Word: mcdivitt
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...dollars of clothes worldwide ("Consumer items nobody needed," Tompkins ruefully says now). All that changed when he became involved in radical environmental projects - what he calls his "restoration work," returning native animal and plant species to the nation-sized swaths of property he owns. He and his wife Kristine McDivitt, a former CEO of the Patagonia clothing retail chain and wealthy in her own right, believe in deep ecology, a severe branch of the movement that believes in restoring the original ecological balance of the earth. Tompkins is fond of reminding listeners that unless runaway consumerism is halted "we humans...