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

During this time David Tussman, together with the rest of the founders, early activists of Greenpeace, and the majority of Greenpeace staff-members announced that the board of the San Francisco group intended to separate Patrick Moore's Greenpeace Foundation from the rest of the Greenpeace movement.

On 21 March 2007, Stewart unveiled an initiative called " Greenpeace Works ", which he labelled as a " think tank " to dream up ways celebrities and Greenpeace can work together on green issues.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

In a few years, Greenpeace spread to several countries and started to campaign on other environmental issues such as commercial whaling and toxic waste.

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.

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 ).

Australia, Greenpeace, the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society and other groups dispute the Japanese claim of research " as a disguise for commercial whaling, which is banned.

In other words, NGOs have been quite ignorant about critical issues because, as chief scientist at Greenpeace Doug Parr claims, these organizations have lost their efforts in being trully scientific and are now more self-interested.

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.

He supports a number of charities and other causes, including Greenpeace, The Woodland Trust, Oxfam and Sightsavers International.

On 13 January 2009, it was announced that McGowan in partnership with three other Greenpeace activists, including actress Emma Thompson, had bought land near Sipson, a village under threat from the proposed third runway for Heathrow Airport.

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

He has sharply and publicly differed with many policies of major environmental groups, such as Greenpeace, on other issues including forestry, biotechnology, aquaculture, and the use of chemicals for flame retardants.

McTaggart who had come to represent all the other Greenpeace groups against the Greenpeace Foundation, was named Chairman.

He and other directors of Greenpeace International were greeting the ship off the coast of New Zealand on its way to protest French nuclear testing at Mururoa Atoll.

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.

In early 1988, students from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill contacted Greenpeace Magazine to place an ad about networking with other young environmentalists.

In July 2011, Puma – along with other major fashion and sportswear brands including Nike, Adidas, and Abercrombie & Fitch – was the subject of a report by the environmental group Greenpeace entitled ' Dirty Laundry '.

Although Greenpeace quoted Shell's own estimate of the amount of heavy metals and other chemicals on board, they claimed there were more than 5, 500 tonnes of oil on the Spar – far more than Shell's estimate of 50 tonnes.

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.

In the following years, Greenpeace evolved into one of the largest environmental organizations in the world.

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.

The social and cultural background from which Greenpeace emerged heralded a period of de-conditioning away from old world antecedents and sought to develop new codes of social, environmental and political behavior.

Currently Greenpeace considers global warming to be the greatest environmental problem facing the Earth.

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.

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

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.

Since the enactment of EU legislation concerning the concentration of particulate in the air, environmental groups such as Greenpeace have staged large protest rallies to urge the city council and the State government to take a harder stance on pollution.

* 1972 – The Don't Make A Wave Committee, a fledgling environmental organization founded in Canada in 1971, officially changes its name to " Greenpeace Foundation ".

The most famous of these organizations during this decade was Greenpeace, which did not hesitate to lead illegal actions in the name of environmental preservation.

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

* ENGO: short for environmental NGO, such as Greenpeace and WWF

This center has been met with notable criticism from environmental groups such as Greenpeace because the power utility company contracted for the center, PacifiCorp, generates 70 % of its electricity from coal.

Some large environmental organizations are critical of these high-yield plantations and are running an anti-plantation campaign, notably the Rainforest Action Network and Greenpeace.

Greenpeace ended its campaign in August 2009, following the release of a new environmental policy by Kimberly-Clark.