The Thoreau Institute has been a part of the environmental movement since 1975. In the past several years, the Institute has published and collected a series of reports and articles aimed at understanding this divergence. In 1996, the Institute asked more than a dozen environmental activists and observers to comment on the movement as they viewed it. Both groups have much in common, but both have to overcome a few emotional barriers.
Some environmental groups thrive by attacking other environmentalists.
The executive summary of the longer article of the same name. The movement has become narrow and intolerant of dissent. A prequel to the report of the same name. This article by James Moore originally appeared in NRLI News . The Thoreau Institute is sometimes called a free-market environmental group.