Robin Wood (environmental organisation)

Robin Wood
Founded	12 November 1982
Type	Non-governmental organization
Focus	Environmentalism
Location	Bremen, Germany;
Area served	Germany
Method	Direct action
Members	1400
Key people	Florian Kubitz (CEO)
Revenue	€900,000 (2004)
Website	www.robinwood.de

Robin Wood is a German environmental advocacy group. The group was founded in 1982 by former members of Greenpeace who desired a decentralized grassroots organization with greater autonomy to address specific local German issues.^[1] Robin Wood is based in Bremen and, in 2008, was composed of fifteen mostly autonomous regional groups within Germany.^[2]

Initially concerned with the conservation of German forests, particularly the Black Forest,^[3] the group's activism efforts later expanded to include rainforest conservation, paper recycling, reduction of acid rain and other related areas. Robin Wood stages "attention-grabbing" demonstrations and confrontational public protests to raise awareness.^[4] Although peaceful, the demonstrations are described as "often illegal."^[4] The group publishes the quarterly Robin Wood Magazin.

References

^ Carter, Neil (May 2007). The Politics of the Environment: Ideas, Activism, Policy (2 ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 155. ISBN 978-0-521-86802-0.
^ Gigler, Sonia (11 March 2008). "Robin Wood: Germany's Bare Branch Avenger". Cafe Babel. Retrieved 2011-04-27.
^ Barry, John; Frankland, E. Gene (December 2001). International encyclopedia of environmental politics. Routledge. p. 47. ISBN 0-415-20285-X.
^ ^a ^b Markham, William T. (August 2008). Environmental Organizations in Modern Germany: Hardy Survivors in the Twentieth Century and Beyond. Berghahn Books. pp. 203–204. ISBN 978-1-84545-447-0.

External links

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[1] Carter, Neil (May 2007). The Politics of the Environment: Ideas, Activism, Policy (2 ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 155. ISBN 978-0-521-86802-0.

[2] Gigler, Sonia (11 March 2008). "Robin Wood: Germany's Bare Branch Avenger". Cafe Babel. Retrieved 2011-04-27.

[3] Barry, John; Frankland, E. Gene (December 2001). International encyclopedia of environmental politics. Routledge. p. 47. ISBN 0-415-20285-X.

[Markham-4] Markham, William T. (August 2008). Environmental Organizations in Modern Germany: Hardy Survivors in the Twentieth Century and Beyond. Berghahn Books. pp. 203–204. ISBN 978-1-84545-447-0.

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