Green, Dorothy, 1929-2008

Southern California-based environmental activist Dorothy Green has been a leader in California water policy for over thirty years. Mrs. Green has been a Board Member of the California Planning and Conservation League since 1978. In 1979 Mrs. Green served as a founding member of W.A.T.E.R.: The Working Alliance To Equalize Rates, a nonprofit devoted to water efficiency in Southern California that functioned as a watchdog for the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California. Her interest in energy policy led her to serve on the Energy Committee of the Democratic Party Commission on National Platform and Policy in 1976. In 1985 she founded Heal the Bay, an environmental nonprofit devoted to restoring the water quality of Santa Monica Bay. Mrs. Green serves as President Emeritus of the Los Angeles and San Gabriel Rivers Watershed Council and helped establish the Public Officials for Water and Environmental Reform, which sponsors the annual California Water Policy Conference that she has chaired for 17 years. She is also an active Board Member of the California Water Impact Network. Mrs. Green has also been involved in the movement for campaign finance reform. She co-founded Californians for Campaign Reform in 1972, and served on the National Governing Board of Common Cause from 1978-1984. In 2007, Green published a book with the UC Press titled, Managing water : avoiding crisis in California. Mrs. Green is widowed, mother of three and currently lives in Los Angeles.

From the description of Papers, 1963-1997. (University of California, Los Angeles). WorldCat record id: 191884580

Biography

Southern California-based environmental activist Dorothy Green (born March 16, 1929) has been a leader in California water policy for over thirty years. Mrs. Green has been a Board Member of the California Planning and Conservation League since 1978. In 1979 Mrs. Green served as a founding member of W.A.T.E.R.: The Working Alliance To Equalize Rates, a nonprofit devoted to water efficiency in Southern California that functioned as a watchdog for the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California. In 1985 she founded Heal the Bay, an environmental nonprofit devoted to restoring the water quality of Santa Monica Bay. In 2007, Green published a book with the UC Press titled, Managing Water: Avoiding Crisis in California .

Mrs. Green serves as President Emeritus of the Los Angeles and San Gabriel Rivers Watershed Council and helped establish the Public Officials for Water and Environmental Reform, which sponsors the annual California Water Policy Conference that she has chaired for 17 years. She is also an active Board Member of the California Water Impact Network.

Mrs. Green has also been involved in the movement for campaign finance reform. She co-founded Californians for Campaign Reform in 1972, and served on the National Governing Board of Common Cause from 1978-1984. Her interest in energy policy led her to serve on the Energy Committee of the Democratic Party Commission on National Platform and Policy in 1976.

Mrs. Green is widowed, mother of three and currently lives in Los Angeles.

From the guide to the Dorothy Green Papers, 1963-2000, (bulk 1971-1993), (University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections.)