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Explore our latest coverage of environmental issues, climate change and more.

Environmental Activist Gus Speth Reflects On The Movement

James Gustave “Gus” Speth grew up in South Carolina blissfully unaware of the racial tension that was roiling around him.

It wasn’t until he went to college “up north” that he saw some of the injustice that he was shielded from as a child.

Though he did do a little work organizing in the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s, Gus Speth has long felt that he didn’t do enough.

He hasn’t made the same mistake when it comes to the environmental movement. Now a professor at Vermont Law School, Speth cofounded the Natural Resources Defense Council. He founded World Resources Institute. And he worked on environmental issues for the Carter and Clinton administrations.

In his new memoir, Angels by the River, Speth draws a connection between the civil rights era of the 1960s and the environmental movement today.

Jane Lindholm is the host, executive producer and creator of But Why: A Podcast For Curious Kids. In addition to her work on our international kids show, she produces special projects for Vermont Public. Until March 2021, she was host and editor of the award-winning Vermont Public program Vermont Edition.
Sage Van Wing was a Vermont Edition producer.
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