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Activist
Inc.: Professional Agitators Can't Claim to Be Grassroots Anymore By
Kimberley Strassel for the Wall Street Journal. (Outside link)
Careers in the
Conflict Industry : HSUS and the Making of a Conflict Industrialist FCUSA
commentary examines the career of JP Goodwin, and his relationship with the
Humane Society of the US.
"Environment, Inc." by Tom Knudson, Sacramento
Bee. Five-part series. (Outside links.)
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1: Fat of the Land; Movement's Prosperity Comes at a High Price A
century after John Muir served as the Sierra Club's first president,
environmental groups have successfully traded on his legacy, becoming bigger
and richer than ever before. But in their quest for power and money, have
they cashed in their tradition?
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2: Green Machine; Mission Adrift in a Frenzy of Fund-Raising When you
give $20 to an environmental organization, you expect it to go toward
protecting the environment. But creative accounting hides the myriad ways
groups can fold a hefty chunk of that donation back into their fund raising
and bureaucracy.
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3: Litigation Central; A Flood of Costly Lawsuits Raises Questions About
Motive Suing the government has long been one of the environmental
movement's most important tools. But today, the targets and proliferation of
environmental lawsuits are yielding an uncertain bounty for the land.
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4: Playing With Fire; Spin on Science Puts National Treasure at Risk
Scientists say Western forests are gigantic tinderboxes inviting disaster,
badly in need of thinning. But many environmental organizations are ignoring
- and sometimes manipulating -- that message.
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5: Seeds of Change; Solutions Sprouting from Grass-Roots Efforts A new
kind of conservation is blossoming at the grass roots that focuses on
results, not rhetoric. Its goals include buying, protecting and restoring
land, and making commerce and conservation work together - without crying
wolf.
| See also Environmentalists'
Tactics Face Review by Tom Knudson, May 3, 2001; and They
Damaged Themselves, interview with Knudson reproduced in Evergreen
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A Domino Too Far; UK
Government Tells Animal Rightists "Enough Is Enough" FCUSA
commentary on fur farming ban, fox hunting, and campaign against Huntingdon Life
Sciences.
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