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Environmental Groups are Flirting with Extinction

March 7, 2014 by Keith Kloor | Filed in Audubon, environmentalism, nature | 65 comments

This April 22, Earth Day turns 44. The green movement is not aging well. Like today’s U.S. Republican Party, it has a diversity problem and speaks primarily to a narrow, graying demographic slice of the United States. In 2009, Francis Beinecke, president of the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) said to the New York Times: Our groups…Continue Reading…

Whipping up the Mob

February 26, 2009 by Keith Kloor | Filed in Audubon, Journalism, New York Times | 2 comments

Last May, shortly before I left Audubon Magazine (where I was an editor for eight years), I received a flurry of angry calls from around the country. None of these people knew me; they were trying to reach John Flicker, National Audubon Society’s President. My phone extension had become mistaken with the organization’s main number…Continue Reading…