Cloak of Green: The Links Between Key Environmental Groups, Government and Big BusinessMost concerned citizens trust environmental groups to fight on behalf of the public for sensible solutions to the world's most pressing problems. But Elaine Dewar discovered that this trust is often misplaced. In this book the award-winning journalist explores links between key environmental groups, government and big business. Written like a mystery, Cloak of Green follows the author from a Toronto fundraiser for the Kayapo Indians of Brazil to the Amazon rainforest and the global backrooms of Brasilia, Washington and Geneva. Along the way she meets some fascinating peopleAnita Roddick of the Body Shop, businessman-politican Maurice Strong, and activists who run key Canadian and American environmental groups. She discovers some disturbing revelations about these groups and their relations to "green" corporations and government. Cloak of Green is a penetrating investigative study that challenges many established pieties of the environmental movement. |
Contents
Green Dreams Red Flags | 1 |
The Handmade Jungle | 12 |
Plane Dollars and Sense | 24 |
A Sierra Club Soiree | 32 |
Enter Brascan | 45 |
An Activists Progress | 54 |
Cultural Survival | 60 |
Green Grease | 78 |
The Centre | 205 |
Canadian Jeitinho | 224 |
The Kayapo Are ComingAgain | 236 |
Part III | 247 |
The Honourable Poor Boy | 249 |
The New Leviathan | 284 |
Connections | 296 |
InsideOutsiders | 330 |
Part II | 89 |
Déja Vu | 91 |
The Agenda | 107 |
The Body Shop | 129 |
Flying Down to Rio | 148 |
A Trip to No Mans Land | 166 |
Seeing Is Believing | 177 |
Progressive Communications | 363 |
On with the Show | 395 |
O Brave New World | 412 |
Bibliography | 457 |
Archival Sources | 483 |
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