Keying off our post yesterday about Native American enviro Tom Goldtooth’s criticism that U.S. environmental groups practiced exclusionary racism, we decided to check to see if the accusation was true. Here’s what we found for the Natural Resources Defense Council.
Below are the NRDC board members. We’ll do the math for you at the end.
Daniel R. Tishman; Chair
Vice Chairman, AECOM Technology Corporation; Chairman and CEO of Tishman Construction Corp. of New York
Frederick A.O. Schwarz, Jr.; Chair Emeritus
Senior Counsel, Cravath, Swaine & Moore, LLP
Adam Albright; Vice Chair
Private investor; Environmentalist
Patricia Bauman; Vice Chair
Co-director, Bauman Foundation
Robert J. Fisher; Vice Chair
Director, GAP Inc.
Alan Horn; Vice Chair
President and COO, Warner Brothers
Joy Covey; Treasurer
President, Beagle Foundation
John H. Adams; Founding Director
Chair, Open Space Institute
Richard E. Ayres, Esq.
The Ayres Law Group
Anna Scott Carter
Consultant, NRDC; Environmentalist
Susan Crown
Principal, Henry Crown and Company; Executive, Foundation Chairman, Community Activist
Laurie P. David
Producer; Activist
Leonardo DiCaprio
Actor; Environmentalist
John E. Echohawk
Executive Director, Native American Rights Fund
Bob Epstein
Co-Founder, Sybase, Inc., and Environmental Entrepreneurs (E2); Organizer and Director, New Resource Bank
Michel Gelobter, Ph.D.
Founder, CEO, Cooler Inc.
Arjun Gupta
Founder and Managing Partner, Telesoft Partners
Van Jones
Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress; Founder and Advisor, Green for All
Philip B. Korsant
Managing Member, Korsant Partners, LLC
Nicole Lederer
Co-Founder, Environmental Entrepreneurs (E2)
Michael Lynton
Chairman and CEO, Sony Pictures Entertainment
Shelly B. Malkin
Landscape painter; Conservationist
Josephine A. Merck
Artist; Founder, Ocean View Foundation
Mary Moran
NRDC Global Council Member
Peter A. Morton
Chairman/Founder, 510 Development Corp.
Wendy Neu
Senior Vice President, Hugo Neu Corp; Grassroots community organizer and activist
Frederica Perera, Ph.D.
Professor, Columbia University; Director, Columbia Center for Children’s Environmental Health
Robert Redford
Actor; Director; Conservationist
Laurance Rockefeller
Conservationist
Jonathan F.P. Rose
President, Jonathan Rose Cos., LLC
Thomas W. Roush, M.D.
Private investor; Environmental activist
Philip (Pete) Ruegger III
Chairman, Simpson Thacher and Bartlett LLP; Chairman of the Board of Henry Street Settlement House
Christine H. Russell, Ph.D.
Environmentalist; Foundation director
William H. Schlesinger
President, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies
Wendy Schmidt
President, The Schmidt Family Foundation; Founder, The 11th Hour Project
James Gustave Speth
Professor of Law, Vermont Law School; Distinguished Senior Fellow, Demos
Max Stone [Photo Not Available]
Managing Director, D.E. Shaw & Company, L.P.
James Taylor
Singer/Songwriter
Gerald Torres
Bryant Smith Chair, University of Texas Law School
Elizabeth Wiatt
Environmentalist; Founder, Leadership Council
George M. Woodwell, Ph.D.
Founder, Woods Hole Research Center
Of the 41 board members, we count one Native American (Echohawk) and two African-Americans (Gelobter & Jones).
Only about 0.8% of Americans are Native American, so NRDC has this box more than checked (1 of 41 is about 2%). But African-Americans make up about 12.4% of the population and Gelobter and Jones only comprise 4.8% of the NRDC trustees.
Finally, while white people make up only about 66% of the U.S. population, but they make up about 90% of NRDC trustees.
What a bunch of rich libs! Not a real scientist in the whole sty.
Instead of fussing about who is on NRDC’s board, why don’t you all go out and do something to care for the environment like these individuals already have — whatever the color of their skin. Those of you who write this kind of article are the racists, not the people on the board. Do something positive rather than spreading hate! I’ll stop here and get back to work because I have a job to do — one that drives positive change rather than just complaining. Spare me next time from this type of distraction, please.
I love the term “activist.” I was watching an interview with some Hollywood type a week ago. The interviewed gushed, as they often do, “Well, you have been an activist for years.” The interviewee smiled self satisfactorily and said, “yes, that’s true.” It did not seem to be important what the person was an activist for nor what being an activist really entails. Does it mean the activist works tirelessly, like Mother Teresa, serving others and cleaning up slop? Or does it mean attending wine and cheese soirees to rub elbows with the elite and feel good about oneself? Oh, yes, and, and of course, donate money.
Mother Nature is doing just fine, thank you very much.
She certainly doesn’t need “protection” from these clowns.
As Lord Monckton said:
They’re GREEN, because they’re too YELLOW, to admit that they’re RED!
What needs protection most these days is our Constitution, and the idea of freedom and liberty in America.
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What I notice most is we have pretty well every rich left wing wacko in America on this board. With so many on the board how do they get anything done?
What is the percentage of real scientists?
Can’t count him. He is not the board member — he is the board member’s arm candy.
One of them sports a permatan. Does he still qualify as white?
These are the uber rich elitists. They do not want the rest of us to have food, transportation, shelter, medical care or clothes that only THEY are entitled to.
Yes, but how many are conservative?
What percent of the population is in the entertainment industry. If you count the movies and music that I recognize I think there are 6 or 15%.