professional environmentalists
In their new book, “A Force for Nature,” John Adams and his wife, Patricia, also an environmental activist, chronicle the evolution of the NRDC from a home-grown advocacy group to a 1.3-million member organization with international reach.
“The model that we used for building the NRDC, I think, works. It works because, first of all, we wanted to have a collegial place that would attract really, really, bright people who had the dedication to want to really make a difference about the environment. We wanted them to stay and become professional environmentalists. Back in 1970, taylor made driverthere were not very many places for a lawyer or a scientist to be an environmentalist unless they stayed at a university. So we thought that that there should be a professional corps of environmentalists.”
The core philosophy of NRDC’s environmental advocacy, Adams says, is to fight on many fronts at once – national and state legislatures, the court system and at the grassroots level. In some places, he says, advocating for environmental issues gives people their first opportunity to have a voice in public policy.
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