Sympathies also to Barbera Brower, professor of Geography at Portland State
Univ.
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From: Cynthia Watkins Richardson
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Sent: 07/11/00 03:47
Subject: ANN: David Brower
PRESS RELEASE
November 6, 2000 Contacts: David Phillips
John Knox
Mikhail Davis
Earth Island
(415) 788-3666
24-hour line: (415) 260 7412
David R. Brower, Internationally Recognized Leader of the Environmental
Movement Dies at 88
David R. Brower, recognized around the globe for his pioneering
leadership in protecting the environment and wild places of the Earth,
died on Sunday afternoon, November 5th, at his home in Berkeley, CA,
surrounded by his family. Brower was 88 years old, and died from
complications related to cancer.
"We have sadly lost the most inspirational leader of efforts to
protect
and restore the Earth," stated Dave Phillips, Executive Director of
Earth
Island Institute. He continued: "Dave Brower is a latter-day John
Muir."
Brower's career ranged from climbing some of the Sierra's most
formidable peaks, to successfully fighting to stop dams in Dinosaur
National Monument and in Grand Canyon National Park, to leading
environmentalists to re-think support of nuclear power, to being the
first
Executive Director of the Sierra Club and going on to found Friends of
the
Earth.
David Brower founded of Earth Island Institute in 1982, an umbrella
organization supporting and incubating innovative environmental projects
around the world. Earth Island Institute, based in San Francisco, is
the
home of the Brower Fund and the Brower Youth Awards.
Among his other accomplishments, he led campaigns to establish nine
new
national parks and seashores including Point Reyes, the North Cascades,
and the Redwoods, and helped gain passage of the Wilderness Act of 1964,
which protects millions of acres of public lands in pristine condition.
He
created the genre of "exhibit format" books of exquisite outdoor
photography, always tied to a conservation theme, and pioneered the
practice of running full-page environmental campaign advertisements in
newspapers. Many consider him the founder of the modern environmental
movement, alongside John Muir and Rachel Carson.
Brower's insistence on taking bold stands for environmental
protection
and his leadership where others dared not go inspired several
generations
of activists. He was nominated three times for the Nobel Peace Prize,
and
received numerous awards throughout his life, including 1998's Blue
Planet
Award.
Brower's message on the current state of the Earth were at once dire
and optimistic and are reflected in his favorite quotes. Of his own
career he paraphrased CA Senator Tom Hayden: "All I have been able to do
in my career is to slow the rate at which things get worse." But he
urged
environmentalists to heed the words of Goethe: "Anything you can do or
dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it."
Brower is survived by his wife Anne Brower; his four children Kenneth
Brower, Robert Brower, Barbara Brower, and John Brower; and his three
grandchildren Anne Katherine Olsen, Rosemary Olsen, and David C. Brower.
Earth Island Institute is working with the Brower Family on the
details
for a memorial service. Donations to Dave's memory be made to the
Brower
Fund of Earth Island Institute, 300 Broadway, Suite 28, San Francisco,
CA
94133; (415) 788-3666.
Earth Island Institute is a nonprofit conservation and education
organization, founded by David R. Brower in 1982. Among the many
projects
around the world sponsored by Earth Island is the Brower Project,
housing
Brower's papers and mementos of his many environmental campaigns, and
Brower Youth Awards, given to young people who conserve, protect, and
restore the Earth.
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Carolyn Merchant
Chancellor's Professor of Environmental History, Philosophy, and Ethics
Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management
207 Giannini Hall
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-3310
510-642-0326 (0)
510-643-8911 (Fax)
Website: http://www.ecohistory.org
Or, http://www.cnr.berkeley.edu/departments/espm/env-hist/ (Env History)
http://members.home.net/csellers/ (Alaska Photos)
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