Definitions for Greenpeace
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1. Greenpeacenoun

   an international organization that works for environmental conservation and the preservation of endangered species

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1. Greenpeacenoun

   A direct-action environmental organization.

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1. Greenpeace

   Greenpeace is an independent global campaigning network, founded in Canada in 1971 by Irving Stowe and Dorothy Stowe, immigrant environmental activists from the United States. Greenpeace states its goal is to "ensure the ability of the Earth to nurture life in all its diversity" and focuses its campaigning on worldwide issues such as climate change, deforestation, overfishing, commercial whaling, genetic engineering, and anti-nuclear issues. It uses direct action, lobbying, research, and ecotage to achieve its goals. The network comprises 26 independent national/regional organisations in over 55 countries across Europe, the Americas, Africa, Asia and the Pacific, as well as a co-ordinating body, Greenpeace International, based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.The global network does not accept funding from governments, corporations, or political parties, relying on three million individual supporters and foundation grants. Greenpeace has a general consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council and is a founding member of the INGO Accountability Charter, an international non-governmental organization that intends to foster accountability and transparency of non-governmental organizations. Greenpeace is known for its direct actions and has been described as one of the most visible environmental organisations in the world. It has raised environmental issues to public knowledge, and influenced both the private and the public sector. The organization has received criticism; it was the subject of an open letter from more than 100 Nobel laureates urging Greenpeace to end its campaign against genetically modified organisms (GMOs). The organisation's direct actions have sparked legal actions against Greenpeace activists, such as fines and suspended sentences for destroying a test plot of genetically modified wheat and, according to the Peruvian Government, damaging the Nazca Lines, a UN World Heritage site.

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1. greenpeace

   Greenpeace is an international non-governmental organization dedicated to the protection and conservation of the environment. It was founded in 1971 and works on various environmental issues such as climate change, deforestation, overfishing, pollution, and endangered species. Greenpeace operates through direct action, lobbying, research, and education to raise awareness and advocate for environmental policy change.

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1. Greenpeace

   Greenpeace is a non-governmental environmental organization with offices in over forty countries and with an international coordinating body in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Greenpeace states its goal is to "ensure the ability of the Earth to nurture life in all its diversity" and focuses its campaigning on world wide issues such as global warming, deforestation, overfishing, commercial whaling, genetic engineering, and anti-nuclear issues. Greenpeace uses direct action, lobbying and research to achieve its goals. The global organization does not accept funding from governments, corporations or political parties, relying on 2.9 million individual supporters and foundation grants. Greenpeace has a general consultative status in the United Nations Economic and Social Council and is a founding member of the INGO Accountability Charter; an international non-governmental organization that intends to foster accountability and transparency of non-governmental organizations. Greenpeace evolved from the peace movement and anti-nuclear protests in Vancouver, British Columbia, in the late 1960s and early 1970s. On September 15, 1971, the newly founded Don't Make a Wave Committee sent a chartered ship, Phyllis Cormack, renamed Greenpeace for the protest, from Vancouver to oppose United States testing of nuclear devices in Amchitka, Alaska. The Don't Make a Wave Committee subsequently adopted the name Greenpeace.

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1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Greenpeace in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Greenpeace in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of Greenpeace in a Sentence

1. Patty Long:

   We are aware that several prominent brands that are members of The Plastics Industry Association have been targeted by a persistent Greenpeace USA Oceans Campaign activist campaign to pressure them to leave our association.

2. Vinuta Gopal:

   It's been a tough year ... where one has felt that this could well mean the end of Greenpeace in the India, the signal that they are sending by making a case out of Greenpeace to larger civil society is that if you challenge our policies then we will come after you.

3. Shaun Burnie:

   These, together with other radionuclides in the water will remain hazardous for thousands of years with the potential to cause genetic damage. Greenpeace Germany's one more reason why these plans have to be abandoned.

4. Frederic Hauge:

   Greenpeace and others opposed to CCS aren’t taking global warming seriously.

5. Cristiane Mazzetti:

   In 2020, despite the prohibition of the use of fire and with the armed forces in the field since mid-May, the fires are still uncontrolled in Greenpeace Amazon, proving once again the inefficiency of the government, the figures show that the strategy adopted by the federal government is inefficient to contain the destruction of the most biodiverse forest on the planet.

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1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
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