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<h2 style="margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170);" linux="Linux" libertine="Libertine" georgia="Georgia" times="Times" serif="serif" line-height="line-height" background="background" none="none" rgb="rgb"><span class="mw-headline" style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><div style="font-weight: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/peterteague">https://www.linkedin.com/in/peterteague</a></span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">
</span></div><div style=""><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">no lnx</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Peter Teague</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Principal at PT Philanthropic</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">San Francisco, California, United States500+ connections</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">University of California, Hastings College of the Law</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Company Website</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Company WebsiteExternal link</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">
</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">About</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Committed, creative social change professional with extensive experience as a grant maker, executive director and foundation executive, builds successful philanthropic strategies that help individuals and communities to realize their potential. Proven record of generating and building relationships, managing projects from concept to completion, designing and evaluating effective funding strategies, and coaching individuals to success. An adaptable and compassionate leader with exceptional communication skills, a team builder with an ability to work independently, create effective presentations, and develop opportunities that further organizational goals.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Activity</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">MSNBC https://lnkd.in/daEYN7p</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">
</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">MSNBC https://lnkd.in/daEYN7p</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Liked by Peter Teague</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">My new podcast #PSYCHOACTIVE launches tomorrow! This is a new chapter for me.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">
</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">My new podcast #PSYCHOACTIVE launches tomorrow! This is a new chapter for me.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Liked by Peter Teague</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Incredibly proud to be a trustee of the Woodcock Foundation, which pledged One for Democracy (O4D) - 1% of our assets to support a free and fair…</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">
</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Incredibly proud to be a trustee of the Woodcock Foundation, which pledged One for Democracy (O4D) - 1% of our assets to support a free and fair…</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Liked by Peter Teague</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Join now to see all activity</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Experience</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">PT Philanthropic </span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Principal</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">PT Philanthropic</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sep 2016 - Present 5 years 7 months</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">
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</span></div><div style=""><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">It may be easy to give, but it's not easy to give well, to give artfully. We bring together years of experience and a large and diverse network of seers, thinkers and doers to provide fresh insights and identify opportunities to make positive change that others may miss.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> George Soros' Open Society Institute, The Nathan Cummings Foundation, the Omidyar Network, the Bernard and Anne Spitzer Charitable Trust, the Marguerite Casey Foundation and many others have drawn on our advice to shape…</span></span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">
</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Show more </span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Resources Legacy Fund Graphic</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Vice President</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Resources Legacy Fund</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Oct 2018 - Oct 2019  1 year 1 month</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">
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</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Member of the senior leadership team of a unique institution that uses grant making, research, communications and policy development to amplify and accelerate the impact of public, private and philanthropic investments in conservation and social equity. Engages existing and new funders, undertakes California, national and international policy work, leads cross-program collaboration with staff and stakeholders, and helps build programs to better serve donors and communities.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">
</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">PT Philanthropic Consulting Graphic</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Principal</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">PT Philanthropic Consulting</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sep 2016 - Oct 20182 years 2 months</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">
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</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Providing guidance and support to foundations, government and non-governmental organizations in strategy development and program planning and implementation. Particular focus on climate change, authoritarianism, human rights and democratic engagement. Clients include the </span>Omidyar <span style="font-weight: 400;">Group of Philanthropies, Sexual Minorities Uganda and Arizona State University.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">
</span></div><div style=""><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">The Breakthrough Institute</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Graphic</span></span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Interim Executive Director, Senior Advisor</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Breakthrough Institute</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Jan 2015 - Jun 2016 1 year 6 months</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">San Francisco Bay Area</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">
</span></div><div style=""><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Led the Institute through a leadership transition and strategic planning process designed to set the course for the future of the small but influential think tank I co-founded in 2004. Managed the organization’s 12-person staff, operations and finances. Responsible for and supervised fund development, research, communications and outreach functions. Co-authored, with 17 recognized experts from around the world, the “Ecomodernist Manifesto,” which posits that human well-being is essential to</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">…</span></span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">
</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Show more </span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Nathan Cummings Foundation<span style="font-weight: 400;"> Graphic</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Senior Vice President, Chief Strategy Officer, Program Director</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Nathan Cummings Foundation</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Aug 2002 - May 201411 years 10 months</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">
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</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Key member of the leadership team of a $500 million national grant-making foundation, directly managed grants totaling over $60 million. Directed the development of cutting-edge grant making strategies in the areas of environment, ecological innovation and contemplative practice, built a track record of funding leaders and programs through the process that took them from relative obscurity to increasing prominence and influence.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">
</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Instrumental in creating a number of important…</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">
</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Show more </span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Marguerite Casey Foundation Graphic</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Senior Consultant</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Marguerite Casey Foundation</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mar 2002 - Jul 20025 months</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">
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</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Developed the vision, mission and grant making strategies for the new, $600 million foundation; worked successfully with the incoming CEO and other staff and consultants to win the enthusiastic support of the board for the foundation’s proposed approach to address challenges faced by low-income children and families.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">
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</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Led the nation’s oldest and largest LGBT community foundation through a period of extraordinary growth and impact. Increased the annual budget by more than five times, doubled the size of the staff, expanded and improved IT and office infrastructure, led campaigns to focus public attention on the root causes of homophobia and connect LGBT concerns to the larger question of how people deal with human difference. Made speeches, gave presentations, and appeared in local and national media…</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">
</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Show more </span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Tides Foundation <span style="font-weight: 400;">Graphic</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Senior Program Officer</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Tides Foundation</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Apr 1995 - Nov 19983 years 8 months</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">
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</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Strategic counsel to donor-advised fund clients, managed grants totaling over $12 million, wrote funding dockets, organized site visits, made board presentations and advised individual funders in the areas of environment, HIV/AIDS, needle exchange and democratic movement building.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">
</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer Graphic</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Senior Legislative Assistant</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Jan 1993 - Mar 19952 years 3 months</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">
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</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Served as senior policy advisor to the Senator on energy, environment and agriculture, staffed her on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, conducted research and analysis, wrote speeches and testimony, met with constituents and advocacy groups in the Capital and California, travelled with the Senator, and acted independently as her “eyes and ears” on the ground.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">
</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Played an important part in the Senator’s decision to take a lead role in opposing the Pentagon’s ban on gay…</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">
</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Show more </span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Diane Feinstein for Senate Graphic</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Policy Advisor</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Diane Feinstein for Senate</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Aug 1992 - Dec 19925 months</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">
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</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Senior policy advisor to U.S. Senate candidate Diane Feinstein on environmental issues. Conducted research and analysis, wrote speeches and talking points, and served as a stand-in for her opponent in the process of preparing Mayor Feinstein for televised debates.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">
</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Natural Resources Defense Council <span style="font-weight: 400;">Graphic</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Law Clerk</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Natural Resources Defense Council</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Nov 1987 - Jul 19902 years 9 months</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">
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</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Provided legal research and analysis for attorneys at a premier national environmental organization, with a focus on offshore oil and gas development.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">U.S. Representative Leon Panetta<span style="font-weight: 400;"> Graphic</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Legislative Assistant</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">U.S. Representative Leon Panetta</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Feb 1985 - Aug 19872 years 7 months</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">
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</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Senior policy advisor to influential U.S. Congressman on energy and environmental issues, wrote speeches, testimony and correspondence, led the Congressional staff contingent in successful negotiations to protect coastal areas from offshore oil and gas development; negotiated directly with senior Reagan Administration officials, as well as oil and gas lobbyists.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">
</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Peace Corps Graphic</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Peace Corps Volunteer</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Peace Corps</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sep 1982 - Sep 19842 years 1 month</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">
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</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Helped subsistence farmers in small, remote villages to increase crop yields, provided technical assistance and access to shovels, hoes and fertilizer, helped organize community swamp projects; served as up-country field researcher for Peace Corps administration, identifying potential villages for future volunteer placement.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">
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</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Activities and Societies: Pi Sigma Alpha, National Political Science Honors Society, Dean's Honor List, Junior Year Abroad, University of Sussex, U.K.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">
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</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Year abroad studying U.K and U.S. political systems and literature</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">
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</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Trustee of an institution of higher learning unlike any other, the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley brings together scholars of the world’s diverse religions and wisdom traditions to advance new knowledge, share inspiration, and collaborate on solutions.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">
</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Board MemberThe Center for Investigative Reporting Graphic</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Board Member</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Center for Investigative Reporting</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Jan 1996 - Jan 20004 years 1 month</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">
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</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">one of ten board members of national non-profit committed to excellence in investigative journalism</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">
</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Rainbow World Fund Graphic</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Organizer, event producer, development consultant</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Rainbow World Fund</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Jan 2006 - Present16 years 3 months</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">
</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Disaster and Humanitarian Relief</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">
</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Traveled extensively in Guatemala and Cuba to deliver humanitarian relief funds and materials, raised money and collected medical and educational supplies, organized fund-raising events, liaison with RWF partners in Uganda and Cuba</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">
</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">St. Andrew Presbyterian Church, Marin City California Graphic</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Food Pantry Volunteer</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">St. Andrew Presbyterian Church, Marin City California</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Apr 2017 - Present5 years</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">
</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Poverty Alleviation</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">
</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Food pantry grunt in service of people who need free food</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">
</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Hurricane Katrina recovery team member, philanthropic advisorMiddle Collegiate Church Graphic</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Hurricane Katrina recovery team member, philanthropic advisor</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Middle Collegiate Church</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Jan 2004 - Dec 20107 years</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">
</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Disaster and Humanitarian Relief</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">
</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Made repeated trips to post-Katrina New Orleans to provide disaster relief services including demolition, debris removal and re-construction. Provided philanthropic consulting to senior leadership team</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">
</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Member, Co-Chair, Program CommitteeEnvironmental Grantmakers Association Graphic</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Member, Co-Chair, Program Committee</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Environmental Grantmakers Association</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sep 2002 - Sep 20108 years 1 month</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">
</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Environment</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">
</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">active long-term member and co-chair of the program committee for the 2004 annual conference</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">
</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">AIDS Benefits Counselors Graphic</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Legal advisor</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">AIDS Benefits Counselors</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Jan 1988 - Sep 19924 years 9 months</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">
</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Health</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">
</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Provided pro-bono legal advice and counsel to people with HIV and AIDS during the height of the epidemic in San Francisco</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">
</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">San Francisco AIDS Foundation Graphic</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Fund raiser</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">San Francisco AIDS Foundation</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Feb 1999 - Jun 20012 years 5 months</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">
</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Health</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">
</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Raised money and biked from San Francisco to Los Angeles in 1999, 2000 and 2001</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">
</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Publications</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Doom Effect</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Inside Philanthropy  Dec 2018</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Philanthropy can help re-invent American politics by adopting a broader view of the climate challenge</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">
</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">See publicationExternal link</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Something's Happening Here: Marin City Responds to Climate Change</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Floating Times  May 16, 2018</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">See publicationExternal link</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Adaptation for a High Energy Planet” (co-author)</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Consortium for Science, Policy and Oucomes  Mar 2016</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">In the final paper in the path-breaking Implementing Climate Pragmatism series, the authors call for an improved framework for climate adaptation in the 21st century.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">
</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Other authors</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Joyashree RoyAlex TrembathJason LloydDan SarewitzMichael ShellenbergerNetra Chhetri </span> Roger Pielke Jr.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">See publicationExternal link</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">A Call to De-Escalate the Climate Wars</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Breakthrough Institute  March 3, 2015</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Climate activists would be well served by undertaking an honest evaluation of the responsibility we have for the serial failures of climate legislation.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">
</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">See publicationExternal link</span></div><div style=""><span style="font-weight: 400; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">An Ecomodernist Manifesto (co-author)</span></div><div style=""><span style="font-weight: 400; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Mar 2015</span></div><div style=""><span style="font-weight: 400; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Human prosperity and an ecologically vibrant planet are not only possible, but inseparable.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">
</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Other authors</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">John Asafu-Adaje,Stewart Brand,Joyashree RoyLinus BlomqvistBarry BrookTed NordhausRuth DeFriesEarl EllisDavid KeithChristopher Foreman</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">See publicationExternal link</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">More Donors Need to Support Innovative Climate Solutions (co-author)</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Chronicle of Philanthropy  February 20, 2011</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The grantmaker's job is not to win today's policy battle but to help change the context in which tomorrow's is held.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">
</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Other authors</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Lance Lindblom</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">See publicationExternal link</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Environmentalists and a Clean Energy Future</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Los Angeles Times  July 19, 2010</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">In order to stabilize the climate we'll need to move beyond the flawed thinking that protects one area while sacrificing another, that advocates for 50% when only 100% will do.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">
</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">See publicationExternal link</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Breakthrough Philanthropy,” Interview with MIT’s Presencing Institute</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">M.I.T. Presencing Institute  Jun 2010</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">How do we think systemically when we've been trained not to?</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">
</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">See publicationExternal link</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Global Warming in an Age of Energy Anxiety</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The American Prospect  June 26, 2007</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Why progressives should shift the emphasis from regulation to investment in their political and policy approach</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">
</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">See publicationExternal link</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Suitable for Framing?</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Alternet  January 25, 2006</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">It's a funny thing about the term "framing:" The more it gets used, the less we seem to understand what it means.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">
</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">See publicationExternal link</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Pig People Don’t Talk to the Chicken People</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">In These Times  June 25, 2005</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">When we stop worrying about a lot of seemingly separate problems, we begin to realize that there are people out there who are thinking seamlessly and brilliantly, taking action to transform corporations, coming up with whole new ways of conceptualizing problems and imagining solutions.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: 400;">
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</div><div style="font-weight: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>the New Denial Is Delay</b></div><p style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1.6em;">How an attempt to revolutionize the environmental movement became a push to delay action on climate change.</p><p style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1.6em;">By Paul D. Thacker</p><p style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1.6em;">In October 2004, Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger, the founders of a scrappy Bay Area think tank called The Breakthrough Institute, published “<a href="https://thebreakthrough.org/articles/the-death-of-environmentalism" target="blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://thebreakthrough.org/articles/the-death-of-environmentalism&source=gmail&ust=1648735985760000&usg=AOvVaw1rU0Xza4Nq8yXIEjwA7Gcj" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">The Death of Environmentalism</a>,” an essay that argued the environmental movement had failed. To knock back critics, the duo constantly underlined their environmental credentials and years of experience providing public relations advice to green groups like the Sierra Club and Natural Resources Defense Council.</p><p style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1.6em;">Seeking to define themselves as different from run-of-the-mill climate skeptics, Shellenberger <a href="https://grist.org/article/little-doe/" target="blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://grist.org/article/little-doe/&source=gmail&ust=1648735985760000&usg=AOvVaw3ZV1xMnPv7JSPD5zfnj3Pb" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">told a reporter</a> around that time, “We’re not like Bjorn Lomborg or whatever.” Lomborg, of course, is the Danish climate contrarian best known for the fact-challenged book Cool It and, more recently, False Alarm.</p><p style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.6em;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">A few years after seeking to differentiate th</span><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">e Breakthrough Institute</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> from Lomborg, </span><a href="https://www.brown.edu/academics/political-theory-project/global-climate-change-end-world-we-know-it" target="blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.brown.edu/academics/political-theory-project/global-climate-change-end-world-we-know-it&source=gmail&ust=1648735985760000&usg=AOvVaw13ZbIoM1Wt1IWTyYPVuSwQ" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102); text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Shellenberger joined </a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">the Danish writer on a panel at Brown University, where both urged more tempered rhetoric on climate change. As reported by the </span><a href="https://www.browndailyherald.com/2008/04/16/janus-forum-panel-urges-tempered-climate-rhetoric/" target="blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.browndailyherald.com/2008/04/16/janus-forum-panel-urges-tempered-climate-rhetoric/&source=gmail&ust=1648735985760000&usg=AOvVaw0WzJBbjhftAa20AcmkFeYq" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102); text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Brown Daily Herald</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">, Shellenberger argued that climate change experts dismissed him and Lomborg because policy experts did not allow for their “alternative voices.”</span></p><div style="font-weight: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">[janus forum pix]</div><p style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1.6em;"><b>More than a decade later, Shellenberger has left the Breakthrough Institute, but little else has changed. Both Shellenberger and Lomborg have released new books—as in the past, experts immediately savaged them</b>. In a review at Yale 360, Pacific Institute emeritus president Peter Gleick <a href="https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2020/07/review-bad-science-and-bad-arguments-abound-in-apocalypse-never/" target="blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2020/07/review-bad-science-and-bad-arguments-abound-in-apocalypse-never/&source=gmail&ust=1648735985760000&usg=AOvVaw01qE-wpkI_pAJhLNBGEJT3" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">wrote</a>, “Bad science and bad arguments abound in 'Apocalypse Never' by Michael Shellenberger.” Taking a pickaxe to Lomborg’s book <em>False Alarm</em>, Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz wrote <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/16/books/review/bjorn-lomborg-false-alarm-joseph-stiglitz.html" target="blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/16/books/review/bjorn-lomborg-false-alarm-joseph-stiglitz.html&source=gmail&ust=1648735985760000&usg=AOvVaw2K64zx4CioEJ054vUk1pw8" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">in the New York Times</a>, “This book proves the aphorism that a little knowledge is dangerous. It’s nominally about air pollution. It’s really about mind pollution.”</p><p style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1.6em;">--</p><p style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1.6em;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">A decade after the<b> Breakthrough Institute</b> burst on the scene firing shots at Big Green, Shellenberger<span style="font-weight: 700;"> </span>followed Sierra Club president Mike Brune onto the stage for <a href="https://fortuneconferences.com/brainstorm-green-2014/2014-preliminary-speakers/" target="blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://fortuneconferences.com/brainstorm-green-2014/2014-preliminary-speakers/&source=gmail&ust=1648735985760000&usg=AOvVaw27qjPiFbxn3g6rBBmtihSl" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Brainstorm Green</a>, Fortune Magazine’s 2014 conference for environmental leaders.</span> After opening remarks from Brune, dressed the part of an environmental nonprofit boss in boring suit and tie, Shellenberger stepped up to the podium in slacks and a fitted shirt—uniform-ready to host an inspiring Ted Talk.</p><p style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1.6em;">He then proceeded to berate Brune for failing to offer real solutions to climate change.</p><p style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1.6em;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">By this point, Shellenberger no longer felt the need to namecheck his environmental roots before launching a missile at Big Green. He recounted how, in contrast to Brune and his ineffective Sierra Club, he and <b>Breakthrough co-founder Ted Nordhaus </b>had successfully lobbied for the New Apollo Project, a coalition advocating for cleantech and renewable energy. <b>Shellenberger added that the New Apollo later convinced the Obama administration to put $150 billion into a stimulus bill.</b></font></p><p style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1.6em;">After leaving the podium, Shellenberger sat down next to Brune to continue the debate. Brune then punched back, “We operate differently from your Breakthrough Institute. We are not a think tank; we are a group that gets results...on the ground.”</p><p style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1.6em;">With a grin and a shrug, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YioOKuV4kqU&feature=youtu.be" target="blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v%3DYioOKuV4kqU%26feature%3Dyoutu.be&source=gmail&ust=1648735985760000&usg=AOvVaw2o5XJuhyFTx1bpA8B43uHC" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Shellenberger quipped</a>, “We had pretty good results with the stimulus, actually.”</p><p style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1.6em;">The sparring was vintage Breakthrough: tiny, Left Coast think tank smacks down Big Environment for sclerotic thinking and green solutions less palatable than last week’s stale, organic, whole grain muffins. <b>Also standard: Shellenberger’s Apollo parable relied on a string of selective facts, loudly paraded onto stage for political theater.</b></p><p style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1.6em;">Started in the early 2000s, the Apollo Alliance banded together dozens of labor unions and green groups in a coalition that advocated for federal funding to advance technologies and create jobs for clean energy. <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Members included everyone from the NAACP, SEIU, Greenpeace, Tides Foundation, League of Conservation Voters, and the AFL-CIO. </span>Anyone who was anyone began <a href="https://grist.org/article/apollo1/" target="blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://grist.org/article/apollo1/&source=gmail&ust=1648735985760000&usg=AOvVaw3kmO7jpIw9MdGrDbQ4S5o5" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">adopting Apollo-like rhetoric</a>, including Bill Clinton, and <em>The Nation </em>editor and publisher Katrina Vanden Heuvel. Not surprisingly, a f<b>ounding board member </b><b><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20050325024605/http://www.apolloalliance.org/about_the_alliance/" target="blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://web.archive.org/web/20050325024605/http://www.apolloalliance.org/about_the_alliance/&source=gmail&ust=1648735985760000&usg=AOvVaw2R7rQhDcIhP-ZzEw2N39eY" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none;">of Apollo was the Sierra Club’s executive director</a>, which makes it odd that Shellenberger would try to seize sole credit for the coalition’s purported success, let alone use it against Brune.</b></p><p style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1.6em;">In reality, Nordhaus and Shellenberger were two of the many, many people that helped get the coalition off the ground. And in 2005, nearly a decade before that public spat with Brune, <b>Shellenberger<a href="https://grist.org/article/apollo1/" target="blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://grist.org/article/apollo1/&source=gmail&ust=1648735985760000&usg=AOvVaw3kmO7jpIw9MdGrDbQ4S5o5" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none;"> announced that he had left</a> Apollo over disagreements with members. In a recent interview with <em>Drilled, </em>Shellenberger put it more bluntly: “I was shitcanned from Apollo over ‘Death of Environmentalism.’”</b></p><p style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1.6em;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Despite that happening more than fifteen years ago, Shellenberger still references his time with the Apollo Alliance when plugging his tale as a hero to save the planet from climate change</span>. In January 2020, for example, <a href="https://science.house.gov/imo/media/doc/Shellenberger%20Testimony.pdf" target="blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://science.house.gov/imo/media/doc/Shellenberger%2520Testimony.pdf&source=gmail&ust=1648735985760000&usg=AOvVaw2yE9MoYQGcZ-WzYt2yQpK5" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">when he testified</a> before the House Science Committee, Shellenberger noted “In 2003 I co-founded the Apollo Alliance to advocate for a Green New Deal, which we called a ‘New Apollo Project.’” He added that Obama’s stimulus (passed in 2009) funded many Apollo proposals for renewables, energy efficiency, and electric vehicles.</p><p style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1.6em;">In speaking with <em>Drilled</em>, Shellenberger claimed to have had a hand in that stimulus as well, after meeting with Obama’s policy team. “And the Obama people, they got it right away,” Shellenberger said. “And then the rest is history. They basically were like, ‘Yeah, we want to do a big investment in clean energy.’ And that was the stimulus investment.”</p><p style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.6em;"><b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">A recently retired </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Hill staffer, who did not want his name in the media, said he worked for decades on appropriations for the House but never heard of the Breakthrough Institute</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> He wondered how Shellenberger—or anyone—could claim personal credit for passing billions of dollars in renewable energy policy with just one or two meetings, when the Hill is swarming with professional lobbyists working around the clock.</span></p><p style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1.6em;"><b>“He’s constantly reinventing his story to build the appearance of power and access,” said Kert Davies,</b> who spent 13 years at Greenpeace examining energy policy, before founding the Climate Investigations Center in 2013. Davies said he first met Shellenberger in the early 2000s, when Shellenberger was vying to get a communications contract with Greenpeace.  <b>“He takes credit for things [that happened] years after he was boosted from the Apollo Alliance. He can say whatever he wants, and it’s all vapor because the organization is now gone.”</b></p><p style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1.6em;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>“They aren’t players up here on the Hill,</b>” a Democratic Committee staffer said of The Breakthrough Institute. This staffer has spent almost two decades in Congress working on environmental and climate change policy but is not authorized to speak to the media. “They spend most of their time shooting spitballs at mainstream environmental organizations and that makes them a bright, shiny object to some journalists.”</font></p><p style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.6em;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Nonetheless, when Nordhaus and Shellenberger flew from California to Washington in 2009 to discuss climate policy, NPR interviewed them outside the Senate Dirksen Office Building, and </span><a href="https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=105834436" target="blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId%3D105834436&source=gmail&ust=1648735985760000&usg=AOvVaw09gz66rhkrzfreYXPt6_Jk" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">reported their funder </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Peter Teague’</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">s claims</span></a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> that President Obama had adopted Breakthrough’s “language and visionary rhetoric.”</span></p><p style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1.6em;">--</p><p style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1.6em;">Jockeying to position themselves as the smart, thoughtful adults on environmental policy is core to the Breakthrough model, and to Shellenberger's approach post-Breakthrough as well, <b>along with constant bashing of “Big Environment</b>.” In 2005, after Greenpeace created the website Exxon Secrets to track the oil company’s funding for climate change disinformation, Mother Jones published a <a href="https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2005/05/some-it-hot/" target="blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2005/05/some-it-hot/&source=gmail&ust=1648735985760000&usg=AOvVaw1JKbI7PmA1OoapM3zETLOw" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">sprawling investigation </a>detailing how Exxon was throwing buckets of cash at forty organizations that attacked the scientific consensus on climate....</p><div style="font-weight: normal;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); cursor: pointer;"></font></div><div style="font-weight: normal;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); cursor: pointer;">ref june 2009</font></div><div style="font-weight: normal;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); cursor: pointer;">
</font></div><div style=""><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); cursor: pointer; font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=105834436">https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=105834436</a></font></div><div style=""><span style="font-weight: normal;">putting a fin spin on gw r harris</span></div><div style=""><span style="font-weight: normal;">
</span></div><div style=""><div id="storytext" class="storytext storylocation linkLocation" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 134.448px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; clear: left; min-height: 120px;"><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">climate change is a potential environmental disaster — but it's also potentially an economic opportunity. President Obama spoke of it in economic terms Tuesday when he urged the House of Representatives to pass legislation that would address global warming.</span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">"The nation that leads in the creation of a clean energy economy will be the nation that leads the 21st century global economy," he said. "That is what this legislation seeks to achieve. It is a bill that will open the door to a better future for this nation. And that is why I urge members of Congress to come together and pass it."</span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Promoting responses to global warming as an economic opportunity — rather than as a pollution problem that needs to be solved through regulation — has long been c</span>hampioned by a tiny think tank in Oakland, Calif.</p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">The Breakthrough Institute</span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The Breakthrough Institute doesn't look like much — just a few offices in a shared suite in downtown Oakland.</span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">There are only five people on staff. On a recent day, they were outnumbered by an incoming crop of seven freshly minted college graduates, who showed up for their summer internships.</span></p><div class="backstage-sponsor-language " style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 15px 0px; border-width: 2px 0px 0px; border-top-style: solid; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(245, 245, 245); border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.3; vertical-align: baseline; display: block; text-align: center; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: normal;">[pix michael Shellenberger, 37, and Ted Nordhaus, 43, founded the Breakthrough Institute in 2002.</span></span></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto;"><span style="font-weight: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Shellenberger tells the interns that environmental groups — like the ones he used to work for — are going about it all wrong. By urging Congress to cast carbon dioxide as a pollutant that needs to be controlled, he says, they will constantly swim against the tide of public opinion.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto;"><span style="font-weight: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">"We're stuck in this kind of poor paradigm for dealing with climate change, this pollution paradigm," he says, "not because environmentalists are failures, but actually because they were so successful.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> The Clean Water Act, the Clean Air Act, the cap and trade on acid rain — these things worked really well."</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Pushing</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"> Innovation,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Not Regulation</span></span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">But reducing carbon dioxide is a different story. It's not just a nuisance byproduct, like the sulfur in coal that contributes to acid rain. Carbon dioxide is unavoidable when we burn coal, oil and natural gas. So getting rid of it means either capturing it at great expense, or regulating fossil fuels into oblivion.</span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto;">In theory, regulation will force companies to develop cleaner alternatives as the price of carbon pollution grows. But Shellenberger says that'll never work<span style="font-weight: normal;">.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto;"><span style="font-weight: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">"When was the last time human beings modernized our energy sources by making older power sources more expensive?" he asks the interns. "And, of course, by now you probably know that the answer is never."</span></p><aside id="ad-secondary-wrap" aria-label="advertisement" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Personal computers didn't take off because there was a tax on typewriters, he says. And the Internet didn't sprout up because the government made telegraphs more expensive.</span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">"So is there a better way to do this? Well, we think that there is. It's very simple: It's that we need to make clean energy cheap worldwide."</span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto;">China will never stop burning its massive reserves of coal unless there's something cheap to replace them, he argues. And the United States isn't likely to stop burning coal, either, he says.</p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Shellenberger and Nordhaus argue that the best way to develop those clean technologies is to increase federal energy research tenfold, and to create a project akin to the Apollo mission to the moon. But a massive increase in federal energy research spending is not a popular idea at the moment.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto;"><span style="font-weight: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">"There's this idea that the government shouldn't be involved in technology, the government shouldn't be picking winners and losers," Shellenberger says. "Which is sort of a funny thing to say. It's kind of like, well, why not? And when hasn't the United States government been involved in picking technology winners and losers?"</span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">He points to the computer industry as just one example of something that came into being because of deliberate federal investments.</span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: normal;">Tapping Into Americans' Love Of Invention</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto;"><span style="font-weight: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Nordhaus and Shellenberger weren't always technology advocates. They met as young adults, trying to save redwood trees on the California coast. Working as pollsters and strategists, they spent a lot of time figuring out what motivates people. That led them to rethink how to frame global warming as an issue.</span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">"The things that will drive or not drive action have nothing to do with how well you understand how fast the polar ice caps are melting," Nordhaus says.</span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto;">A sense of doom or shame only motivates a small segment of the public<span style="font-weight: normal;"> — and puts off the rest, he says. Instead, their research shows that people are motivated when the issue is presented as an opportunity to revolutionize energy technology.</span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">"In fact, not only is it popular, but voters get excited about it," Shellenberger says. "If you go and talk to folks in the Rust Belt, in Ohio, or you talk to people in Silicon Valley, you talk to people in New York, Americans love that. And they love that, I think, for reasons that are really specific to the national character, which is: That's what Americans do; we invent stuff. That is so much part of who we are. It just seems crazy that we wouldn't put that at the center of our policy agenda."</span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: normal;">Critics Say There Isn't Time</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto;"><span style="font-weight: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The downside of this is that global warming is a looming crisis, and critics say their solution offers no timetable for action and no assurances that technologies will be ready before the world tips into a dangerous new state. So they often hear that their approach is a distraction.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"Well, I say, look in the mirror here," Nordhaus says. He says the pollution paradigm isn't succeeding either. Most countries aren't keeping the lofty promises they made in international climate talks</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">. And the 1,200 page climate legislation now before Congress is so full of escape clauses and giveaways, </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">it's not clear what exactly it will achieve. One thing it won't do is substantially increase federal research dollars. WAXMAN-MARKEY?]</span></span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto;">Nordhaus and Shellenberger rail against the bill in the blogosphere. And they're trying to get attention on Capitol Hill.</p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: normal;">Taking Their Agenda To The Capitol</span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">A few days after our interview, we meet up again in front of the Dirksen Senate Office Building.</span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">They came to town with a simple plea: The government needs to spend more money — not less — to develop radical new energy technologies, and to help bring those to market.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto;"><span style="font-weight: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">On this day, they're accompanied by Peter Teague from the</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"> left-leaning</span><span style="font-weight: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"> </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Nathan Cummings Foundation</span><span style="font-weight: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"> — the Breakthrough Institute's main funder. Teague is pleased with what Shellenberger and Nordhaus have achieved to date.</span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">"The president has adopted their language, their message, the story they helped to develop," Teague says. "The next stage in the development of all of this is for the actual reality of the policy to reflect the glowing, wonderful, positive, visionary rhetoric."</span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Turning Obama's rhetoric on energy opportunity into a fundamentally new approach to climate change will require a massive political shift. And that's the breakthrough that the Breakthrough Institute is hoping to achieve.</span></p></aside></div></div></span></h2><h3 class="conheader" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.4em; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="font-weight: normal;">Related NPR Stories</font></h3><h2 style="margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170);" linux="Linux" libertine="Libertine" georgia="Georgia" times="Times" serif="serif" line-height="line-height" background="background" none="none" rgb="rgb"><span class="mw-headline"><div id="supplementarycontent" class="supplementarycontent storylocation linkLocation" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 134.448px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; 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</font></span></h2><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); font-family: " linux="Linux" libertine="Libertine" georgia="Georgia" times="Times" serif="serif" line-height="line-height" background="background" none="none" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="An_Ecomodernist_Manifesto">An Ecomodernist Manifesto</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px;">[</span></span></font></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In April 2015, Keith joined with a group of scholars in issuing </span><i style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">An Ecomodernist Manifesto</i><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><sup id="cite_ref-EcoModernistManifesto_15-0" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Keith(scientist)#cite_note-EcoModernistManifesto-15" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[15]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-NYT41415_16-0" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Keith(scientist)#cite_note-NYT41415-16" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[16]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> The other authors were: John Asafu-Adjaye, Linus Blomqvist, </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stewart_Brand" title="Stewart Brand" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Stewart Brand</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Brook(scientist)" title="Barry Brook (scientist)" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Barry Brook</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_DeFries" title="Ruth DeFries" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Ruth DeFries</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, Erle Ellis, Christopher Foreman, Martin Lewis, </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Lynas" title="Mark Lynas" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Mark Lynas</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Nordhaus" title="Ted Nordhaus" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Ted Nordhaus</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_A.Pielke,Jr." title="Roger A. Pielke, Jr." style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Roger A. Pielke, Jr.</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, Rachel Pritzker, Joyashree Roy, Mark Sagoff, </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Shellenberger" title="Michael Shellenberger" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Michael Shellenberger</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Stone(director)" title="Robert Stone (director)" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Robert Stone</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, and</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"> Peter Teague</span><sup id="cite_ref-EcoModernismAuthors_17-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: embed;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Keith(scientist)#cite_note-EcoModernismAuthors-17" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; white-space: nowrap; background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">[</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Keith(scientist)#cite_note-EcoModernismAuthors-17" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; white-space: nowrap;">17]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">----</font></p><h2 style="margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; font-family: " linux="Linux" libertine="Libertine" georgia="Georgia" times="Times" serif="serif" line-height="line-height" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Filmography">Filmography</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; margin-right: 0px;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span></span></font></h2><ul style="list-style-image: url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" resources="resources" common="common" images="images" bullet-icon.svg="bullet-icon.svg" d4515="d4515" margin="margin" em="em" px="px" padding="padding" color="color" rgb="rgb" font-size="font-size"><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Bikini" title="Radio Bikini" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Radio Bikini</a> (1988)</font></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Satellite Sky (1990)</font></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Farewell, Good Brothers (1992)</font></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_III(film)" title="World War III (film)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">World War Three</a> (1998) aka Der Dritte Weltkrieg</font></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">American Babylon (2000)</font></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guerrilla:The_Taking_of_Patty_Hearst" title="Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst</a> (2004) aka Neverland: The Rise and Fall of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbionese_Liberation_Army" title="Symbionese Liberation Army" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Symbionese Liberation Army</a></font></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Hollywood Vietnam (2005)</font></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Oswald's Ghost (2008)</font></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Civilian Conservation Corps (2009; broadcast by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Broadcasting_Service" class="mw-redirect" title="Public Broadcasting Service" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">PBS</a>'s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Experience" title="American Experience" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">American Experience</a>)</font></b></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Days" title="Earth Days" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Earth Days</a> (2009)</font></b></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandora%27s_Promise" title="Pandora's Promise" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Pandora's Promise</a> (2013)</font></span></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Cold War Roadshow (2014)<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Stone(director)#cite_note-10" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[10]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Stone2015b_11-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Stone(director)#cite_note-Stone2015b-11" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[11]</a></sup></font></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chasing_the_Moon(2019_film)" class="mw-redirect" title="Chasing the Moon (2019 film)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Chasing the Moon</a> (2019)<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Stone(director)#cite_note-12" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[12]</a></sup></font></li></ul>