By Lis Harris
ISBN-10: 0395984173
ISBN-13: 9780395984178
It really is manhattan urban in 1992. ignorant of the heartbreak he'll stumble upon, the veteran environmentalist Allen Hershkowitz proposes constructing a massive recycled-paper mill within the urban. he is bored with being outgunned too usually via lobbyists in legislative battles and desires to increase an environmentally pleasant and ecocnomic enterprise that would convey jobs to 1 of the city's poorest neighborhoods. what is extra, the undertaking may well turn into a countrywide version. yet Hershkowitz speedy reveals himself pitted opposed to brilliant forces. To the idealist's shock, local activists fiercely face up to outsiders, and he needs to confront byzantine politics and robust hostility. The undertaking will be striking environmentally and socially, yet frequently that is not what issues. From starting to finish, Tilting at generators unearths what can ensue in tried alliances among significant company and environmentalists and is full of surprising tales of what rather occurs backstage in significant deal-making.
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They’re going to use all their organizing to do this. ” Hershkowitz and Schrader did not mention their conversations to each other or anyone else until many months later — and both would regret that. Hershkowitz said nothing because he found the whole thing hugely embarrassing and a sour note, and because he still couldn’t believe that what the person had said was true. He trusted the integrity of grassroots groups; for much of his career he had acted on their behalf, and he took their basic virtue as a given.
5 and 5 million gallons of water a day. The MoDo executives wanted to make sure there was a plant nearby to treat the mill’s effluent; Hershkowitz also was committed to finding a way to use treated sewage water instead of fresh in the plant process itself. D. D. Warren to put up twothirds of the development money, while it was expected that NRDC would raise the rest. , a senior NRDC attorney, had made a trip to Washington to lobby Vice President Gore, Leon Panetta, director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, Alice Rivlin, the deputy director of the same office, and Robert Rubin, the director of the National Economic Council, on behalf of the presidential executive order, for which they had high hopes, requiring federal agencies to increase their use of recycled paper, using the mill proj- 46 Tilting at Mills ect as an example of businesses that would benefit from it.
Worried that down the line somewhere the people who guided the closings of big industrial projects — the money people — would try to muck around with some of NRDC’s social goals, Hershkowitz decided that all decisions had to be made by consensus. He gave Banana Kelly veto power, and the BCPC board, then composed of Campbell, Rivera, Batelson, Lennart Westberg, the chief financial officer of MoDo, and himself, approved of that plan. Later on that year, he would idly speculate in his diary that there probably needed to be a mechanism written into the board’s procedures in case it got deadlocked by one person vetoing votes — but he never did anything about it.