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NRDC is BAD news.<br>
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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.<br>
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Here are some details on NRDC from
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.zmag.org/ZMag/articles/apr97tokar.html">http://www.zmag.org/ZMag/articles/apr97tokar.html</a><br>
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<font face="Arial">Others began examining the boards of directors of
the leading environmental groups. <i>The Multinational Monitor</i>
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.<br>
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</font><font face="Arial">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.<br>
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</font>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.<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:anniegarrison@mac.com">anniegarrison@mac.com</a> wrote:
<blockquote cite="midmd5:64756D6D79206D657373616765206964" type="cite">John
McCain tried to sell me one of these canvas bags, in exchange for
signing up with the Environmental Defense Fund.
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<div>That was before Obama turned the McCain-Lieberman Climate
Stewardship Act into the McCain-Lieberman-Obama Climate Stewardship
Act. </div>
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<div>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. </div>
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<div>But then I poked around the Net till I was pretty sure they were
the same thing.
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<div>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. </div>
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<div><span class="Apple-style-span">But the Environmental Defense
Fund seems to do some good stuff, especially with the Western Shoshone
Defense Project, if I'm not mistaken. <i><b> So, </b></i><i><b>anybody
in the SF Greens know what to make of the Environmental Defense Fund?
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<div>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. </div>
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<div>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</div>
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<div>On Apr 6, 2007, at 3:19 AM, Eric Brooks wrote:</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px;">In keeping with his promise to go beyond
compostable plastic bags to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px;">re-usables, Ross Mirkarimi just forwarded
the note below in his latest<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px;">newsletter. Anyone who needs canvass bags
should go for it fast and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px;">furiously so we can show the Dept. of
Environment how high the demand is<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px;">for such bags...</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px;">"Free Reusable Canvas Bags Available</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br>
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<div style="margin: 0px;">While supplies last the Department of the
Environment is offering free<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px;">reusable canvas bags for grocery
shopping. Each reusable shopping bag<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px;">has the potential to eliminate hundreds,
if not thousands, of plastic<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px;">bags over its lifetime.</div>
<div style="margin: 0px;">Bags are available at the Department of
the Environment office located<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px;">at 11 Grove Street. For more information
call 355-3700."</div>
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