Environmental Action

I have remarked recently about my interest in videoing people about their passions.

Today, while walking to a lunch meeting in LA, we ran into Lindsay who was obviously passionate about the environment and the actions needed to protected it.  She was out talking with people about it and she asked if we could help.  I offered to shoot a video and post it here.  Her organization is: Environmental Action.

Here is the info from their about page:

    Thirty-five years ago, millions of Americans were no longer willing to put up with black smoke belching from car tailpipes, industries fouling drinking water with toxic pollution, or developers paving over wild places.

    Those Americans figured out which members of Congress were doing the most damage and called them the Dirty Dozen. They signed petitions, they lobbied their representatives, and they voted. And then, after they organized the inaugural Earth Day in 1970, many of those pioneers created  a new organization to help them do all of those things better. That group was Environmental Action.

    Environmental Action got results. They helped convince one of the most corrupt, special-interest-beholden presidents in history, Richard Nixon, to sign the most far-reaching environmental laws in American history: the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act and the Endangered Species Act.

    Unfortunately, three decades later, environmental and political problems remain.  Polluters are still looking for the quic k buck, and the federal government, especially President Bush, is looking to give away the store.

    It’s time to go back to what worked so well 35 years ago. Some of the most successful activists of the past several decades have revived Environmental Action. Our mission is to deliver impassioned, results-oriented activism that protects our environment from special interest polluters and their allies in government.

Click the pic to view the video.