Carl Pope

Carl Pope

Carl Pope is the Executive Director of the Sierra Club, an American environmental organization founded by conservationist John Muir in 1892. Pope was appointed to his position as Executive Director in 1992.

Pope has worked with the Sierra Club for more than 30 years, and has served as a board member for other organizations, including the National Clean Air Coalition, California Common Cause, and Public Interest Economics Inc. He has served as Political Director for Zero Population Growth. He was a Peace Corps volunteer in India from 1967 to 1969. [cite web| url=http://www.peacecorps.gov/index.cfm?shell=learn.whatispc.notable.npanddev| title=Notable Former Volunteers / Nonprofit and Development| publisher=Peace Corps| accessdate=2008-08-19]

Pope is a regular contributor to the Huffington Post, a left-wing website founded by Arianna Huffington.

In 2004 he published a book with Paul Rauber called "Strategic Ignorance: Why the Bush Administration Is Recklessly Destroying a Century of Environmental Progress." [cite book| first=Carl| last=Pope| coauthors= Rauber, Paul| title=Strategic Ignorance: Why the Bush Administration Is Recklessly Destroying a Century of Environmental Progress| date=2006-05-04| publisher=Sierra Club Books| isbn=1-57805-125-8]

On June 7, 2006, in Washington, D.C., Carl Pope, along with labor leader Leo Gerard, announced the formation of the United Steelworkers' and Sierra Club's Blue/Green Alliance, after five years of negotiations between the two groups. [cite press release
title = Sierra Club, United Steelworkers Announce 'Blue-Green Alliance'
publisher =Sierra Club
date = June 7, 2006
url = http://www.sierraclub.org/pressroom/releases/pr2006-06-07.asp
accessdate = 2008-08-19
] The alliance focuses on interrelated issues that both organizations feel are important, including: a clean environment, better jobs, and a safer world. [cite press release
title = USW and Sierra Club Announced ‘Blue/Green Alliance’
publisher =United Steelworkers
date = June 7, 2006
url = http://www.usw.org/usw/program/content/2650.php
accessdate = 2007-05-25
]

Pope recently expressed support for the Pickens Plan, an effort by T. Boone Pickens to reduce America's dependence on foreign oil. Pickens, a billionaire oil investor, Republican, and financier of conservative causes, took Pope, via his $60 million private plane, to his ranch in west Texas, where Pickens and a group of investors plan to invest $12 billion in wind turbines. [cite web| url=http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/energy/2008-07-08-t-boone-pickens-plan-wind-energy_N.htm| title=Texas oilman T. Boone Pickens wants to supplant oil with wind| date=2008-07-11| publisher=Usa Today| accessdate=2008-08-19]

References

External links

* [http://www.sierraclub.org/carlpope Carl Pope's weblog, "Taking the Initiative"]
* [http://bluegreenalliance.org/ Blue/Green Alliance website]


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