She met Alinsky through a radical church group. "Alinsky’s crowning achievement was his recruitment of a young high school student named Hillary Rodham. They used their newspaper to promote Alinsky.Her series, called 'The Orderly Revolution', made Alinsky famous. Meyer and his wife Agnes co-owned The Washington Post. "One Alinsky benefactor was Wall Street investment banker Eugene Meyer, who served as Chairman of the Federal Reserve from 1930 to 1933. The trick was to penetrate existing institutions such as churches, unions and political parties. Alinsky viewed revolution as a slow, patient process. They cut their hair, put on suits and infiltrate the system from within. Hillary, Obama and the Cult of Alinsky : "True revolutionaries do not flaunt their radicalism, Alinsky taught. DAVID ALINSKY, son of Neo-Marxist Saul Alinsky It is a fine tribute to Saul Alinsky as we approach his 100th birthday." -Letter from L. I am proud to see that my father's model for organizing is being applied successfully beyond local community organizing to affect the Democratic campaign in 2008. Las Vegas, July 8, 2014."Obama learned his lesson well. Patrick Moore receives the "Speaks Truth to Power" award at the Ninth International Conference on Climate Change. in Forest Biology, University of British Columbia VIDEOS: Confessions of a Greenpeace Dropout, Las Vegas, Jat ICCC9. in Ecology, Institute of Resource Ecology, University of British Columbia, 1974 Honorary Doctorate of Science, North Carolina State University, 2005 National Award for Nuclear Science and History, Albequerque, New Mexico, 2009 “Speaking Truth to Power Award”, Ninth International Conference on Climate Change, 2014 Moore is an independent ecologist/environmentalist with Ecosense Environmental Inc., a director at the CO2 Coalition and a senior fellow at The Heartland Institute.
Moore was appointed Chair of Environmental Studies at the Frontier Centre for Public Policy. Dr. The Allow Golden Rice Now! Campaign demands that Greenpeace and their allies discontinue their campaign of opposition to Golden Rice, which could eliminate vitamin A deficiency if cultivated and consumed.
250 million children, mainly in the tropical countries, are deficient in vitamin A and as a result 2 million die each year. Moore, with his brother Michael and other family members, founded the Allow Golden Rice Society, a non-profit organization dedicated to seeing Golden Rice approved for commercial agriculture. In 2013 he published Confessions of a Greenpeace Dropout – The Making of a Sensible Environmentalist, which documents his 15 years with Greenpeace and outlines his vision for a sustainable future.įrom 2000-2012 he served as Chair and Chief Scientist of Greenspirit Strategies, a consultancy focusing on environmental policy and communications in forestry, agriculture, fisheries and aquaculture, mining, biodiversity, energy and climate change.įrom 2006-2012 he served as co-Chair of the Clean and Safe Energy Coalition, a US-based advocacy mission to build public support for more nuclear energy plants to provide electricity. Moore published Trees are the Answer, a photo-book that provides a new insight into how forests work and how they can play a powerful role in solving many of our current environmental problems. He also served as Vice-President, Industry and Government Affairs for NextEnergy Geothermal, the largest distributor of geothermal systems in Canada.Īs Chair of the Sustainable Forestry Committee of the Forest Alliance of BC from 1991 - 2002, he led the process of developing the "Principles of Sustainable Forestry" which were adopted by a majority of the industry. Moore served for four years as Vice President, Environment for Waterfurnace International, a manufacturer of geothermal heat pumps for residential heating and cooling with renewable earth energy. Moore founded and chaired the BC Carbon Project, a group that worked to develop a common understanding of climate change.ĭr. He was a member of British Columbia government-appointed Round Table on the Environment and Economy from 1990 - 1994. Moore has been focused on the promotion of sustainability and consensus building among competing concerns. Moore was a driving force shaping policy and direction for 15 years while Greenpeace became the world's largest environmental activist organization. Moore is a co-founder of Greenpeace and served for nine years as President of Greenpeace Canada and seven years as a Director of Greenpeace International. He is a director of the CO2 Coalition and a senior fellow at The Heartland Institute.ĭr.
Patrick Moore has been a leader in the international environmental field for over 40 years.
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