Carl Pope is the Executive Director of the Sierra Club, an American environmental organization founded by conservationist pioneer John Muir in 1892. Pope was appointed to his position as Executive Director in 1992, the club's centennial.
Pope has worked with the Sierra Club for nearly 30 years, and has served as a board member for other organizations as well, including the National Clean Air Coalition, California Common Cause, and Public Interest Economics Inc. He has also served as Political Director for Zero Population Growth. He was a Peace Corps volunteer in India from 1967 to 1969.
Pope is an author and regular contributor to the Huffington Post, a politically-themed website founded by Arianna Huffington.
In 2004 he published a book with Paul Rauber called Strategic Ignorance: Why the Bush Administration Is Recklessly Destroying a Century of Environmental Progress.
On June 7, 2006, in Washington, D.C., Carl Pope, along with labor leader Leo Gerard, announced the formation of the USW and Sierra Club's Blue/Green Alliance, after five years of negotiations between the two groups. The alliance focuses on interrelated issues that both organizations feel are important, including: a clean environment, better jobs, and a safer world.
