It's Not Easy, Being Green

The Worldwatch Institute has attracted attention for publishing a highly critical article on the World Wildlife Fund, Conservation International and the Nature Conservancy, in its magazine, World Watch. The article "accuses the three groups of cozying up to their corporate donors and governmental partners while ignoring the native peoples whose cause they once championed." Grist Magazine reports that Worldwatch's president "called the printer and told them to destroy all the printed copies" of the magazine, after realizing that one of those criticized "chairs the board at the Ford Foundation, to which Worldwatch had recently submitted a grant proposal." But "the magazine had already gone to press."