About Tom Turner

Tom Turner is senior editor for Earthjustice, a nationwide, nonprofit, public-interest, environmental law firm. He is a native (and resident, and graduate) of Berkeley. Following a stint in the Peace Corps (Turkey, 1965-67) he went to work for David Brower at the Sierra Club. A year later, he left the club to help Brower establish Friends of the Earth, where he worked for 17 years, mostly as editor of the journal Not Man Apart. In 1986 he went to work for the Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund (which changed its name to Earthjustice in 1997). He is the author of Wild by Law the Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund and the Places It Has Saved (Sierra Club, 1990); Sierra Club—100 Years of Protecting Nature (Harry Abrams, 1991); and Justice on Earth, Earthjustice and the people it has served (Chelsea Green, 2002).

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