Brett Hulsey: Businessman

With everything being so busy I missed the news that Dane County Supervisor Brett Hulsey is starting up a little business endeavor. Maybe it’s just me but the phrase businessman Brett Hulsey sounds … unnatural.

Better Environmental Solutions: Madison, WI—Award winning conservationist Brett Hulsey today launched a new firm, Better Environmental Solutions, to promote practical, real world solutions for cleaner air, water, and building better, safer communities.

The Capital Times adds the information that this new career for businessman Brett replaces the long time career of Sierra Club Brett.

Hulsey To Start Up Environment Firm: Local environmentalist Brett Hulsey has started a new career and company, leaving his post at the Madison chapter of the Sierra Club to form Better Environmental Solutions with Bill Redding, also a former Sierra Club regional representative.

So Brett is not alone as he has partnered up with office buddy Bill Redding.

Clean Water Action Board of Directors: Bill Redding (Wisconsin), leader in organizing Mississippi River Basin Alliance, staffer in Midwest Sierra Club office (Madison), more than 20 years experience with local, regional and national environmental issues, strong organizational development and consensus/coalition building background.

Charges of Racial Insensitivity Beset Environmentalists: "Let's admit it, this is one part of society that is not nearly as green - and by that I mean accepting of the broad spectrum of humanity - as it portrays itself to be," says Bill Redding, Midwest regional representative for the Sierra Club and an African-American.

This last twist in the story reminds me of a post I wrote last June in which Brett’s Madison Sierra Club office forms the set of the final act of the gripping drama.

A True Madison Activist Story: “Naomi Roth stated, “maybe racism will be solved in a couple hundred years, but the environmental movement needs to recognize its base of power is with the white middle class, and that is where we should organize.” Central Staff constantly reiterated the statement that “Diversity is not part of Green Corps’ mission.”

The Sierra Club has changed over time; one might even say climate changed, into a political cash machine. Just like in nature, living creatures either adapt to change or they perish. Again, is it just me or does the Brett and Bill Better Environmental Solutions business website resemble … say a resume?