Greenpeace's Executive Director to speak at Garden State GreenFest

PlanetHugger is proud to announce that we have Phil Radford as one of our speakers at GreenFest. Phil Radford is the Executive Director of Greenpeace. Come hear Phil speak about the Green issues facing our planet and learn about Greenpeace's work.

As the Executive Director of Greenpeace, Phil is at the helm of one of the largest and most influential environmental groups in the country. He leads a national team of 500 highly-skilled environmental leaders and is responsible for turning Greenpeace into a grassroots organizing powerhouse. Since joining Greenpeace in 2003, Phil increased Greenpeace’s field presence and strengthened its volunteer networks. He built a team of 250 canvassers in 15 cities, started the online organizing team, and grew a significant student organizing network through the creation of the Greenpeace Organizing Term, a semester of advanced training for student activists seeking campaign training. Today, Phil and his staff are focused on mobilizing their activist network to press the Obama administration on climate change and ending our addiction to oil.

Before joining Greenpeace, Radford founded Power Shift, a non-profit organization dedicated to creating clean energy market breakthroughs. As executive director, he worked with the cities of San Diego, Chula Vista, Berkeley, and others to secure solar energy efficiency investments for municipal buildings. He also won a commitment from Citigroup to offer and market energy efficient mortgages to make solar and wind power affordable for American home owners. Phil launched his environmental career with Green Corps in the class of 1999. He was always passionate about the environment and worked one of his first jobs as a door canvasser, fundraising for environmental issues. He grew up in Oak Park, Illinois, just outside of Chicago. He has a degree from Washington University in St. Louis, and a certificate in Non-profit Management from Georgetown University.