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My passion for preserving this beautiful planet began in my youth. This was back in the late 50s when my family lived on Long Island. Anyone camping in those wild and beautiful areas couldn't help but grow up with a profound respect for natural systems.

When I was about 13, we moved back to California where I was born and I saw the way the San Fernando Valley had already begun to change from a basically rural area to all those shopping malls. Plus, when I ran down to my friend's house.

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I found I could barely breathe. The smog was choking us in the early 60s. Then I'd go out to Santa Monica Bay and witness this incredible pollution.

In 1969 came those Hasselblad pictures taken during the first moon walk of this beautiful frail water planet in the distance. This has a profound impact on many people I knew - seeing the Earth as a whole, and us as a part of a finite region. By the time the first Earth Day happened in 1970, I was poised to really get involved. That's when I became a vegetarian, started recycling and composting, and bought my first electric car.

My current car - quite a step up technology-wise from my original Taylor-Dunn. The original was basically a glorified golf cart for hauling stuff around industrial complexes. It cost me $900 or so. It was pretty slow and didn't go very far, but it met my needs. I stopped driving it after awhile, when somebody told me I wasn't really doing anything about air pollution because the power plant created just as much as an auto tailpipe. That wasn't true... Read on...