- Michael Bailey (environmentalist)
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Michael Bailey Born 1954
VancouverNationality Canadian Occupation Conservationist, public speaker and documentary producer Years active 1975 - present Known for Environmental activism Website http://planetviews.com/ Michael Bailey, described as "one of the foremost eco-warriors of our times"[1] according to Rex Weyler, a founding member of Greenpeace,[2] along with Paul Watson, Patrick Moore, David McTaggart and others. He supervised the original Greenpeace flagship 'Rainbow Warrior'.[3]
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The Climate Summit
Presently serving as Operations Director for The Climate Summit, which uses interactive videoconferencing technologies provided by Cisco Systems Inc., Bailey conducts presentations and educates the world public on the growing issue of climate change and global warming. He is an authorized presenter under The Climate Project founded by Al Gore who trained Bailey in the art of presentations pertaining to climate issues, ocean acidification and greenhouse gas emissions.
Anti-Whale Hunt Campaigning
As a conservationist and adventure program producer, he retains a special interest in Cetacea,[4] Bailey joined Greenpeace in 1975 and volunteered to pilot a Zodiac inflatable boat in front of a Russian harpoon ship, resulting in iconic images of the whalers firing 90 mm harpoon cannons at activists that were to establish Greenpeace in the public consciousness.[5] Actions earning him the nickname "Zodiac Mike" or "Generalissimo".[6][7]
Bailey has played a major part in the raising of public opinion and government support against the whaling industry [8] and as an official observer at the International Whaling Commission.
Kuwait Wildlife Campaign
Featured on the cover of an National Geographic magazine, Earthtrust was the first environmental organization in Kuwait following the 1991 Gulf War with Michael Bailey and Rick Thorpe assessing the environmental damage cause by the burning in Kuwait oil fields of Kuwait shortly after the end of the Gulf War in 1991 while the war contained following requests of the Kuwaiti royal family. They subsequently formed the Kuwait Environmental Information Center and deployed oil barriers to protect wetlands and took action resulting in the fires being extinguished more quickly which was memorialized in the internationally broadcast Earthtrust documentary Hell on Earth and a five-part Canadian Broadcasting Corporation mini-series.[9]
Food Campaigns
Bailey has also campaigned against food irradiation [10] and was a director of the Conservation Council of Hawai'i.[11]
Other accomplishments
In 2005, he was awarded Anuenue Award by the Conservation Council of Hawai'i for being the 'volunteer of the year' for his dedication to "creating a better world for wildlife and future generations" by documenting plastic pollution, campaigning to protect the Arctic from oil drilling and for working with indigenous peoples such as the Gwich'in and Inupiaq; including organizing the Arctic Film Festival.[12]
Filmography
- Oil on Ice [1], International Documentary Association’s 2004 Pare Lorentz Award for Democratic Sensibility and Activist Spirit. A Sierra Club Production
- ‘Great Adventures’ 1999- 2005. Producer, on-camera Host about mountaineering expeditions to the Antarctica.
- 'Wild Rescues' for Animal Planet TV Series.
- 'Effective Microorganisms' weekly television series
Biography
- 'The Greenpeace story' by Michael Harold Brown, Prentice-Hall (University of Michigan) Canada, 1989
- 'Men and Whales' by Richard Ellis. Robert Hale, (University of Virginia) 1992
See also
References
- ^ Souls in the Sea: Dolphins, Whales, and Human Destiny by Scott Taylor, Frog Books (February 21, 2003) ISBN 1-58394-071-5
- ^ Greenpeace: how a group of journalists, ecologists and visionaries changed by Rex Weyler, page 580
- ^ Greenpeace Foundation History
- ^ Balance Seas Report
- ^ Mystics and Mechanics, Peacework Magazine
- ^ Greenpeace: how a group of journalists, ecologists and visionaries changed by Rex Weyler, page 423
- ^ 'Warriors of the rainbow: a chronicle of the Greenpeace movement' by Robert Hunter, Henry Holt & Company, Inc. ISBN 0-03-043741-5 page 404
- ^ Whalesong: The Story of Hawaii and the Whales by MacKinnon Simpson and Robert B. Goodman, Beyond Words Pub. Co., 1990 (University of California)
- ^ Canby, Thomas Y. After the Storm. National Geographic 180:2-32 Aug '91.
- ^ Is Zapping Food the Answer? by Cliff Rothman. Vegetarian Times, page 12, Dec 1997
- ^ Kolea Vol 54 Issue 1 Spring Summer 2004
- ^ Conservationists Honored for Achievements
External links
Categories:- Green thinkers
- Canadian environmentalists
- People from Vancouver
- Climate Project presenters
- 1954 births
- Living people
- People associated with Greenpeace
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