Leon Krapf Honored as Academic All-American12/10/2021 12:58:00 PM | Men's Soccer Krapf maintained a 4.0 cumulative grade point average while with the Wolfpack He earned his Business Administration degree from NC State last December and just wrapped up his Master's in Accounting We set up the Greenpeace Hong Kong office 20 years ago this year we’ve chosen seven Greenpeace moments from that year Let’s see how many battles we won (and we certainly did win battles!) and how many we are still fighting (and going to win!) with you by our side the treaty that started the process of tackling global climate change To highlight renewable energy – even back then – we held a traditional tea ceremony at solar kitchen in a Buddhist temple Greenpeace ship, the Arctic Sunrise, made history when it circumnavigated James Ross Island. The trip, the first time a ship had been able to circle the island, highlighted the extent to which climate change was melting ice at the South Pole As a protest against the razing of Canada’s Great Bear Rainforest to make tissues and other paper products we hung giant banners from logging equipment we succeeded: the government made 85% of the forest safe from loggers Our activists attached themselves to a train to prevent it from carrying nuclear waste across the country After the Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011 Germany said it would completely phase out all nuclear power plants by 2022 This is one of the world’s first CFC fridges (ones that don’t harm the ozone layer or contribute to climate change) using “Greenfreeze” technology at a factory in Shunde Greenpeace teamed up with a medical institute and a manufacturer to launch Greenfreeze which won the United Nations Ozone Award in 1997 Behind this cute duck is a serious message – in 1997 we were spear-heading a campaign to force companies to stop using PVC Since then both the EU and the US have passed laws to limit some of these chemicals Protesting against Zeneca’s genetically-modified experiments our activists dressed up as “toxic” tomatoes Greenpeace’s GM campaign is still going strong; we advocate ecological and organic farming as the only safe and sustainable way to produce food for the planet Martin Luther King, Jr said: “Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable… Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.” there is a greater urgency to protect our communities and our planet investigating and highlighting environmental issues and driving the solutions More and more people believe and are willing to dream big so that our green and peaceful world can be realized Dinah Gardner is a content writer for Greenpeace East Asia Please select which cookies you are willing to store These cookies will provide you a better experience of our website and help us to improve the performance of Greenpeace.org You will be able to hide the cookies acceptance banner and use the website features better We will also use these cookies to collect statistical and anonymised data such as how long users stay on a page or which links are clicked In addition to the cookies and technologies described above we also use other services that will help us to enhance your experience on this website We also may permit certain third party companies (e.g Google) cookies to help us understand more about our users specific behavior Those cookies help us to understand how visitors interact with our website (e.g pages visited) in order to improve visitors experience operation effectiveness of this platform and our communication strategies Leon Krapf Named to 2021 ACC Preseason Watch List8/18/2021 2:01:00 PM | Men's Soccer GREENSBORO, N.C. – NC State men's soccer goalkeeper Leon Krapf has been named to the 2021 ACC Men's Soccer Preseason Watch List as announced by the league office on Wednesday morning.