GreenpeaceEssay Preview: GreenpeaceReport this essayGreenpeace was founded by Jim Bohlen, Irving Stowe, and Paul Cote. members who were part of the Sierra Clubs “Dont Make a Wave Committee”, changed their name to Greenpeace because they wanted to have a stronger meaning for what theyre doing and wanted to create a greener peaceful place to live in our world. Greenpeace was founded in Canada in 1971 and Bill Darnell came up with the name. This interest group has had a long successful history, supporters around the world, even made a few mistakes but in the end proved to be an outstanding competitor for todays environment
The first objective for Greenpeace was to ensure that our planet can keep natural life safe in all its diversity. They prevent pollution, try to end all nuclear threats and promote peace. According to Greenpeace, nuclear power is dangerous, dirty, and uneconomic. A problem with nuclear power stations is that they create nuclear waste and do not know what to do with that waste. The three men first decided to try and end nuclear testing first in an island off Alaska. Unfortunately, their first voyage ran into problems but the media wrote about Greenpeaces intentions so more people heard what they were doing, loved the idea, and joined their group. They completed their objective anyways because the American government announced the ending of nuclear testing.
The Greenpeace report on Norway’s plan for a safe, renewable future is in fact quite simple and doesn’t really include any of the information about a possible safe nuclear plant. The reason for the Norway study was to be concerned that Norway would be going nuclear if it didn’t. The Norwegian Ministry of Energy took the lead from the U.S. because that’s what the country did for 30 years to achieve independence and reduce pollution.
If Norway can meet its goals, it could become more of an environmental leader by having that country take action now. When Greenpeace looked at Norway, there was no mention that they are a government-owned company or something like that. Not that Greenpeace didn’t get the message from the oil and gas industry by going to Norway:
“This is our first attempt to look for the world leader of sustainable energy, not a company, not a company management or a company corporation. We’ve been to a few countries with no energy infrastructure before, but we didn’t go to Greenland because, they had the nuclear reactor. For sure, it is not possible to build a nuclear plant here on the edge of Greenland. The Norwegian nuclear industry would be the one most affected, but that is just the beginning.”
The paper cites Norway as an example of an isolated world where the environment doesn’t favor companies but “the government can look around and the government could take the lead of environmental issues if it gets the right policy.”
Norway and their Greenpeace actions aren’t the only examples of the world that Greenpeace thinks will create a good, clean energy future, either. A recent story from The Local in the New York Times reports that Greenpeace’s latest initiative will help to make the whole world believe in green technologies by showing in what countries and companies are investing in those technologies:
“On the front page of the newspaper is the slogan “Green Energy for the Planet.” But an organization calling itself A.A. Greenpeace says it’s making that clear through the global partnership of the U.S. Embassy in Oslo and a handful of other organizations in its efforts: Global Coalition on Sustainable Development (CGDR), Sustainable Energy Action (SED), International Institute on Energy and Environmental Affairs (IEOA), and International Green Transport Policy and Strategy (IGPR) under the United Nations-sponsored Transpacific Alliance for Sustainable Development (TUSD)’s International Cooperation Program (ICSPD)’s Green Energy Power Initiative, and international cooperation projects that the company and others bring to the region to create opportunities to further the vision for sustainable energy. […] The new initiative to raise $9 billion a year will see green energy initiatives from all 50 states come together in this city of 685. It will include an international network and a network of new energy projects aimed at creating and sustaining clean energy. …” – The Local report
It’s not the first time The Local has found that Greenpeace has made progress in putting together a sustainable future for the environment:
In June, The Local reported on a group of 20 activists led by activist journalist Anna
The Greenpeace report on Norway’s plan for a safe, renewable future is in fact quite simple and doesn’t really include any of the information about a possible safe nuclear plant. The reason for the Norway study was to be concerned that Norway would be going nuclear if it didn’t. The Norwegian Ministry of Energy took the lead from the U.S. because that’s what the country did for 30 years to achieve independence and reduce pollution.
If Norway can meet its goals, it could become more of an environmental leader by having that country take action now. When Greenpeace looked at Norway, there was no mention that they are a government-owned company or something like that. Not that Greenpeace didn’t get the message from the oil and gas industry by going to Norway:
“This is our first attempt to look for the world leader of sustainable energy, not a company, not a company management or a company corporation. We’ve been to a few countries with no energy infrastructure before, but we didn’t go to Greenland because, they had the nuclear reactor. For sure, it is not possible to build a nuclear plant here on the edge of Greenland. The Norwegian nuclear industry would be the one most affected, but that is just the beginning.”
The paper cites Norway as an example of an isolated world where the environment doesn’t favor companies but “the government can look around and the government could take the lead of environmental issues if it gets the right policy.”
Norway and their Greenpeace actions aren’t the only examples of the world that Greenpeace thinks will create a good, clean energy future, either. A recent story from The Local in the New York Times reports that Greenpeace’s latest initiative will help to make the whole world believe in green technologies by showing in what countries and companies are investing in those technologies:
“On the front page of the newspaper is the slogan “Green Energy for the Planet.” But an organization calling itself A.A. Greenpeace says it’s making that clear through the global partnership of the U.S. Embassy in Oslo and a handful of other organizations in its efforts: Global Coalition on Sustainable Development (CGDR), Sustainable Energy Action (SED), International Institute on Energy and Environmental Affairs (IEOA), and International Green Transport Policy and Strategy (IGPR) under the United Nations-sponsored Transpacific Alliance for Sustainable Development (TUSD)’s International Cooperation Program (ICSPD)’s Green Energy Power Initiative, and international cooperation projects that the company and others bring to the region to create opportunities to further the vision for sustainable energy. […] The new initiative to raise $9 billion a year will see green energy initiatives from all 50 states come together in this city of 685. It will include an international network and a network of new energy projects aimed at creating and sustaining clean energy. …” – The Local report
It’s not the first time The Local has found that Greenpeace has made progress in putting together a sustainable future for the environment:
In June, The Local reported on a group of 20 activists led by activist journalist Anna
By the mid-1980s Greenpeace had grown from a church basement to an organization with an income of over $100 million per year. They had offices in 21 countries around the world tackling toxic waste, acid rain, uranium mining and drift net fishing as well as the original issues. They had won over a majority of the public to support their ideas in what they were doing. Presidents and prime ministers were talking about the environment on a daily basis. Since then, Greenpeace is still as effective as any organization out there.
They are a non-profit organization and are currently found in 40 countries all around the world and have their headquarters in Amsterdam. This interest
group holds no attachment to governments and have no connection with any political parties. Greenpeace Foundation has never taken any money from any government loans. They strictly fund their foundation by the support of their peoples dollars. They are simply an organization that seeks for protection of the environment and is in favor to any reaserch that may help ensure a peacefull future.
The organization is providing global leadership, and the French have felt it. Theres such a leadership vacuum in the world today that a non-governmental organization like Greenpeace can step in and drive their communities people. And Greenpeace combines direct action and “guerrilla theater” with great effect.
Greenpeace has dedicated a lot of time to protect what seems to be the most important subject to them, forests. They see forests as being a home for a most plants and animals. Forests are providers of wood, medicine, habitats, sources of food, etc. Greenpeaces way of thinking is “forests sustain us, but but we are not sustaining them.” So Greenpeace feels they should be doing something about it. hundreds of forests have been destroyed because of industries. These industries are charged with the extinction of thousands of species, the deforestation of large areas of the Earth, and the destruction of the ecosystem. To Greenpeace, the only thing that should be dealing with our forest is nature itself. They feel that its the consumers responsibility to change their negative habits towards forests by maximizing the use of methods like recycling. However, this causes a problem for industries because this is how they earn their money. Governments