Amidst a mix of both joy and sadness, today we pay tribute to the loss of a friend of ours. While you may not have known Jeff Green as a personal friend, let it be known that Jeff was a friend of all of ours.
Jeff was the national director for Citizens for Safe Drinking Water, an advocacy group who tirelessly supports our rights to have access to safe drinking water. Jeff is a modern hero because he quietly, steadfastly supported our right to have water for our families free from toxic pollutants.
Many of you may recall that we promoted a couple information summits earlier this year and donated all profits from the sales of those events to non profit organizations who help maintain Hawaii’s drinking waters free from fluoridation. The Citizens for Safe Drinking Water was the organization we donated the funds to earlier this year. Jeff’s personal page is Keepers of the Well.
So, as one champion goes down, his loss inspires others to realize the fundamental right for all people regardless of ethnicity, economic status or nationality to have access to clean, safe water, free from industrial pollutants. It doesn’t matter if we live in Maui, Martha’s Vineyard or Mobile, Alabama (or Mozambique for that matter), it is a fundamental human right to have access to clean water.
In tribute to Jeff Green, we share a poem written by Jeff along with an interview that Dr. Mercola did with Jeff so you can get to know this unsung champion a bit before his name passes into history.
Thank you Jeff for so tirelessly supporting us all through the years.
“It happened upon the misty morn,
In the years and days of old,
When the frailest of women
Approached the village well,
Or so the story is told.
She spied a man
Who was adding to the well,
Instead of taking
As others had done.
So she hesitates not
To throw sticks and stones,
And to sound the alarm
she did run.
Because everyone knew
of the value of water,
of polluting their source
They said no.
That no man or woman
or child or beast
Should have to abandon
The precious element of flow.
Now the years and days of old
Are forgotten by so many,
TVs and radios and newspapers today
Seem to focus on the more and plenty.
More of this and more of that
They say is the way to go
And once again the man is back
To tamper with our life-giving flow.
Selling industry’s waste
As a boon to our health
Has now become the American way
Of course!
Who will repel the intruder
And sound the alarm
And be sure the others to tell
To remain every day the vigilant
And the true Keeper of the Well?
Jeff Green was a friend, I was a plaitiff against Escondido.
I’m shocked and saddened to hear of his passing. I will miss him too.Jeff was a modern day hero, for sure.
Aloha Paul,
While we didn’t know Jeff very long before his passing, as we find someone along our journey through life who is clearly a champion of the cause that he believes in, we tend to become very fast friends. Such was our experience with Jeff. Let’s raise a glass to toast the hero in each of us that Jeff helps us see within ourselves.
Thank you Jeff for tirelessly fighting for our rights to maintain clean water.
Aloha!