Greenpeace is a non-governmental environmental organization with offices in over forty countries and with an international coordinating body in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Greenpeace states its goal is to " ensure the ability of the Earth to nurture life in all its diversity " and focuses its campaigning on world wide issues such as global warming, deforestation, overfishing, commercial whaling and anti-nuclear issues.

Greenpeace is known for its direct actions and has been described as the most visible environmental organization in the world.

Amchitka, the 1970 concert that launched Greenpeace has been published by Greenpeace in November 2009 on CD and is also available as mp3 download via the Amchitka concert website.

Together with EREC, Greenpeace has formulated a global energy scenario, " Energy evolution ", where 80 % of the world's total energy is produced with renewables, and the emissions of the energy sector are decreased by over 80 % of the 1990 levels by 2050.

Greenpeace is also critical of extracting petroleum from oil sands and has used direct action to block the oil sand operations at Athabasca, Canada.

Another Greenpeace movement concerning rainforest is discouraging palm oil industries.

Acknowledging that mass production of palm oil may be disastrous on biodiversity of forests, Greenpeace is actively campaigning against the production, urging the industries and the government to turn to other forms of energy resources.

The alternative proposed by Greenpeace is to discourage mono-cropping and to increase production of crops which are naturally nutrient-rich ( containing other nutrients not found in golden rice in addition to beta-carotene ).

This " golden rice 2 " was developed and patented by Syngenta, which provoked Greenpeace to renew its allegation that the project is driven by profit motives.

The executive director of Greenpeace is elected by the board members of Greenpeace International.

The current director of Greenpeace International is Kumi Naidoo and the current Chair of the Board is Lalita Ramdas.

The role of the annual general meeting is also to discuss and decide the overall principles and strategically important issues for Greenpeace in collaboration with the trustees of regional offices and Greenpeace International board of directors.

Moore has argued that Greenpeace today is motivated by politics rather than science and that none of his " fellow directors had any formal science education ".

Bruce Cox, Director of Greenpeace Canada, responded that Greenpeace has never demanded a universal chlorine ban and that Greenpeace does not oppose use of chlorine in drinking water or in pharmaceutical uses, adding that " Mr. Moore is alone in his recollection of a fight over chlorine and / or use of science as his reason for leaving Greenpeace.

In Chile, the organization is affiliated as " Greenpeace Chile " was founded in 1981 and is a government recognized NGO there.

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.

* Greenpeace bids farewell to founding hippy " Greenpeace founding member dead at 63 "

He was the first convenor of Friends of the Earth Australia and assisted in the founding of Greenpeace in Australia.

The roots of Sierra Club Canada go back to 1963, when environmentalists in British Columbia affiliated themselves with the Sierra Club of the United States ( many of these individuals were prominent in the founding of Greenpeace ).

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.

Early Greenpeace member Canadian ecologist Patrick Moore left the organization in 1986 when it, according to Moore, decided to support a universal ban on chlorine in drinking water.

" Paul Watson, an early member of Greenpeace has said that Moore " uses his status as a so-called co-founder of Greenpeace to give credibility to his accusations.

Riefenstahl was a member of Greenpeace for 8 years.

He was an early and influential member of Greenpeace, crewed and skippered for it, and later was a board member.

Paul Watson continued as a crew member, skipper, and officer aboard several Greenpeace voyages throughout the mid-1970s.

He enjoyed and participated in student politics, including becoming a member of the New Zealand Greenpeace executive that sent Greenpeace III to Mururoa Atoll in 1972 in the campaign against French nuclear testing in the Pacific Ocean.

In 1971 he joined the crew member of the Greenpeace boat sailing to protest against U. S. army nuclear bomb test near Amchitka island.

He is a member of several organisations including Amnesty International, Liberty and Greenpeace.

He also chairs the Advisory Board for the Centre of the Mind at the University of Sydney and the Australia National University in Canberra, and has been a board member of Greenpeace, CARE Australia, the National Museum of Australia, The Australian Centre for Social Innovation, the Adelaide Festival of Ideas and Brisbane's Ideas Festival.

* Forest and Bird and Greenpeace Aotearoa New Zealand ( a member organisations )

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.

Festival, and a member of Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, the Equality Network, Stonewall ( UK ), Amnesty International, Humanist Society of Scotland and the Campaign Against the Arms Trade.

Hollender is also the co-founder of the American Sustainable Business Council and a member of the board of directors of Greenpeace USA, Verite, Vermont Businesses for Social Responsibility and the Environmental Health Fund.

Wilson is also a member of Greenpeace, RSPB and Friends of the Earth.

Greenpeace has also been a source of controversy ; its motives and methods have received criticism and the organization's direct actions have sparked legal actions against Greenpeace activists.

The activities of Greenpeace in the arctic have mainly involved the Edinburgh-based oil and gas exploration company, Cairn Energy ; and range from protests at the Cairn Energy's headquarters to scalling their oil rigs in an attempt to halt the drilling process.

* Michael Brown and John May, The Greenpeace Story ( 1989 ; London and New York: Dorling Kindersley, Inc., 1991 ).

* Irving Stowe ( 1915-1974 ), American lawyer, activist and a founder of Greenpeace ; husband of Dorothy Stowe

Among the groups monitored were the Thomas Merton Center, a Pittsburgh peace group ; People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals ; and Greenpeace USA.

The Marshgate Lane site became part of the Olympic Park from 2006 ; in response to safety concerns about the former purpose of the site, a Greenpeace spokesman was quoted as saying " In our view there's nothing to worry about.

* Bob Hunter ( founder of Greenpeace ; later died of cancer )

He joined other Greenpeace activists in illegally boarding one of Cairn's oil rigs ; an action which earned him two weeks in a Greenland jail.

No layoffs occurred ; however, several workers disputed Greenpeace's assertions that the new positions were of " comparable salary and benefits ", and held an information picket outside Greenpeace offices.

During the late 1980s and early 2000s the NFC had distributed over 1 million copies nationally of Forest Voice newspaper ; obtained 2 million signatures in support of the Native Forest Protection Act ( legislation designed to protect all of the remaining National Forests ) and acquired the major endorsements of Greenpeace, the National Audubon Society, chapters of the Sierra Club, and the Association of Forest Service Employees for Environmental Ethics.

* Bob Hunter ( founder of Greenpeace ; later died after a prolonged battle with cancer on May 2, 2005 )

Fisher charges the corporatized fundraising model ( of which the Fund is an example ) with mistreating idealistic young people by using them as interchangeable parts and providing them with insufficient training ; Fisher also believes that the outsourcing of grassroots organizing by groups like the Sierra Club and Greenpeace to organizations like the Fund has led to the decay of grassroots infrastructure and opportunities for involvement on the left ( A summary of this book can be found at: " http :// www. sup. org / html / book_pages / 0804752176 / Press % 20Release. pdf ").

* Greenpeace Deutschland, Hamburg, Vorstand, 1985 – 92 ;

He was a co-founder of Greenpeace in 1972 with Patrick Moore, Ben Metcalfe, Jim Bohlen, Irving Stowe, Paul Watson ( which is contested by Greenpeace ; more at this page ) and several other members.

; Greenpeace Crolis ( or Chloris ): A mysterious green-skinned girl with wings, kidnapped from the Critical Science Development Agency by the Buaku Gang.

The camera was successfully used in a number of projects including " Postcards from the Future ", directed by Alan Chan and shot by Eric Adkins ; a Snickers commercial, directed by Jesse Dylan and shot by Rolf Kestermann ; a beer commercial by Curtis Clark, ASC ; a Greenpeace commercial, shot by Florian Stadler ; a Motorola commercial, shot by Byron Werner ; a short entitled " The Trident ", directed by Anurag Mehta and shot by David Stump, ASC ; " She Called Up ", a music video for the band Crowded House shot by Damian Acevedo ; a promo for ABC 7 Eyewitness News, shot by Mark Zavad ; " Reach for Me " a feature film directed by LeVar Burton and shot by Kris Kosskove ; and most recently a British short, " Drop ", directed by Gavin Toomey and shot by Tom Debenham, starring Russell Tovey.