Adam Rome is professor of environment and sustainability at the University at Buffalo. A leading expert on the history of environmental activism, he is the author of The Genius of Earth Day: How a 1970 Teach-In Unexpectedly Made the First Green Generation (2013). From his book, he has created an Audible Original course, “The Genius of Earth Day,” which will be available April 14.
He also is author of the prizewinning The Bulldozer in the Countryside: Suburban Sprawl and the Rise of American Environmentalism (2001) and co-editor of Green Capitalism? Business and the Environment in the Twentieth Century (2017).