David Brower
ABOUT DAVID BROWER
Environmentalist who founded many environmental organizations including the Sierra Club Foundation. He served as its first Executive Director.
He was a renowned mountaineer in his younger years.
He also founded Friends of the Earth in 1969, the League of Conservation Voters, and Earth Island Institute in 1982.
He met his wife Anne Hus when both were editors at the University of California Press.
He was an inspiration to future environmentalist and politician Al Gore .