Melanie Nutter: How San Francisco Became the Greenest City (VIDEO)

Watch Melanie Nutter at the 2011 Aspen Ideas Festival spend ’2.5 Minutes With genConnect.’ We connected with Director of the San Francisco Department of the Environment.

Click the play button below to watch genConnect Creative Director Kelly Hayes interview Nutter on how San Francisco achieved the title of Greenest City in the United States:

Melanie Nutter’s government career includes a stint as Deputy District Director for Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi and Executive Director of the San Francisco Democratic Party. Previously Nutter was the Principal of Nutter Consulting, “a San Francisco-based consulting firm that helps nonprofits and political organizations to raise funds, organize events, manage campaigns and recruit new supporters.” Before starting her own consulting firm, Nutter was a Senior Consultant at Donordigital and worked for six years as a political organizer with Greenbelt Alliance, the Public Interest Research Groups (PIRG) and Green Corps.

genConnect is credentialed press at the 2011 Aspen Ideas Festival in Aspen, Colo., where we are interviewing the premier speakers and attendees at the conference. For more of our video interviews and articles from the Ideas Festival, click here.

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