Environmental Pioneers Profile # 24: The “Don’t Make a Wave Committee” Were the Founders of Greenpeace

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Living on Earth producer George Homsy details the maiden voyage in 1971 and the founders of what has come to be known worldwide as the environmental protection and antiwar pressure group Greenpeace. This is the penultimate of our 25 profiles series.

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