They also spend money on fun little picnics, retreats and other junkets
whose value to the environment I question. There is definitely some fat
there that could be cut, IMO.
Steve
--- John Foster <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Steven Bissell <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2001 10:21 AM
> Subject: Re: the other shoe
>
>
> > And can you tell us just what the environmental groups did with all
> that
> > membership? Read _Losing Ground_ by Mark Dowie, 1995, MIT Press.
> You'll
> see
> > that the "environmental groups" squandered most of that increase in
> > membership in salaries and infra-structure improvements.
>
> Anyone working full time for an environmental organization should be
> salaried. Doing volunteer work to fight polluters and abusers is not
> going
> to be effective. Organizations need computers and video cameras and a
> dry,
> heated office to work out of. Most of the work that is done by
> conservation
> organizations is in education: lobbying, public relations, issue
> awareness,
> knowledge and information [extension].
>
> There are some organizations that spend the majority of their funding on
> infrastructure like Ducks Unlimited and the Nature Trust in Canada here.
> The
> Nature Trust actually buys private lands for conservation.
>
>
> john foster
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"In a nutshell, he [Steve] is 100% unadulterated evil. I do not believe in a 'Satan', but this man is as close to 'the real McCoy' as they come."
--Jamey Lee West
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