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'''Big Green''' is a term and an earlier moniker the Group of Ten are terms used to describe the biggest environmental organizations in the United States, a dozen or so 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.

Environmental activists and authors including Mark Dowie, Peter Montague, Brian Tokar and others whose articles and interviews andinterviews are listed below have criticized Big Green for soaking up the majority of the money raised for environmental activism, abandoning or undercutting grassroots environmental struggles, and selling out the environment and the grassroots movement to business interests and compromising politicians. Corporate PR experts such as [[Ron Duchin]] and [[E. Bruce Harrison]] have over the years 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 is one of Big Green's leading critics and 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]