Greenpeace

/ ˈɡriːnˌpiːs /

noun

1. an organization founded in 1971 that stresses the need to maintain a balance between human progress and environmental conservation. Members take active but nonviolent measures against what are regarded as threats to environmental safety, such as the dumping of nuclear waste in the sea

Greenpeace

1. An organization devoted to environmental activism, founded in the United States and Canada in 1971. Greenpeace has employed passive resistance in opposition to commercial whaling, the dumping of toxic waste into the sea, and nuclear testing . It is an example of an NGO .

Example Sentences

Video journalist Kieron Bryan was captured while filming a Greenpeace protest in the Arctic Circle.

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It took a couple of Greenpeace activists with liberal arts degrees to draw an obvious parallel.

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This will surely come as a surprise to 501(c)(3) Greenpeace.

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“I think wind energy and clean energy are regional and fairly bipartisan,” says Phil Radford, executive director at Greenpeace.

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Greenpeace dismissed the 56-page book to be signed by heads of state in Rio later this week as “pathetic.”

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