[1]Hollywood star and environmentalist Robert Redford lent his name on Monday to a new nature conservancy at a Southern California college, saying he hoped the research institute could help the environmentally-abused region.
The 12-acre Robert Redford Conservancy for Southern California Sustainability at Pitzer College, endowed with $10 million from Hyatt hotel heir Nicholas Pritzker and his wife Susan, will house research and education facilities.
Redford, 76, a Los Angeles native, said watching the city grow at break-neck speeds with little regard for nature after World War II had influenced his environmental advocacy. “This is the city I grew up in. And I got disappointed in because I saw it disappear,” he said.
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