friends of the Earth: Over three decades on the front lines. Also see their activist wing, Friends of the Earth Action and Friends of the Earth International, a federation of autonomous environmental groups.
Fund for Animals: Founded in 1967 by Cleveland Amory, a pioneer in the protection of animals worldwide.
Rain Forest Action Network: Protecting tropical rainforests since 1985.
Frank Zelko, Ph.D. dissertation on the history of Greenpeace and ecological thought: “Make it a Green Peace.” Read the introduction or purchase this dissertation online.
Peace & Disarmament:
American Friends Service Committee: Advances the Quaker values of peace, freedom, and reconciliation worldwide. The AFSC was an important early influence on Greenpeace and the Quakers influenced Gandhi’s philosophy of nonviolent civil resistance to injustice.
Nuclear Files: Excellent resources about the history and ethics of nuclear technology and weapons; a project of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation.
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: Since 1947, The Bulletin has published important news and information about the nuclear weapons industry, including the famous Bulletin Clock that measures global security. The site includes a good history of French nuclear testing in the Pacific
Gene Dannen: An account of physicist Leo Szilard’s attempts to stop the nuclear bomb, and other historical information about nuclear weapons.
Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors Supports resistance to war in all forms.
Joan Baez has been working for world peace since refusing to participate in an air-raid drill at Palo Alto High School in 1957. She later founded the Institute for the Study of Nonviolence with Ira Sandperl and helped inspire a generation of pacifists.
Social Activists
Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, defend human rights worldwide.
Bonnie Raitt remains one of the most socially active and committed musicians, a leader in peace, environmentalism, native rights, and social justice for over three decades.
Jackson Browne: Another musician who has made huge contributions to peace, environmental awareness, native rights, and social justice.
Avocado Productions and the Guacamole Fund: Produces benefit concerts for environmental, native-rights, and safe-energy causes, including Greenpeace and the No-Nukes movement in the 1970s.
Bread and Roses: Founded by Mimi Fariña to bring music to people in institutions, detention facilities, and homeless shelters.
School of the Americas Watch is working to shut down one of the world’s most notorious training grounds for death squads, torturers, terrorists, and dictators.
International Right to Know Coalition: An alliance of environmental and social justice organizations working to require multinational companies to report on the environmental, labor, and human rights practices of their global operations.
Leonard Peltier Defense Committee and the John Graham Defense Committee: Native justice in the US and Canada. Peltier is the Nelson Mandela of the Western Hemisphere. For some of the tragic details of this complex story see “Due Process”, “State of Siege”, Rex Weyler’s Blood of the Land, and Peter Matthiessen’s In the Spirit of Crazy Horse.
Remarkable People & Organizations
BlissfulGirl Productions: Providing creative Internet production solutions and Internet consulting services. Delivering blissful results and extraordinary customer experiences is the hallmark of BlissfulGirl Productions.
Communicopia: Innovative website projects to help Greenpeace, Sierra Club, and other farsighted clients harness the power of the Internet to reach their audiences.
Hollyhock: Workshops, retreats, and conferences at Canada’s leading educational retreat centre; a blend of practical, creative, healing, and professional studies in a stunning environment.
Sindy Taylor, Spiritual Healing Arts
Justonic Tuning: Innovative music software, the “Pitch Palette,” that allows musicians to achieve unlimited intonation options, pure harmonics with tempered instruments, and to use historic and international scales.
Tides Foundation and Tides Canada Foundation: Philanthropic fund administration and services, helping donors put resources to work effectively.
Calvert Social Investments: and Real Assets: US and Canadian social investment managers, providing mutual funds that promote ethical business practices, fair treatment of workers and communities, and a healthy environment.
Renewal Partners: Investing in businesses for which the natural world and social well-being are considered as important as financial return.
Dr. Andrew Weil: One of the most sensible medical doctors practicing today; brilliant integrative medicine, tips and advice for self healing.
Matthew Fox: Ordained as a Catholic priest in 1967, Fox was silenced by the Vatican for his progressive ideas about nature and human rights. He founded the University of Creation Spirituality in California and is the author A Spirituality Named Compassion, Natural Grace (with scientist Rupert Sheldrake), and other books. He brings spirituality down to earth.
Rupert Sheldrake: A brilliant natural scientist, author of The Presence of the Past, The Rebirth of Nature, and other visionary books about life and consciousness.
Storyeum: A multi-media storytelling experience about the spectacular natural and social history of British Columbia – including the founding of Greenpeace – using drama, humour, film, images, performance, and 21st Century technology.
Izzo Consulting: Speakers on ecology, sustainability, socially responsible business, and personal development. Rex Weyler bookings through Leslie Izzo.
For research links to sources used in Greenpeace: How a Group of Ecologists, Journalists, and Visionaries Changed the World, see Notes and Resources.
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