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John Adams, president and founder of the Natural Resources Defense Council, takes a look back at the first Earth Day ? the same day he opened NRDC for business ? and how the environmental movement he saw back then was a very different animal from the on
The Natural Resources Defense Council opened its doors on the same day the country celebrated its first Earth Day. NRDC president John Adams remembers that day clearly, as he was its only member at the time. He talks with host Steve Curwood about the changes he’s observed within the environmental movement since that first hopeful day.