ABSTRACT
Robert (Bob) L. Hunter was born in the Canadian prairie city of Winnipeg, Manitoba. Hunter had a strong sense of the necessity for collective thought and action and he worked tirelessly to bring attention, not just to events in the world, but perhaps more importantly to the critique of western thought as characterized by a self-defeating sense of "operationalism" and fragmentation. The concept of 'unaloneness' runs throughout Hunter's work, in print and in action. After the embryonic movement had become Greenpeace, Hunter found himself in a position to garner attention to environmental issues on a scale that hadn't yet been imagined. A lifelong advocate of non-violence, Hunter first used a mindbomb during Greenpeace's first anti-whaling campaign over the Mendocino Ridge. After leaving Greenpeace, Hunter returned to the world of journalism, moving from Vancouver to Toronto, where he worked as an 'ecology specialist' for a number of media outlets.
