14 Facts About Phil Radford

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Philip David Radford was born on January 2,1976 and is an American activist who served as the executive director of Greenpeace USA.

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Phil Radford is the founder and President of Progressive Power Lab, an organization that incubates companies and non-profits that build capacity for progressive organizations, including a donor advisory organization Champion.

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Phil Radford has a background in grassroots organizing, corporate social responsibility, climate change, and clean energy.

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Phil 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.

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From 1999 to 2001 Phil Radford was field director for Ozone Action, an organization dedicated to working on the atmospheric threats of global warming and ozone depletion.

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Phil Radford 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.

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

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Phil Radford 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.

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In 2009, at the age of 33, Phil Radford was selected as the youngest ever executive director of Greenpeace.

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In September 2013, Phil Radford announced that he would step down on April 30,2014, once he had completed five years of service as executive director.

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Phil Radford has built powerful diverse coalitions to bolster the fights for the environment and voting rights.

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Phil 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.

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In 2001, while running Power Shift, Phil Radford launched a campaign to push Citibank to offer and promote Energy Efficient Mortgages.

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Under Phil 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.