Bob Weir, a musician who took the environment seriously

Mongabay
Jan 11, 2026, 4:03 am359 ptsTop
Bob Weir, who died today, January 10th, was best known as a founding member of the Grateful Dead. For decades he was also an unusually persistent environmental advocate, one who treated land, forests, and climate not as metaphors but as material systems under pressure. His activism ran alongside his music for…

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