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Muriel

When I was 9 years old the neighbor wanted to extend the side of his house but the trees there were in the way. These were beautiful, gigantic Populus and I loved them so much. When the wind blew through the leaves it made the most amazing sound. I could sit in our garden for ages, just listening. But the neighbour didn’t care about the trees or the sound or the birds that nested there, so a company came to cut them down. I was so disturbed, angry and sad that I cried and screamed at the man while they tried to do their work. The neighbor got upset and my mother had to drag me inside so the workers could continue their work. The trees were cut and I was upset for weeks. A year later Greenpeace came to my school to introduce themselves and their cause and I immediately became an activist. I think I belong to a generation that needs some kind of revolution. Something to stand up for, something to care about, or simply something that gives hope for a better future. Greenpeace gives me exactly that.

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Nidhi

I am a daughter, wife, architect, designer, communicator, film maker, photographer and more but before everything else I think of myself as an activist, who wakes up every morning with single motive – to do at least a small thing that will save my planet from the upcoming hidden disasters.

It’s been more than a month when I joined Greenpeace. But if I think exactly when I started believing in myself and the power of change that we and only we can make to save our planet, it’s very hard to say. I remember the time during my Architectural graduation when we were asked to write our thesis on the topic of our choice and I decided to work with ‘Juveniles behind bars’. It was an amazing experience, and during that time I also made some commitments to myself that I am still trying to fulfil. And working with Greenpeace is one step towards the long journey.

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Melissa

Conveniently green is my favourite colour and I also like peace. What more to say? Kidding aside, no I really do like a lot of green things,...broccoli, willow trees, frogs, eery mountain lakes...

Having just joined the Communications team at GPI, I'm really excited about working towards the campaigns and looking forward to a bit of blogging here too! In the last few years I've lived in London, Tokyo and Amsterdam, worked in conservation, events, media/design and journalism, and spent some time in between traveling in different countries. Seeing some of the immense diversity and beauty of the world and its inhabitants made realize how much I want what Greenpeace wants... so here I am!

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Sasha

Originally from Vancouver, I moved to Amsterdam in June of 2008. My friend got me a job in an Irish pub, where I worked for almost a year. Sick of fuelling the needs of alcoholics, as well as of the ensuing problems (to be polite), I started volunteering for the Toxics and Agriculture campaigns at Greenpeace International. Now I'm a Media Analysis intern, which I'm quite pleased about as nothing in my job description involves getting covered in Guinness or breaking up fights between men twice my size, not to mention how cool it is to work for such an amazing organisation.

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Anne-Marije

When I was four, I wanted to be a police woman. As an eight-year-old, an archeologist. Then, a detective and later, a creative writer. Having lived in three countries and learned various languages along the way, I decided I should work for an international organization. I entered college interested in politics and wanting to work with the UNHCR but left as an activist journalist. Now, I am here at GPI as an Communications intern.

Activism plays a vital role in my life. I've stood up for refugees and child soldiers, civil rights and women's issues. I'm excited to add something as indispensable as the environment to my list.

Being a news junkie, I will blog about news events. I'll read the news, so you don't have to.

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Lisa

I am a British trouble maker, originally from Bermuda, and I have been involved with Greenpeace since 2004. I started off as a cyberactivist and won a competition to volunteer for Greenpeace in China. I then did a few stints as a web editor on board our ships, assisted our oceans campaigns as an intern, planned and coordinated an amazing project for the whales campaign "The Great Whale Trail" and now work as a Digital Communications Specialist at Greenpeace International in Amsterdam.

One day - I'd like to give up work altogether and live in an eco-friendly and self sustaining community somewhere sunny but before I do that I want to spend some time making the world a better place and I can't think of a better way to do that than through the internet, with Greenpeace.

Join me by becoming a cyberactivist
Follow me on twitter

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Adele

To paraphrase the wonderful Troy McClure, you may remember me from such campaigns as Defending Our Oceans, Come Back Whales! in Korea and various activities that always seemed to involve orange roughy costumes or cartoon musicals...don't ask me why. I am Australian, but Nick stole my song (and had the audacity to get the lyrics wrong, incidentally). It's ok though, as I'm rather geographically challenged - I have lived in Europe for most of the last 8 years. I'm also a Scandophile and a Mexican food aficianado. I started out with Greenpeace as a web editor in Amsterdam, and moved to Sydney and then Stockholm with "The Firm", as we affectionately call it (also "Hotel California", which is proving true for me).

I don't officially work for Greenpeace any more, but I still support them in any way I can. Which I guess is why I couldn't resist contributing to this blog ...

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Juliette

I graduated from armchair environmentalist to activist in the summer 2006, after traveling to Greece and seeing a lot of environmental damage done in one of the most beautiful countries I had ever visited - trash in the sea in particular, was disgusting. I turned to Greenpeace and soon became an online volunteer on the now closed Greenpeace forum and a real-life volunteer in a local group. After a while, I figured this was the real thing for me and snuck my way in Greenpeace International first as Online Activist Intern, and then as digital communications specialist for the Arctic Meltdown campaign.
I like traveling around the world equipped with a backpack and my computer. So far, I have lived in five countries, visited 14 and became fluent in three languages. I hope to make my list grow in future years.

(last updated on August 26 2009)

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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

I'm Eoin, which is Irish and sounds like "Owen".

[UPDATED March 2009] My wife and I just had a baby boy last November! ...But I suppose I should stick to writing about myself and how I got here. Here' goes: My mum's an environmentalist, so I started this stuff as a child. Campaigning to protect local wildlife habitats was a sort of gateway to international campaigns, then to peace and disarmament campaigns, and student activism, and politics and all sorts of fun.

Then in 2006 I got a job at Greenpeace International, and moved to Amsterdam. Since then I've been working on campaigns like climate change, genetic engineering, forests, oceans, and whatever else is going. (I work in the Communications department as an online organizer.)

I've only been on the Greenpeace ships while they were visiting Amsterdam, and though I'm told "you have to go", I'm quite happy with my feet on dry land for the moment.

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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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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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