Mark Ruffalo
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| Organization: | •Water Defense •Artists Against Fracking •Farmhearts |
| Role: | President and Founder |
| Location: | New York |
| Expertise: | Hydraulic Fracturing |
| Education: | Stella Adler Conservatory |
Mark Ruffalo is president of the 501(c)(3) organization Water Defense and founder/co-founder of two other environmental organizations, Artists Against Fracking and Farmhearts. He is also an actor, director and producer, most well-known for his role as the Hulk/Bruce Banner in Marvel's The Avengers and Avengers: The Age of Ultron.[1]
Career
Ruffalo was born in Kenosha, Wis. He spent his teenage years in Virginia Beach, Va., before moving to San Diego, Calif., and later Los Angeles, where he eventually attended acting classes at the Stella Adler Conservatory. He garnered attention as an actor, writer and producer throughout the early 2000s with films like Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Just Like Heaven. He is now a critically acclaimed actor and director.[1]
In 2008, Ruffalo grew concerned about gas companies taking an interest in his family’s land in Callicoon, N.Y. After learning more about the practice of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, he eventually became what New York magazine called "anti-fracking’s first famous face."[2] In 2010, Catskill Mountainkeeper Inc.'s (CMK) founder, Ramsay Adams, introduced him and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to residents of Dimock, Pa., to discuss the impacts of fracking. Ruffalo serves as a CMK board member, as of January 2016.[3]
That same year, Ruffalo founded and became the president of Water Defense, an organization “dedicated to clean water," and Farmhearts, an organization meant to "help local family farms" in Sullivan County, N.Y. He then went on to help found Artists Against Fracking in 2012.[4][5][6]
Ruffalo has discussed fracking on various news shows, including The Rachel Maddow Show and The Colbert Report, and he co-authored a piece for CNN that argued against fracking with Greenpeace's executive director, Phil Radford, in 2013.[7][8][9] He has continued to work both as an environmental activist and an actor since that time, and as of August 2015 he was working as the narrator of the documentary Dear President Obama, which examines the impacts of fracking across the U.S.[10]
Media
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See also
- Energy Policy
- 501(c)(3)
- Water Defense
- Artists Against Fracking
- Kenosha, Wisconsin
- Virginia Beach, Virginia
- San Diego, California
- Los Angeles, California
- Fracking
- Catskill Mountainkeeper Inc.
- Sullivan County, New York
- CNN
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Internet Movie Database, "Mark Ruffalo," accessed September 21, 2015
- ↑ New York Magazine, "Fracklash," accessed September 21, 2015
- ↑ Yes! Magazine, "Why You Don't Frack with John Lennon's Farm," March 4, 2013
- ↑ Alternet.org, "Mark Ruffalo and Scott Smith boldly fight for clean water," June 13, 2014
- ↑ Facebook, "Farmhearts," accessed September 21, 2015
- ↑ The Huffington Post, "Yoko Ono's anti-fracking coalition includes Lady Gaga and...Paul McCartney?" October 29, 2012
- ↑ Common Dreams, "Mark Ruffalo Speaks Out Against Fracking," accessed September 21, 2015
- ↑ The Huffington Post, "Mark Ruffalo Addresses Fracking On 'Colbert Report' Interview (VIDEO)," accessed September 21, 2015
- ↑ CNN, "Don't let America get 'fracked'," accessed September 21, 2015
- ↑ Ocean 8 Films, "Talking Renewable Energy with Mark Ruffalo & Friends," August 10, 2015
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