Who We Are
Dave Lincoln
Technical Experience - Why Big Oil Fears Dave
Melinda Pillsbury-Foster
◆ American Jurisprudence Award in Advanced Civil Litigation
And Profound thanks to Hart Williams for his masterful research and articles on the Kochs.
Hart Williams - Journalist and Arch Enemy of Evil
Site: Hart Williams
Koch Truths is a project of Green Fields Renewal, a cooperative effort bringing activists and experts from diverse disciplines together to find solutions to situations which have previously caused tremendous suffering and loss to communities and individuals.
On Green Fields Renewal we are solving the problem using a step by step protocol which includes examining our own assumptions and accepting where we were mistaken or mislead by the multitude of disinformation campaigns carried out against us.
Technical Experience - Why Big Oil Fears Dave
Over
the years, many people have asked me why I gave up a lucrative job in
oil exploration to work for environmental organizations. I tell them
as a Geologist I felt it was my role to make the earth a better
place, not an inhospitable planet. Truthfully, the closer I got
to CEOs in Big Oil the more disgusted I became.
It
wasn’t that I didn’t try to convince heads of some giant oil
companies to act more responsibly and sustainably. I met with the
leaders of Union Oil of Calif., Texaco/Chevron, Tenneco Oil, and even
the infamous Ken Lay, CEO of the former Enron Oil and Gas. I advised
them to be more sensitive to the politics and cultures of Third World
countries. “Kenny Boy” in Enron told me if they didn’t like the
way we conducted our business we would simply replace their
politicians with opponents. I didn’t realize at the time that the
same strategy was being applied to America and the developed world.
Confessions
of an Economic Hitman – John Perkins
Decades
later, when I tried to use my insights to inform policy in
traditional environmental organizations I was told to focus on
fundraising. Even when I argued that methods mattered and the
only way to win the battle with Big Oil was legally and ethically, I
was rebuffed.
Now
I’m tired of the status quo and business as usual while the planet
heats up. It’s time to force politicians and agencies to do their
jobs. Now is the time for environmental organizations to remember
their roots and measure their successes by results not headlines.
We
have a strategic plan that we know will work. It is the only plan for
which Big Oil has no defense. Join us and we’ll show you how to win
this game before it is GAME OVER.
Here is the link to our
Earth Hub video http://youtu.be/AW3RtYhlq60 which
we produced in 3 days with little support. Imagine what we can do in
30 days with your help.
Melinda Pillsbury-Foster
My father
asked me to 'do something' about some unsettling insights he
encountered about history he, himself, had witnessed. The request
was made a few months before he died in 1991.
He wanted
the truth told. After I understood, so did I.
Nothing
about my life has ever been the same since.
Sometimes
'family history, has unexpected ramifications. Dad turned over to me
piles or records, photographs, and a copy of the book Grandfather
wrote in 1937, “Picturing
Miracles of Plant and Animal Life,”
published by J. B. Lippincott
Co., Philadelphia and London.
I started
reading. Shock followed shock. Eventually, I began to realize just
how long it has been the practice of corporations to target our air,
land, and water for their profit, and how they accomplish their
goals. I also learned how ruthless they are.
My
grandfather's name was Arthur C. Pillsbury. You have probably never
heard of him. The reason he disappeared from history is the work of
the same people we are fighting today.
Grandfather
made the first
nature movie
in 1909, beginning his life-long campaign to awaken in people, who
might never encounter the glories of nature, the wonder and love
these had awakened in him the first time he stood in a waist high
profusion of wild flowers in 1895. It was a stunning sight, moving
him emotionally and spiritually.
To quote
Grandfather - "To
see a flower blossoming, its life so like our own, awakens in us a
love for the flower, its life so like our own, and the wish to
preserve it."
In 1912 he
built the first lapse-time motion picture camera which could show us
the living wonder of a flower blooming. They began calling him the
Wild Flower man of Yosemite.
He wanted
everyone to love nature, understand the wonders our world holds, and
so join in preserving it forever. Like Muir, Grandfather was a
preservationist, not a conservationist.
John Muir
insisted my Grandfather's photos be used in the last book he wrote,
“The Yosemite.”
When the Sierra Club republished the book they took them out.
The site I
put up to preserve Grandfather's legacy is: Arthur
C. Pillsbury Home.
The first
part of my life was spent as an activist on problems which in my
direct experience I could see where harming people. People are being
harmed by Big Oil and Melinda is determined to take action and get
the truth out.
Helen is a life-long activist for Peace, Justice, and Care of the Earth.
Dara Leigh Bloom
Attorney At Law/ Solo
Practitioner, Houston, TX
Site: Homeowners Justice
General
civil practice included family law, employment law, consumer
law/DTPA, personal injury, landlord/tenant, contract and appellate
practice. Conducted full range of civil trial and appellate
litigation: jury trials; all aspects of discovery including
deposition; research; writing and argument for motions practice;
appellate brief writing; pretrial negotiations and mediation.
Certified Court appointed attorney ad litem in family district court.
Focused
practice primarily on family law with representation of
low/mid-income battered women and abused children
Successfully
litigated complex child abuse/custody jury trial case in Ninth
District Court of Appeals, subsequent Texas Supreme Court Petition
for Review – denied
Successfully
mediated major federal court sexual harassment case against county
appraisal district
EDUCATION
South Texas College of Law,
Houston, TX Doctor of Jurisprudence – May 1992
◆
Garland R. Walker American Inn of Court Licensed State Bar of
Texas 11/92
Student Achievement
Award
◆
Lindsey Haid Memorial Award for individual
leadership and promising
legal ability
◆ American Jurisprudence Award in Advanced Civil Litigation
And Profound thanks to Hart Williams for his masterful research and articles on the Kochs.
Hart Williams - Journalist and Arch Enemy of Evil
Site: Hart Williams
Koch Truths is a project of Green Fields Renewal, a cooperative effort bringing activists and experts from diverse disciplines together to find solutions to situations which have previously caused tremendous suffering and loss to communities and individuals.
On Green Fields Renewal we are solving the problem using a step by step protocol which includes examining our own assumptions and accepting where we were mistaken or mislead by the multitude of disinformation campaigns carried out against us.
Our consultants include experts in
cutting edge technologies for building, toxic waste management,
health, and infrastructure, among others.
For Koch Truths are are using these protocols and the personal knowledge of our board members to deliver a wake up call. No one should be immunized from their actions and the impact of these on others. We believe each of us will be asked to deliver a report to The Big Guy on how we used the life he gave us. It is late in the game for Charles and David, but this is a report for which they need to prepare themselves. The lives of many depend on it and each will be counted in the final totaling.
Rebuild America
As a Rebuild America organization, we work
with others who are committed to changing the way business is used as
a tool today, believing in the efficacy of cooperative action applied
to markets. Economics is a human tool. We are human. We will use
the power of markets to serve the best of human goals, caring for
each other while respecting the autonomy of the individual.
Green Fields acts both as an advocate
and as a source for solutions which identify and apply approaches
which alleviate the problem faced by individuals and communities
impacted by toxic waste and other problems.
Working with specialists we find
solutions and coordinate with all parties to ensure the solution is
honest, transparent, reasonable, and just.