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95% Tomatometer 21 Reviews 87% Audience Score 250+ Ratings Filmmaker Jerry Rothwell examines the early days of Greenpeace and co-founder Bob Hunter's commitment to environmental issues. Read...
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Jan 23, 2015 · Jerry Rothwell's documentary focuses on human dynamics among Greenpeace's founding activists. “How to Change the World” charts the earliest days of Greenpeace as a group of...
Whatever you think of Greenpeace's less well-considered antics over the years, How to Change the World is a compelling story of one environmentalist's remarkable combination of...
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- Greatest Strength
- Reaped Rewards
- Simple Story
- Social Obligation
- Power to Change
Whether it was a boatload of peace activists sailing into the forbidden zone around a nuclear weapons test site or a tiny rubber boat defying a harpoon or mud-covered monkey-wrenchers shutting down a toxic waste pipe, they were creating simple, black and white stories of ordinary people who believed a better world was possible, standing up against ...
Arguably, the naivety of which they were accused was their greatest strength: they were a bunch of young people who thought they could change the world. Not knowing any better, they did. It’s a story of a different time, and a different organisation. Or is it? Over the course of my 34-year voyage under the Greenpeace flag, the world has changed pro...
We’ve also reaped the rewards, and paid the price, of becoming an institution in the global spotlight. Our name is a calling card that will get us in the door at most corporate headquarters — though often with an additional security check. Through the generosity of millions, we’ve been able to keep three ships and offices in 55 countries going with...
The Greenpeace story is simple. It’s this: We believe a better, more sustainable world is possible, and that brave collective and individual action can bring it to life. What we say today is exactly what we said in 1972: we can change the way we feed and fuel our world, we can live in greater harmony with our planet and ourselves. It’s that simple....
A future which can support 7 billion people without destroying our future is already out there. It lives in Elon Musk’s decision to open source the Tesla electric car and the “Powerwall” batteries which will enable intermittent renewable sources to reliably power entire buildings. It lives in Costa Rica’s decision to abolish its military and repurp...
The power to change our future doesn’t reside with Greenpeace, the environmental institution, it resides with every human being confronted with the fiercely urgent evidence that we need to embrace transformational change, or perish in our commitment to business as usual. The forces of an entrenched status quo, be they oil companies, coal barons, or...
Oct 29, 2015 · “How to Change the World,” Jerry Rothwell’s engrossing documentary about the origins of Greenpeace, the environmental activist group, may sound triumphant. But while the film, polished...
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Sep 9, 2015 · In 1971, a group of friends sail into a nuclear test zone, and their protest captures the world's imagination. Using never before seen archive that brings their extraordinary world to life, How To Change The World is the story of the pioneers who founded Greenpeace and defined the modern green movement.
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Oct 30, 2015 · By Michael Rechtschaffen. Oct. 29, 2015 5:10 PM PT. While “Save the Whales” has long been the battle cry of the Greenpeace organization, it turns out there was initially a different cause on their...
