Mini Project 1

Greenpeace

“Their first mission was to protest against U.S. nuclear testing off the coast of Alaska. That was more than thirty years ago. (1971). The committed activists and supporters of Greenpeace have come together to ban commercial whaling, convince the world’s leaders to stop nuclear testing, protect Antarctica, and so much more. Greenpeace is an international organization with offices in more than 30 countries. They all fight together to save the planet! Some of their issues includes: threat of global warming, destruction of ancient forests, deteriorations of our oceans, and the threat of nuclear disaster, toxics, and genetic engineering.

Greenpeace is the leading independent campaigning organization that uses peaceful direct action and creative communication to expose global environmental problems and to promote solutions that are essential to a green and peaceful future”. (www.greenpeace.com, retrieved 3/10/2008).

National Resource Defense Council

“NRDC use law, science, and the support of 1.2 million members to protect the planet’s wildlife and wild places to ensure a safe and healthy environment for all living things. Since 1970 they have worked to restore the integrity of the elements that sustain life- air, land and water- and to defend endangered natural places.

They have an air/energy program, a health program, an international program, a land program, a nuclear program, an urban program, and a water/oceans program”. (www.nrdc.org, retrieved 3/10/2008).

Wild Spots Foundation

“This foundation has worked toward preserving endangered and threatened species through science, education, technology, and the visual arts since 1985. The Wild Spots Foundation also works to promote and protect biodiversity throughout the world, to provide aesthetic and symbolic value for human culture, to preserve sacred and historic lands, to support and exploit the concept of transformative value, to follow the principles of stewardship, and to educate and involve youth”. (www.wildspotfoundation.org, retrieved 3/10/2008).

If I were to join one of these organizations, I would join Greenpeace. Out of the three, that is the only one I’ve heard of, and after reading about the three different organizations I discovered that it is also the one with the most members. Greenpeace have 250.000 members in the U.S. alone, and 2.5 million members worldwide. In this case I believe in the saying: ‘The more, the merrier’. So the more members an organization has, the more of a difference it can make. It looks like the three organizations are working toward pretty much the same goal: a better world; and I firmly believe that if they would join and work together they could make even more of a difference in the world than what they are doing today.