What is Greenpeace？ Greenpeace is an independent, nonprofit, global campaigning organization that uses non-violent, creative confrontation to expose global environmental problems and their causes.

Greenpeace’s goal is to ensure the ability of Earth to nurture life in all its diversity.

Greenpeace exists because this fragile earth deserves a voice. It needs solutions. It needs change. It needs action.

When GREENPEACE started? In 1971, a small team of 12 activists set sail from Vancouver, Canada, in an old fishing boat. Their mission: to protest underground nuclear testing by the US military at Amchitka, a tiny volcanic island off western Alaska. Though they were eventually stopped, these activists went on to create an organization called Greenpeace, with the belief that individual, non-violent action can create positive change.

Members

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

This is A Map about the Structure and Management of Greenpeace worldwide. Greenpeace was started in Canada in 1971.

Its East Asia's first China office was opened in Hong Kong in 1997. Later, offices were formally opened in Guangzhou and Beijing in 2002.

Greenpeace USA was founded in 1974, three years after the original Greenpeace, and is one of the United States largest environmental organizations.

All the offices in different countries are connected to the international coordinating body.

There is a Greenpeace International Annual General Meeting each year to establish the global principles an issues addressed by Greenpeace.

Supporters and Funding Greenpeace receives its funding from individual supporters and foundations.

This global organization does not accept funding from governments, corporations or political parties, but relying on 2.9 million individual supporters and foundation grants. Greenpeace does not accept money from governments, intergovernmental organizations, political parties or corporations in order to avoid their influence.

Since in the mid-1990s the number of supporters started to decrease, Greenpeace pioneered the use of face-to-face fundraising where fundraisers actively seek new supporters at public places, subscribing them for a monthly direct debit donation. In 2008, most of the 202.5 million Euro received by the organization was donated by about 2.6 million regular supporters, mainly from Europe.

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Greenpeace stands for positive change through action to defend the natural world and promote peace. Greenpeace’s goal is to ensure the ability of Earth to nurture life in all its diversity. They investigate, expose and confront environmental abuse by governments and corporations around the world. They champion environmentally responsible and socially just solutions, including scientific and technological innovation.

Here is a short Video that we found on the Internet The video recorded one of the Greenpeace’s Actions about defending Whaling against a Japanese Whaling Ship.

As soon as the Japanese whaling ship tends to kill a whale, Greenpeace’s Activists will drive inflatable boats between the whaler's harpoons and the whales while using high-powered water pumps to create a curtain of icy water, obscuring the harpooner's view.

While Greenpeace’s activists will be between the harpoons and the whales in the Southern Ocean in order to save hundreds of whales from being killed now, they are urging people to stop even more being killed in the future by writing to the Japanese Prime Minister. Over 12,000 letters have already been sent. They all need to act NOW to stop the hunt forever and make sure that not a single harpoon will be fired again in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary.

WhatTheyDO

Catalyzing an energy revolution

The global energy revolution received a huge boost today as the Chinese government unveiled its ambition to become a global wind power within the next decade. Greenpeace was quick to laud the Chinese government's announcement and called on northern governments and financing institutions to support China's renewable energy ambition.

Defending our oceans Greenpeace raises several actions to protect our oceans, including anti-whaling actions, anti-fishing of endangered sea creatures, preventing the oil pollution and so on. Illegal Logging China is now the world’s largest importer of tropical woods, consuming over half of the global supply. Much of this wood comes from the of Indonesia and Papua New Guinea – where between 76 to 90% of the logging is illegal – as well as tropical forests of Africa.

Working for disarmament and peace

Working for disarmament and peace is the main value and mission of Greenpeace. No conflicts and no wars is Greenpeace’s Aim.

Adidas needs to earn its stripes by championing a toxic-free future

Greenpeace’s latest research reveals that there is a good chance that the clothes you are wearing may contain nonylphenol ethoxylates (NPEs), chemicals which can break down in water to form nonylphenol (NP) -- a toxic, persistent and hormone-disrupting chemical. 52 out of 78 garments from 14 global clothing brands tested positive for NPEs, including four Adidas articles.

Greenpeace launches Rice Farmers’ Photo Exhibition to promote

sustainable agriculture

Greenpeace launches a photo exhibition today in Beijing to showcase rice farmers’ livelihood and modes of traditional farming in Southwest China’s Yunnan province. These photos are taken by five farmers who have never used a camera before. The fruit of a year-long project starting from the eco-agriculture tour, Greenpeace hopes that the exhibition will provoke a national debate on the future of rice farming and promote sustainable agricultural models.

All in all, Greenpeace is an non-profit, environmental organization that is active to take positive actions. By helping them, We can help to protect our fragile Earth.

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