Making Waves: The Origin and Future of Greenpeace

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Summary: Brave, humble addition to the history of Greenpeace
Review: With a few thousand dollars scraped together through a charity Joni Mitchell and James Taylor concert, a raggle taggle collection of hippies and peace activists charter a leaky fishing boat and set off to stop a nuclear bomb.

This is a very personal account of one of Greenpeace's founders: the story of his flight from weapons work, his move to Canada to shield his son from the Vietnam war, his providing a safe house for other peace protestors in Vancouver, and his lifelong committment to peace, alternative energy, and stepping lightly on the earth.

And the famous journey of the first Greenpeace vessel.

For a complete picture of that voyage, Bob Hunter's Warriors of the Rainbow remains the best read, and David McTaggart's "Journey into the Bomb" presents an alternative take on the founding of the environmental organisation. Bohlen tells his story matter of factly, a quiet, often remarkable story of alternative thinking and deep personal committment.