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James Gustave (Gus) Speth (born on March 4, 1942) is an American environmental lawyer and advocate who co-founded the Natural Resources Defense Council.
James Gustave Speth is Professor of Law at the Vermont Law School and a senior fellow at Demos, the Democracy Collaborative, and the Tellus Institute. He served as Dean of the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies from 1999 to 2009.
Sep 15, 2021 · James Gustave Speth has been calling for action on climate since serving in the White House in the 1970s. In an e360 interview, he talks about his new book, which chronicles how U.S. administrations repeatedly failed to act in response to scientists’ increasingly dire warnings.
Dec 3, 2014 · In a new Q&A, Yale Environment 360 asked former F&ES Dean Gus Speth five questions about his new memoir, Angels by the River, and about the state of the environmental movement in the United States.
My Main Books. They Knew: The US Federal Government’s Fifty-Year Role in Causing the Climate Crisis (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2021). The New Systems Reader: Alternatives to a Failed Economy (New York: Routledge, 2021) (ed., with Kathleen Courrier).
Gus Speth’s The Bridge at the Edge of the World is an important contribution to the growing body of visionary literature dealing with the challenges of sustainability. In addition to his own thought-provoking observations, Speth’s extensive references offer an excellent introduction to many other authors
Gus Speth was the founder and former president of the World Resources Institute. He was a co-founder of the Natural Resources Defense Council and was a senior advisor to Presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton.
