1. Rex Weyler was born on September 10,1947 and is an American-Canadian author, journalist and ecologist.
19 Facts About Rex Weyler
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Rex Weyler has worked as a writer, editor, and publisher.
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Rex Weyler was a cofounder of Greenpeace International in 1979.
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Rex Weyler is the author of multiple books about Greenpeace history and religious commentary.
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Rex Weyler attended high school with future first lady Laura Welch Bush and future US Army General Tommy Franks.
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Rex Weyler married Glenn Jonathans in Nijmegen, Netherlands in 1971 and immigrated to Canada in 1972.
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In 1973, at the age of 26, Rex Weyler received his first journalism position at the North Shore News in Vancouver, BC Canada.
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From 1980 to 1982, Rex Weyler was publisher, contributing editor, and writer for New Age Journal in Allston, MA.
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From 1998 to 2002, Rex Weyler served as publisher and editor of Shared Vision Magazine in Vancouver, BC, Canada.
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Rex Weyler published stories about Greenpeace history and the American Indian Movement in the Vancouver Sun newspaper and contributed articles to British Columbia's first major on-line news site, The Tyee.
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In 2007, Rex Weyler founded the Institute for Citizen Journalism, and since 2008, Rex Weyler has posted a monthly ecology column, Deep Green, at Greenpeace International, and has contributed stories to Resilience, Counter Currents, the Watershed Sentinel, and other online magazines.
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In 2013, Rex Weyler served as Writer-in-Residence at the University of Fraser Valley, in British Columbia, Canada.
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Between 1973 and 1982, Rex Weyler served as a director of the original Greenpeace Foundation, campaign photographer and reporter, and as editor of the Greenpeace Chronicles magazine.
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Rex Weyler was a co-founder of Greenpeace International in 1979.
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In 1975, Rex Weyler sailed on the first Greenpeace whale campaign, and subsequent whale and seal campaigns.
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Rex Weyler is the author of a history of the first decade of Greenpeace, Greenpeace: The Inside Story.
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Since leaving Greenpeace in 1982, Rex Weyler has remained active in environmental and peace issues.
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Rex Weyler is featured in the documentary, Greenpeace: Making a Stand.
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Rex Weyler has published articles and essays on the Greenpeace website, his website, and the following anthologies, among other places: The Power of the People, ed.