Rob Perks's Blog
About
- Bio:
I run NRDC's Center for Advocacy Campaigns. Our shop exists to guide NRDC's policy and program experts in shaping and executing strategic campaigns on the insitution's priority issues. Our goal is to mobilize not just NRDC supporters, but millions of Americans in environmental advocacy. I started at NRDC in the legislative program handling media relations, and up until the fall of 2005 managed our popular and effective 'Bush Record' project. I left to build the Outreach & Communications department at American Rivers before returning to NRDC in the spring of 2007. During my 15-year environmental career I have led campaigns in Florida for U.S. Public Interest Group; organized the grassroots for the Chesapeake Bay Foundation in Virginia; directed national field operations for Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER); and served as the youngest-ever executive director of the Pamlico-Tar River Foundation in North Carolina. I graduated from The College of William & Mary in Virginia and earned my M.S. in environmental policy at The University of Montana.
- Roots in:
- I was born in Washington, DC and raised in a small town south of Richmond, Virginia. My family remains in the Old Dominion but I live in Rockville, Maryland with my wife Karen, our 7year-old son Brooks and our dog Pearl.
- Favorite place:
- Cape Hatteras lighthouse in Outer Banks, North Carolina.
- Why "environmentalism" matters:
- Best summed up by a quote I read somewhere -- "To savor the planet, you must first save it."
Recent Blog Posts
- Texas T. and Me (August 18, 2008)
- Offshore Drilling? Endless Bummer. (August 14, 2008)
- Ask the Candidates, Get Candid Answers (August 13, 2008)
- Drilling is no laughing matter -- or is it? (August 5, 2008)
- Coal: Not Just a Climate Killer (June 30, 2008)
- Big Coal Getting Lucky in Kentucky (May 15, 2008)
- King Coal by any other name. (May 15, 2008)
- ABEC Trying to Make a Clean Break? (April 17, 2008)
- Lights, Camera, (Liquid Coal) Action! (April 7, 2008)
- The Global Warming Bargument (April 2, 2008)
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- Rob Perks
- Director, Center for Advocacy Campaigns
- Washington, D.C.