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Big Oil money has targeted me for many years. The campaign has taken the form usually of ... [deletion of a legal reference, January 2013]. Still, Culture Change (and its predecessors Auto-Free Times magazine, Fossil Fuels Policy Action, and Alliance for a Paving Moratorium) always pushed on and contributed to public discourse, fighting the good fight.
You shouldn't care about somebody else's "family squabble," ... [deletion of a legal reference, January 2013] ...Mesa Lundberg supported Culture Change in any way she could until she [died] in 2008.
So Culture Change came out of not just road-fighting campaigns, defending ancient redwoods, depaving, car-free living, pedal power produce, and sail networks: we looked ever more deeply at the shaky foundation of a greed-ridden society with toxic values, and tried to show how we can all surmount the threat to humanity and to the planet.
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