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Green, Inc.: An Environmental Insider Reveals How a Good Cause Has Gone Bad | 
 enlarge | Author: Christine Catherine Macdonald
Publisher: The Lyons Press
Category: Book
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Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 375643
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 288
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Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 9 x 6 x 1.1
ISBN: 1599214369
Dewey Decimal Number: 333.7206073
EAN: 9781599214368
ASIN: 1599214369
Publication Date: September 16, 2008
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Product Description
In spring 2006, Christine MacDonald left journalism for a dream job at Conservation International, one of the world’s largest environmental organizations. Soon after reporting to the group's Washington offices, however, she realized that something is rotten in today's clubby world of conservationists.
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 Excellent Read - Enjoyable & Informative September 27, 2008
P. A. Payne (Brooklyn, NY)
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
This book is a very level-headed, thoughtful review of the world's top environmental organizations. I found it a quick read even though it is chock full of detailed statistics and tables with hard facts. I enjoyed the author's easy tone, and did not find it angry at all (as one description states), but rather very straight forward and matter of fact. I was also pleased to find that her sources are direct from reports and court records, not merely based on anecdotal information as "from an insider" might imply. "Brown Eyed NJ Girl's" comments give me the impression that she might have her own axe to grind; they do not reflect the book's actual content. I am astonished by the hard facts the author has offered us; at the discrepancies between the public image and the actual operating procedures of these environmental groups. One question really sticks with me: How is it that these environmental groups have grown and strengthened so much over the past 20 years, but that our environmental concerns have worsened? Rather than a scathing indictment I see this as a fairly reasonable question the author has posed. I have often wondered how these huge non-profits operate, and where my donations and good will are really going. Green Inc. gives you the facts and allows you to create your own well informed opinion.
Must Read September 25, 2008
Terry Mohre (NYC)
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
"Green Inc." is a good read and raises a lot of serious questions. I found myself surprised over and over again. It was hard to believe that the heads of these nature groups receive salaries as high as $800,000 a year. But it was even more disheartening to find out they hang out with corporate CEOs and board members and have all kinds of shady deals with oil companies, power plants and other big polluters. It's so sad that environmental groups that began with the ideal of protecting the Earth have devolved into groups that cover up for corporations that destroy places like the Amazon. Saddest of all is that we give money, thinking its going for environmental protection, when it's really being used to pay astronomic salaries and kick Native people off their land. "Green Inc." does an excellent job of explaining how these environmental groups have changed since they were first established. The book also does a good job explaining how globalization is taking a toll on the planet and how the corporations that give big donations to nature groups are some of the biggest culprits. All in all, a shocking tale.
 Someone needs a fact check October 3, 2008
LS (Boston, MA)
4 out of 15 found this review helpful
This book is full of inacurate information. Much of it is pure fiction and highly unrecomended.
Pre-review - interested but skeptical September 23, 2008
Brown-eyed NJ Girl
3 out of 11 found this review helpful
Just ordered, so I can't comment on the text, but the reviews are making me skeptical. Sounds like she was idealistic and uninformed, and had her dreams dashed. She was there a year. I can understand the gut reaction (ugh, we are taking money from Exxon? I would feel the same way) but then you start thinking - would you rather they NOT give you some of their money? Just pollute and NOT do something to offset their evil? Yes, of course, we'd rather they be more environmentally responsible in all their activities and decisions, especially with regard to global warming. Better not to create the problem than to spend tons of money trying to deal with it. But that's not how life works, unfortunately.
What really makes me skeptical, though, is the muckraking about six-figure salaries. The Washington Post series on TNC was much the same - insinuating that it is obscene to pay the CEO of a multi-billion dollar global corporation $350,000. See how inane that sounds? You are hiring people who have to have incredible management and fundraising skills, and who could earn 10, 20, 30 times as much in private industry. And then you ask them to live in a very expensive area, where $350,000 is not a lot of money. I mean, get real.
So I am hoping this book turns out to be something more than uninformed silliness and muckraking and that it focuses on the more important question: just what are these groups accomplishing? It is hard to imagine that someone who's been on the inside for only a year, and who has no background or expertise in conservation and conservation science could make that assessment.
But we'll see. Back after I actually read the book.
ridiculous smear campaign October 19, 2008
sarah (San Francisco, CA)
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
The author does a good job condemning the actions of people who have dedicated their lives to environmental issues. She glorifies activism without recognizing the fact that activists also depend on more corporate groups to help enact the changes that they are pushing for. Each of these groups serves a purpose in educating the world about the issues that we are faced with. A company cannot make improvements just by being told that they have to, they also need to be shown how they can be part of the solution. Macdonald is not only naive in her assumption that environmentalism can only be pushed by hard line activism she is also pathetic for throwing mud at people who have dedicated their lives to conservation without even attempting to offer an alternative. This book is a cheap tabloid dressed up in a hard cover. I suggest you all save yourself the money and pick up a copy at the library.
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