The first President, Visionary and Co-Founder of Greenpeace. His highest achievement was spearheading a successful campaign to ban commercial whaling. He was a columnist, author, and lecturer. His career began at the Winnipeg Tribune and later he became a columnist for the Vancouver Sun. His columns were instrumental in developing environmental awareness in Canada. Later in Toronto he became a strong activist voice as an on-air personality for CityTV. An award-winning author receiving the Governor Generals Award for Occupied Canada. His books also include Erebus, The Enemies of Anarchy, The Stoning of the Mind, Time of the Clockmen, Greenpeace 111, the Journey into the Bomb, To Save the Whale, Warriors of the Rainbow, also called The Greenpeace Chronicle, Cry Wolf, On the Sky the Zen, Red Blood, 2030 also titled Thermaggedon and The Greenpeace to Amchitka He died in 2005 leaving behind his wife Bobbi and their two children Will and Emily and well as his two children from his first marriage Conan and Justine.

He currently has eight grand children and one great grand child.