Dave Johnson

Dave Johnson is Founder and principal author at Seeing the Forest, and a blogger at Speak Out California. Dave is a frequent public speaker and talk-radio guest and a leading participant in the progressive blogging community. He does a regular weekly segment on the popular Fairness Doctrine radio show. A featured contributor at Huffington Post, his work also appears at many other sites including Open Left, AlterNet, MyDD and Common Dreams. Currently Dave is a Senior Fellow with the Institute for the Renewal of the California Dream working on progressive messaging, a Fellow at Campaign for America's Future, where he writes about issues involving American manufacturing, trade, what might be called industrial policy and a Fellow at the Commonweal Institute, where he researches and writes about the relationship between corporations and democracy. Recently Dave helped co-found Carbon Tracing, Inc., the company developing the desktop systems to validate carbon trading in the US. Before starting Seeing the Forest, Dave had over over 20 years of technology industry experience and has previously held senior industry positions including CEO and VP of Sales and Marketing. His earlier career included technical positions, including video game design at Atari and Imagic, and he was a pioneer in design and development of productivity and educational applications of personal computers.
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Fire Next Time?

Is Hurricane Sandy God’s Punishment For Ignoring Global Warming In Debates?

by Dave Johnson | 1, Add your Comment | Nov 1, 2012

Conservatives and the Christian Right regularly blame hurricanes on abortion, liberals, government and “teh gay.” But Hurricane Sandy actually is an “unprecedented.” This “Frankenstorm,” with a gale-force wind diameter of 1040 miles, is the largest hurricane in Atlantic history, with the lowest barometric pressure. So we really should ask the question: is Hurricane Sandy actually God’s punishment for not bringing up climate change in the presidential debates?

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America's Future

Democracy V. Plutocracy, Unions V. Servitude

by Dave Johnson | 4, Add your Comment | Jan 28, 2012

Servitude: “a condition in which one lacks liberty especially to determine one’s course of action or way of life.”

Democracy: “a government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections.”

Plutocracy: government by the wealthy.

Labor union: an organization of workers formed for the purpose of advancing its members’ interests in respect to wages, benefits, and working conditions.

You may have seen the recent flurry of stories about how hi-tech products are made in China. The stories focus on Apple, but it isn’t just Apple…

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Health Care: U.S. vs. Canada

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"The Elections Are Rigged" Arnold Schwarzenegger On Trump, Congress, Gerrymandering

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Fire Next Time?

Is Hurricane Sandy God’s Punishment For Ignoring Global Warming In Debates?

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Democracy V. Plutocracy, Unions V. Servitude

Worthy of Comment

Health Care: U.S. vs. Canada

'L-G-B-T' - James CordenSings for Transgender Troops

"The Elections Are Rigged" Arnold Schwarzenegger On Trump, Congress, Gerrymandering

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'L-G-B-T' - James Corden
Sings for Transgender Troops