How To Lie With Maps (and data) - The Ecologist and Friends of the Earth turn the World Economic Forum's Environmental Sustainability Index upside down - US drops from 11th to 112th!
Bush DOES Speak for Americans - How our arrogant, self-absorbed, irresponsible American culture reinforces and is reflected by Bush administration policy choices.
NRDC Clean Air Network Censorship - I was recently kicked off of the NRDC Clean Air Network "air-mail" listserv for posting a message from Environmental Defense's Fred Krupp encouraging input to EPA's transition team.
"The politics of restoration will start, not in Washington, but in many other places, separately and together, when people decide to close the gap between what they believe and what is. People may begin this work by understanding what they are up against."
- William Grieder
Introduction To your left is a portion of an Environmental Defense (ED) and Chemical Manufacturers Association (CMA) ad that the two organizations jointly released to annouce the voluntary High Production Volume (HPV) testing program. Partnerships like this and other business-friendly initiatives (commonsense, innovative permitting, reinvention, and the like) have grown over the last decade. The new republican administration is sure to build upon these.
It is time to begin discussing what environmentalism has become and what it should be in the 21st century. What works and what does not?
What is left out? Who is left out? Is environmentalism democratic? Is funding democratic ... ? Can we get there from here?
I have just begun to do research on this myself. I've listed some resources below and some books to the right from folks that have much to offer on the subject. These will be of help to us as we discover where we are, who we are, and where we are going.
Closely related to the above is the question of whether or not the high costs of today's commercial internet -- sprawl, mindless irresponsibility, loss of capital, investment ruin, pollution, energy use, dislocation, increasing housing costs, eviction, and all the rest -- can ever be "balanced" by our more educational and activist uses of it.
THE NONPROFIT AGENDA: RECOMMENDATIONS TO PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH (AL GORE) TO STRENGTHEN THE NONPROFIT SECTOR (OMBWatch) ... More
(note: the correct url to their survey is http://www.ombwatch.org/npadv/2000/survey.html)
Environmental Defense's Fred Krupp Praises Christine Todd Whitman Choice for EPA head - Read the endorsement and a dissenting view ... More
More on the HPV challenge program of voluntary testing and the EDF/CMA (Chemical Manufacturer's Association) partnership that resulted from EDF's Toxic Ignorance report ... More
Environmental Defense announcement (2000) of voluntary testing program ... More
Joint Environmental Defense and Chemical Manufacturer's Association ad, "Chemical Companies and Environmentalists Working Together?" ... More
White House announcement (1998) - EPA, EDF, CMA Partnership for voluntary testing of HPVs ... More
Chemical Manufacturer's Association announcement (1998) - EPA, EDF, CMA Partnership for voluntary testing of HPVs ... More
CRONY ENVIRONMENTALISM:
REPORT RAISES QUESTIONS ABOUT THE INTEGRITY OF THE
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND'S (EDF)
SUPPORT OF SENATOR CHAFEE'S "EARLY ACTION" GLOBAL WARMING
BILL ... More
Note: www.ert.org is no longer the correct url. Check http://www.environmentaldefense.org/links/ERT/for Environmental Defense's description of ERT and links. Recently ED responded to my email saying that C. Boyden Gray is no longer associated with ERT.
EDF/ERT's Failed Eco Sell-Out:
The Effort to Take the Heat Off the Global Warming Chill Can:
Sound Environmentalism or Corporate Greenwashing? ... More
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Reimagination - Reimagining, exploring and celebrating the changes in infrastructure, politics and culture that will help us live in harmony with each other and the earth now and in the future.
Democracy at Risk: California Secretary of State Debra Bowen's report Top To Bottom Review finds that electronic voting machines supplied by several vendors are subject to hacking and inaccuracies.
Climate Shift - The effects of climate shift on the future of planet earth and its inhabitants.
To your left is a portion of an Environmental Defense (ED) and Chemical Manufacturers Association (CMA) ad that the two organizations jointly released to annouce the voluntary High Production Volume (HPV) testing program. Partnerships like this and other business-friendly initiatives (commonsense, innovative permitting, reinvention, and the like) have grown over the last decade. The new republican administration is sure to build upon these.
