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| Website | www.microsoft.com |
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| Founded | 1975, by Bill Gates |
| Headquarters | Redmond , Washington United States |
| Industry | Computers |
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A brief overview of your interest group (be sure to put its name in bold in the first sentence) and the scope of the article goes here.[1]
The following list of sections should serve as a loose guideline for developing the body of your article. The works cited in references 2-5 are all fake; their purpose is to serve as a formatting model for your own citations.
History
Their mission was to "bear witness" to U.S. underground nuclear testing at Amchitka, a tiny island off the West Coast of Alaska, which is the world most earthquake prone regions. This simple fact shows that the founders of Greenpeace where in deed very brave souls, to had taken the chance of risking their lives to promote the well being of our earth.
Amchitka was the last refuge for 3000 endangered sea otters, and the home to bald eagles, peregrine falcons and other wildlife. Although the sail to Amchitka was intercepted, it spike a worldwide interest. People wanted to know more about what was going on in the world, and became more and more interested in the saftey of wildlife. Although the U.S. carried out there mission and detonated the bomb on the coast, the message was loud and clear, because nuclear testing ended that same year and the island was later declared a bird sanctuary.
Greenpeace is an international organization that continues to grow today. Although there are many people around the world that try to bring attention to the dangers we face in everyday society, dangers that can prevented, Greenpeace definitely gives light to the most prominate issues our planet faces. One voice can make a difference and history surely proves that. Greenpeace priorities global environmental champains and has many supporters all over the world.
Founding of Greenpeace
There is no one founder to the Greenpeace organization. A small group of inspired, committed citizens came together in 1971 to help create Greenpeace. Not knowing that they would become known as the founders of the Greenpeace organization, these determined activists set out on a mission to protest U.S. nuclear testing off the coast of Alaska, after setting sail on an old boat from Canada. Willing to place themselves in harms way, despite being intercepted by the U.S. Coast Guard, these brave activist sailed into history by bringing worldwide attention to the dangers of nuclear testing. This was just the beginning, by bring attention to the dangers of nuclear waste in Alaska, they also brought attention to some of the other issues that threaten our. Thus, providing information on ways to help decrease and possibly eliminate these issues, and make our planet a better and safer place for everyone and everything in it.
Current objectives and activities
This section should discuss the group's current initiatives and tactics for influencing political outcomes (which may or may not be very different from its original goals and modus operandi).[2]
Organizational structure
This section should describe the group's organizational structure, including its principal leadership positions and their current incumbents.[3]
Achievements
August 2009: In a tremendous victory for ancient forests, Kimberly-Clark, the company that makes popular brands like Kleenex, Scott, and Cottonelle, announced a new policy that places it among the industry leaders in sustainability, bringing our Kleercut campaign to a successful completion.
February 2009: Philips announced a change in its recycling policy, taking responsibility for the cost of recycling its own products. Greenepace had been calling on Philips since 2007 to stop actively opposing laws that would oblige electronics producers to accept financial responsibility for the recycling of their own products.
January 2009: The U.S. Minerals Management Service issued a favorable Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) for the Cape Wind project, a windfarm of 130 turbines to be built in Nantucket Sound off the coast of Cape Cod, Massachusetts. This was the final federal environmental report needed for the long-delayed and much scrutinized project to finally move forward.
November 2008: A 20 percent reduction in the number of whales targeted in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary hunt this year was announced — the first reduction by Japanese whalers since 1987.
September 2008: Greenpeace teamed up with Ben & Jerry's to bring climate-friendly freezers to the United States. The GreenFreeze technology was developed by Greenpeace in 1992 as one of our first direct market interventions and has already reshaped the refrigeration and cooling industries of Europe and Asia. We're proud to have helped bring the technology to America.
July 2008: In an exciting victory for children in the United States, President Bush signed into law national product-safety legislation. The new law ensures that toys and child-care products will be free from brain-damaging materials like lead and several types of phthalates. This issue had a large amount of public support, with thousands of Greenpeace activists taking action and writing their members of Congress.
July 2008: In a huge victory for the oceans, it was announced that two large supermarket chains will stop selling shark, orange roughy, and Chilean sea bass until their populations rebound. This announcement came on the heels of our supermarket ranking report in which Greenpeace called on 20 of the top U.S. supermarket retailers to improve their seafood purchasing practices and stop selling destructively and overfished seafood. Chilean sea bass, orange roughy, and shark were at the top of our "red list."
May 2008: Just five days after Greenpeace launched a new campaign against Unilever, which makes Dove beauty products, the company announced plans to support our call for a moratorium on rainforest destruction in Indonesia. This was fantastic news for the highly endangered orangutan, whose forest home has been destroyed at an alarming rate, in large part due to the production of palm oil, a key ingredient in many of Unilever food and cosmetic products.
April 2008: Greenpeace discovered a new species of sponge living in the Bering Sea. The new sponge species, Aaptos kanuux, is named for the Aleut word for "heart" and was discovered in the deep underwater canyons of the Bering Sea. We journeyed to the Bering Sea in 2007 to document previously unexplored canyon habitats to strengthen the case for protecting these important areas. These findings underscore the unique nature of these canyons.
January 2008: Dugongs, relatives of manatees, scored a temporary victory against the United States military when a federal judge in San Francisco ruled that the Department of Defense is in violation of the National Historic Preservation Act for failing to consider the impacts of a new airbase on the dugong in order to avoid or mitigate any harm.
December 2007: In a victory for forests, the World Bank's private lending arm, the International Finance Corporation (IFC), decided to sell its equity stake in Olam International Limited. Olam's involvement in illegal timber trade was first detailed in our Carving up the Congo report.
December 2007: The Irish Government announced what will be the EU's first ban on energy-wasting incandescent lightbulbs, to be implemented by as early as January 2009. This simple but historic step came as governments met in Bali to discuss next steps on tackling the global climate emergency.
November 2007: Target Corporation agreed to reduce its use of PVC in packaging and children's products, such as lunch boxes, bibs, shower curtains and fashion accessories. Greenpeace supporters and activists had rallied behind our call to Target to get toxic PVC out of our stores.
November 2007: Together with other environmental groups, Greenpeace got 1.5 million signatures of support and pushed through Argentina's first federal forest protection law. The new law included a nationwide one-year moratorium on clearing of native forests while forest management regulations are put in place.
August 2007: After six years of working on chemical security, Greenpeace had a major win as Congress approved an amendment that increases public safety by re-routing ultra-toxic rail cargo around densely populated areas, which President Bush signed the bill into law.
May 2007: After four years of Greenpeace campaigning to bring an end to deep-sea bottom trawling, representatives from countries around the world gathered in Chile to carve out a fisheries agreement for the South Pacific region.
May 2, 2007: Apple announced a phase-out of the most dangerous chemicals in its product line in response to our Webby-award winning online campaign and the thousands of Apple fans worldwide who took action. The "Green My Apple" campaign challenged Apple to become a green leader in addressing the electronic waste problem.
March 2007: The New Zealand government announced cancellation of a proposed coal-burning power plant. Greenpeace and local activists had mounted a four-year struggle that involved a nine-day occupation, high court challenges, protest marches, a record numbers of public submissions, Surfers Against Sulphur, public meetings, and a pirate radio station.
February 2007: In a major blow to the UK government's plans to reinvigorate nuclear power, the High Court ruled their decision to back a program of new nuclear power stations was unlawful on the basis that they had failed to adequately consult citizens and groups who oppose nuclear power as a dangerous distraction from real solutions to climate change.
There victories are the less of many victories of Greenpeace. This organization has progressed and accomplished many goals since there founding in 1971. For more information on achievements and victories on the listings above, please refer back to the Greenpeace organizational website, www.greenpeace.org.
Public perception and controversies
In developing this final section, be especially careful about maintaining a neutral stance and tone. Your aim should be to document the public's perception of your group and/or any controversies in which it is or has been embroiled without weighing in with your own opinion about them.
References
- ↑ See the "Writing an Encyclopedia Article" handout for more details.
- ↑ "The Things We Do and How We Do Them," Interest Group X. 2006. Retrieved July 21, 2009 from http://www.interestgroupx.org/things_we_do.html
- ↑ First Author and Second Author, "The Organizational Structure of Interest Group X," Fake Journal of Nonexistent Scholarship 36:2 (2015) pp. 36-52.
- ↑ "www.greenpeace.org," website, Oct 1, 2009, p. 1.