New Leadership in the Green Groups

It looks like there is going to be new leadership in two of the "Big Green Groups" in the U.S.

• The National Audubon Society Society announced today that President John Flicker will be resigning immediately, and that Board member and ornithologist Frank S. Gill will become interim president as of tomorrow. It's hard to know the cause for this sudden change which comes less than a month after Chief Operating Officer Bob Perciasepe departed to the EPA.
  
  
• The Sierra Club has announced that Rainforest Action Network Executive Director Mike Brune will be taking over from Carl Pope, who has been President of the Sierra Club for 18 years. Brune's ascendancy suggests a new re-invigorated era of grassroots activism for the Club.
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