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WHERE DID WE GO WRONG? Fair Use Statement On This Page --> Introduction - Focus on Causes - Education, Computers, Diversity & Sustainability - Discussion - News - Corporations - Mainstream Environmentalism - Foundations - Related Resources RIGHT-TO-KNOW -- RIGHT-TO-PARTICIPATE RIGHT-TO-QUESTION -- RIGHT-TO-CHANGE 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 Two articles from Yes! A Journal of Positive Future - Diverse, Green, Beautiful Cities: A discussion with Carl Anthony and Corporate Futures: A discussion with David Korten and Paul Hawken. --------------------------------------------- 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. Large environmental groups have become increasingly professional, increasingly wealthy (see Losing Ground: American Environmentalism at the Close of the Twentieth Century) and the foundations that fund these groups are relatively free of any democratic oversight (see American Foundations: An Investigative History. 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. Focus on Causes (updated 01/12/01) The lists still are not yet complete. These are not "my" lists. Rather, they reflect all the input I have received from you. The focus I envision includes all the barriers and the possible solutions to environmental-social problems/issues -- focusing on the causes rather than the effects. This led to creating two big catergories -- "Barriers / Solutions" and "Health and Ecological Issues." We can begin to ask why and how is such and such a barrier and how can it be turned into a solution with regard to the various issues. Some barriers may become solutions through some sort of modification, others through becoming their exact opposite. Many have their opposite. For instance, corporate prepared environmental education in the classroom is a barrier, but more enlightened environmental education is part of the solution. Same goes for the media, etc. Also, many items mean different things to different folks. For instance, some view sustainability as sustaining the natural world, ecosystems and the like while others view it as meaning sustaining human communities and the natural world. Please send any modifications/additions. If I have left out any of your additions, please resend. The next step, of course, is to boil the list down, removing duplications, overlaps, items that are too closely related and the like. BARRIERS / SOLUTIONS Deep ecology movement Environmental justice movement Indigenous environmental movement Information and sophistication required for its access Environmental education Media attention, production, and interpretation Capitalism and "free" markets Military industrial complex Whistleblowers Globalization, world trade, GATT, NAFTA Professionalization of the environmental movement Partnering between environmental groups and polluters Lifestyle and personal consumption EPA and polluters as clients Regulatory reform Putting your money to work (walking the talk) Lobbying Steady state economies Political funding Technological change Information Warfare Interaction beween enviros, community groups, regulators and industry Mainstream enviro-groups and community needs Role of foundations and funding Action networks on the web Role of government agencies Right to know Human health and medical professions Role of academic research institutions Legal system Wise use and anti-environmentalism Federal vs. state power Risk assessment Participation in decision-making Who sets the agenda? Economic growth Cost benefit analysis Environment and economy Issue specific list of groups who can be relied upon to do the right thing Social cost/impact analyses Partnerships between environmentalists and public health groups and organizations Environmental health education for medical professionals, and communities Nonprofit advocacy rights Creating and promoting clean alternative technologies Eco-efficiency and stock market performance The Natural Step Eco-efficiency and green industries Local production for local consumption NIMBYism (not in my backyard) Property rights Population as cause and effect Funding mechanisms Private/public ownership of infrastructure corporate charters HEALTH AND ECOLOGICAL ISSUES Poverty Global justice and equality Poor rural communities vs. major multinational corporations Biotechnology Corporate profit and human health Environmentally mediated chronic illness; the variety and causes Clearcutting forests Air quality Sprawl Alternative transportation Pesticides and health Energy consumption Renewable energy Environmental justice Protecting wildlife habitat Conservation of resources Human health and the increasing disease load directly attributable to environmental contamination Water quality and quantity Sustainability Militarism and environment Health impacts of environmental injustice Children's environmental health Climate change Global warming Education, Computers, Diversity & Sustainability A subscriber to env21-l suggested that the item "Environmental education" is only the tip of the iceberg saying, "I think it's important to consider ALL institutional education as a barrier/solution and not just this... In other words, education for the global economy, the current dominant discourse in education which dwarfs any incarnation of environmental ed, is inherently unsustainable and anti-ecological." This very helpful person pointed me towards C. A. Bowers' works. I have located reviews for his latest books, Let Them Eat Data: How Computers Affect Education, Cultural Diversity, and the Prospects of Ecological Sustainability and The Culture of Denial: Why the Environmental Movement Needs a Strategy for Reforming Universities and Public Schools and a syllabus for his course. This is a good starting point for our discussion of the barriers to environmental solutions. 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. Discussion We have a new blog, feel free to post. I look foward to a lively discussion. News ED (formerly EDF) and NRDC Censor and Limit Participation ... More 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 EPA Approves Emissions Trading Scheme ... More Removal of EPA Investigator Called Political Revenge: Why Gore really lost Ohio ... More Tempers Flare at Environmental Justice Conference ... More EPA Website Shutdown - Political Analysis from OMB Watch ... More The Real Threat is the Internet and Environmentalism says the U.S. Chamber of Commerce ... More Industry Goes on Global Offensive Against Environmentalists" and related article, "Electronics Giant Tracks Environmental Organisations" ... More Corporations Public participation or public relations?" by Sharon Beder ... More The Intellectual Sorcery of Think Tanks by Sharon Beder ... More Mainstream Environmentalism 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 ... More Greens Outgunned by Mark Dowie ... More Questioning Official Environmentalism By Brian Tokar ... More From Green Warriors to Greenwashers by Dr. Sharon Beder ... More Visit Sharon on the Web RACHEL - THE RIGHT TO POLLUTE ... 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. Hypocrisy From EDF's Fred Krupp? ... More 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 Foundations The Dilemmas of Foundation-Backed Activism by Aaron G. Lehmer ... More Democratic Foundations: The future's best way to transfer wealth? By Mark Dowie ... More Related Resources Seventh Generation Fund ... More Indigenous Environmental Network ... More California Indian Basketweavers Association ... More Several new articles about new EPA head Christine Todd Whitman ... More Creating Learning Communities ... More Join the Learning Communities discussion by sending a blank email to: LearningCommunities-subscribe@egroups.com CarFree Cities ... More Global Resource Bank ... More World Bank Greening Industry Report ... More Sustainable Development WebWorks ... 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