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Richard Graves by Christine Irvine
Richard Graves, Founder and Executive Director
Richard is a climate activist, social entrepreneur, and online journalist. He served as the Online Campaigner for the TckTckTck campaign for the Global Campaign for Climate Action, the Editor for It’s Getting Hot in Here – Dispatches from the Youth Climate Movement and served as a Program Director for Americans for Informed Democracy. He is a member of the international committee of the Online News Association, as well as the Society of Professional Journalists, and contributes to numerous online news outlets. He graduated from Macalester College with a B.A. in Asian and Environmental History. He thinks that young people can use new media to create the revolutionary change necessary to solve global warming and has told people that at the World Bank, UN, CNN, and other stuffy institutions.
Helen Pent-Jenkins
Helen Pent-Jenkins, Development Coordinator
Helen is an experienced fundraiser and policy specialist in environmental and security issues in Latin America. Helen has worked in the development departments of Grist Magazine, Greenpeace USA, and Northland College. She is always ready with a smile for those supporting environmental projects and media. A graduate of the UN Mandated University for Peace in Costa Rica and Northland College, she lives in Seattle, Washington.
November 26th, 2008 at 2:42 pm
I am trying to get hold of Juan Hoffmaister. My organisation is working on climate change adaptation in the southern africa region with a particular slant towards water/health/food security and energy.
We would like to make contact with Juan and derive value in some of the stories from areas that he is visiting in Africa. We are based in Cape Town, South Africa.
April 20th, 2009 at 10:47 pm
[...] Richard Graves, the 27-year-old director of Fired Up Media, worries that the bill’s impact on state-level efficiency standards is being overlooked. “The preemption of stronger state standards is a Trojan horse provision that could seriously hamper future efforts to strengthen the bill to science based targets, he says. “Basically, corporations and others want a uniform standard for efficiency, but this means that progressive states can’t move ahead without control of the federal government.” [...]
May 8th, 2009 at 3:24 am
[...] Richard Graves, the 27-year-old director of Fired Up Media, worries that the bill’s impact on state-level efficiency standards is being overlooked. “The preemption of stronger state standards is a Trojan horse provision that could seriously hamper future efforts to strengthen the bill to science based targets, he says. “Basically, corporations and others want a uniform standard for efficiency, but this means that progressive states can’t move ahead without control of the federal government.” [...]