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Greenpeace founder Jim Bohlen has died

Jim Bohlen, a Greenpeace founder, died this week at age 84. He trained as a US naval radio operator, then obtained an engineering degree and worked for a defense contractor on Long Island, where he met R. Buckminster Fuller. He was a Quaker and a longtime peace activist. “Jim is survived by his wife Marie, a stepson, a son and daughter by his first wife Anna, and a global environmental organisation.”

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