Pete Altman's Blog
About
- Bio:
As Climate Campaign Director for NRDC, my job involves finding ways to help move the US forward in dealing responsibly with global warming. So I get to work on all kinds of different projects that involve public outreach, research and reports, and creative ways of bringing together different interest groups and constituencies to advocate for change. Global warming is a huge challenge; solving it demands the best of us as a global community and as individuals. But this also presents a huge opportunity to make the world, and our lot in it, better.
- Roots in:
- New York
- Favorite place:
- The family couch, with my wife and kids.
- Why "environmentalism" matters:
- I don't particularly like the term ‘environmentalism’ because it is a restrictive way to think about our relationship to the world around us. What I think matters is that we show enough self-respect (and common sense) as a species to not destroy or poison the living systems that make life as we know it possible. We don’t need to ‘save the planet’ so much as we need to protect and preserve the life on earth that makes it the wonderful place it is.
Recent Blog Posts
- American Rights at Work Launches "Not My Chamber" Campaign (November 20, 2009)
- The US Chamber's Chronic Reliance on Biased Policy Analysis (November 19, 2009)
- Duke Energy Cut Its Payments to the US Chamber Over Climate (November 19, 2009)
- NYT: US Chamber Has Not Expressed Support for Any Proposals to Cap Emissions (November 19, 2009)
- How to Melt Glaciers and Influence People: API and ACCCE Spend the Big Bucks (November 18, 2009)
- The US Chamber Needs to Get Its Story Straight (November 18, 2009)
- Clean Energy Common Sense - the Little Book about Global Warming, What We Can Do About It, and Why We Should (November 13, 2009)
- ACCCE Forges Claim of Vet Groups Support for Coal (November 10, 2009)
- Decoding the US Chamber's Climate Position (November 9, 2009)
- Companies Launch New Initiative to Show Broad Business Support for Climate Legislation (November 6, 2009)
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