Mark Ruffalo
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| Basic facts | |
| Organization: | The Solutions Project |
| Role: | Cofounder and board member |
| Location: | New York |
| Expertise: | Hydraulic Fracturing |
| Education: | Stella Adler Conservatory |
Mark Ruffalo is an actor, director, and producer known for many roles, including as the Hulk/Bruce Banner in Marvel's The Avengers and Avengers: The Age of Ultron and as Boston Globe reporter Mike Rezendes in the Oscar-winning Spotlight.[1] Ruffalo also cofounded or been involved with several environmental organizations, including The Solutions Project, Water Defense, Artists Against Fracking and Farmhearts.[2][3][4]
Biography
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.[5]
Ruffalo married actress Sunrise Coigney in 2000 and had three children together.[5]
Work and activities
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."[6] 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. As of November 2025, Ruffalo served as a CMK board member.[7][8]
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.[9][10][11]
Ruffalo 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.[12][13][14]
Solutions Project
Ruffalo cofounded the Solutions Project, a 501(c)(3) that funds initiatives aimed at reducing reliance on fossil fuels, with energy executive Marco Krapels and scientist Mark Jacobson.[15] The Solutions Project states that it is "a national non-profit organization that funds and amplifies climate justice solutions created by frontline communities building power for an equitable and regenerative economy."[15] The Solutions Project provides grants, training and support, and solutions to organizations working in environmental advocacy.[15]
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Footnotes
- ↑ IMDB, "Mark Ruffalo," accessed November 29, 2025
- ↑ The Solutions Project, "Homepage," accessed November 29, 2025
- ↑ Give Freely, "Water Defense Inc Co Altman Greenfield Selvaggi Llp," accessed November 29, 2025
- ↑ Hudson Valley Magazine, "Fighting Fracking in the Hudson Valley With Actor Mark Ruffalo," accessed November 29, 2025
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Cite error: Invalid
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- ↑ Yes! Magazine, "Why You Don't Frack with John Lennon's Farm," March 4, 2013
- ↑ Catskill Mountainkeeper, "About," accessed November 29, 2025
- ↑ Alternet.org, "Mark Ruffalo and Scott Smith boldly fight for clean water," June 13, 2014
- ↑ Facebook, "Farmhearts," accessed November 29, 2025
- ↑ 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 November 29, 2025
- ↑ The Huffington Post, "Mark Ruffalo Addresses Fracking On 'Colbert Report' Interview (VIDEO)," accessed November 29, 2025
- ↑ CNN, "Don't let America get 'fracked'," accessed September 21, 2015
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 The Solutions Project, "Our Story," accessed November 29, 2025
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