Annie Leonard
Annie Leonard (* 1964 in Seattle , Washington ) is an American critic who primarily deals with international economic relations , development , health care and sustainability . She is best known for her Internet documentation, The Story of Stuff, about the life cycle of goods and services. Leonard has been Executive Director of Greenpeace USA since 2014.
Life
Leonard attended Barnard College, Columbia University and Cornell University. She successfully completed her studies with a thesis on regional and urban development. Leonard is the coordinator of the Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives and works for the International Forum for Globalization and the Environmental Health Fund . Before that, she was active in the health organization Health Care Without Harm and Greenpeace International . She is currently the coordinator of a working group on sustainable production and consumption . In 1992 she gave a speech to the United States Congress on international trade in waste .
Leonard lives in California with her daughter.
Web links
- Story of Stuff (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Terrence McNally: Consuming Our Way to Unhappiness. Our excessive consumption is trashing more than just the planet. An interview with Annie Leonard. , AlterNet , January 9, 2008, accessed December 3, 2016.
- ↑ Video: The Story of Stuff - German. Utopia . May 1, 2008, accessed December 3, 2016.
- ^ Greenpeace USA: Our Senior Management
- ↑ a b c Annie Leonard on storyofstuff.org. Retrieved December 3, 2016.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Leonard, Annie |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American critic |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1964 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Seattle , Washington |