Beginning in 1986, " London Greenpeace ", a small environmental campaigning group ( not to be confused with the larger Greenpeace International organisation, which they declined to join as they saw it being too " centralised and mainstream for their tastes "), distributed a pamphlet entitled What ’ s wrong with McDonald ’ s: Everything they don ’ t want you to know.

Fernando Pereira ( May 10, 1950 – July 10, 1985 ) was a freelance Dutch photographer, of Portuguese origin, who drowned when French intelligence ( DGSE ) used two underwater mines to sink the ship Rainbow Warrior, owned by the environmental organisation Greenpeace on July 10, 1985 ( see sinking of the Rainbow Warrior ).

Greenpeace, the international environmental organisation, has a blog that allows greenwashing claims to be rated.

* Greenpeace ( International organisation with National sites )

Also, an eco-warrior can be someone who engages in an environmental organisation ( e. g. Greenpeace ) or an environmental company that delivers safekeeping or improvements for the environment ( e. g. directly by selling environmental products as environmentally friendly cars, or indirectly by carbon dioxide offsets ).

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

After this Greenpeace tried to navigate to the test site with other vessels, until the U. S. detonated the bomb.

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.

After the incidents of Moruroa, David McTaggart had moved to France to battle in court with the French state and helped to develop the cooperation of European Greenpeace groups.

In the early 1990s, Greenpeace developed a CFC-free refrigerator technology, " Greenfreeze " for mass production together with the refrigerator industry.

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 views nuclear power as a relatively minor industry with major problems, such as environmental damage and risks from uranium mining, nuclear weapons proliferation, and unresolved questions concerning nuclear waste.

Greenpeace aims at protecting intact primary forests from deforestation and degradation with the target of zero deforestation by 2020.

Greenpeace, together with other environmental NGOs, also campaigned for ten years for the EU to ban import of illegal timber.

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.

Along with the Rainbow Warriors, Greenpeace has had several other ships in its service: MV Sirius, MV Solo, MV Greenpeace, MV Arctic Sunrise and MV Esperanza, the last two being in service today.

He also accused Greenpeace of having unofficial agreements with polluting companies where the companies paid Greenpeace to keep them from attacking the company's image.

Greenpeace supports small local groups of youths and children who want to join or found a " Greenteam ", by providing them with free info materials and mentoring.

He followed with 1992's The Rainbow Warrior for ABC, the story of the ill-fated Greenpeace ship sunk by French operatives in the Auckland harbour.

** The Canadian ketch Vega, flying the Greenpeace III banner, collides with the French naval minesweeper La Paimpolaise while in international waters, to protest French nuclear weapon tests in the South Pacific.

Today the term " ecology movement " is associated often with the more moral, more confrontational, and more rigorous stance taken by Greenpeace and other even more radical NGOs, e. g. Earth First, Earth Action, Sea Shepherd, in favor of the Precautionary Principle and strong fundamental preventive measures for biosafety, biosecurity and biodiversity.

Such views began to influence the Green Parties, Greenpeace, and a few more radical wings of the environmental movement such as the Gaia Liberation Front and the Earth Liberation Front.

Organisations like Greenpeace were more radical, taking direct action against environmental destruction.

* Doug Bandow, " The Capitol Eye: Greenpeace bends tax laws to fit its radical agenda ," Copley News Service, October 7, 2003.

More radical organizations, such as Greenpeace, Earth First !, and the Earth Liberation Front, have more directly opposed actions they regard as environmentally harmful.

Initially conceived of as a South African version of Greenpeace, the group began by playing a radical, anti-apartheid, activist role.

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.

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

Greenpeace has raised environmental issues to public knowledge, and influenced both the private and the public sector.

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.

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.

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.

Historian Frank Zelko has commented that " unlike Friends of the Earth, for example, which sprung fully formed from the forehead of David Brower, Greenpeace developed in a more evolutionary manner.

Using direct action, Greenpeace has protested several times against coal by occupying coal power plants and blocking coal shipments and mining operations, in places such as New Zealand, Svalbard, Australia, and the United Kingdom.

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

Greenpeace has accused several corporations, such as Unilever, Nike ,, KFC, KitKat and McDonald's of having links to the deforestation of the tropical rainforests, resulting in policy changes in several of the companies under criticism.

As deforestation contributes to global warming, Greenpeace has demanded that REDD ( Reduced Emission from Deforestation and Forest Degradation ) should be included in the climate treaty following the Kyoto treaty.

Greenpeace has also supported the rejection of GM food from the US in famine-stricken Zambia as long as supplies of non-genetically engineered grain exist, stating that the US " should follow in the European Union's footsteps and allow aid recipients to choose their food aid, buying it locally if they wish.

" 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.

According to Greenpeace, golden rice has not managed to do anything about malnutrition for 10 years during which alternative methods are already tackling malnutrition.

Although Greenpeace had stated that efficiency was its primary concern, as early as 2001, statements from March and April 2005 also continued to express concern over human health and environmental safety Greenpeace has opposed releasing golden rice to fields as opposed to farming in greenhouses, which according to golden rice developer Ingo Potrykus, limits the amount of material needed for human safety testing.

Greenpeace has a staff of 2, 400 and 15, 000 volunteers globally.

Japan's Fisheries Agency has labeled Greenpeace ships as " anti-whaling vessels " and " environmental terrorists ".

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.