Jim Moriarty is the CEO of Surfrider Foundation. He is an avid surfer, entrepreneur and innovator. Moriarty has more than 15 years management experience in corporate start-ups, specializing in e-learning, e-commerce, infrastructure software, and business-to-business ventures. He holds a B.S. in Information Systems from The Ohio State University, and has had speaking engagements in the US, Europe, Australia and Latin America. He lives with his wife and two children in Solana Beach, CA, where he is also active leading and mentoring high school students on surfing and home-building trips to the Baja Peninsula. He brings to the position a wealth of international, fundraising and team-building experience that translate to leading the Surfrider Foundation.
Surfrider CEO Jim Moriarty explains the green business revolution.
Jim Moriarty cites Australia as the shape of things to come.
We're not past a tipping point, but the threat is certainly there.
Every the countries that didn't have a part in creating the mess, have to be going green.
They certainly make strange bedfellows, Moriarty says.
Jim Moriarty talks about the greening of Silicon Valley.
The government hast to take the long view, Moriarty says.
If you want to be in the picture, if you want to have a voice, then use your voice, act and stop complaining, says Moriarty.
Surfrider's Jim Moriarty talks about the legacies of the first American environmentalists: Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt.
Jim Moriarty meets a six-year-old environmentalist.