Who
We Are
Over
the years, many people have asked me why I gave up a lucrative job in
oil exploration to work for environmental organizations. I tell them
as a Geologist I felt it was my role to make the earth a better
place, not an inhospitable planet. Truthfully, the closer I got
to CEOs in Big Oil the more disgusted I became.
It
wasn’t that I didn’t try to convince heads of some giant oil
companies to act more responsibly and sustainably. I met with the
leaders of Union Oil of Calif., Texaco/Chevron, Tenneco Oil, and even
the infamous Ken Lay, CEO of the former Enron Oil and Gas. I advised
them to be more sensitive to the politics and cultures of Third World
countries. “Kenny Boy” in Enron told me if they didn’t like the
way we conducted our business we would simply replace their
politicians with opponents. I didn’t realize at the time that the
same strategy was being applied to America and the developed world.
Confessions
of an Economic Hitman
– John Perkins
Decades
later, when I tried to use my insights to inform policy in
traditional environmental organizations I was told to focus on
fundraising. Even when I argued that methods mattered and the
only way to win the battle with Big Oil was legally and ethically, I
was rebuffed.
Now
I’m tired of the status quo and business as usual while the planet
heats up. It’s time to force politicians and agencies to do their
jobs. Now is the time for environmental organizations to remember
their roots and measure their successes by results not headlines.
We
have a strategic plan that we know will work. It is the only plan for
which Big Oil has no defense. Join us and we’ll show you how to win
this game before it is GAME OVER.
Here is the link to our
Earth Hub video http://youtu.be/AW3RtYhlq60 which
we produced in 3 days with little support. Imagine what we can do in
30 days with your help.
My
father asked me to 'do something' about some unsettling insights he
encountered about history he, himself, had witnessed. The request was
made a few months before he died in 1991.
He
wanted the truth told. After I understood, so did I.
Nothing
about my life has ever been the same since.
Sometimes
'family history, has unexpected ramifications. Dad turned over to me
piles or records, photographs, and a copy of the book Grandfather
wrote in 1937, “Picturing
Miracles of Plant and Animal Life,”
published by J. B. Lippincott Co.,
Philadelphia and London.
I
started reading. Shock followed shock. Eventually, I began to realize
just how long it has been the practice of corporations to target our
air, land, and water for their profit, and how they accomplish their
goals. I also learned how ruthless they are.
My
grandfather's name was Arthur C. Pillsbury. You have probably never
heard of him. The reason he disappeared from history is the work of
the same people we are fighting today.
Grandfather
made the first
nature movie in
1909, beginning his life-long campaign to awaken in people, who might
never encounter the glories of nature, the wonder and love these had
awakened in him the first time he stood in a waist high profusion of
wild flowers in 1895. It was a stunning sight, moving him emotionally
and spiritually.
To
quote Grandfather - "To
see a flower blossoming, its life so like our own, awakens in us a
love for the flower, its life so like our own, and the wish to
preserve it."
In
1912 he built the first lapse-time motion picture camera which could
show us the living wonder of a flower blooming. They began calling
him the Wild Flower man of Yosemite.
He
wanted everyone to love nature, understand the wonders our world
holds, and so join in preserving it forever. Like Muir, Grandfather
was a preservationist, not a conservationist.
John
Muir insisted my Grandfather's photos be used in the last book he
wrote, “The Yosemite.” When
the Sierra Club republished the book they took them out.
The
site I put up to preserve Grandfather's legacy is: Arthur
C. Pillsbury Home.
The
first part of my life was spent as an activist on problems which in
my direct experience I could see where harming people. People are
being harmed by Big Oil and Melinda is determined to take action and
get the truth out.
Helen
is a life-long activist for Peace, Justice, and Care of the Earth. She serves in an advisory capacity.
Dara
Leigh Bloom
Attorney
At Law/ Solo Practitioner,
Houston, TX
Site:
Homeowners Justice
General
civil practice included family law, employment law, consumer
law/DTPA, personal injury, landlord/tenant, contract and appellate
practice. Conducted full range of civil trial and appellate
litigation: jury trials; all aspects of discovery including
deposition; research; writing and argument for motions practice;
appellate brief writing; pretrial negotiations and mediation.
Certified Court appointed attorney ad litem in family district court.
Focused practice
primarily on family law with representation of low/mid-income
battered women and abused children
Successfully
litigated complex child abuse/custody jury trial case in Ninth
District Court of Appeals, subsequent Texas Supreme Court Petition
for Review – denied
Successfully
mediated major federal court sexual harassment case against county
appraisal district
EDUCATION
South
Texas College of Law, Houston, TX Doctor of Jurisprudence – May
1992
◆
Garland R. Walker
American Inn of Court Licensed State Bar of Texas 11/92
Student
Achievement Award
◆
Lindsey Haid Memorial
Award for individual
leadership
and promising legal ability
◆ American Jurisprudence Award in Advanced Civil Litigation
Research:
And Profound thanks to Hart Williams for his masterful research and articles on the Kochs.
Koch Truths is a project of Green Fields Renewal, a cooperative effort bringing activists and experts from diverse disciplines together to find solutions to situations which have previously caused tremendous suffering and loss to communities and individuals.
On Green Fields Renewal we are solving the problem using a step by step protocol which includes examining our own assumptions and accepting where we were mistaken or mislead by the multitude of disinformation campaigns carried out against us.
Our
consultants include experts in cutting edge technologies for
building, toxic waste management, health, and infrastructure, among
others.
For
Koch Truths are are using these protocols and the personal knowledge
of our board members to deliver a wake up call. No one should
be immunized from their actions and the impact of these on others.
We believe each of us will be asked to deliver a report to The Big
Guy on how we used the life he gave us. It is late in the game
for Charles and David, but this is a report for which they need to
prepare themselves. The lives of many depend on it and each
will be counted in the final totaling.
Rebuild
America
As
a Rebuild America organization, we work with others who are committed
to changing the way business is used as a tool today, believing in
the efficacy of cooperative action applied to markets. Economics is a
human tool. We are human. We will use the power of markets to serve
the best of human goals, caring for each other while respecting the
autonomy of the individual.
Green
Fields acts both as an advocate and as a source for solutions which
identify and apply approaches which alleviate the problem faced by
individuals and communities impacted by toxic waste and other
problems.
Working
with specialists we find solutions and coordinate with all parties to
ensure the solution is honest, transparent, reasonable, and just.
