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Bill McKibben is Taking Questions from GreenLeaves Members
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- Location:
- San Francisco, CA
- Relationship Status:
- Single
- About Me:
- as kathleen hanna once said, "i believe in the radical possibilities of pleasure."
my professional life has mostly centered around human rights, publishing, and technology. i've also been active in the antiwar and anti-corporate-led globalization movements since the early '90s. most of my work has been with progressive organizations that espouse radical views like "healthcare is a universal human right" and quaint notions like "you're not allowed to torture people, even if you think they look like a terrorist." starting in 2002, i coordinated the Emergency Campaign on Iraq, which sought to highlight what we predicted would be the devastating human and ecological consequences of an invasion of Iraq. in 2006, i helped create Cultures of Resistance, an initiative that seeks creative ways to oppose war and promote peace, justice, and sustainability in the cultural domain, including film, music, and food.
last year I left my job doing philanthropic consulting to work full time advocating the impeachment of George Bush and Dick Cheney for their myriad crimes against people and the planet. i created the Impeach07 Coalition which brought together more than 100 groups like the Green Party, Code Pink, and the Center for Constitutional Rights to coordinate strategy on a national level for the first time. among other initiatives, i organized pro-impeachment actions in more than 125 different locations around the country on April 28, 2007.
in january 2008 i relocated from brooklyn, ny to san francisco to study fulltime for an mba in sustainable management at the presidio school of management. it's one of the best decisions i've ever made and i feel lucky to be part of such an amazing community.
- Affiliation:
- presidio school of management
- Some Things I'm Trying to Do to Promote Sustainability:
- studying sustainable management at the presidio school of management, launching greenleaves, eating less meat, changing my lightbulbs, trying (not always successfully) to take shorter showers, using my feet and my bike as my primary means of transportation, reusable bags, buying less crap.
- Interests:
- shenanigans, subverting the american empire, callipygianism, sailing, sustainable agriculture, the columbian exchange, local food, vinyasa, microfoam, piste racing, spit welding, political economy, ecology, the uses and abuses of language, dilettantia, buddhism, gastronomy, the early paintings of agnes martin, storytelling, hapas, critical mass, travel, etymology, chocolate grinders, slow food, visions of excess, sazeracs, guacamole, used bookstores, petanque, kayaking on the hudson, zapatismo y altermundismo, the limits and possibilities of human rights, stocking up on gasoline and mad max outfits for the apocalypse
- My Website/Blog/Other Profile:
- http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=594131653
- Another Website I Think Is Cool:
- http://www.presidiomba.org
- Books:
- here are some authors instead: vladimir nabokov, eqbal ahmed, arundhati roy, georges bataille, eduardo galeano, michael ondaatje, robertson davies, john banville, anne michaels, henry miller, ivan turgenev, isak dinesen, david foster wallace, leo tolstoy, marcel proust, michel houllebecq, charles baudelaire, jorge luis borges, joanna macy, margaret atwood, paul auster, jonathan franzen, haruki murakami, jonathan lethem, reference books and dictionaries including but not limited to the o.e.d.
- Music:
- metric, sleater-kinney, pj harvey, prince, tindersticks, fela, cat power, sonic youth, solex, arcade fire, tom waits, nick drake, pixies, cocteau twins, jorge ben, goldfrapp, smiths, david bowie, my bloody valentine, leonard cohen, nick cave, azure ray, manu chao, siouxsie, clientele, helium, stereolab, bjork, iron and wine, franz ferdinand, hungry march band, nervous cabaret, blackalicious, lyrics born, blue scholars, broken social scene, feist, sufjan steves, elliot smith, ted leo, neko case
- Movies:
- rushmore, rivers and tides, calendar, exotica, spellbound, high fidelity, hoop dreams, city of god, me you and everyone we know, in the mood for love, being john malkovich, happiness, the spanish prisoner, tokyo decadence, babette's feast, heathers, tampopo, 8 1/2, la dolce vita, waiting for guffman, simple men, metropolis, the unbelievable truth, le temps des gitanes, underground, matewan, land and freedom, blue velvet, down by law, the cook the thief his wife her lover, ararat, speaking parts, the adjuster, family viewing, la jetee, bright leaves
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I got my first batch here, and they have the best price I've seen, and all profits go to humanitarian causes too:
http://www.theammashop.org/nosn.html
Worth a try!
And, enjoying checking out all the cool stuff on the site!