No.468 Ross "Rocky" Anderson, 2008

File — Box: 61, Folder: 3

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Anderson discusses the awakening environmental movement in the 1960s and 1970s, and outlines his experiences after law school. Realizing that there was a lack of environmental leadership in Congress, he began a crusadet for alternative energy. He ran for Congress and won the primary but lost the election due to his stand on same-sex marriage. He ran for Salt Lake City mayor on a climate-change and urban-planning platform and won. As mayor, he implemented many energy-saving measures. He started with a sustainability study of every department in city government. Then changes were implemented: old light bulbs replaced with energy-efficient models, reduced size of fleet—eliminated inefficient vehicles and substituted natural gas and electric vehicles where possible, implemented light rail system, instituted citywide recycling program, and installed a methane-capture device at the waste-water treatment facility. He also discusses his fight against “sprawl mall” and the Legacy Highway project.
Utah Environmentalist Project.
Interviewer: Robert DeBirk.

Dates

2008

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