{"id":6417,"date":"2010-03-26T21:45:42","date_gmt":"2010-03-27T03:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.sustainablog.org\/?p=6417"},"modified":"2010-03-26T21:45:42","modified_gmt":"2010-03-27T03:45:42","slug":"what-inspired-your-environmentalism-ppb-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/what-inspired-your-environmentalism-ppb-13\/","title":{"rendered":"What Inspired Your Environmentalism? (PPB #13)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6418\" src=\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/files\/2010\/03\/hiking.jpg\" alt=\"hiking\" width=\"250\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/hiking.jpg 250w, https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/hiking-197x300.jpg 197w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/>Most of us involved in advocating for the environment don&#8217;t give a lot of thought to the source of this passion&#8230; we just think the issues are critical, and need attention. My good buddy David Wescott did take some time to reflect on how he got here&#8230; and it turns out that the things that inspired him weren&#8217;t necessarily &#8220;environmental&#8221; in focus. Check out his <a href=\"http:\/\/itsnotalecture.blogspot.com\/2010\/03\/day-i-became-environmentalist.html\">guest post<\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/itsnotalecture.blogspot.com\/\">It&#8217;s Not a Lecture<\/a> to find out what moved him to more concern about our relationship to the natural world.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->So, what brought you around to your concern for environmental issues? Share them with us (and remember that your comment enters you in our drawing for some <a href=\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/blogathon-prizes\/\">great prizes<\/a> from a number of eco-friendly retailers).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Image credit:<\/strong><a rel=\"cc:attributionURL\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/wolfriver\/\"> http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/wolfriver\/<\/a> \/ <a rel=\"license\" href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of us involved in advocating for the environment don&#8217;t give a lot of thought to the source of this passion&#8230; we just think the issues are critical, and need&nbsp;[ &hellip; ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":6418,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Why are you an Environmentalist?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"What inspired you to become an environmentalist? 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