Greenpeace USA

environmental advocacy nonprofit

Greenpeace USA

Industry Environment

A confrontational environmental advocacy organization using campaigns, investigation, direct action, and public mobilization against ecological harm and corporate power. Greenpeace USA scores well because the model leaves more value with stakeholders and the institution is less hostile to people with weak bargaining power, though identity capture still limits the evaluation.

Why this matters: Greenpeace USA is useful for calibration because its independence and confrontational advocacy are valuable, while movement intensity can create governance and identity-pressure risks.

Letter grade A Good Medium confidence (AI) Rubric gcd-rubric-v1

Final Score 57* A - Good

* Tentative scaffolding score. Not human-checked or final.

Base Material48
Bonus+10
Cap66No structure cap
After Cap58
Penalties-1
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Evaluation Overview

A - Good

The score turns mainly on Extraction, with the largest penalty coming from Identity Capture.

Strengths

  • Extraction8/10
  • Solidarity with the Unemployed6/7
  • Loss-Bearing Fidelity6/7

Penalties

  • Identity Capture-1

Evidence state

  • ConfidenceMedium confidence (AI)
  • ThoroughnessExhaustive (AI)
  • Linked claims15
  • Direct axis claims14
  • Coverage14/14

Scoring Axes

Axis Score Why this score
Ownership
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Control rights: shareholder-dominated at 0, worker cooperative control at 10.
5 / 10

Greenpeace USA is a nonprofit environmental advocacy organization rather than a shareholder-owned company.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Environmental advocacy and stewardship expansion; comparative column calibration should be revisited in the next full-axis pass.

Linked evidence
  • Greenpeace USA is a nonprofit environmental advocacy organization rather than a shareholder-owned company. [1]
Governance
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Binding decision authority: centralized control at 0, democratic stakeholder control at 10.
5 / 10

Greenpeace USA publishes organizational and financial materials for a campaign nonprofit.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Environmental advocacy and stewardship expansion; comparative column calibration should be revisited in the next full-axis pass.

Linked evidence
  • Greenpeace USA publishes organizational and financial materials for a campaign nonprofit. [2]
Extraction
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Surplus allocation, wage share, CEO pay ratio, margins, and structured extraction judgment.
8 / 10

Greenpeace USA directs resources toward environmental campaigns and public mobilization rather than investor returns.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Environmental advocacy and stewardship expansion; comparative column calibration should be revisited in the next full-axis pass.

Uncertainty
  • This axis would benefit from deeper internal-workplace evidence before human verification.
Linked evidence
  • Greenpeace USA directs resources toward environmental campaigns and public mobilization rather than investor returns. [3]
  • context Greenpeace USA is a nonprofit environmental advocacy organization rather than a shareholder-owned company. [1]
  • context Greenpeace USA publishes organizational and financial materials for a campaign nonprofit. [2]
Labor Sovereignty
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Worker power: coercive conditions at 0, co-determination or ownership at 7. Employee dissatisfaction matters only when source-backed evidence shows concrete limits on worker agency, such as coercive scheduling, retaliation, wage theft, harassment, unsafe conditions, suppression of worker voice, or extreme turnover.
4 / 7

Greenpeace USA combines staff, supporters, and activists; participant agency is real but not equivalent to worker control.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Environmental advocacy and stewardship expansion; comparative column calibration should be revisited in the next full-axis pass.

Uncertainty
  • This axis would benefit from deeper internal-workplace evidence before human verification.
Linked evidence
  • Greenpeace USA combines staff, supporters, and activists; participant agency is real but not equivalent to worker control. [4]
  • context Greenpeace USA is a nonprofit environmental advocacy organization rather than a shareholder-owned company. [1]
  • context Greenpeace USA publishes organizational and financial materials for a campaign nonprofit. [2]
Solidarity with the Unemployed
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Treatment of exits and nonworkers, including severance, redeployment, and non-competes.
6 / 7

Greenpeace USA campaigns on climate, oceans, forests, democracy, and community harms that affect people beyond formal employment.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Environmental advocacy and stewardship expansion; comparative column calibration should be revisited in the next full-axis pass.

Uncertainty
  • This axis would benefit from deeper internal-workplace evidence before human verification.
Linked evidence
  • Greenpeace USA campaigns on climate, oceans, forests, democracy, and community harms that affect people beyond formal employment. [5]
  • context Greenpeace USA is a nonprofit environmental advocacy organization rather than a shareholder-owned company. [1]
  • context Greenpeace USA publishes organizational and financial materials for a campaign nonprofit. [2]
Loss-Bearing Fidelity
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Willingness to absorb costs to preserve values, workers, users, and public obligations.
6 / 7

Greenpeace USA takes on campaign, investigation, legal, and reputational costs to challenge powerful polluters.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Environmental advocacy and stewardship expansion; comparative column calibration should be revisited in the next full-axis pass.

Uncertainty
  • This axis would benefit from deeper internal-workplace evidence before human verification.
Linked evidence
  • Greenpeace USA takes on campaign, investigation, legal, and reputational costs to challenge powerful polluters. [6]
  • context Greenpeace USA is a nonprofit environmental advocacy organization rather than a shareholder-owned company. [1]
  • context Greenpeace USA publishes organizational and financial materials for a campaign nonprofit. [2]
Market Conduct
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Pricing fairness, switching costs, lock-in, and rent extraction.
5 / 5

Greenpeace USA is not a consumer-lock-in business model.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Environmental advocacy and stewardship expansion; comparative column calibration should be revisited in the next full-axis pass.

Uncertainty
  • This axis would benefit from deeper internal-workplace evidence before human verification.
Linked evidence
  • Greenpeace USA is not a consumer-lock-in business model. [7]
  • context Greenpeace USA is a nonprofit environmental advocacy organization rather than a shareholder-owned company. [1]
  • context Greenpeace USA publishes organizational and financial materials for a campaign nonprofit. [2]
Product Integrity
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Preservation of quality rather than degradation for monetization.
5 / 5

Greenpeace USA core output is advocacy, investigation, and mobilization against ecological harm.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Environmental advocacy and stewardship expansion; comparative column calibration should be revisited in the next full-axis pass.

Linked evidence
  • Greenpeace USA core output is advocacy, investigation, and mobilization against ecological harm. [8]
  • context Greenpeace USA is a nonprofit environmental advocacy organization rather than a shareholder-owned company. [1]
  • context Greenpeace USA publishes organizational and financial materials for a campaign nonprofit. [2]
Scale Integrity
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Whether growth improves or degrades fairness and accountability.
4 / 5

Greenpeace USA scale increases campaign pressure but also increases movement-culture and identity-pressure risks.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Environmental advocacy and stewardship expansion; comparative column calibration should be revisited in the next full-axis pass.

Linked evidence
  • Greenpeace USA scale increases campaign pressure but also increases movement-culture and identity-pressure risks. [9]
  • context Greenpeace USA is a nonprofit environmental advocacy organization rather than a shareholder-owned company. [1]
  • context Greenpeace USA publishes organizational and financial materials for a campaign nonprofit. [2]

Penalties

Penalty Applied Why this penalty
Identity Capture
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Customer pressure, employee pressure, and pervasive identity saturation. Range: -3 to 0.
-1

Greenpeace USA uses high-intensity movement identity and confrontation, creating some risk of internal conformity pressure.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Environmental advocacy and stewardship expansion; comparative column calibration should be revisited in the next full-axis pass.

Linked evidence
  • Greenpeace USA uses high-intensity movement identity and confrontation, creating some risk of internal conformity pressure. [14]

Bonus Credits

Bonus Credit Why this credit
Openness to Dissent
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Credit for tolerating internal, user, customer, worker, and public dissent without retaliation, capture, or viewpoint laundering.
2 / 3

Greenpeace USA the organization creates or protects dissent against concentrated institutional or industrial power.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Environmental advocacy and stewardship expansion; comparative column calibration should be revisited in the next full-axis pass.

Linked evidence
  • Greenpeace USA the organization creates or protects dissent against concentrated institutional or industrial power. [10]
Constitutional Spirit
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Credit for respecting constitutional rights and civil-liberties norms even where private law does not strictly require it.
3 / 3

Greenpeace USA the organization uses rights, courts, public process, or civil-society advocacy to constrain stronger institutions.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Environmental advocacy and stewardship expansion; comparative column calibration should be revisited in the next full-axis pass.

Linked evidence
  • Greenpeace USA the organization uses rights, courts, public process, or civil-society advocacy to constrain stronger institutions. [11]
Good Deal
?
Credit for unusually fair value: durable quality, fair pricing, low lock-in, and clear customer surplus.
3 / 3

Ordinary users receive unusually fair value, durability, access, or surplus. Full credit is reserved for unusually clear, profile-specific evidence rather than ordinary compliance language.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Environmental advocacy and stewardship expansion; comparative column calibration should be revisited in the next full-axis pass.

Linked evidence
  • Greenpeace USA the public receives durable environmental, legal, land, or stewardship value without ordinary customer lock-in. [12]
Cost Transparency
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Credit for clear posted prices, all-in fees, unit costs, public rate cards, margin/cost visibility, or surplus-allocation transparency, especially in markets where opaque quotes, hidden fees, or individualized pricing are normal.
2 / 3

Greenpeace USA the organization publishes meaningful financial, annual-report, or accountability materials.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Environmental advocacy and stewardship expansion; comparative column calibration should be revisited in the next full-axis pass.

Linked evidence
  • Greenpeace USA the organization publishes meaningful financial, annual-report, or accountability materials. [13]

Confidence Basis

Confidence Basis

Confidence is computed from the evidence trail and review state, not typed into the profile by hand.

Medium 79/100

15 verified linked claims 14 direct axis claims 0 disputed claims 14/14 components covered

This confidence label measures the source-backed evidence trail. AI-scaffolded scores remain tentative until human review.

Claim confidence 14/20

15 verified linked claims

Source quality 12/18

Best source per verified claim, weighted by institutional reliability

Direct axis-specific claims 14/18

14 direct claims across 14 active components

Dispute load 12/12

0 disputed claims on this entity

Recency 10/10

Newest accepted timestamp: May 13, 2026

Reviewer status 7/12

Human-reviewed components score higher than AI scaffolding

Component coverage 10/10

14/14 evidence-bearing components have direct support

Evidence State

Evidence State

Profile stateAI draft / human-pending
VerificationUnverified
ConfidenceMedium confidence (AI)
ThoroughnessExhaustive (AI)
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Claims and Sources

Claims are the evidence record. Each claim needs a source link, axis category, status, confidence level, and timestamp before it can support a score.

* Tentative scaffolding score. Not human-checked or final.
1Greenpeace USA is a nonprofit environmental advocacy organization rather than a shareholder-owned company.

Ownership Verified High confidence AI-generated / human-pending

AI scaffold

2Greenpeace USA publishes organizational and financial materials for a campaign nonprofit.

Governance Verified High confidence AI-generated / human-pending

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3Greenpeace USA directs resources toward environmental campaigns and public mobilization rather than investor returns.

Extraction Verified Medium confidence AI-generated / human-pending

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4Greenpeace USA combines staff, supporters, and activists; participant agency is real but not equivalent to worker control.

Labor Sovereignty Verified Medium confidence AI-generated / human-pending

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5Greenpeace USA campaigns on climate, oceans, forests, democracy, and community harms that affect people beyond formal employment.

Solidarity Unemployed Verified Medium confidence AI-generated / human-pending

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6Greenpeace USA takes on campaign, investigation, legal, and reputational costs to challenge powerful polluters.

Loss Bearing Fidelity Verified Medium confidence AI-generated / human-pending

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7Greenpeace USA is not a consumer-lock-in business model.

Market Conduct Verified Medium confidence AI-generated / human-pending

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8Greenpeace USA core output is advocacy, investigation, and mobilization against ecological harm.

Product Integrity Verified High confidence AI-generated / human-pending

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9Greenpeace USA scale increases campaign pressure but also increases movement-culture and identity-pressure risks.

Scale Integrity Verified Medium confidence AI-generated / human-pending

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10Greenpeace USA the organization creates or protects dissent against concentrated institutional or industrial power.

Openness To Dissent Verified Medium confidence AI-generated / human-pending

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11Greenpeace USA the organization uses rights, courts, public process, or civil-society advocacy to constrain stronger institutions.

Constitutional Spirit Verified Medium confidence AI-generated / human-pending

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12Greenpeace USA the public receives durable environmental, legal, land, or stewardship value without ordinary customer lock-in.

Good Deal Verified Medium confidence AI-generated / human-pending

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13Greenpeace USA the organization publishes meaningful financial, annual-report, or accountability materials.

Cost Transparency Verified Medium confidence AI-generated / human-pending

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14Greenpeace USA uses high-intensity movement identity and confrontation, creating some risk of internal conformity pressure.

Identity Capture Verified Medium confidence AI-generated / human-pending

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15Greenpeace USA's public materials state a mission, values, ownership model, advocacy role, or institutional standpoint plainly enough that this record does not identify penalty-level neutrality theater.

Ideological Disavowal Verified Medium confidence AI-generated / human-pending

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