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By John H. Adams & Patricia Adams

with George Black

Foreword by Robert Redford

When John H. Adams and a group of fellow lawyers founded the Natural Resources Defense Council in 1970, no one was entirely sure the organization would survive its first year. Today NRDC is one of the unquestioned leaders of the environmental movement and its founder has recently been awarded the nation's highest civilian honor: the Presidential Medal of Freedom. In their new book, A Force for Nature, John and Patricia Adams write about how we got here, chronicling 40 years of courtroom battles, legislative triumphs, natural wonders, and personal memories.

Here are exclusive excerpts from their book featured in a special section of the Fall 2010 issue of OnEarth magazine:

• In The Beginning: "Gathering Forces"
• The First Decade: "Does A Tree Have Standing?"
• The Second Decade: "The Dark Ages (and How We Survived Them)"
• The Third Decade: "Contract on America"
• The Fourth Decade: "California Dreaming"

Special Features

• John and Patricia Adams: Partnership for the Earth
  A Q&A with co-author George Black
• NRDC: The Modern Environmental Movement
  A time line from 1962 to the present
• Making Our Future: The Next 40 Years
  What's next for NRDC?
• Listen: John and Patricia Adams Interview
  From WNYC's Leonard Lopate Show