The Shape of Environmentalism to Come: Adam Werbach and Michael Shellenberger in Conversation with Roosevelt Fellows

Leading environmentalists, including Adam Werbach, Michael Shellenberger, and fellows of the Roosevelt Institution's Center on the Environment and Energy, will discuss the future of the environmentalist movement.

Adam Werbach is the executive director of the Common Assets Defense Fund and the founder of Act Now Productions in San Francisco, a multi-media production and outreach company dedicated to helping non-profits get their message out through video, music, and the web. Prior to founding Act Now, Werbach served as the president of the Sierra Club, an office he was elected to at the age of 23. Werbach is the author of "Act Now, Apologize Later” and “Is Environmentalism Dead?”

Michael Shellenberger is an author of “The Death of Environmentalism,” a controversial essay he co-authored with Ted Nordhaus. Shellenberger is also the executive director of the Breakthrough Institute, an organization advancing strategic initiatives to build a progressive majority, and president of Lumina Strategies, a political consulting firm. In 2003 Michael co-founded the Apollo Alliance, a coalition of labor, environment, business, and civil rights leaders working to win passage of a New Apollo Project to create three million new energy jobs and free America from foreign oil in ten years.

Werbach and Shellenberger have spent several months publicly exploring the challenges and inadequacies of what we once called environmentalism. In this roundtable, we will discuss shifts in our approach and strategy and consider interconnections and unity within the larger progressive movement.

All community members are encouraged to attend.