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The Accidental Conservationist

By Brett Schaeffer

Lisa Gautier’s environmentalist career didn’t begin with a treetop hunger strike or a bracing voyage on a Greenpeace boat. It began with an old rug. “I bought a new rug and I didn’t know what to do with the old one,” says the 36-year-old San Franciscan. So Gautier called a nearby school and asked the principal if the school mightreturn to article

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