I first heard about Greenpeace in the mid 1970s, not long after the organization was formed. As a radio-obsessed technoid, I wanted to know how they communicated with their ships. And remember this is way before email, the World Wide Web, satellite phones, cell phones and, yes, even before Twitter. So in 1977 I called the newly opened Greenpeace office in San Francisco and asked the very nice lady who answered to tell me all about the radio system they used to talk to their ships. Her reply was: "What radio system?" I was knocking on the door before she hung up the phone and had the great honor and pleasure to build the first Greenpeace radio communications station at our office in San Francisco for the 1977 whale campaign. And I've never left. To be honest, I didn't really care about whales when I joined Greenpeace. I cared about radio. It was only after joining up and working with the happy, funny, smart and brave folks who work for The Firm (as we call it) that I realized that my skills could contribute to something larger. That 1977 call was the best one I ever made.