[Sustain] NRDC's Involvement With Black Mesa!

[Eric Brooks]

NRDC is BAD news.

The Black Mesa coalition should kick them out now, or they may end up 
getting screwed. EDF and Apollo Alliance are potential 
middle-of-the-road trouble makers as well.

Here are some details on NRDC from 
http://www.zmag.org/ZMag/articles/apr97tokar.html

Others began examining the boards of directors of the leading 
environmental groups. /The Multinational Monitor/ found that 23 
directors and council members from Audubon, NRDC, the Wilderness 
Society, the World Resources Institute, and World Wildlife Fund were 
associated with 19 corporations cited in a recent survey of the 500 
worst industrial polluters. These companies included such recognized 
environmental offenders as Union Carbide, Exxon, Monsanto, Weyerhaeuser, 
DuPont, and Waste Management, Inc. Furthermore, some 67 individuals 
associated with just 7 environmental groups served as CEOs, 
chairpersons, presidents, consultants or directors for 92 major 
corporations.
...
In 1994, the Center for the Study of American Business at Washington 
University in St. Louis examined the established environmental groups' 
stock portfolios, ostensibly developed as a hedge against fluctuating 
memberships, and found that the Wilderness Society, for example, held 
stock in Dow Chemical, Kerr McGee, and General Motors, and the NRDC in 
Dow, Westinghouse, and General Electric. For organizations committed to 
protecting the environment and combating pollution to become financially 
dependent on the stock values of major polluters may represent the 
ultimate corruption of ecological values. The same study confirmed that 
membership dues represented an ever declining share of the income of 
groups like the Wilderness Society and National Audubon. But while the 
political influence wielded by these groups has fallen considerably 
since the early 1900s, income and membership levels have in most cases 
only leveled off, or continued to rise at a slower rate.

NRDC was founded by corporate elites, and Bob Fisher (one of the Fisher 
family, which owns the GAP, Mendocino Redwood Company, and have been 
part owners in Edison Schools) is on NRDC's board of directors.

Eric B

anniegarrison at mac.com wrote:
> John McCain tried to sell me one of these canvas bags, in exchange for 
> signing up with the Environmental Defense Fund.  
>
> That was before Obama turned the McCain-Lieberman Climate Stewardship 
> Act into the McCain-Lieberman-Obama Climate Stewardship Act.  
>
> I'm really getting confused by some of these groups that seem kinda 
> half right, like the Environmental Defense Fund.  At first I thought 
> McCain was just pretending to represent the Environmental Defense 
> Fund, when his cyborg sent me that fundraising letter, 'cause the 
> outfit he was pushing, endorsed by Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, 
> was called the Environmental Defense Action Alert.  
>
> But then I poked around the Net till I was pretty sure they were the 
> same thing.  
>
> The Sierra Club, the NRDC, and even----!!!!----the Apollo Alliance, 
> are the only non-native groups working with the native Black Mesa 
> Water Coalition in the Four Corners.  The Sierra Club seems sorta 
> kinda OK there, in the native Four Corners, but here, Mary R. says 
> they promoted Lennar's development in the shipyard.  And, in Obama's 
> Illinois, around the Great Lakes, some local Sierra Club chose "clean 
> coal" as their greenhouse gas limiting solution. 
>
> But the Environmental Defense Fund seems to do some good stuff, 
> especially with the Western Shoshone Defense Project, if I'm not 
> mistaken. /* So, *//*anybody in the SF Greens know what to make of the 
> Environmental Defense Fund?    */
>
> I got so pissed off about that Apollo Alliance using the Diné Navajo 
> Dooda! Desert Rock Committee, which is fighting the Sithe Global 
> Industries' attempt to build a 60-acre coal-fired power plant at 
> Desert Rock, on the northwestern Navajo Rez,  that I left a message on 
> one of their "It's getting hot in here" websites telling them to quit 
> using these folks and their just-as-justice-ever-gets battle to 
> promote the Apollo Alliance's crappy pro-nuclear, pro-bio-fuels, 
> pro-ethanol message.    
>
> I think that youth leader of theirs, Billy Paul, on leave from Yale 
> for the past four years to promote the Apollo Alliance, is a a member 
> of Skull and Bones in training, probably in training for the CIA as 
> well.   R&R for one and all---Annie
>
>
> On Apr 6, 2007, at 3:19 AM, Eric Brooks wrote:
>
>> In keeping with his promise to go beyond compostable plastic bags to 
>> re-usables, Ross Mirkarimi just forwarded the note below in his latest 
>> newsletter. Anyone who needs canvass bags should go for it fast and 
>> furiously so we can show the Dept. of Environment how high the demand is 
>> for such bags...
>>
>> "Free Reusable Canvas Bags Available
>>
>> While supplies last the Department of the Environment is offering free 
>> reusable canvas bags for grocery shopping. Each reusable shopping bag 
>> has the potential to eliminate hundreds, if not thousands, of plastic 
>> bags over its lifetime.
>> Bags are available at the Department of the Environment office located 
>> at 11 Grove Street. For more information call 355-3700."
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