Gary Erickson is an entrepreneur athlete outdoorsman environmentalist and the founder of Clif Bar Inc. producers of a popular organic energy bar. Here he expounds on his business philosophy and how it was affected by his adventures hiking the Himalayas biking European mountain passes and climbing the Sierra Nevadas.<br> “I applaud the efforts of Gary and Clif Bar to develop business practices that promote an ethic of global responsibility.”—Mikhail S. Gorbachev Green Cross International