In the by-election to replace Lankin, the Liberals nominated Greenpeace co-founder and popular television personality Bob Hunter to run for them against former East York mayor Michael Prue for the NDP.

Greenpeace used to list Moore among " founders and first members " of The Don't Make a Wave Committee but has later stated that while Moore was a significant early member, he was not a founder.

The concert created the financial basis for the first Greenpeace campaign.

While the organization was founded under a different name in 1970 and was officially named Greenpeace in 1972, the organization itself dates its birth to the first protest of 1971.

Some of the first Greenpeace meetings were held there, and it served as the first office of the Greenpeace Foundation.

After the office in the Stowe home, ( and after the first concert fund-raiser ) Greenpeace functions moved to other private homes and held public meetings weekly on Wednesday nights at the Kitsilano Neighborhood House before settling, in the fall of 1974, in a small office shared with the SPEC environmental group, at 2007 W. 4th Avenue, at Maple Street, across from the Bimini neighbourhood pub.

Greenpeace was one of the first parties to formulate a sustainable development scenario for climate change mitigation, which it did in 1993.

In 1978, Greenpeace launched the original Rainbow Warrior, a, former fishing trawler named for the Cree legend that inspired early activist Robert Hunter on the first voyage to Amchitka.

On the other hand, conservation organisations, including Greenpeace, have pointed out that no proper Environment Impact Analysis has been done for the project, which has undergone changes in size and specifications since it was first proposed and that the port could interfere with mass nesting at the Gahirmtha beaches and the ecology of the Bitharkanika mangrove forest.

Watson has one child ( born 1980 ) with his first wife, Starlet Lum, who was a founding director of Greenpeace Quebec, Earthforce !, Project Wolf, and Sea Shepherd.

The attack resulted in the death of Greenpeace photographer Fernando Pereira and led to a huge uproar over the first ever attack on New Zealand sovereignty.

Bennett Metcalfe ( October 31, 1919 – October 14, 2003 ) was a Canadian journalist and first chairman of Greenpeace, founded 1971.

When the Greenpeace Foundation was established, Metcalfe became its first chairman.

Notably, it was the example set by the voyages of the Golden Rule and the Phoenix that would inspire the first Greenpeace activists to use similar methods in their campaigns to halt nuclear testing at the island of Amchitka, Alaska, and at Muraroa Atoll in the Pacific.

Moore joined the committee in 1971 and, as Greenpeace co-founder Bob Hunter wrote, “ Moore was quickly accepted into the inner circle on the basis of his scientific background, his reputation an environmental activist, and his ability to inject practical, no-nonsense insights into the discussions .” From as early as September 2005 until its alteration in March 2007, the Greenpeace International web site included Patrick Moore in a list of " founders and first members ".

Greenpeace was the name given to the boat for the voyage and it would be the first of the many Greenpeace protests.

Following the first voyage, key crew members decided to formally change the name of the Don't Make a Wave Committee to the Greenpeace Foundation.

Moore again crewed the Phyllis Cormack in 1975 during the first campaign to save whales, as Greenpeace met the Soviet whaling fleet off the coast of California.

Four Greenpeace activists first occupied Brent Spar on 30 April 1995.

This tour was marked for the first Brazilian Solar Energy supplied live show, a project with Greenpeace.

Lee spoke in defense of Maoist China, population control, Greenpeace, and school busing in Boston, among other things.

Greenpeace China cited Dezhou in May 2009 as an example of how renewable energy can become a more common reality throughout the world.

He served as a member of the board of Greenpeace Germany and as a member of the International Advisory Council on the Economic Development of Hainan in Harmony with the Natural Environment in China.

At the same time the Canadian Greenpeace office was heavily in debt.

The European Greenpeace paid the debt of the Canadian Greenpeace office and on October 14, 1979, Greenpeace International came into existence.

Amnesty International said that the arrests and following raids on Greenpeace Japan office and homes of five of Greenpeace staff members were aimed at intimidating activists and non-governmental organizations.

A recent ( 2006 ) study conducted by the Greenpeace Netherlands office found high level of phthalates in seven out of eight plastic sex toys tested.

After the sinking of the Rainbow Warrior, a Greenpeace ship, on 10 July 1985, Prime Minister Fabius summoned journalists to his office on 22 September 1985 to read a 200 word statement in which he said: " The truth is cruel ," and acknowledged that " Agents of the French secret service sank this boat.

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

DGSE agent Christine Cabon, posing as environmentalist Frederique Bonlieu, volunteered for the Greenpeace office in Auckland.

One way to avoid the stigma of an " ism " was to evolve early anti-nuclear groups into the more scientific Green Parties, sprout new NGOs such as Greenpeace and Earth Action, and devoted groups to protecting global biodiversity and preventing global warming and climate change.

A figure of was a commonly accepted estimate of the spill's volume and has been used by the State of Alaska's Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and environmental groups such as Greenpeace and the Sierra Club.

The ship was renamed Greenpeace for the protest after a term coined by activist Bill Darnell.

Greenpeace also states that " there was no single founder, and the name, idea, spirit, tactics, and internationalism of the organization all can be said to have separate lineages ".

In 1972 the yacht Vega, a ketch owned by David McTaggart, was renamed Greenpeace III and sailed in an anti-nuclear protest into the exclusion zone at Moruroa to attempt to disrupt French nuclear testing.

In the mid-1970s some Greenpeace members started an independent campaign, Project Ahab, against commercial whaling, since Irving Stowe was against Greenpeace focusing on other issues than nuclear weapons.

MV Esperanza, a former fire-fighter owned by the Russian Navy, was relaunched by Greenpeace in 2002

Greenpeace was one of the leading participants advocating early phase-out of ozone depleting substances in the Montreal Protocol.

Greenpeace did not admit fault, stating that a Kazakhstan doctor had said that the child's condition was due to nuclear testing.

Adam Woolf from Greenpeace also stated that, " fifty years ago there were many experts who would be lined up and swear there was no link between smoking and bad health.

According to a Greenpeace spokesman, the memo was a joke that was accidentally released.

Greenpeace was awarded € 500, 000 in damages.

Greenpeace said in a press conference that the tree was originally from a logged area in the ancient forest which was supposed to be protected.

Metsähallitus accused Greenpeace of theft and said that the tree was from a normal forest and had been left standing because of its old age.

" Concerning the decision of Zambia, Greenpeace has stated that, " it was obvious to us that if no non-GM aid was being offered then they should absolutely accept GM food aid.