Opinion: The Mother of Waters

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Dorothy Green would not, I think, have wanted some marble monument to her memory.

The founder of Heal the Bay was a woman who was thinking about ‘’water’’ in the regional, the global, the watershed and the environmental-quality sense ... back when most of us were thinking of ‘’water’’ in the still-or-sparkling sense.

Dorothy Green died on Monday. She was 79, and her surname characterized her commitment: a whole generation of L.A.’s green thinkers have followed the path she blazed. She was indefatigable in her passion, and always obliging with information and insights whenever I needed either.

The best memorial to Dorothy Green isn’t some marker or plaque. The best memorial to her work is to see that it comes to pass, and that the waters in and around Southern California are as everlastingly clear and immaculate as was her vision.

Photo (from 1993) courtesy of Heal the Bay