Environmentalists Archive: Profiles, Interviews & Insights

Ellen Miller interview: Show Me the Money, elections 2003-Ellen Miller is currently publisher of the online opinion journal TomPaine.com. She was the founder and former director of both the Center for Responsive Politics, which tracks electoral spending, and Public Campaign, which pushes for campaign finance reform. She has given careful attention to the role of money in the political process—what she calls "the elephant in the living room"—for nearly 20 years. As she puts it, "Money is access. Money is political power. Those who give money get more than good government in return."

Ralph Nader Responds to His Critics When it comes to post-mortems of the 2000 Presidential race, there’s certainly no shortage of anger at the Green Party’s candidate, consumer advocate Ralph Nader. "This changes his legacy as a person," says Deborah Callahan, president of the League of Conservation Voters. "Ralph Nader is no friend of American […]

When Allied Signal held its annual meeting in 1999, Shelley Alpern, director of social research at Trillium Asset Management, was there, charging that executive compensation is "out of control" and demanding a sustainable policy of pay equity.

Like Georgia state legislator Julian Bond, Minnesota Representative Myron Orfield has an impact that extends far beyond his state’s boundaries. As a national authority on urban sprawl, he advocates what he calls "metropolitics," a regional approach that joins communities together in common interests. Orfield, a member of his state’s unique Democratic – Farmer – Labor Party, is now engaged in a run for Minnesota’s State Senate. He directs the Metropolitan Area Research program, serves on sprawl-related committees of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Planning Association, and is working on his second book about urban-suburban problems for the Brookings Institution Press.

Empowering Environmental Investigators As a children’s book author, Dr. Chris Myers has introduced kids to the Galapagos Islands and the Clouded Leopard. As the editor of Dragonfly, a colorful bimonthly magazine of environmental education founded in 1995, he’s given them wings. The magazine, which has won many awards from educational and parents’ groups, is largely […]

Wildlife Warrior In a photograph she furnished to E, Ginette Hemley, vice president for species conservation at the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), is casting a practiced eye on the goods for sale at an Asian market, undoubtedly on the lookout for products containing tiger bone, rhino horn or other endangered species ingredients. From 1986 to […]

Interview with Amory B. Lovins.

Interview with James S. Cannon.

The Youngest Sierra Club President Is Aiming for the Grassroots and MTV Werbach says his two-year mission is to “reinvigorate the grassroots momentum” and “focus the movement on winning.” At age eight, when most of his friends were collecting baseball cards and comic books, Adam Werbach was campaigning for the Sierra Club. He gathered more […]