Original Green Heroes
While there's been an environmental movement in the United States for a long time, many good people have been disconnected from that effort-  other things, like jobs and inexpensive goods, may have seemed more important- or maybe more urgent. 

Now, we're seeing a convergence- it's not just the people on the outer edges of our culture thinking and acting with the environment in mind, but also exemplary people in the mainstream, from every party and religion, income level and age and race.

Our Original Green Heroes are some of the people that have been far ahead of the curve- those who have questioned and investigated and researched and advocated on the way we interact with the environment to meet human needs, and how that impacts the kinds of  economic and social decisions we make. We'll keep adding more.  Their stories are really inspiring.

John Muir


—John Muir
Justice William O. Douglas


—William O. Douglas
U.S. Supreme Court Justice
Rachel Carson


From Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
Roger Tory Peterson


–Roger Tory Peterson
Edmund Muskie

"Ultimately our progress as a nation will be measured by how well we preserve and improve our own quality of life and that of future generations. "

—Sen. Ed  Muskie
Arne Næss


-Arne Næss
Vice-President Albert Gore

"Every individual should take responsibility for the earth."

—Former Vice President Al Gore
Gaylord Nelson


—Sen. Gaylord Nelson
Amory Lovins


—Amory Lovins
Russell Train

“To sit back and push this away and deal with it sometime down the road is dishonest and self-destructive.”

—Russell Train

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