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With tiny budgets like $310 million, $100 million, and $95 million respectively, how can little guys like Greenpeace, Sierra Club, and NRDC *ever* hope to compete with mighty Heartland's $6.5 million?
Tom Nelson
Heartland is projecting a boost in revenues from $4.6 million in 2011, to $7.7 million in 2012. That will enable an operating budget of $6.5 million, as well as topping up the fund balance a further $1.2 million. Greenpeace International, based in...
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Known by the fishing industry as ‘bycatch’ these creatures are often thrown back into the sea injured, dead or dying. “FADs combined with purse seine nets are like ocean death traps and are responsible for an obscene waste of ocean life,” says...
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Miniature windmills have been set by activists of non-governmental environmental organization Greenpeace in front of Strasbourg's railway station, on February 11, 2012, during an action aimed at increasing public awareness of energetical transition. View Photo »
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I was a co-founder of Greenpeace, but then I saw the light about corporate logging, the nuclear business, DDT and Big Oil.
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The organization is making use of the attention Duke, which provides service throughout much of the Triad, has received concerning its pending $26 billion merger with Progress to press for environmental changes at the company. Greenpeace USA Executive...
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The group said today it has launched a campaign to make Duke "the clean energy company that North Carolina and the United States deserve." Greenpeace faults Duke for its use of coal and for what the group considers inaction on renewable energy. Duke...
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Greenpeace protesters hang an anti-coal banner from a Progress Energy power plant in Asheville. The organization is making use of the attention Duke has received concerning its pending $26 billion merger with Progress to press for environmental changes...
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Greenpeace activists dressed as giant eyeballs hold signs as they protest outside the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) in Tokyo February 8, 2012. Activists on Wednesday protested against the Japanese Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency... View Photo »
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Greenpeace Hitching Itself to Apple’s Star?
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USA Executive Director Phil Radford announced today a campaign to make Duke Energy the clean energy company that North Carolina and the United States deserve. The announcement follows a protest and demonstration Monday in which 16 Greenpeace activists...
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Keiller MacDuff, a spokeswoman for the group, said climbers reached the top of the stack, which she said is 400 feet high. They unfurled a banner: "Duke Energy: the climate needs real Progress." The action is part of a Greenpeace campaign targeting...
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Greenpeace is an international non-governmental organization for the protection and conservation of the environment. Greenpeace utilizes direct action, lobbying and research to achieve its goals. Greenpeace has a worldwide presence with national and regional offices in over 40 countries, which are affiliated to the Amsterdam-based Greenpeace... Full Article
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Kumi Naidoo, Executive Director of Greenpeace International gives a thumbs up during the 48th Conference on Security Policy in Munich February 3, 2012.
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MUNICH, GERMANY - FEBRUARY 03: Panel participant Kumi Naidoo, executive director of Greenpeace Internationa looks on during day 1of the 48th Munich Security Conference at Hotel Bayerischer Hof on February 3, 2012 in Munich, Germany. The 48th Munich conference on security policy is...
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MUNICH, GERMANY - FEBRUARY 03: Panel participants Kumi Naidoo (L), executive director of Greenpeace International and Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych chat together during day 1of the 48th Munich Security Conference at Hotel Bayerischer Hof on February 3, 2012 in Munich, Germany. ...
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(L-R) Kumi Naidoo, executive director of Greenpeace, Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, and Carl Bildt, Swedish minister of foreign affairs, participate in a panel discussion during the opening day of Munich Security Conference in Munich, southern Germany, on February 3, 2012. The...
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A gendarme passes by Greenpeace activists holding banners reading "Save Rosia Montana" after they stormed Romania's environment minister office in central Bucharest January 31, 2012. Greenpeace activists stormed Romania's environment ministry on Tuesday, chaining themselves inside the...
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Romania's Environment Minister Laszlo Borbely (L) gestures to Greenpeace activists who stormed his office in central Bucharest January 31, 2012. Greenpeace activists stormed Romania's environment ministry on Tuesday, chaining themselves inside the minister's office, trying to sway him...
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Shoppers browse a fruit and vegetable display in a supermarket in Hong Kong, 18 April 2006. Hong Kong supermarkets dumped vegetable stocks amid a new food scare after pressure group Greenpeace accused grocery chains of selling produce tainted with dangerous levels of pesticides.
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Greenpeace activists set fire to the chemical sign of carbon dioxide that is mounted on a boat on Templin near the venue of a party leaders' meeting of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) to protest against the local state premier's energy policies in Potsdam near Berlin, January 29, 2012.
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Activist of environmental group Greenpeace pile up coal outside the venue of a party leaders' meeting of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) in protest of the local state premier's energy policies in Potsdam near Berlin, January 29, 2012. The writing reads: "Dear SPD, Brandenburg State...
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Kumi Naidoo, Greenpeace International director, speaks during the "public eye awards" on the sideline of the 42nd annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, WEF, in Davos, Switzerland, Friday, Jan. 27, 2012. The meeting lasts until Jan. 29.
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WASHINGTON - JANUARY 25: Phil Radford, executive director of Greenpeace USA, poses for pictures at the Washington, DC screening of 'Big Miracle' on January 23, 2012 in Washington, DC.
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Kumi Naidoo, Executive Director, Greenpeace International, attends a session at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, January 26, 2012.
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Kumi Naidoo, Executive Director of Greenpeace International, gestures as he joins protesters from the 'Corporations on the Leash' outside the 42nd annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, WEF, in Davos, Switzerland, Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012.
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Supporters of the two Environmental group Greenpeace activists who are judged on January 24, 2012, at Privas court, southwestern France, wait in front of the court with boards reading 'Thanks !'. French Vincent Roquelore and Julien Andre entered on December 2011 Cruas nuclear power...
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Supporters of the two Environmental group Greenpeace activists who are judged on January 24, 2012, at Privas court, southwestern France, wait in front of the court. French Vincent Roquelore and Julien Andre entered on December 2011 Cruas nuclear power plant as part of a Greenpeace...
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The two Environmental group Greenpeace activists, French Vincent Roquelore (foreground,L) and Julien Andre (2nd ground, 2ndL) are welcome by supporters hanging boards reading 'Thanks! They entered on December 2011 Cruas nuclear power plant as parto of a Greenpeace operation to...
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The two Environmental group Greenpeace activists, French Julien Andre (R) and Vincent Roquelore (C), arrive on January 24, 2012, at Privas court, southwestern France, for their trial. They entered on December 2011 Cruas nuclear power plant as parto of a Greenpeace operation to highlight...
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(L-R) President of Azerbaijan Ilham Heydar oglu Aliyev, EU Commissioner Guenther Oettinger, Michael Diekmann, chairman of the board of management of Allianz SE, Kumi Naidoo, executive director of Greenpeace, Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, and Carl Bildt, Swedish minister of...
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Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych (R) talks with Kumi Naisoo, executive director of Greenpeace speak on the opening day of Munich Security Conference in Munich, southern Germany, on February 3, 2012. The Security Conference is a three-day event bringing together top defence and...
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Seven on nine Environmental group Greenpeace activists are pictured as they wait for their trial on January 20, 2012, at the court in Troyes, eastern France. Last month, the nine persons managed to sneak into the nuclear power plant in Nogent-sur-Seine, south-east of Paris, to highlight...
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Environmental group Greenpeace activists hold a banner which partially reads : 'Citizenship is not a crime, stop with lies and disinformation, thanks ...', as they protest on January 20, 2012, near the court in Troyes, eastern France, where nine activists are judged today. Last month,...
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Greenpeace activists attend a protest against effects of using coal energy at the Ministry of Energy in Bangkok January 19, 2012.
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Kumi Naidoo, Executive Director of Greenpeace International gives a thumbs up during the 48th Conference on Security Policy in Munich February 3, 2012.
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