Annie Leonard becomes executive director of Greenpeace

brianlux

Awwwright! This is great! Go Annie!

http://www.treehugger.com/environmental-policy/story-stuffs-annie-leonard-becomes-executive-director-greenpeace-usa.html

Story of Stuff's Annie Leonard becomes executive director of Greenpeace USA

Greenpeace USA has a new executive director, and it's someone that many of you will be familiar with: Annie Leonard, best known for The Story of Stuff project. This is kind of closing the loop, since Annie started out at Greenpeace years ago:

Annie’s roots run deep with Greenpeace. She began her career at Greenpeace International in 1988 as an international toxics campaigner, working to stop international waste exports. She has shown a fierce commitment to working with communities to stop the corporations that so often exploit people, once getting arrested for protesting a business that was exporting hazardous waste to South Africa under the apartheid regime so that it could dump it in a black community. Annie went on to take on leadership roles with the Multinationals Resource Center, Healthcare Without Harm and the Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives.

She will begin her new role in August. Best of luck to her. We're sure she'll do great things!

polaris_x

wonder what her mandate is going to be?

brianlux

polaris_x said:

wonder what her mandate is going to be?

If it's anything like her "Story of Stuff" work it will probably focus on the way things work together like over-consumption of resources, impact on environment, effects on poor countries and climate. I think she will bring something new to the organization with her story telling and ability to reach a large audience. Should be exciting to watch her go to work!

Jason P

polaris_x said:

wonder what her mandate is going to be?

My guess ... Don't fuck with Putin.