The father of green chemistry on his love of the environment, striving for unattainable perfection and breathing life into an old town library
I knew at a very young age that I cared a lot about the environment. Our family home overlooked a beautiful, pristine salt marsh that was alive with all kinds of things. Now, the salt marsh is gone; the bulldozers drove in when I was about eight years old and now there’s nothing there but glass banks and insurance companies.