A great deal has been written about the beginnings of Greenpeace. The running gag being that you can find a founder in every bar in Vancouver.  I would posit: that is not far from the truth.  Without the strength of the counterculture in Vancouver and the various communities of activists engaged in numerous causes coalescing More

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