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Rex Weyler
Rex Weyler (born September 10, 1947) is an American-Canadian author, journalist and ecologist. He has worked as a writer, editor, and publisher. In the 1970s, Weyler served as a director of the original Greenpeace Foundation, and as campaign photographer and publisher of the Greenpeace Chronicles. He was a cofounder of Greenpeace International in 1979.
Weyler is the author of multiple books about Greenpeace history (Greenpeace: The Inside Story) and religious commentary (The Jesus Sayings: A Quest for His Authentic Message). In the 1990s, he coauthored a U.S. patent for music tuning software and co-founded Justonic Tuning Inc. with his partner Bill Gannon, to develop and market the product.
Weyler attended high school with future first lady Laura Welch Bush and future US Army General Tommy Franks.)
On April 5, 2005, the Urban Environmental Policy Center on the Occidental College campus awarded Weyler and Dennis Zane, a fellow student organizer, the Alumni Community Action Award.
Weyler has three siblings. He married Glenn Jonathans in Nijmegen, Netherlands in 1971 and immigrated to Canada in 1972. Weyler and Jonathans divorced in 1980. Weyler married Lisa Gibbons in 1991. They now live on Cortes Island B.C., Canada. Lisa Gibbons is an artist and youth educator. Weyler and Gibbons have 3 sons, and have been foster parents with the BC Federation of Foster Parents.
In 1973, at the age of 26, Weyler received his first journalism position at the North Shore News in Vancouver, B.C. Canada. Later that year, he began covering the original Greenpeace whale campaign story, and later, from 1975 to 1980, served as editor and publisher for the Greenpeace Chronicles newspaper. This paper was one of the first international environmental publications, with stories by writers Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Robert Hunter, Paul Watson, John C. Lilly, Kitty Tucker, Ben Metcalfe, and David Garrick, and art and cartoons by cartoonists Ralph Steadman and Ron Cobb.
From 1980 to 1982, Weyler was publisher, contributing editor, and writer for New Age Journal in Allston, MA. His stories for New Age Journal about conflicts between the FBI and the American Indian Movement led to a book on that subject, Blood of the Land, Everest House, 1982.
From 1998 to 2002, Weyler served as publisher and editor of Shared Vision Magazine in Vancouver, B.C., Canada. He 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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Rex Weyler
Rex Weyler (born September 10, 1947) is an American-Canadian author, journalist and ecologist. He has worked as a writer, editor, and publisher. In the 1970s, Weyler served as a director of the original Greenpeace Foundation, and as campaign photographer and publisher of the Greenpeace Chronicles. He was a cofounder of Greenpeace International in 1979.
Weyler is the author of multiple books about Greenpeace history (Greenpeace: The Inside Story) and religious commentary (The Jesus Sayings: A Quest for His Authentic Message). In the 1990s, he coauthored a U.S. patent for music tuning software and co-founded Justonic Tuning Inc. with his partner Bill Gannon, to develop and market the product.
Weyler attended high school with future first lady Laura Welch Bush and future US Army General Tommy Franks.)
On April 5, 2005, the Urban Environmental Policy Center on the Occidental College campus awarded Weyler and Dennis Zane, a fellow student organizer, the Alumni Community Action Award.
Weyler has three siblings. He married Glenn Jonathans in Nijmegen, Netherlands in 1971 and immigrated to Canada in 1972. Weyler and Jonathans divorced in 1980. Weyler married Lisa Gibbons in 1991. They now live on Cortes Island B.C., Canada. Lisa Gibbons is an artist and youth educator. Weyler and Gibbons have 3 sons, and have been foster parents with the BC Federation of Foster Parents.
In 1973, at the age of 26, Weyler received his first journalism position at the North Shore News in Vancouver, B.C. Canada. Later that year, he began covering the original Greenpeace whale campaign story, and later, from 1975 to 1980, served as editor and publisher for the Greenpeace Chronicles newspaper. This paper was one of the first international environmental publications, with stories by writers Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Robert Hunter, Paul Watson, John C. Lilly, Kitty Tucker, Ben Metcalfe, and David Garrick, and art and cartoons by cartoonists Ralph Steadman and Ron Cobb.
From 1980 to 1982, Weyler was publisher, contributing editor, and writer for New Age Journal in Allston, MA. His stories for New Age Journal about conflicts between the FBI and the American Indian Movement led to a book on that subject, Blood of the Land, Everest House, 1982.
From 1998 to 2002, Weyler served as publisher and editor of Shared Vision Magazine in Vancouver, B.C., Canada. He 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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