Greg Haegele directs the Sierra Club's Conservation Department, which
encompasses all major program work for the Sierra Club, including the
organizing, political and lobbying programs. Before coming to the
organization in 2004, Greg was an organizer and directed a variety of
progressive activist organizations. He also served as campaign or field
manager for a number of gubernatorial, U.S. senate, and state and local
electoral campaigns.

He attributes his love of the environment to many childhood summers spent
with his grandparents in a small cabin on an island in British Columbia.
There was no TV or radio and the days were spent "enjoying nature's beauty
and bounty," as his grandfather would say.

Citing his first electoral campaign loss years ago (a bottle bill in
Montana), Greg loves the challenge of figuring out how to combine being
right and winning. He is now both daunted by and excited about finding
solutions to one of the biggest challenges ever faced: global warming.

Greg will post weekly on Treehugger about what moves him, scares him, and
gives him hope - covering the good, the bad and the ugly from the
environmental world.

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