May 18, 2006
Grass-Roots Groups Must Admit Their Failures
To the Editor:
I have spent the past 10 years leading a small environmental organization, but I cannot agree with Mark Dowie's simplistic "Robin Hood" strategy ("Support Grass-Roots Environmentalists," April 20).
Mr. Dowie's theory is that we need more aggressive local activism by small, ad hoc organizations. However, this sort of environmentalism has been widely practiced for decades. There is no evidence to support his
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