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...decide to name the book Tree Spiker even though it's a practice you don't do anymore? We were always called tree huggers, tree spikers, eco-terrorists. But as you can see in the book, most of the campaigns that I've worked on have been nonviolent, with no property destruction. I don't believe in running around at night wearing ski masks. If we do something, we like to do it in the light of day. We want to really create some kind of a debate over the issue, not just to try to get even...
...describe how you've made some sacrifices in the way that you live? I stopped flying. I live in a much smaller house. I no longer even accept a paycheck. I just pay my expenses out of our campaign funds. I don't own a car. You may give something up, but in a way you get much more back in return for living a simpler, more responsible life. (Read "Why New York City Is Greener Than Vermont...
...measure progress? The Mount Rushmore action happened right before Congress was supposed to take a very close vote on the acid-rain bill. That bill did pass shortly after that, requiring a 50% reduction, so that one was successful. Certainly the whaling campaigns have been successful. We've seen from experience that this kind of aggressive approach can be more successful than the insider, smoky-backroom approach larger environmental groups are using...
What's the longest time you've served in jail? Four months was the longest. [Police] tend to look at my record and realize that nothing they do is going to stop me from continuing in this recidivist pattern. Every time I go to court, you always see their eyes kind of light up when they look at my arrest sheet, which goes all the way back...
...Rogers' daughters may not have been born with silver spoons in their mouths, but they've got them now. Not silver spoons, exactly, but silver bullion. "My little girls don't own stocks - they own commodities," he says, "and that's why they'll be able to take care of me in retirement." Rogers, a former hedge-fund manager, author and B-school professor and now bicontinental showman (he lives in Singapore and New York), was slamming stocks and praising precious metals in front of an eager audience of investors who had packed a basement auditorium in midtown Manhattan...