Don’t Make a Wave Committee members and Greenpeace founders (from left) Jim Bohlen, Paul Cote, and Irving Stowe. Photo: Greenpeace Jim Bohlen: 1926-2010 Jim Bohlen, one of the co-founders of Greenpeace, died on Monday, a day after his 84th birthday. The cause of death was complications of Parkinson’s disease. He first stepped on the

world stage when he co-founded the Don’t Make a Wave Committee in opposition to nuclear weapons tests in Alaska. The committee “leased the halibut fishing vessel Phyllis Cormack, and, after renaming it Greenpe… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Greenpeace Co-Founder Jim Bohlen Dead at 84