Environmentalist Putnam Livermore’s Legacy
The Sierra Club recently published Legacy: Portraits of 50 Bay Area Environmental Elders by John Hart and features environmentalist Putnam Livermore.
Legacy: Portraits of 50 Bay Area Environmental Elders
by John Hart, published by the Sierra Club
The San Francisco Bay Area abounds in natural beauty. Despite a burgeoning population of 6.7 million, the region is blessed with incomparable open space: vibrant hills, seashores, forests, wetlands, and the shimmering expanse of San Francisco Bay. This legacy thrives, in most cases, not because benevolent governments have provided for it, but because certain stubborn citizens felt called upon to work for its preservation, often against great odds.
Putnam Livermore at Sweeney Ridge, above Pacifica, in the Golden Gate Recreation Area, 2004
Photo by Nancy Kittle
Legacy celebrates fifty of these extraordinary individuals with inspiring profiles by acclaimed Bay Area writer John Hart and superb duotone portraits by local photographer Nancy Kittle. The book offers glimpses into the lives of a generation of environmental leaders—including David Brower, Ike Livermore, Margaret Owings, and Edgar and Peggy Wayburn—who were born before World War II and who had made their commitment to the conservation cause well before the first Earth Day in 1970. purchase here
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PUTNAM LIVERMORE INTERVIEWED ABOUT THE GREAT DEPRESSION
This interview of Putnam Livermore was gathered as part of The Great Depression series is housed in the Henry Hampton Collection at the Washington University Film and Media Archive.
If you wish to donate to the Putnam and Pari Livermore Fund through the Trust for Public Land click here.