Since organizing my High School for the first Earth day I have been involved in the peace, environmental, justice, environmental justice, , and other movements. Since 1980 I have built a solar powered homestead in the woods, helped lead the fight against clear cutting in Maine, helped change laws on urban gardening in Rhode island, founded my local watershed organization, helped found the Environmental Justice League of Rhode Island (which I named after the comic book characters), run for office three times including a run for mayor of Providence in 2002 as the Green Party candidate, written books on environmental politics, and fought the inappropriate orthodoxy on economic development. My current work includes coordinating the coalition of environmental groups in Rhode Island, managing one of the most interesting forest restoration projects on a vacant lot in New England, coordinating the Rhode Island Compost Initiative, serving on a variety of boards, and focusing on public policy around the idea that you can not heal ecosystems without ending poverty, you can not end poverty without healing ecosystems.
