Glenn Switkes
Glenn Ross Switkes (1951 – December 21, 2009) was an American environmentalist and film-maker. Film career Switkes studied history at Columbia University and filmmaking at the University of California, Berkeley. While finishing his degree in filmmaking, Glenn co-produced with Randy Hayes and Toby McLeod the award-winning ''Four Corners: A National Sacrifice Area?'' about the effect of mining on the people and land of the southwestern United States. After visiting the Amazon, he and his first wife Monti Aguirre made a documentary film: ''Amazonia: Voices of the Rainforest''. Environmental Activism Career After completing ''Amazonia: Voices of the Rainforest'', Switkes joined Rainforest Action Network as its Western Amazon oil campaigner. In 1994 he joined International Rivers and moved to Brazil with his second wife Selma Barros de Oliveira. Personal life Glenn Switkes was born in New York City to working class parents and had one brother, Daniel. With his second wife, Selma, he h ...
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Environmentalist
An environmentalist is a person who is concerned with and/or advocates for the protection of the environment. An environmentalist can be considered a supporter of the goals of the environmental movement, "a political and ethical movement that seeks to improve and protect the quality of the natural environment through changes to environmentally harmful human activities". An environmentalist is engaged in or believes in the philosophy of environmentalism or one of the related philosophies. The environmental movement has a number of subcommunities, with different approaches and focuses – each developing distinct movements and identities. Environmentalists are sometimes referred to by critics with informal or derogatory terms such as "greenie" and "tree-hugger", with some members of the public associating the most radical environmentalists with these derogatory terms. Types The environmental movement contains a number of subcommunities, that have developed with different appro ...
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