EDF was born from the frustration of a group of environmentalists unable to move the system, to make it respond, to force environmental protection; the frustration of losing environmental battles, often irreversibly; the deep conviction that we had an idea that was going to work because we had seen it work; and the final frustration that even our friends, the National Audubon Society, were not going to buy the idea. EDF would have to go it alone.
