Author, REX WEYLER

Greenpeace
The Inside Story
by Rex Weyler

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1-55192-841-8
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Author site: rexweyler.com

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Rex Weyler is the author of Greenpeace: How a Group of Ecologists, Journalists, and Visionaries Changed the World (Raincoast Books, September 2004).

Weyler is a journalist, writer and ecologist, born in Denver, Colorado in 1947. He studied physics at Occidental College in Los Angeles and became an apprentice engineer for Lockheed in 1967. He left engineering for journalism and got his first reporter and photographer job in Vancouver, Canada in 1973. Weyler received a Pulitzer Prize nomination for his Native American history, Blood of the Land. He also co-authored the self-help classic Chop Wood, Carry Water. His photographs and essays have appeared in the New York Times, Rolling Stone, New Age Journal and National Geographic, and other periodicals.

Rex Weyler sailed on the first Greenpeace whale campaign in 1975, edited the Greenpeace Chronicles newspaper, and co-founded Greenpeace International in 1979. He is currently a director of Greenpeace International Marine Services.

Weyler was publisher of New Age Journal, 1980-1982, and co-founded Hollyhock on Cortes Island, Canada’s leading educational retreat centre. In 1994, Weyler helped develop and market revolutionary digital music software, the Justonic tuning system, used by musicians worldwide.

Rex Weyler is editor-at-large for Shared Vision magazine and Dragonfly Media. He continues to write for magazines and newspapers. Weyler lives with his wife Lisa, three sons and a foster daughter in Vancouver, Canada. He speaks on environmental, technical, historical and literary topics.

Author website: www.rexweyler.com