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Environmental activists and authors including [[Mark Dowie]], [[Peter Montague]], [[Brian Tokar]], [[John Stauber]] and others whose articles and interviews are listed below have for decades criticized Big Green for soaking up the majority of the hundreds of millions of US dollars raised and spent each year on environmental activism, education and lobbying; raised for often abandoning or undercutting grassroots environmental struggles for fundamental change; and for often selling out the environment and the grassroots movement through business partnerships and agreements with compromising politicians.
 
Environmental activists and authors including [[Mark Dowie]], [[Peter Montague]], [[Brian Tokar]], [[John Stauber]] and others whose articles and interviews are listed below have for decades criticized Big Green for soaking up the majority of the hundreds of millions of US dollars raised and spent each year on environmental activism, education and lobbying; raised for often abandoning or undercutting grassroots environmental struggles for fundamental change; and for often selling out the environment and the grassroots movement through business partnerships and agreements with compromising politicians.
  
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Corporate PR experts such as  [[Ron Duchin]] and [[E. Bruce Harrison]] have over the decadess advised their clients on ways to divide and conquer environmental activists by finding common ground with business-oriented Big Green groups
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Corporate PR experts such as  [[Ron Duchin]] and [[E. Bruce Harrison]] have over the decades advised their clients on ways to divide and conquer environmental activists by finding common ground with business-oriented Big Green groups
  
 
Author and activist [[Jeffrey St. Clair]] of [[CounterPunch]] is one of Big Green's leading critics.  In 2007 he wrote, "The Group of Ten (aka: Gang Green) now manifest all the intensity of an insurance cartel...  National environmental policies are now engineered by an Axis of Acronyms: EDF, NRDC, WWF: groups without voting memberships and little responsibility to the wider environmental movement. They are the undisputed mandarins of technotalk and lobbyist logic, who gave us the ecological oxymorons of our time: 'pollution credits,' 're-created wetlands,' 'sustainable development.'  In their relativistic milieu, everything can be traded off or dealt away. For them, the tag-end remains of the native ecosystems on our public lands are endlessly divisible and every loss can be recast as a hard-won victory in the advertising copy of their fundraising propaganda." [http://www.counterpunch.org/stclair02032007.html]
 
Author and activist [[Jeffrey St. Clair]] of [[CounterPunch]] is one of Big Green's leading critics.  In 2007 he wrote, "The Group of Ten (aka: Gang Green) now manifest all the intensity of an insurance cartel...  National environmental policies are now engineered by an Axis of Acronyms: EDF, NRDC, WWF: groups without voting memberships and little responsibility to the wider environmental movement. They are the undisputed mandarins of technotalk and lobbyist logic, who gave us the ecological oxymorons of our time: 'pollution credits,' 're-created wetlands,' 'sustainable development.'  In their relativistic milieu, everything can be traded off or dealt away. For them, the tag-end remains of the native ecosystems on our public lands are endlessly divisible and every loss can be recast as a hard-won victory in the advertising copy of their fundraising propaganda." [http://www.counterpunch.org/stclair02032007.html]

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Big Green and other monikers such as 'The Group of Ten' and 'Gang Green' are terms used to describe the biggest environmental organizations in the United States, heavily-staffed, non-profit corporations each with budgets in the tens of millions of dollars a year, offices in Washington, DC and other major cities, highly paid executive directors, and a staff of lobbyists, analysts and marketers. Big Green environmental groups together raise and spend hundreds of millions of dollars a year, most of it contributed by non-profit foundations and individual donors. Many of the Big Green groups partner with corporations and have representatives of major corporations on their boards of directors. With the exception of the Sierra Club, these groups have no meaningful accountability to the thousands of individual small donors who constitute their marketing lists and who are labeled 'members.'

Environmental activists and authors including Mark Dowie, Peter Montague, Brian Tokar, John Stauber and others whose articles and interviews are listed below have for decades criticized Big Green for soaking up the majority of the hundreds of millions of US dollars raised and spent each year on environmental activism, education and lobbying; raised for often abandoning or undercutting grassroots environmental struggles for fundamental change; and for often selling out the environment and the grassroots movement through business partnerships and agreements with compromising politicians.

Corporate PR experts such as Ron Duchin and E. Bruce Harrison have over the decades advised their clients on ways to divide and conquer environmental activists by finding common ground with business-oriented Big Green groups

Author and activist Jeffrey St. Clair of CounterPunch is one of Big Green's leading critics. In 2007 he wrote, "The Group of Ten (aka: Gang Green) now manifest all the intensity of an insurance cartel... National environmental policies are now engineered by an Axis of Acronyms: EDF, NRDC, WWF: groups without voting memberships and little responsibility to the wider environmental movement. They are the undisputed mandarins of technotalk and lobbyist logic, who gave us the ecological oxymorons of our time: 'pollution credits,' 're-created wetlands,' 'sustainable development.' In their relativistic milieu, everything can be traded off or dealt away. For them, the tag-end remains of the native ecosystems on our public lands are endlessly divisible and every loss can be recast as a hard-won victory in the advertising copy of their fundraising propaganda." [1]


Some of the Biggest Environmental Organizations

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Articles Critical of Big Green Environmental Groups

  • Peter Montague A LETTER TO FRIENDS, RACHEL'S ENVIRONMENT & HEALTH WEEKLY #407], September 15, 1994.

REVIEW - Losing Ground: American Environmentalism at the Close of the Twentieth Century by Mark Dowie, Booklist, 1995.

Behind the Green(back) Curtain], Counterpunch, May 24, 2005.

In film short, Mark Dowie plugs plan to boost funding for grassroots activism], Grist May 19, 2005.

Dodging Ecocide], Counterpunch, January 19/20, 2008

Behind the Green(back) Curtain], Counterpunch, May 24, 2005.

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