Denis Hayes on environmental activism since the first Earth Day; more from Dr. Caldicott’s March speech in Vermont
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Denis Hayes
Dr. Caldicott talks with Denis Hayes, president and CEO of the international group Earth Day Network and president and CEO of The Bullitt Foundation. Hayes is the author of numerous books and articles, but he’s probably still best known for having been National Coordinator of the first Earth Day in 1970 when he was 25. During the Carter Administration, Hayes directed the federal National Renewable Energy Laboratory. He’s been a visiting scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center, a senior fellow at the Worldwatch Institute, an adjunct professor of engineering at Stanford University, and a Silicon Valley lawyer. Internationally, he is recognized for expanding Earth Day to more than 180 nations. In this conversation with
Dr. Caldicott, he reflects on the changes in the environmental movement in the last 40 years and what can be done now to demand real action on issues like global warming. In the last third of this program, we hear more of Dr. Caldicott’s March 29 speech in Vermont about the health hazards of nuclear radiation.