Greenpeace's Quarterly Magazine
Compass, Greenpeace’s quarterly members’ magazine, is a field report on the campaigns our members are helping wage around the world. By clicking the buttons below, you’ll travel from our Greenpeace Fund website to Greenpeace, Inc., where you can access the current and previous versions of Compass e-magazine’s high-definition videos, photos, and interactive content.
Greenpeace USA believes in the public’s right to know about what’s happening to our planet—that’s why we dig into the nitty-gritty of environmental problems, to figure out the “who, what, where, when, why, and how.” Our investigations expose environmental crimes for all the world to see, and the people, companies, and governments that need to be held responsible.
Greed isn’t green. From fossil fuels to plastics to logging, mining, overfishing, and industrial agriculture, the relentless pursuit of corporate profits is driving the climate crisis and destroying our forests, oceans, air, and earth.
Over the last 50 years our movement has grown far beyond the wildest imaginations of those first Greenpeacers who set sail to stop a nuclear bomb. Today there are millions of Greenpeace activists, organizers, researchers, investigators, issue experts, volunteers, and supporters taking action together to change the world.
In this moment two possible futures are before
us—one in which the Biden administration and
members of Congress deliver on promises to
prioritize climate and environmental justice, and
the other in which fossil fuel corporations escape
accountability for their decades of pollution and
deceit. Which future will today’s policymakers in
power deliver?
As soon as the 2020 election was called, Greenpeace jumped into action campaigning for our new president to reject all fossil fuel industry executives, lobbyists, and representatives from the administration, transition team, and cabinet. Voters delivered a clear mandate for our elected officials to act on climate. The story we’ve been told by corporate elites is that the inequitable, polluting economy they have built is inevitable. But our story says that the just, green, and peaceful future we deserve is possible, and together we are working to build the power to turn that vision into a reality.
To tell the full story of the last 50 years since Greenpeace first set sail would take more than a single issue of Compass can hold. Yet we hope what you see in these pages gives you a glimpse of how much we’ve changed the world. Because together, we have. Together we’ve won hundreds of victories for people, wildlife, and the planet — wins both big and small, and some history-making, too.
This year has challenged us as a society. At Greenpeace, we have seen our campaigners and supporters work harder than ever before to take on the most urgent fights during this pandemic, all while making sure we don’t lose ground for the big campaigns ahead. Read about what we have been working on because of your support.
We’re working to stop massive polluters from benefiting while the climate and people suffer. This crisis has also laid bare injustices which Black, Brown, and working class communities have felt for centuries: lack of health care and paid sick leave, and a system that prioritizes elites over the health of people and the planet. We need to highlight these injustices and build a better tomorrow.
Greenpeace’s “Pole to Pole” expedition now reaches its finale. The ship’s crews and campaigners teamed up with scientists and researchers to study the state of our oceans, making both exciting discoveries and also gathering alarming data. The impact of the climate crisis has far-reaching implications, requiring an urgent response. With this, Greenpeace’s climate campaigns are escalating and amplifying.
On September 20th, millions around the world went on strike in the youth-led movement to demand urgent measures to stop the climate crisis. Unfortunately, when the United Nations Climate Action Summit convened, this call went largely unheeded. Because we desperately need true climate leadership, Greenpeace is working hard to make the climate emergency a central election issue.
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