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Phil Radford

August 22, 2023

Philip David Radford (born January 2, 1976) is an American activist who served as the executive director of Greenpeace USA.[3] He is the founder and President of Progressive Power Lab,[4] an organization that incubates companies and non-profits that build capacity for progressive organizations,[5] including a donor advisory organization[6] Champion.us,[7] the Progressive Multiplier Fund[8] and Membership Drive.[9] Radford is a co-founder of the Democracy Initiative, was founder and executive director of Power Shift, and is a board member of the Mertz Gilmore Foundation.[10] He has a background in grassroots organizing, corporate social responsibility,[11] climate change, and clean energy.[12]

Phil Radford
Radford as Greenpeace's executive director (2012)
Born
Philip David Radford

(1976-01-02) January 2, 1976 (age 47)
New Brunswick, New Jersey, U.S.
Alma materWashington University in St. Louis[1]
Occupation(s)Environmental, clean energy and democracy leader
Known forExecutive director, Greenpeace
Co-Founder, Democracy Initiative[2]
PartnerEileen Radford

Early life and education

Radford began his environmental activism as a high school student at Oak Park and River Forest High School in Oak Park, a Chicago suburb, volunteering for an environmental justice campaign to stop the building of trash incinerators in the West Side of Chicago near his family's Oak Park home.[13]

His first job as a grassroots organizer came as a canvasser for Illinois PIRG. While studying political science and business at Washington University in St. Louis, he directed campaign and canvass offices during summers for the Fund for Public Interest Research for clients including the Human Rights Campaign, PIRGIM, and Ohio PIRG and worked part-time during school for the Sierra Club.[14] After graduating college in 1998, Radford became a lead organizer at Green Corps, the field school for environmental organizing.[15]

Radford received his B.A. from Washington University in St. Louis in 1998.[1]

Career

Field director of Ozone Action

From 1999 to 2001 Radford was field director for Ozone Action, an organization dedicated to working on the atmospheric threats of global warming and ozone depletion. As field director, Radford planned and executed a number of grassroots campaigns, including a campaign during the 2000 presidential primaries, which was the initial impetus for Senator John McCain sponsoring the Climate Stewardship Act.[16][17]

Radford also managed the grassroots mobilization for the Global Warming Divestiture Campaign, which resulted in Ford, General Motors, Texaco, and other companies ending their funding the Global Climate Coalition, which spread misinformation about global warming.[18] According to The New York Times, the result of the campaign was "the latest sign of divisions within heavy industry over how to respond to global warming."[19]

Founder of Power Shift

In 2001, Radford founded Power Shift,[14] a non-governmental organization dedicated to driving clean energy market breakthroughs and building the grassroots base to stop global warming.[20]

As executive director of Power Shift, Radford worked closely with the cities of San Diego, Chula Vista, California, and Berkeley, California, as well as nine other municipalities, to secure investments for installation of solar energy systems and implementation of energy efficiency measures in municipal buildings.[14] Radford also helped to convince Citigroup to adopt innovative new means of financing clean energy infrastructure for wind and solar installations that made them affordable to average Americans.[3][21]

Leading Greenpeace USA

 
On his first day as Greenpeace executive director, Radford participated in a protest of government inaction on climate change at the State Department.
 
Radford arrested outside the White House during the Keystone XL Pipeline protest

In 2009, at the age of 33, Radford was selected as the youngest ever executive director of Greenpeace.[22][23] Radford's tenure at Greenpeace USA is best known for convincing over 100 corporations to change their environmental practices;[24] exposing the anti-environmental influence of the Koch Brothers, making them a household name;[25] increasing the organization's net income by 80%;[26] launching the organization's grassroots organizing and significantly growing the canvass programs;[27] and serving as a founder of the Democracy Initiative,[2] a national coalition of major unions, environmental groups, civil rights and government reform organizations working for universal voter registration, to get money out of politics, and to reform Senate rules. In September 2013, Radford announced that he would step down on April 30, 2014, once he had completed five years of service as executive director.[3]

New York Times reporter Andrew Revkin referred to a Greenpeace campaign during Radford's tenure as "Activism at Its Best."[28][29]

Ben Jealous, former president and chief executive officer of the NAACP as well as co-founder of the Democracy Initiative with Radford, described Radford at the helm of Greenpeace as "a modern movement building giant. He has built powerful diverse coalitions to bolster the fights for the environment and voting rights. In the process he has shown himself to be unmatched in mobilizing everyday people to fund their movements directly." Environmental leader Bill McKibben stated: "During Radford's tenure, Greenpeace has been helping the whole environmental movement shift back towards its roots: local, connected, tough."[26]

Before becoming executive director of Greenpeace USA, Radford served as the director of the organization's Grassroots Program.[30] In that capacity, he directed and significantly grew the organization's street canvass and launched and directed the door-to-door canvasses, online-to-offline organizing team, social media team, the Greenpeace Student Network, and the Greenpeace Semester.[31] Under Radford, the street and door-to-door canvassing programs grew to include nearly 400 canvassers in almost 20 cities across the country and was responsible for doubling the organization's budget.[31]

Progressive Power Lab

After leaving Greenpeace, Radford launched Progressive Power Lab, which starts and manages organizations that work to move millions of dollars and people into progressive causes. Through Progressive Power Lab, Radford launched the Progressive Multiplier Fund,[32] Membership Drive, a Salesforce App developer[33] which built Apps including The Field,[34] and Champion.us, a donor advisor firm for small donors focused on democracy and climate change.[35]

Influencing Corporations

During Radford's tenure at Greenpeace, his theory of change shifted from viewing governments as arbitrators between public and private interests on environmental issues, to finding that most governments are captured by industry. Rather than fighting first for new laws, which could be blocked by industries, he has focused on pressuring large companies to change their practices and enlisted them as allies in pushing for strong environmental protections.[36][26][37] Examples include Greenpeace campaigns that convinced Apple Inc. and other tech companies to shift to 100% clean energy and lobby utilities and regulators to make that possible, as well as work to protect both the Indonesian rainforest and the Bering Sea Canyons.[38][39] Radford argues that the combination of creating industry champions and "outside pressure" focused on the government are the keys to passing new laws to protect the environment.[36] However, Radford has also been a vocal leader calling for the United States to pass campaign finance reform and respect all Americans' voting rights to shift power in politics from corporations towards people and fulfill "the promise of American democracy."[40][41] Radford played a major role in several initiatives to influence corporations such as the Global Climate Coalition, Citigroup, Kimberley-Clark, Asia Pulp and Paper, and the tech industry.

Global Climate Coalition

Radford managed the grassroots efforts of a national divestment/disinvestment campaign,[42] which forced Ford, General Motors, Texaco, and other companies to stop funding the Global Climate Coalition, which spread misinformation about global warming.[18] Soon thereafter, the GCC ended operations.[43]

Citigroup

In 2001, while running Power Shift, Radford launched a campaign to push Citibank to offer and promote Energy Efficient Mortgages (EEMs).[44] Citi was "missing the opportunity to help stop global warming by phasing out fossil fuel investments and promoting clean energy now," Radford said. "The irony is that if Citi financed solar for people's homes, solar energy could be made immediately affordable for millions of Americans today."[45] In 2004, Citigroup agreed to offer and promote EEMs for residential wind, energy efficiency, and solar installations that would make clean energy affordable for millions of Americans.[46]

Kimberly-Clark

Radford oversaw the grassroots mobilization efforts on the Kleercut Campaign in the United States and, later, the entire U.S. component of the global campaign when he became Greenpeace's executive director,[30] targeting Kimberly-Clark for sourcing 22% of its paper pulp from Canadian boreal forests containing 200-year-old trees. The campaign included intervening in Kleenex commercial shoots,[47] convincing twenty-two universities and colleges to take action such as cancelling contracts,[48][49] recruiting 500 companies to boycott Kimberly-Clark, over 1,000 protests of the company, and more.[49][50] On August 5, 2009, Kimberly-Clark announced that it would source 40% of its paper fiber from recycled content or other sustainable sources – a 71% increase from 2007 levels.[51] The demand created by Kimberly-Clark for sustainably logged fiber was greater than the supply, enabling the company to convince logging companies to change their practices.[52]

Asia Pulp and Paper

From 2010 to 2013, Radford managed the Greenpeace team that persuaded major U.S. companies to cancel their contracts with Asia Pulp and Paper (APP) – the world's third largest paper company[53] – to push APP to stop destroying ancient forests.[54] Greenpeace and its allies succeeded in convincing more than 100 corporate customers of APP to sever their ties with the company,[24] including Mattel,[55] Hasbro,[56] Lego, Kmart,[57] IGA, Kroger, Food Lion, National Geographic, and Xerox.[58] The campaign against APP cut nearly 80% of APP's U.S. market. On February 5, 2013, Asia Pulp and Paper announced a deforestation policy protecting Indonesian rainforests.[59] Referring to the victory, New York Times reporter Andrew Revkin heralded the campaign with a piece titled: "Activism at Its Best: Greenpeace's Push to Stop the Pulping of Rainforests".[28]

Tech industry

On April 21, 2011, Greenpeace released a report highlighting data centers, which consumed up to 2% of all global electricity and this amount was projected to increase. Radford stated "we are concerned that this new explosion in electricity use could lock us into old, polluting energy sources instead of the clean energy available today."[60] Business Insider reported that after Greenpeace USA campaigns, "tech giants like Apple, Google, Facebook, and Salesforce have promised to power their data centers with renewable energy, a pledge that led Duke Energy, the nation's largest power utility and one of the most flagrant emitters of CO2, to begin providing clean energy to win their business."[37]

Deforestation

In 2014, deforestation in Indonesia, which accounts for 0.1% of the world's surface, caused 4% of global warming pollution. One of the major drivers of deforestation was clearing the forest to grow palm oil plantations.[37] Under Radford, the Greenpeace USA team persuaded Procter & Gamble, Colgate Palmolive, Mondelez, and other major companies to demand sustainably grown palm oil.[61][62]

Major U.S. supermarkets

Under Radford, Greenpeace ran a campaign targeting supermarket chains to convince them to stop selling threatened fish, adopt sustainable seafood policies, and lobby for policies such as marine reserves to protect the oceans. Whole Foods, Safeway Inc., Wegmans, Target, Harris Teeter, Meijer, and Kroger implemented sustainable seafood purchasing policies;[38][63][64] Trader Joe's, Aldi, Costco, Target Corporation, and A&P have dramatically cut the threatened fish that they sell; Whole Foods, Safeway Inc., Trader Joe's, Walmart, and Hy-Vee introduced sustainably caught canned tuna;[65] and Wegmans, Whole Foods, Safeway Inc., Target, and Trader Joe's have lobbied for strong ocean policies, such as protecting the Ross Sea and Bering Sea Canyons as marine reserves.[38][63][64]

Bibliography

Articles (partial list)

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Philip David Radford born January 2 1976 is an American activist who served as the executive director of Greenpeace USA 3 He is the founder and President of Progressive Power Lab 4 an organization that incubates companies and non profits that build capacity for progressive organizations 5 including a donor advisory organization 6 Champion us 7 the Progressive Multiplier Fund 8 and Membership Drive 9 Radford is a co founder of the Democracy Initiative was founder and executive director of Power Shift and is a board member of the Mertz Gilmore Foundation 10 He has a background in grassroots organizing corporate social responsibility 11 climate change and clean energy 12 Phil RadfordRadford as Greenpeace s executive director 2012 BornPhilip David Radford 1976 01 02 January 2 1976 age 47 New Brunswick New Jersey U S Alma materWashington University in St Louis 1 Occupation s Environmental clean energy and democracy leaderKnown forExecutive director Greenpeace Co Founder Democracy Initiative 2 PartnerEileen Radford Contents 1 Early life and education 2 Career 2 1 Field director of Ozone Action 2 2 Founder of Power Shift 2 3 Leading Greenpeace USA 2 4 Progressive Power Lab 3 Influencing Corporations 3 1 Global Climate Coalition 3 2 Citigroup 3 3 Kimberly Clark 3 4 Asia Pulp and Paper 3 5 Tech industry 3 6 Deforestation 3 7 Major U S supermarkets 4 Bibliography 4 1 Articles partial list 5 References 6 External linksEarly life and education EditRadford began his environmental activism as a high school student at Oak Park and River Forest High School in Oak Park a Chicago suburb volunteering for an environmental justice campaign to stop the building of trash incinerators in the West Side of Chicago near his family s Oak Park home 13 His first job as a grassroots organizer came as a canvasser for Illinois PIRG While studying political science and business at Washington University in St Louis he directed campaign and canvass offices during summers for the Fund for Public Interest Research for clients including the Human Rights Campaign PIRGIM and Ohio PIRG and worked part time during school for the Sierra Club 14 After graduating college in 1998 Radford became a lead organizer at Green Corps the field school for environmental organizing 15 Radford received his B A from Washington University in St Louis in 1998 1 Career EditField director of Ozone Action Edit From 1999 to 2001 Radford was field director for Ozone Action an organization dedicated to working on the atmospheric threats of global warming and ozone depletion As field director Radford planned and executed a number of grassroots campaigns including a campaign during the 2000 presidential primaries which was the initial impetus for Senator John McCain sponsoring the Climate Stewardship Act 16 17 Radford also managed the grassroots mobilization for the Global Warming Divestiture Campaign which resulted in Ford General Motors Texaco and other companies ending their funding the Global Climate Coalition which spread misinformation about global warming 18 According to The New York Times the result of the campaign was the latest sign of divisions within heavy industry over how to respond to global warming 19 Founder of Power Shift Edit In 2001 Radford founded Power Shift 14 a non governmental organization dedicated to driving clean energy market breakthroughs and building the grassroots base to stop global warming 20 As executive director of Power Shift Radford worked closely with the cities of San Diego Chula Vista California and Berkeley California as well as nine other municipalities to secure investments for installation of solar energy systems and implementation of energy efficiency measures in municipal buildings 14 Radford also helped to convince Citigroup to adopt innovative new means of financing clean energy infrastructure for wind and solar installations that made them affordable to average Americans 3 21 Leading Greenpeace USA Edit On his first day as Greenpeace executive director Radford participated in a protest of government inaction on climate change at the State Department Radford arrested outside the White House during the Keystone XL Pipeline protestIn 2009 at the age of 33 Radford was selected as the youngest ever executive director of Greenpeace 22 23 Radford s tenure at Greenpeace USA is best known for convincing over 100 corporations to change their environmental practices 24 exposing the anti environmental influence of the Koch Brothers making them a household name 25 increasing the organization s net income by 80 26 launching the organization s grassroots organizing and significantly growing the canvass programs 27 and serving as a founder of the Democracy Initiative 2 a national coalition of major unions environmental groups civil rights and government reform organizations working for universal voter registration to get money out of politics and to reform Senate rules In September 2013 Radford announced that he would step down on April 30 2014 once he had completed five years of service as executive director 3 New York Times reporter Andrew Revkin referred to a Greenpeace campaign during Radford s tenure as Activism at Its Best 28 29 Ben Jealous former president and chief executive officer of the NAACP as well as co founder of the Democracy Initiative with Radford described Radford at the helm of Greenpeace as a modern movement building giant He has built powerful diverse coalitions to bolster the fights for the environment and voting rights In the process he has shown himself to be unmatched in mobilizing everyday people to fund their movements directly Environmental leader Bill McKibben stated During Radford s tenure Greenpeace has been helping the whole environmental movement shift back towards its roots local connected tough 26 Before becoming executive director of Greenpeace USA Radford served as the director of the organization s Grassroots Program 30 In that capacity he directed and significantly grew the organization s street canvass and launched and directed the door to door canvasses online to offline organizing team social media team the Greenpeace Student Network and the Greenpeace Semester 31 Under Radford the street and door to door canvassing programs grew to include nearly 400 canvassers in almost 20 cities across the country and was responsible for doubling the organization s budget 31 Progressive Power Lab Edit After leaving Greenpeace Radford launched Progressive Power Lab which starts and manages organizations that work to move millions of dollars and people into progressive causes Through Progressive Power Lab Radford launched the Progressive Multiplier Fund 32 Membership Drive a Salesforce App developer 33 which built Apps including The Field 34 and Champion us a donor advisor firm for small donors focused on democracy and climate change 35 Influencing Corporations EditDuring Radford s tenure at Greenpeace his theory of change shifted from viewing governments as arbitrators between public and private interests on environmental issues to finding that most governments are captured by industry Rather than fighting first for new laws which could be blocked by industries he has focused on pressuring large companies to change their practices and enlisted them as allies in pushing for strong environmental protections 36 26 37 Examples include Greenpeace campaigns that convinced Apple Inc and other tech companies to shift to 100 clean energy and lobby utilities and regulators to make that possible as well as work to protect both the Indonesian rainforest and the Bering Sea Canyons 38 39 Radford argues that the combination of creating industry champions and outside pressure focused on the government are the keys to passing new laws to protect the environment 36 However Radford has also been a vocal leader calling for the United States to pass campaign finance reform and respect all Americans voting rights to shift power in politics from corporations towards people and fulfill the promise of American democracy 40 41 Radford played a major role in several initiatives to influence corporations such as the Global Climate Coalition Citigroup Kimberley Clark Asia Pulp and Paper and the tech industry Global Climate Coalition Edit Radford managed the grassroots efforts of a national divestment disinvestment campaign 42 which forced Ford General Motors Texaco and other companies to stop funding the Global Climate Coalition which spread misinformation about global warming 18 Soon thereafter the GCC ended operations 43 Citigroup Edit In 2001 while running Power Shift Radford launched a campaign to push Citibank to offer and promote Energy Efficient Mortgages EEMs 44 Citi was missing the opportunity to help stop global warming by phasing out fossil fuel investments and promoting clean energy now Radford said The irony is that if Citi financed solar for people s homes solar energy could be made immediately affordable for millions of Americans today 45 In 2004 Citigroup agreed to offer and promote EEMs for residential wind energy efficiency and solar installations that would make clean energy affordable for millions of Americans 46 Kimberly Clark Edit Radford oversaw the grassroots mobilization efforts on the Kleercut Campaign in the United States and later the entire U S component of the global campaign when he became Greenpeace s executive director 30 targeting Kimberly Clark for sourcing 22 of its paper pulp from Canadian boreal forests containing 200 year old trees The campaign included intervening in Kleenex commercial shoots 47 convincing twenty two universities and colleges to take action such as cancelling contracts 48 49 recruiting 500 companies to boycott Kimberly Clark over 1 000 protests of the company and more 49 50 On August 5 2009 Kimberly Clark announced that it would source 40 of its paper fiber from recycled content or other sustainable sources a 71 increase from 2007 levels 51 The demand created by Kimberly Clark for sustainably logged fiber was greater than the supply enabling the company to convince logging companies to change their practices 52 Asia Pulp and Paper Edit From 2010 to 2013 Radford managed the Greenpeace team that persuaded major U S companies to cancel their contracts with Asia Pulp and Paper APP the world s third largest paper company 53 to push APP to stop destroying ancient forests 54 Greenpeace and its allies succeeded in convincing more than 100 corporate customers of APP to sever their ties with the company 24 including Mattel 55 Hasbro 56 Lego Kmart 57 IGA Kroger Food Lion National Geographic and Xerox 58 The campaign against APP cut nearly 80 of APP s U S market On February 5 2013 Asia Pulp and Paper announced a deforestation policy protecting Indonesian rainforests 59 Referring to the victory New York Times reporter Andrew Revkin heralded the campaign with a piece titled Activism at Its Best Greenpeace s Push to Stop the Pulping of Rainforests 28 Tech industry Edit On April 21 2011 Greenpeace released a report highlighting data centers which consumed up to 2 of all global electricity and this amount was projected to increase Radford stated we are concerned that this new explosion in electricity use could lock us into old polluting energy sources instead of the clean energy available today 60 Business Insider reported that after Greenpeace USA campaigns tech giants like Apple Google Facebook and Salesforce have promised to power their data centers with renewable energy a pledge that led Duke Energy the nation s largest power utility and one of the most flagrant emitters of CO2 to begin providing clean energy to win their business 37 Deforestation Edit In 2014 deforestation in Indonesia which accounts for 0 1 of the world s surface caused 4 of global warming pollution One of the major drivers of deforestation was clearing the forest to grow palm oil plantations 37 Under Radford the Greenpeace USA team persuaded Procter amp Gamble Colgate Palmolive Mondelez and other major companies to demand sustainably grown palm oil 61 62 Major U S supermarkets Edit Under Radford Greenpeace ran a campaign targeting supermarket chains to convince them to stop selling threatened fish adopt sustainable seafood policies and lobby for policies such as marine reserves to protect the oceans Whole Foods Safeway Inc Wegmans Target Harris Teeter Meijer and Kroger implemented sustainable seafood purchasing policies 38 63 64 Trader Joe s Aldi Costco Target Corporation and A amp P have dramatically cut the threatened fish that they sell Whole Foods Safeway Inc Trader Joe s Walmart and Hy Vee introduced sustainably caught canned tuna 65 and Wegmans Whole Foods Safeway Inc Target and Trader Joe s have lobbied for strong ocean policies such as protecting the Ross Sea and Bering Sea Canyons as marine reserves 38 63 64 Bibliography EditArticles partial list Edit Peace as the Greenpeace Way May 7 2009 Washington Times Banking on Coal Why is the World Bank subsidizing one of the planet s dirtiest fuels December 9 2009 Foreign Policy Nestle to save orangutans tropical forests and our climate May 18 2010 Grist A Call for Direct Action in the Climate Movement Phil Radford Bill McKibben Rebecca Tarbotton September 8 2010 Yes Shining Light on Obama s Tar Sands Pipeline Decision Phil Radford andDaryl Hannah September 29 2011 Huffington Post If You Want to Breathe Clean Air Senate Reform and Democracy Matter July 15 2013 Huffington Post The Environmental Case for a Path to Citizenship March 14 2013 Huffington Post Don t Let America Get Fracked Phil Radford and Mark Ruffalo April 25 2013 CNN com How Shell is trying to send a chill through activist groups across the country Phil Radford andBenjamin Jealous June 17 2013 Grist org A Philanthropic Stimulus Plan for Advocacy Nonprofits Phil Radford Gara LaMarche and Sonal Shah March 2020 Chronicle of PhilanthropyReferences Edit a b Washington University in St Louis Magazine Classmates Issue Washington University in St Louis Magazine Retrieved July 19 2013 a b Revealed The Massive New Liberal Plan to Remake American Politics Mother Jones Retrieved July 19 2013 a b c Greenpeace Leader Moving On at 38 Phil Radford has been the youngest executive director in the environmental group s 43 year history but he s looking for even greener pastures The National Journal Retrieved April 23 2014 Team Progressive Power Lab Retrieved September 23 2019 Progressive Power Lab Progressive Power Lab Retrieved October 6 2019 Philanthropy to Protect US Democracy SSIR ssir org Retrieved December 1 2022 Johnson Brad Soup Season hillheat substack com Retrieved December 1 2022 Progressive Multiplier Fund Progressive Multiplier Fund Retrieved June 24 2018 Our Team MembershipDrive Archived from the original on April 29 2015 Retrieved January 3 2015 Board of Directors Mertz Gilmore Foundation Archived from the original on February 10 2016 Retrieved May 7 2015 SustMeme CSR amp Business McClelland 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