The Sacramento Bee’s Exposé: Environmental Organizations Are Now Big-Business
This five-part series from April of 2001 by The Bee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning environmental reporter, Tom Knudson, details how most of the so-called environmental organizations have become money-hungry businesses that don’t act like they really have the Earth’s best interests at heart.
Day 1
- Main story: Movement’s prosperity comes at a high price
- Rare rodent likely extinct
- A century of environmentalism
- Graphics: Giving to the Environment, Executive Salaries, and The greening of the environmental movement
- Photo gallery
Day 2
- Main story: Mission adrift in a fund raising frenzy
- Graphics: Philanthropic report card, Fund raising fact and fantasies—otters, whales, wolves, and fund raising effectiveness.
- Photo gallery
- Editorial: How to be green
Day 3
- Main story: A flood of costly lawsuits raises questions about motive
- Graphic: The cost of environmental litigation
- Photo gallery
Day 4
- Main story: Spin on science puts national treasure at risk
- Graphics: Growing southwest forest fires, fire country
- Photo gallery
Day 5
- Main story: Solutions sprouting from grass-roots efforts
- Graphic: Endangered nation
- Photo gallery
