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Rex Weyler (born September 10, 1947) is an American / Canadian author, journalist and ecologist. He has worked as a writer, editor, and publisher at newspapers and magazines, and occasionally as a commentator on Canadian television. 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.〔(Co-founder of Greenpeace International in 1979 )〕 Weyler is the author of books on native rights (''Blood of the Land''), Greenpeace history (''Greenpeace: The Inside Story'') and religious commentary (''The Jesus Sayings: A Quest for His Authentic Message''). 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.〔(Patent for Canada & US music tuning software )〕 He works as a freelance journalist, appearing in print, broadcast, and on the Internet. ==Life and education== Weyler was born in Denver, Colorado, September 10, 1947, to Jack Richardson Weyler, a petroleum geologist, and Joanne (Goodwin) Weyler, both from Santa Barbara, California. Weyler attended Herbert Hoover Elementary School in Tulsa, Oklahoma; Rosco C. Hill Middle School in Denver, Colorado; and Robert E. Lee High School (Midland, Texas). He attended high school with future first lady Laura Welch Bush and future US Army General Tommy Franks. (See ''Tell Laura I Love Her'' for a memoir of Midland, Texas, c. 1963-66.〔(Tell Laura I Love Her )〕) Weyler graduated from Lee High School in 1966. Weyler studied theoretical physics, mathematics, engineering, and history at Occidental College in Los Angeles, California. In 1969, Weyler and 41 fellow students were suspended for a semester from Occidental College for staging a sit-in opposing U.S. military recruiters on the campus. The 42 students were charged with “disrupting the normal operating procedures of the college,” and convicted by an administration-teacher-student discipline body. Weyler never returned to university, but traveled internationally and published his first book in 1969 with photographer David Totheroh, ''I Took a Walk Today'', a pacifist discourse with photographs from a winter in California’s Yosemite Valley. Thirty-six years later, 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〔(Urban Environmental Policy Center at Occidental College )〕 for their lifetime achievements in peace, ecology, and social justice. 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〔(Lisa Gibbons Biography )〕 in 1991. They now live in Vancouver, B.C., Canada. Lisa Gibbons is an artist and special-needs youth educator. Weyler and Gibbons have 3 sons and are also foster parents, active in the BC Federation of Foster Parents.〔(BC Bookworld - Weyler Biography )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rex Weyler」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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