Kevin Grandia

About

Kevin is a contributor and strategic adviser to DeSmog.

He runs the digital marketing agency Spake Media House.

Named a โ€œGreen Heroโ€ by Rolling Stone Magazine and one of the โ€œTop 50 Tweetersโ€ on climate change and environment issues, Kevin has appeared in major news media outlets around the world for his work on digital campaigning.

Kevin has been involved in the public policy arena in both the United States and Canada for more than a decade. For five years he was the managing editor of DeSmogBlog.com. In this role, Kevinโ€™s research into the โ€œclimate denial industryโ€ and the right-wing think tank networks was featured in news media articles around the world. He is most well known for his ground-breaking research into David and Charles Kochโ€™s massive financial investments in the Republican and tea partyย networks.

Kevin is the first person to be designated a โ€œCertified Expertโ€ on theย political and community organizing platformย NationBuilder.

Prior to DeSmog, Kevin worked in various political and government roles. He was Senior Advisor to the Minister of State for Multiculturalism and a Special Assistant to the Minister of State for Asia Pacific, Foreign Affairs for the Government of Canada. Kevin also worked in various roles in the British Columbia provincial government in the Office of the Premier and the Ministry of Health.

In 2008 Kevin co-founded a groundbreaking new online election tool called Vote for Environment which was later nominated for a World Summit Award in recognition of the worldโ€™s best e-Content and innovative ICTย applications.

Kevin moved to Washington, DC in 2010 where he worked for two years as the Director of Online Strategy for Greenpeace USA and has since returned to his hometown of Vancouver, Canada.

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A startling new report on climate change from the Trump administrationย makes clear that if the U.S. government and other major polluters don't do more to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the result...
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This week, a Trump officialย at the U.S. government's pro-fossil fuelย event at theย United Nations climate talksย made clear that the idea of burying carbon emissions from coal plants is stillย alive.ย ...
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In a serious blow toย Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain pipeline project, Canada'sย federal court of appeal ruled today that the pipeline cannot proceed with construction due to a lack of consultation w...
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Will 2018 be the year that mainstream media is not duped by professional spin doctors and fake experts paid to downplay and deny the realities of climateย change? Call me cynical, but after more t...
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Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau's decision this week to approve a major expansion of the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline has negative implications that go well beyond the borders of theย Grea...
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Some of the largest, most profitable companies in Canadaย are collectively receiving anย estimated $3.3 billionย in subsidies every yearย from Canadian taxpayers, according to a newย analysis. The repo...
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So far, 2016 has not been very kind to U.S. energy companies solely invested in coal production, and there is no indication that it's going to get better anytimeย soon.ย  With cheap natural gas subst...
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Climate Nexus has publishedย a helpful mythbusting page correcting the misinformation that is already being spread about the Paris Climate Agreement. It is rewritten here withย permission. Myths and...
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With a new global agreement on climate change gaveled into the history books in Paris tonight, many people including me believe we have just witnessed the end of the fossil fuelย era. So-called โ€œpur...
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History was made tonight in Paris as the leaders of 195 nations agreed to an ambitious, science-based pact to move the world away fromย theย fossil fuels that are to blame for the rapid increase in g...