Greenpeace Greenpeace Greenpeace is a non-governmental environmental organization with offices in over 39 countries and with an international coordinating body in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Greenpeace was founded in 1971 by Irving Stowe and Dorothy Stowe, Canadian and US ex-pat environmental activists. 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 global organization does not accept funding from governments,
Greenpeace – The Album on 19 August 1985, over a month after the sinking of Greenpeace's flagship, the "Rainbow Warrior". The album cover contains a photo of the ship taken by Dutch freelance photographer Fernando Pereira, who was killed in the sinking.<ref name="Benarde/SS">Scott Benarde, "Brits Cut An Album To Aid Greenpeace", "Sun-Sentinel", 23 August 1985 (retrieved 30 November 2017).</ref> "Greenpeace – The Album" was inspired by two similar multi-artist musical projects compiled in Denmark and West Germany. According to Greenpeace activist Tom Campbell, the UK project was conceived as a relatively minor undertaking, but "the thing snowballed, with more and more acts volunteering songs