Definition of "Greenpeace"

One particularly exciting sequence shows how members of Greenpeace, a Canadian conservation group, defend whales fleeing from a huge Soviet whaler.

1975, Film news

Since its founding in 1970, Greenpeace has borne witness against environmental injustice through numerous non-violent direct actions.

1983, Vegetarian Times

Before the doors were opened the security guards were warned to look out for "Greenpeace types," not smartly dressed business women.

1989, Tom Rose, Freeing the Whales: How the Media Created the World's Greatest Non-Event, page 82

Greenpeace had reason to suspect that recent tests had opened a crack in the atoll, causing a serious radiation leak.

1990, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

A typical Greenpeace action in 1989 saw the organization in alliance with Spanish longline fishermen, angry that the continued use of driftnets was threatening their own livelihoods.

1991, Xavier Pastor, The Mediterranean, page 128

But hardcore Greenpeace types never listen to reason.

1995, Joseph John Phillips, Operation Elbow Room, page 30

Behind it was a typically bearded, casually dressed Greenpeace type.

1998, Robert I. Eaton, Thrust in Your Sickle But Watch Your Fingers, page 60

I mean it's certainly less polemical than having some Greenpeace types confront these hunters with Zodiacs and boycotts and insults in the media.

2002, Jim Nollman, The Beluga Café: My Strange Adventure With Art, Music, and Whales

You remember: the Greenpeace dropout who played chicken with the Soviet Navy.

2004, Matt Ruff, Sewer, Gas and Electric: The Public Works Trilogy, page 222

He's an eco-activist maverick, with a Greenpeace mentality when it comes to protecting his little feathered friends.

2012, Stephen M. Ringler, Fled to Mexico: If No One Knows They Were There Then It Didn't Happen, page 191