Dorothy Green (environmentalist)

Dorothy Green was the founding Director of the California Water Impact Network. She served on the statewide board that directed the fight to stop the Peripheral Canal when it was on the ballot in 1982. She also was Founding President of Heal the Bay and President Emeritus of the Los Angeles & San Gabriel Rivers Watershed Council. She served as a Los Angeles Department of Water and Power Commissioner for three and a half years, and chaired a water policy conference, the POWER Conference, now in its sixteenth year. Green died on October 13, 2008 after a long battle with cancer.^[1]

Publications

Managing Water: Avoiding Conflict in California, to be published by U.C. Press. (Spells out how water is managed in California and ends with elements of a sustainable water future.)

Awards

The President's Award for Volunteer Service presented by the head of US EPA Steve Johnson, February 2007. Green was also honored in Vanity Fair's May 2007 "Green" issue as one of the Golden State's Eco-Warriors. PCL Carla Bard Award for Volunteer Service at the PCL Annual Symposium, April, 2007 and many, many, more

References

1. ^ Woo, Elaine (October 14, 2008). "Environmentalist began Heal the Bay". Los Angeles Times: p. A-1. http://articles.latimes.com/2008/oct/14/local/me-green14. Retrieved February 18, 2009. 

Further reading

• The Great Thirst: Californian's and Water - A History, Revised Edition, Univ. of Cal. Press Ltd., ISBN 0-520-22455-8

External links

• California Water Impact Network
• Heal the Bay
• Los Angeles and San Gabriel Rivers Watershed Council
• for program and registration for the POWER conference

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