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
- BREAKING NEWS: RFK, Jr. and Don Blankenship to Debate Energy (November 19, 2009)
- Interior Department Comes Out Strong (Rhetorically) on Mountaintop Removal (November 19, 2009)
- Big Oil and Big Coal Spend Big to Kill Clean Energy Bill (November 18, 2009)
- Mountains, Mining and Mayflies (November 16, 2009)
- Coal Ash: A Clear and Present Danger (November 13, 2009)
- Country Stars Come Out Against Mountaintop Removal (November 12, 2009)
- Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining 101 (November 11, 2009)
- Veterans, Clean Energy and Common Sense (November 10, 2009)
- Urge the Obama Administration to Save Coal River Mountain (November 5, 2009)
- Facing Coal Hard Facts at Interior Department (November 3, 2009)
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- Rob Perks
- Director, Center for Advocacy Campaigns
- Washington, D.C.