Annie Leonard at Tools Conference, 2011 by Patagonia

Annie Leonard and our New Book: Tools for Grassroots Activists

For over twenty years, Patagonia has organized a Tools Conference, where experts provide practical training to help make activists more effective. Now Patagonia has captured Tools’ best wisdom and advice into Tools for Grassroots Activists, a resource for any organization hoping to hone core skills like campaign and communication strategy, grassroots organizing, and lobbying as well as working with business, fundraising in uncertain times and using new technologies.

Throughout Tools for Grassroots Activists are inspirational thoughts from acclaimed activists, such as Bill McKibben, Dave Foreman, Brock Evans, Terry Tempest Williams and Annie Leonard.

Annie Leonard is obsessed with stuff: Where does it come from? What is it made of? Where does it go? And how we can find better answers to those questions. Her Internet film, The Story of Stuff, has been viewed more than 30 million times around the world. She’s worked with a number of environmental groups, including Greenpeace, Health Care Without Harm, and the Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives

In this podcast, Annie talks about how to take activism to the next level and stop trashing the planet.

Patagonia’s Tools for Grassroots Activists, available February 15. Pre-order at Patagonia.com today: http://pat.ag/ToolsConferenceBook