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GREENPEACE´Inspiring action for a green and peaceful future.µ



WHO ARE THEY ?

Raise public awareness of environmental

problems through the media and educational

programs

Expose environmental injustice by thegovernment and large corporations

Greenpeace has been protecting the environment

for over 35 years



WHAT MAKES GREENPEACE UNIQUE?

They are one of the few organizations that

incorporates peaceful, DIRECT action to talk

about Global environmental problems

They confront problems to get answers to ensurea green and peaceful future



GREENPEACE IS ALL ABOUT «

Peaceful

Protest



´ Greenpeace is the leading independent

campaigning organization that uses peaceful, direct

action, and creative communication to expose global

environmental problems and to promote solutions that

are essential to a green and peaceful future.µ



A ND WHAT ABOUT THE MONEY?

Greenpeace takes no money from corporations or

the government. They rely on individual

donations.

Independent non-partisan The Greenpeace Fund goes to campaigns,

education and public outreach through the

Greenpeace Quarterly magazine, fact sheets, and

campaign reports, scientific research, public

policy research, and to Greenpeace International

(for Greenpeace offices)



Fix our PROBLEMS

outside of ourBORDERSBORDERS



THEY ARE EVERYWHERE!

Greenpeace is involved in:

y Global Warming

y Oceans

y

Forestsy Nuclear Energy

y Toxics: Chemical Security to E-waste

y Sustainable Agriculture



GLOBAL W ARMING

Greenpeace believes there is a lack of political

will to solve the issue

´ together we can start an energy [r]evolutionµ

Greenpeace activists are attending world climateconferences and persuading decision-makers to

take action



OCEANS

´ save our seas and ocean wildlifeµ

Whaling Industry = ´over-exploit, cheat, and

depleteµ

How much can the Bering Sea bear? Supermarkets promote destructive fishing



FORESTS

´ help us protect forests and the climateµ

Contain two-thirds of the world·s land-based

animal and plant species



NUCLEAR ENERGY

´No new nukesµ

Dirty, dangerous distraction from green

advancement



TOXICS

´Leading the way to a toxin-free futureµ



SUSTAINABLE A GRICULTURE AND

GENETIC ENGINEERING PROBLEMS

´Produce food without destructionµ

GMOs + Natural organisms = contamination of

non- ´GEµ environments

y

This is IRREVERSIBLE!y Take Action!

´I support a global food system that feeds people, protects

the soil, water and climate, and promotes biodiversity.

This is a system free from genetic engineering and

chemical intensive agriculture.µ



WHAT ARE THEY DOING NOW?

´Protect people, not polluters- quit coalµ

EPA·s coal ash public hearing:

y Problem: Federal standards need to protect public

health, but should coal waste be classified ashazardous, or non-hazardous?

y Greenpeace states it as hazardous and argues that it

should be put under Subtitle C of the Resource

Conservation and Recovery Act, which was based on

the EPA·s own findings!



´ Like Big Oil, Big Coal spends millions to avoid

accountability« It·s not hard to see why government

has failed to act yet, but they can and must now.µ

-Robert Gardner, Greenpeace campaigner



T HIS PRESENTATION MADE POSSIBLE «

by

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