How did you come to be working on Greenpeace ships?
I have been crazy about the environment since I was a kid, but at the beginning of 2004 I read an article in the Ecologist magazine about Emily Craddock, who had recently died while on the MV Arctic Sunrise in the Amazon. She was an amazing person and I was really inspired to follow in her footsteps, so I joined Greenpeace as a supporting member and became a cyberactivist always hoping that one day I would make it onto a ship somehow. I won a cyberactivist competition in 2004 and was given the chance to go to China and write the weblog for a campaign against GE rice. I can't explain how I felt when Greenpeace asked me to come back and work on the ships!
What do you do when you are not on board?
I am a Ph.D student researching a critically endangered species of lizard in Bermuda and I also have a part time job as therapist for a 9 year old boy who is overcoming Autism. In my spare time I organise environmental activism in Bermuda, manage an online environmental discussion forum, teach scuba diving (always for free) and am frequently involved with conservation projects and environmental education for children. I also love kayaking and photography.
What is your favorite thing to do on the ship?
Watch dolphins!
If you could change one thing in the world, what would it be?
I would give all the animals and plants the ability to communicate with humans (or the other way around) so that it would be a lot harder for us to destroy things like rainforests, which could tell us exactly how they felt about it. Basically I would give the environment a REAL voice.
Comments
Hi Lisa,
Great blog, keep up the good work.
Posted by: Lamna nasus at July 31, 2005 04:40 PM
Hi Lisa, my name is Txibe, i live in a town near Bilbao in Basque Country (Spain). I have been reading your comments. I donīt remember when i become a cyberactivist but i like very much to take action. I have been in the greenpeace ZORBA ship (Mallorca) and i felt in love with dolphins. I have been at university studing biochemstry and now i'm working in a bioinformatic enterprise but in my spare time i like send e-mails to my friends to take action with you, so i hope i will continue helping you as much as posible.
Thank you for the descriptions of the travel
Posted by: Txibe at July 29, 2005 10:27 AM
Hi Kieron. Thanks for your comments. Since volunteering and working with Greenpeace I have seen rice growing on the mountains of Yunnan in South East China and interacted with many different communities, which are threatened by the dangers from the possible commercialisation of GE rice. I have seen whales, which are threatened by "science" in Iceland and I am about to witness, out here in international waters, what many scientists now consider to be the biggest threat to deep sea life, bottom trawling.
Posted by: Lisa (web editor) at July 28, 2005 05:14 PM
I started reading this entire weblog today Lisa! I have been reading your wonderful words for the past two hours! Thank You for telling everyone about your voyage and I hope you will continue posting messages to us.
Posted by: Kieron Barnes at July 27, 2005 03:23 PM
