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According to its own guidelines <ref>It would seem that by partnering with [[http://sourcewatch.org/images/3/3b/Corporate_Guidelines.pdf EDF Corporate Funding Guidelines, 2011Synagro]]</ref>, EDF does accept direct funding from corporations that are engaged "is in any significant activities that are fact endorsing the practices of Synagro in direct conflict with EDF’s environmental protection objectives or activities." This is misleadingdumping sludge on farms and gardens, since EDF does aggressively seek funding from employees, board members and investors in such corporations, including misleading millions of people by selling its formal corporate partners such sewage sludge products as Carlyle Group"compost" and "natural organic fertilizer. And EDF also considers on a case by case basis donations from foundations set up by such corporations. "
It would seem that by partnering with According to its own guidelines <ref>[[Synagro]https://www.sourcewatch.org/images/3/3b/Corporate_Guidelines.pdf EDF Corporate Funding Guidelines, 2011] </ref>, EDF is does accept direct funding from corporations that are engaged "in fact endorsing the practices of Synagro any significant activities that are in dumping sludge on farms and gardensdirect conflict with EDF’s environmental protection objectives or activities." This is misleading, since EDF does aggressively seek funding from employees, board members and investors in misleading millions of people by selling such corporations, including its sewage sludge products formal corporate partners such as "compost" and "natural organic fertilizerCarlyle Group. And EDF also considers on a case by case basis donations from foundations set up by such corporations."
==Personnel==
*[[Fred Krupp]], President.
*[[David Yarnold]], Executive Vice President
*[[Marcia Aronoff]] Vice President for Programs
*[[Cynthia Hampton]] Vice President for Marketing and Communications
*[[Steve Cochran]] Director of Strategic Communications
*[[David Yarnold]] - Executive Director
*[[Arlie Schardt]], Former Executive Director
*[[Nick Nicholas]], Chair of board of trustees
* [[Sean Crowley]], public relations
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{{#Show badges:|CoalSwarm}}{{#Show badges: | ToxicSludge}}'''Environmental Defense Fund'''(EDF) , run by [[Fred Krupp]], is a US-based [[Environmental organization]] and is considered a [[Big Green]] environmental group, one of the largest and most prominent in the world. It describes itself as being "dedicated to protecting the environmental rights of all people, including future generations. Among these rights are clean air and water, healthy and nourishing food, and a flourishing ecosystem. Guided by science, Environmental Defense evaluates environmental problems and works to create and advocate solutions that win lasting political, economic and social support because they are nonpartisan, cost-efficient and fair." EDF prides itself on the formal corporate partnerships it forms with companies such as [[McDonald's]], [[Walmart]], [[Kohlberg Kravis Roberts]] and most recently [[The Carlyle Group]], home of [[Synagro]] the [[sewage sludge]] giant.
[[Sharon Beder]] notes that: "The influence of neoliberal think tanks on environmental policy has been pervasive. Yet their efforts to replace legislative solutions with free market programs have been accepted largely without scrutiny of the ideological agenda behind them. Many environmentalists have been persuaded by the rhetoric of free market environmentalism. For example the Environmental Defense Fund has been at the forefront of the push for tradeable pollution rights and the [[Natural Resources Defense Council]] has also supported them." [http://www.herinst.org/sbeder/enveconomics/thinktanks.html]
*Executive Director - [[Dan J. Dudek]]
*Former Executive Director - [[David Yarnold]]
== Greenwashing Corporations and Raising Money via Partnerships ==
According to its own guidelines <ref>[https://www.sourcewatch.org/images/3/3b/Corporate_Guidelines.pdf EDF Corporate Funding Guidelines, 2011]</ref>, EDF does NOT accept direct funding from corporations that are engaged "in any significant activities that are in direct conflict with EDF’s environmental protection objectives or activities."
However, this is extremely misleading, since EDF does aggressively seek funding from employees, board members and investors in corporations including (and probably especially) its formal corporate partners. EDF also considers on a case by case basis whether to accept major donations from foundations set up by corporations.
Thus, corporate partnerships are extremely lucrative for EDF since it aggressively fundraises among the individuals on the Boards of Directors, in management, and who are investors in its partners. Meanwhile, the corporate partners such as [[Carlyle Group]] and [[Wal-Mart]] can [[greenwash]] themselves by pointing to a forma partnership with one of the world's most established [[Big Green]] environmental groups.
== EDF Partners with [[Synagro]], The World's Leader in Dumping Sewage Sludge on Farms and Gardens ==
EDF creates formal corporate partnerships between itself and major corporations, such as the [[Carlyle Group]] with which it partnered in March, 2010. <ref>[http://blogs.wsj.com/privateequity/2010/03/18/carlyle-group-teams-up-with-edf/ Carlyle Group Teams Up With EDF], The Wall Street Journal, March 18, 2010. </ref> The Carlyle Group, a private investment corporation, owns [[Synagro]], the world's largest company producing [[sewage sludge]] "compost" and "fertilizer," often called "[[biosolids]]," that is dumped on farms and gardens.
Such partnerships are extremely lucrative for EDF since it aggressively fundraises among the individuals on the Boards of Directors, in management, and who are investors in its partners. Meanwhile, the corporate partner such as [[Carlyle Group]] can [[greenwash]] itself by pointing to its partnership with one of the world's best funded [[Big Green]] environmental groups.
EDF board member [[Stanley Druckenmiller]] is a billionaire hedge fund manager that has invested roughly $200 million into [[Massey Energy]], a company that is a leading practitioner of [[mountaintop removal]] mining, has little regard for [[Mine Safety and Health Administration]] regulations leading to the the [[Upper Big Branch Mine Disaster]], and has a CEO, [[Don Blankenship]], who is an outspoken [[climate change skeptics|climate change denier]].<ref name="an">[http://www.alternet.org/story/146462/how_bubble_barons_protected_their_influence_while_the_economy_tanked/?page=1 "How Bubble Barons Protected Their Influence While the Economy Tanked"] AlterNet, April 16, 2010.</ref> Massey has a 6% stake in [[Duquesne Capital Management]]<ref>[http://littlesis.org/org/52057/Duquesne_Capital_Management "Duquesne Capital Management"] Littlesis.org],</ref> which is controlled by Stanley Druckenmiller.<ref name="an"/>
==Corporate Partners==
*[[McDonald's]]
*[[Walmart]]
*[[Kohlberg Kravis Roberts]]
*[[The Carlyle Group]]
==Contact details==
Email : general members AT environmentaldefense.org<br>
Web: http://www.environmentaldefense.org
==Board of Trustees==
*[[Carl Ferenbach]], Chair, Managing Director, Berkshire Partners, LLC
*[[Arthur Kern]], Vice Chair, Investor
*[[Arthur P. Cooley]], Secretary, Naturalist and former Expedition Leader, Lindblad Expeditions
*[[G. Leonard Baker, Jr.]], Managing Director, Sutter Hill Ventures
*[[Rod Beckstrom]], President and CEO, ICANN
*[[James W. B. Benkard]], Senior Counsel, Davis Polk & Wardwell
*[[Sally G. Bingham, M.Div.]], President, The Regeneration Project, Interfaith Power and Light
*[[Shelby W. Bonnie]], Co-founder, CNET Networks
*[[William K. Bowes, Jr.]], Founding Partner, U.S. Venture Partners
*[[Ruth DeFries, Ph.D.]], Denning Family Professor of Sustainable Development, Department of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology, Columbia University
*[[Ann Doerr]], Philanthropist
*[[Susan Ford Dorsey]], President, Sand Hill Foundation
*[[Stanley Druckenmiller]], Investor
*[[Roger Enrico]], Chairman, DreamWorks Animation, SKG; former Chairman and CEO, PepsiCo, Inc.
*[[Kirsten J. Feldman]], Former Managing Director, Morgan Stanley
*[[Jeanne Donovan Fisher]], True Love Productions
*[[Lynn R. Goldman, M.D., M.P.H.]], Pediatrician; Dean, George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services
*[[Hannelore Grantham]], Director, Grantham Foundation for the Protection of the Environment
*[[Charles J. Hamilton, Jr., Esq.]], Windels Marx Lane & Mittendorf, LLP
*[[Mark W. Heising]], Managing Director, Medley Partners
*[[The Honorable Thomas H. Kean]], Chairman, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
*[[Sarah Liao Sau-tung, Ph.D.]], Former Secretary for the Environment, Transport and Works, Hong Kong SAR Government
*[[Frank Loy]], Former Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs
*[[Susan Mandel]], Community Advocate
*[[Kathryn Murdoch]], Advisory Board Member, Clinton Climate Initiative
*[[N. J. Nicholas, Jr.]], Investor
*[[Signe Ostby]], Advisor, Center for Brand and Product Management, University of Wisconsin at Madison; Director, The Intuit Scholarship Foundation
*[[Stephen W. Pacala, Ph.D.]], Petrie Professor of Biology in the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department, Princeton University; Director of the Princeton Environmental Institute
*[[Robert M. Perkowitz]], Managing Partner, VivaTerra, LLC; President, ecoAmerica
*[[Julian H. Robertson, Jr.]], Founder and Chairman, Tiger Management, LLC
*[[Peggy M. Shepard]], Co-founder and Executive Director, WE ACT for Environmental Justice
*[[Douglas W. Shorenstein]], Chair and CEO, Shorenstein Properties, LLC
*[[Sam Rawlings Walton]], Boatman, Philanthropist, Entrepreneur
*[[Paul Junger Witt]], Partner, Witt-Thomas Productions
*[[Charles F. Wurster, Ph.D.]], Professor Emeritus of Environmental Sciences, Marine Sciences Research Center, State University of New York at Stony Brook
<br>
HONORARY TRUSTEES<br>
*[[Roland C. Clement]]<br>
*[[Gene E. Likens, Ph.D.]]<br>
*[[George G. Montgomery, Jr.]]<br>
*[[George M. Woodwell, Ph.D.]]<br>
==National Council==
*[[Frank Loy, Chair]]
*[[Wendy Abrams]]
*[[Robert L. Bachner]]
*[[Jim Bildner]]
*[[Sally Lyons Brown]]
*[[Michael Browne]]
*[[Gilbert Butler]]
*[[Brook H. Byers]]
*[[Douglas Campbell, Jr.]]
*[[Ann Colley]]
*[[Susan J. Dawson]]
*[[D. Wilson Ervin]]
*[[Jay Faison]]
*[[Howell Ferguson]]
*[[Jesse M. Fink]]
*[[Irvine D. Flinn]]
*[[Gordon T. Geballe]]
*[[Tim Gomes]]
*[[Alison Holtzschue]]
*[[Al Jubitz]]
*[[Barbara Kingsolver]]
*[[Sidney R. Knafel]]
*[[Roger Liddell]]
*[[George A. Miller]]
*[[Gilman Ordway]]
*[[George D. Phipps]]
*[[Christopher A. Pilaro]]
*[[Samuel Reeves]]
*[[John Sall]]
*[[Roger W. Sant]]
*[[Lynn Stern]]
*[[Barbra Streisand]]
==Advisory Trustees==
*[[Nancy Alderman]]
*[[Karen M. Barnes]]
*[[Wendy Benchley]]
*[[W. Michael Brown]]
*[[Tom Castro]]
*[[Mimi Cecil]]
*[[Norman L. Christensen, Jr., Ph.D.]]
*[[David G. Crane]]
*[[Lewis Cullman]]
*[[John Curry]]
*[[Christopher J. Elliman]]
*[[Jane Geniesse]]
*[[Robert E. Grady]]
*[[Pricey Taylor Harrison]]
*[[Norbert S. Hill, Jr.]]
*[[Freeborn G. Jewett, Jr.]]
*[[Lewis B. Kaden]]
*[[Gretchen Long]]
*[[Susan Manilow]]
*[[Harold A. Mooney, Ph.D.]]
*[[Bunny Murray]]
*[[Robert W. Musser]]
*[[William A. Newsom]]
*[[David O'Connor]]
*[[Lewis S. Ranieri]]
*[[E. John Rosenwald]]
*[[Adele Simmons]]
*[[Farwell Smith]]
*[[Richard B. Stewart]]
*[[W. Richard West, Jr.]]
*[[Joanne Woodward]]
*[[Blaikie Worth]]
*[[Joy B. Zedler, Ph.D]]
==Executive Staff==
*[[Fred Krupp]], President
*[[Liza Henshaw]], Chief Operating Officer
*[[Marcia Aronoff]], Senior Vice President for Programs
*[[Steven Hamburg]], Chief Scientist
*[[Paula Tupper Hayes]], Senior Vice President for Development
*[[Cynthia Hampton]], Vice President for Marketing and Communications
*[[Peter Accinno]], Vice President for Finance and Administration,Chief Financial Officer/Treasure
*[[Carol Kinzler]], Chief of Staff
==References==
*[[George M. Woodwell]] - founder
*[[Gretchen Long]] - former vice chair
*[[Evelyn Ames]] - former trustee
==External links==
[[Category:Environment]][[Category: Citizen groups working on coal issues]][[Category: Sludge Proponents]][[Category: Liberal Advocacy Organizations]]
