Sunday, January 19, 2020
Green peace :: essays research papers
We interviewed Andra Zommers from Greenpeace. The questions we asked were as follows: 1)     What is Greenpeace? 2)     How is Greenpeace run/structured? 3)     Why did you get involved in the environment? (Your motivation) 4)     Why Greenpeace? 5)     In your opinion, where is the greatest concern? 6)     Is there any Spiritual emphasis Greenpeace has or that you personally have? 7)     What is Greenpeace’s vision for the future? 8)     What gives you hope? Taken from www.greenpeace.ca: â€Å"Greenpeace is an independently funded organization that works to protect the environment. We challenge government and industry to halt harmful practices by negotiating solutions, conducting scientific research, introducing clean alternatives, carrying out peaceful acts of civil disobedience and educating and engaging the public. Greenpeace seeks to:  ·Ã‚     Protect biodiversity in all its forms;  ·Ã‚     Prevent pollution of the earth’s oceans, land, air and fresh water;  ·Ã‚     End all nuclear threats;  ·Ã‚     Promote peace, global disarmament and non-violence.†It is a global campaigning organization founded in 1971 and contains offices in 27 countries worldwide. They place a high emphasis on non-violent confrontational methods in the hope to raise education and awareness. This is often the motivation behind protests. They do this through lobbying, campaigns, boycotts, discussions and interviews. Their focus audience is the consumer. They hope to inform the consumer to change economic stance to support only companies concerned with the environment. Theoretically, the change in money flow should affect large companies approaches to the environment. Greenpeace is independently run in each country. Greenpeace Canada contains 7 board of director members (Peter Bleyer, Varda Burstyn, John Doherty (chair), John Foster, Karen Wristen) that determine priorities and the annual budget. The Executive Director, Peter Tabuns, handles day-to-day management. It is run solely on public donations and does not accept company of government funding in order to stay independent. Most of the money stays local. Their head office is located at 1726 Commercial Drive in Vancouver. Andra credits her motivation towards the environment largely to the location of her upbringing. The claims that the in-your-face beauty of British Columbia, with its mountains, lakes, rivers, forests and ocean, one cannot help but be drawn and connected by it. This, accompanied by the in-your-face destruction of the environment and abuse evidently seen in British Columbia, one cannot help but also be involved with saving the thing you are so closely connected to. She also expressed much concern with the power corporation seem to have over our lives and her personal desire to educate people and see them change for the better drives her to continue in the field.
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