Sunday’s London Independent contains a fascinating little story entitled
“Feelgood funding blocks eco-warriors“. Apparently the UK’s top grant giving institutions are more interested in funding conservation and species preservation, than they are in addressing systemic change to stop the root causes of those problems.
Not that its news that charismatic mega-fauna equal mega bucks for environmental organizations. Read all about it (and there’s a lot of great info in this report) at www.greenfunders.org or download your own copy of the report (pdf) here.
Stay tuned for next week’s introduction of Bucky, Oil Change’s very own baby harp seal / polar bear/ whale whose cute but genetically improbable existence is threatened by Big Oil…