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Richard

A web editor at Greenpeace International, originally from that place at the far end of the planet that is full of kangaroos. I write about forests and GE but occasionally i'm allowed out to play and do other stuff...like 'pulp fishin'.

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Adele

I'm originally Australian (watch out for the flies Nick!), but have lived in Amsterdam where I worked as a webbie for Greenpeace International. This involved a particularly interesting trip to Korea working out of a "love hotel" and trying to wean the lead campaigner off his addiction to fermented cabbage. When I got sick of living on cheese and being 2 feet shorter than everyone else in the Netherlands, I moved to Sydney where I worked at Greenpeace Australia coordinating the web work for the Defending our Oceans expedition. What was a 'year long journey' has become 15 months, so happily I'm still here and still coordinating. I'm based in lovely Stockholm (that's a slightly longer story). I am pleased to report I'm now apparently of average height and cheese is in rich supply.

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Martin

Developer, marketeer, salesman, consultant, copywriter, communications specialist and now project manager. I've done a lot of things in my time - some of them well. The carefully posed photograph doubtless gives me away as what I am - the lurking corporate presence at the heart of Greenpeace. I have worn suits for a living, I have given many, many powerpoint presentations including one entitled 'Mutating babies for fun and profit' which was received with what can only be described as shock and awe by a lecture room full of business students who had come to hear about ethics.

Everything in the above paragraph is true. Anything else I write - well - you take your chances.

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Jamie

A web editor of ill repute, I've been working for Greenpeace since early 2006. Forests and GM are my bread and butter but have been known to moonlight for other campaigns. I also seem to be involved in research mobile technologies as well, but I'm not sure how that happened. Along with most other people in the UK office, I live in north-east London but the family seat is in the remote north-west of England.

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Eoin

My name sounds like "Owen". I'm very new to Greenpeace, having joined in April 2006 as the Community Manager at Greenpeace International. Working and living here in Amsterdam is brilliant though, so I intend to hang around for a while!

A list of my hobbies and interests would read something like my job description -- basically I'm interested in getting technology and the internet to help people campaign better for stuff that matters.

My campaigning background is mostly with grassroots environmental and antiwar groups in Ireland, working on issues like wetlands/habitat protection, peace, disarmament, public participation/democracy and environmental justice.

Before moving to the Netherlands I lived in Ireland, the Czech Republic and France.

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Nick

I come from a land down under where women glow and men chunder ... well actually that's from a song about Australia but many of the same things apply here in New Zealand - just with fewer flies. I'd like to think it's a comment on the language rather than our habits but then again it is Australian...

Anyway, I work in the Greenpeace New Zealand office as the 'web manager' which, in a smallish office like ours, means I manage the website and myself. Lots of fun.

I've got my own weblog here that really doesn't get the attention it should - but you know how it is.

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Andrew

Ahoy!

I'm Andrew, from Washington, DC (and surrounding areas). I've been working for Greenpeace for years in the mistaken belief that there would be free pizza. Sadly no, or at least not yet, but I have been lucky enough to see and do some amazing and really important things.

For the now, I am on contract in Amsterdam as part of the Defending Our Oceans expedition. Join me, and thousands of others, as part of team Ocean Defenders.

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Lisa

I am a Bermudian and British trouble maker and I have been involved with Greenpeace since 2004.

Last year I planned and coordinated "The Great Whale Trail" for Greenpeace International having previously worked for the oceans campaign as an intern. I have also been a web editor in the office and on the ships.

I started off as a cyberactivist and won a competition to volunteer for Greenpeace in China.

When I am not working for Greenpeace I am volunteering for a local organisation in Bermuda that I set up with a group of like-minded folks and we've been successfully campaigning for sustainable development and the preservation of open spaces.

--Updated April 29th 2008 --

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Brian

My name is Brian Fitzgerald and I'm Online Communications Manager at Greenpeace International. I joined Greenpeace on February 11th, 1982 and have been put to work or volunteered over the years since then as an activist, deckhand, hot air balloon pilot, disarmament wonk, fundraiser, computer geek, speechwriter, gopher, senior manager, translator, press officer, legal assistant, and organic olive picker.

I live in Amsterdam. I don't own a car.

I proudly confess to having once been a long-haired hippy. In their day, Hippies led the charge to stop a war, challenged consumerism, questioned the worship of material wealth at all cost, and championed the values of love and respect for nature. Check, check, check, check, check. Hippy am I still.

You'll find more of my harumphs and hallelujahs at my personal website.

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Dave

Hi - I'm Dave Walsh, I'm from Ireland, and I'm a roving Greenpeace web editor. Right now I'm sitting at a desk on dry land, but I've spent a lot of the last couple of years on board ships like the Rainbow Warrior and the Esperanza, on trips like the 2006 Defending Oceans pirate fishing trip off West Africa and the 2007 trip to the Antarctic.

I'm recently back in Dublin after a year in the west coast of Ireland. I'm obsessed with bicycles and otters, but not at the same time. And I run a website called blather.net. Don't believe all you read there...

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