Former US senator and governor of Wisconsin and creator of Earth Day Gaylord Nelson presents an urgent message to the planet based on his decades of advocacy and scientific study. He details the world's most crucial environmental concerns and offers inspirational strategies for saving the planet.

Gaylord Nelson is known and respected throughout the world as a founding father of the modern environmental movement and creator of one of the most successful and influential public awareness campaigns ever undertaken on behalf of global stewardship: Earth Day. Now in his eighties, Nelson delivers a timely and urgent message with the same eloquence with which he has articulated the nation's environmental ills through the decades. He details the planet's most critical concerns--from species and habitat losses to global climate changes and population growth. In outlining his strategy for planetary health, he inspires citizens to reassert the environment as a top priority. A book for anyone who cares deeply about our environment and wants to know what we can and must do now to save it, "Beyond Earth Day" is a classic guide by one of the natural world's great defenders