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...coined the term Rainbow Warriors to describe the environmental group's hard-charging activists; of prostate cancer; in Toronto. The brusque former journalist deftly manipulated the media with clever, spectacular events and slogans that inspired maximum TV coverage and generated public support for such Greenpeace campaigns as stopping whale hunting, protecting baby seals and reforming logging practices...
...Greenpeace's media-savvy co-founder, who coined the term Rainbow Warriors to describe the environmental group's hard-charging activists; of prostate cancer; in Toronto. The brusque former journalist devised clever slogans and spectacular events to garner maximum TV coverage for such campaigns as those to stop whale hunting, protect baby seals and reform logging practices...
...Just last month, another Equator Principles member, Credit Suisse First Boston, found itself the target of new global protests for its decision to underwrite Shell's controversial Sakhalin II pipeline in the northern Pacific, a project environmentalists say threatens the endangered Western gray whale. Without adequate transparency and monitoring of sensitive projects, ngos fear the Equator Principles will become meaningless. "What good is a series of principles like this is if you can't verify that they are being applied on a project-by-project basis?" asks Oil Change's Kretzmann. "Equator banks are saying to people 'Trust...
...Save the Seals by Skipping Scallops?" [April 4], about the protest against Canada's government-sanctioned seal hunts in which baby seals are clubbed to death: I agree with the Humane Society of the U.S.'s boycott of all Canadian seafood. In many former whale-hunting areas, the locals earn their income from whale-watching tours. Let's turn the tide from baby-seal slaughter to seal watching...
...their income," says Geoff Regan, Canada's Minister of Fisheries and Oceans. But animal-rights activists are betting that because the U.S. buys nearly two-thirds of Canada's exported seafood, a boycott will inspire the industry to end the hunt. They also contend that Newfoundland, a former whaling hub that now makes a bundle from whale watching, can overcome the economic disruption. "That kind of cultural shift has happened before," says Canadian environmental activist Rick Smith. "We can do the same with seals." --By Julie Rawe. With reporting by Tom Duffy