Rex Weyler


Rex Weyler 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 and religious commentary. 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.

Life and education

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 been foster parents with the BC Federation of Foster Parents.

Journalism

1975 and 1980, Weyler co-founded and served as publisher and editor of the original Greenpeace Chronicles newspaper. This was one of the first international environmental publications, with stories by writers 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.
1998 to 2002, Weyler served as publisher and editor of Shared Vision Magazine in Vancouver, B.C.
In 2007, Weyler founded the Institute for Citizen Journalism, and contributed writing to The Tyee.
In 2008, Weyler began posting a monthly column, Deep Green, to the Greenpeace International website.

Greenpeace

Between 1973 and 1982, Weyler served as a director of the original Greenpeace Foundation, campaign photographer and reporter, and as editor of the Greenpeace Chronicles magazine. He was a co-founder of Greenpeace International in 1979.
In 1975, Weyler sailed on the first Greenpeace whale campaign, and subsequent whale and seal campaigns. His photographs and news accounts of these campaigns were widely published.
He is the author of a history of the first decade of Greenpeace, Greenpeace: The Inside Story.
Since leaving Greenpeace in 1982, Weyler has remained active in environmental and peace issues. In 1991, he helped draft dioxin emission levels for pulp mills in British Columbia. In 2006, he served as Program Coordinator for World Peace Forum 2006.
Weyler is featured in the documentary, Greenpeace: Making a Stand.

Books by Rex Weyler

Weyler has published articles and essays on the Greenpeace website, his website, and the following anthologies, among other places: The Power of the People, ed. Robert Cooney and Helen Michalowski ; Beyond Hypnosis by Dr. Lee Pulos ; Shorelines ; Witness, Twenty-five Years on the Environmental Front Line ; Greenpeace: Changing the World, ed. Conny Boettger, Fouad Hamdan ; The Book of Letters: 150 Years of Private Canadian Correspondence, by Paul and Audrey Grescoe.

Awards and honours