This post is a continuation of Part I, where we began to introduce you to Sierra Club bloggers to watch in the new year. Below is the second in a three-part series.
Michael Marx
Director, Beyond Oil Campaign
Michael leads a fearless team of fossil fuel fighters --
ones that believe the U.S. should use less oil and accelerate the
transition to cleaner methods of transportation -- as Sierra Club’s Beyond Oil
Campaign Director. Before assuming this position, Michael was a management
consultant and used his environmental activism to help lead several campaigns
to improve the environmental practices of major corporations. Michael thinks
2013 will be a big year for the Beyond Oil team, especially with a decision to
approve the construction of the dangerous Keystone XL project on the
President’s schedule.
Michael also launched his own Huffington
Post column in 2012. Check it out.
Deb Nardone
Director, Beyond Natural Gas Campaign
The Sierra Club’s efforts to clean up a natural gas industry
run amok expanded this past year with the launch of its Beyond Natural Gas
campaign. Deb, the Sierra Club’s leader on all things natural gas fracking, has
helped this campaign track the pollution caused by methane emissions, kept a
close eye on the nationwide escalation of fracking, and led the effort to
leapfrog this dirty and dangerous fuel and promote clean energy. Located in the
heart of the fracking boom, Deb works from Pennsylvania and visits frack sites
regularly. A frack-free 2013 would be her wish for the new year.
Deb is one of Compass’s regular contributors.
Stacy Bare
Director, Mission Outdoors
In 2012, Stacy was promoted to become director of the Sierra
Club’s Mission Outdoors program -- an organization with one simple yet vital goal: get
America outdoors. Previously, he served as coordinator for the Military Family and Veteran Initiative at the Sierra Club, which is now nested within Mission Outdoors. As
a veteran himself, Stacy personally understands the value of getting service members, veterans, and their families outdoors. In 2012, Stacy discussed this idea and ways to use social media more effectively to ensure broader community education and participation on a special
Google+
Hangout with Michael Brune and Craig Newmark, the founder of
craigslist and craigconnects. He also took movie star Marion Cotillard on a
short hike through the Lake Minnewaska State Park Preserve in New York, among many other outings.
If everyone gets outdoors in 2013, Stacy will be happy.
Stacy shares his thoughts regularly on his
Huffington
Post column and on
Mission
Outdoors' blog.
Jackie Ostfeld
Policy and Operations Manager, Mission Outdoors
Like Stacy, Jackie knows how important it is to get
America outdoors. In addition to her position with Mission Outdoors, she is
the co-founder and Chair of OAK (Outdoors Alliance for Kids). She has spent
years in the field as a naturalist and educator, teaching thousands of children
about the environment. Working from the Sierra Club’s legislative office in Washington, D.C., Jackie is able to meet with lawmakers to promote programs that would help
children, veterans, and all Americans get outdoors, with the hopes that these adventurists take their love for nature and join the growing number of environmental
activists in America. At the end of 2012, Jackie took to the blogs and publicly
pledged to get herself and the people she loves outdoors more in 2013.
Jackie’s column can be found on
Huffington
Post and
Mission Outdoors' blog, and you can follow her
on
Twitter.
Look for 12 Sierra Club Bloggers to Watch in 2013: Part III tomorrow.
-- Dan Byrnes, Sierra Club Media Assistant
