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Robert Lorne Hunter (October 13, 1941 – May 2, 2005) was a Canadian environmentalist, journalist, author and politician. He was a member of the Don't Make a Wave Committee in 1969, and a co-founder of Greenpeace in 1971 and its first president.
- Greenpeace Founding Member Dead at 63
- Mind Bombs
- Sailing Into The Bomb
- Greenpeace Bears His Mark
- Shaman, Mystic
- Warriors of The Rainbow
- Storymaster
- Awful Child
- Journalism as Opinion
- Advisor, Speaker, Comedian-In-Chief
Perhaps more than anyone else, Bob Hunter invented Greenpeace. His death on May 2nd 2005, of cancer, marks the passing of a true original, one of the heroes of the environmental movement. In 1971, the word “Greenpeace” hadn’t yet been coined. Bob was a hippy journalist in Vancouver, a town which he described as having “the biggest concentration of ...
A student of Marshall McLuhan, he was bent on changing the world with what he termed “media mindbombs” — consciousness-changing sounds and images to blast around the world in the guise of news. He got involved with a few folks in a church basement who wanted to stop a US nuclear weapons test off Amchitka, which he called the “Don’t Make a Wave Comm...
But their plans were going nowhere until Marie Bohlen suggested that the group simply sail a ship into the test site. Bob thought it was a perfect “mindbomb,” and on September 15, 1971, he and 11 other rag-tag activists would sail out to challenge the greatest military force on Earth in a rusting fishing boat they called “The Greenpeace.” In doing ...
Over the next decade, Bob’s madcap creativity, strategic smarts, and hard-nosed journalistic sense of story would indelibly mark the Greenpeace brand of action. From the pack ice of Newfoundland, where he dyed the whitecoats of Harp Seal pups to make them commercially worthless, to the Pacific Ocean where he stood between Russian harpoons and the w...
“Bob was a storyteller, a shaman, a word-magician, a Machiavellian mystic, and he dared to inject a sense of humour into the often shrill and sanctimonious job of changing the world,” says Greenpeace Executive Director Gerd Leipold. “He was funny and brave and audacious, inspiring in his refusal to accept the limits of the practical or the probable...
In 1978, Hunter chronicled the birth of Greenpeace in his book “Warriors of the Rainbow.” It was a masterful feat of storytelling, one which attracted a further generation of young people into the ranks of the organisation. In its introduction he wrote: “We fought… an unequal battle against American and French nuclear weapons makers; Russian, Japan...
Among Hunter’s stock stories was the tale of how he’d stumbled on to the Cree Indian myth of the “Warriors of the Rainbow” — a legendary tribe of spirits who would rescue nature when the Earth became sick. The story involved a gypsy dulcimer maker, an old set of fenceposts, and the gift of a book which Hunter claimed leapt into his hands — quite li...
Hunter was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1941. In his own words “I was an awful, rebellious, early attention-defficient kid who was loved by my art and English teachers, but hated by the rest. I cheated by scribbling novels when I was supposed to be doing schoolwork.” He became a journalist for the Winnipeg Tribune and later wrote a column for the ...
He readily confessed that this made him “a traitor to my profession,” but believed he had a higher calling: “If we ignore [the] laws of ecology we will continue to be guilty of crimes against the earth. We will not be judged by men for these crimes, but with a justice meeted out by the earth itself. The destruction of the earth will lead, inevitabl...
Over the years he continued to contribute to Greenpeace as an advisor and occasional speaker, and kept up good relations with the organisation’s original luminaries, including many who were no longer on speaking terms with one other. He authored several books and founded a tongue-in-cheek religion, the Whole Earth Church. In a recent book, Rex Weyl...
May 2, 2020 · Rex Weyler. 2 May 2020 • 10 min read. May 2, 2020 marks 15 years since the passing of Greenpeace co-founder Bob Hunter. Although Hunter remains legendary within Greenpeace lore, readers may not know about his life outside of Greenpeace or the social-change philosophy that inspired his ecological strategy.
In 2000, TIME Magazine named Robert Hunter one of the “Eco-heroes” of the twentieth century, recognizing him – along with the likes of Rachel Carson and Jacques Cousteau – as a co-founder of Greenpeace and a pioneer in ecological activism.
May 4, 2005 · Bob Hunter, Canadian journalist and co-founder of Greenpeace, died yesterday of prostate cancer.
Robert (Bob) Lorne Hunter (October 13, 1941 – May 2, 2005) was a Canadian environmentalist, journalist, author and politician. He was the first president of Greenpeace and was a leading voice in the ecology movement of the 1970’s.
Mar 1, 2010 · Bob (Robert Lorne) Hunter: 13 Oct 1941 – 2 May 2005. A Canadian journalist, author and environmental activist. Bob began his career at the Winnipeg Tribune and later wrote a regular column for the Vancouver Sun and was later Ecology Specialist for City TV, a news station in Toronto.
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