Kevin Danaher @ DC Green Festival

Yesterday, I listened to Kevin Danaher give the last keynote address at the DC Green Festival.

In 2000, The New York Times described Danaher as the “Paul Revere of globalization’s woes.”

His wife and fellow activist Media Benjamin introduced him after The Nation’s Katrina vanden Heuvel gave a talk.

Both Danaher and Benjamin helped found Global Exchange, one of the organizations responsible for starting the Green Festival.

He laid out some pretty amazing ideas on jumpstarting the Green economy. He made me think that SF is gonna be ground zero for this innovation.

He also made me think the coalition of organizations he’s working with might be part of the answer to the question – what has happened to all of the anti-globalization protest energy that came to a head in Seattle at WTO?

Afterwards, I picked up his new book (pictured above).

It’s full of vignettes of folks who are doing really interesting work in the ‘green’ sector. I am planning on picking out the best ones and blogging about them.

There is some really good stuff.