Groundswell: CLCV Blog

Campaign season expands the chorus of voices shouting to anyone who’ll listen that America is over-regulated, that regulations hurt business, that regulations kill jobs. Not that the chorus only sings this song during election years. Corporations spend billions of dollars trying to persuade the California Legislature and the Congress that regulations are the apogee of evil. Corporations spend millions in California on candidates that will sing the same song. They spend millions more on initiatives to relieve the burden on their profits.

During the campaign season, the amount of political mail you receive is probably somewhere between "excessive" and "stunning." That's just the nature of campaigns; despite its drawbacks, mail is frequently one of the most effective ways to get a message directly to voters.

Last night in San Francisco, the Julia Morgan Ballroom at the Merchants Exchange Building was the site of an incredible celebration: the California League of Conservation Voters’ 28th annual Environmental Leadership Awards. More than 300 environmental champions from the business, political, advocacy and nonprofit communities gathered together under the theme of “Building a Greener California” to honor some of California’s inspiring “green” leaders: Applied Materials, Environmental Entrepreneurs (E2) and Justice William A. Newsom.

On May 11 at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, CLCV's Chief Executive Officer Warner Chabot moderated a panel entitled "Creating National Ocean Policy: Working to Protect Our Oceans and Resources."

In addition to Warner, who has also served as the Vice President of the Ocean Conservancy, the distinguished panel included: