Encyclopedia of Global Resources part 61 provides a wide variety of perspectives on both traditional and more recent views of Earth's resources. It serves as a bridge connecting the domains of resource exploitation, environmentalism, geology, and biology, and it explains their interrelationships in terms that students and other nonspecialists can understand. The articles in this set are extremely diverse, with articles covering soil, fisheries, forests, aluminum, the Industrial Revolution, the . Department of the Interior, the hydrologic cycle, glass, and placer mineral deposits. . | 548 Greenpeace Global Resources Summit Environmental law in the United States Gore Al Kyoto Protocol United Nations climate change conferences United Nations Convention on Long-Range Transboundar y Air Pollution United Nations Environment Programme. Greenpeace Category Organizations agencies and programs Date Established 1969 Greenpeace is an international environmental watchdog organization concerned with protecting the Earth s natural resources. Background Greenpeace evolved from activists concerns about nuclear testing near Alaska in the late 1960 s. Fearing catastrophic environmental damage the organization s founders relied on confrontational tactics to draw attention to their cause. Notably Greenpeace members sought to bear witness Simply being present where a wrongdoing was committed symbolized one s objection to the act. This approach could entail such perilous and controversial tactics as sailing right up to a proposed nuclear test site and daring officials to set off devices with humans within the safety zone. Impact on Resource Use The idea of bearing witness expanded to include several other campaigns intended to protect the Earth s natural resources and maintain biodiversity. Its activities on behalf of marine life especially whales and seals represented Greenpeace s fight to protect wildlife from human destruction. Through showdown encounters with whaling vessels and seal hunters Greenpeace joined an international call for a decrease in and ultimately the halting of whale and seal hunting. Other environmental issues soon moved the organization into new arenas. Campaigns emerged to arouse people s concern and educate the world to the environmental dangers associated with hazardous waste dumping toxic chemical production and global warming. Greenpeace s techniques although often controversial brought international notice to its causes. The organization proved successful in raising public awareness of threats to the Earth s natural resources and calling
