[Robert A Cook PE]

Mark Dubois
Bainbridge Island, WA

Mark is the co-founder and board member emeritus of Friends of the River, California's statewide organization working for the protection of rivers, their flora and fauna and for sustainable water development. Mark also co-founded International Rivers Network. He organized the first international dam-fighters conference - a five-day conference and tour with 70 NGO leaders from 25 countries. Mark served as International Coordinator for Earth Day 1990 and Earth Day 2000; Mark coordinated global outreach and developed the seven-person international staff plus the International Council and International Strategic Partners. Mark also is the founder and director of WorldWise. Before his career as an environmental organizer and activist, Mark co-founded and operated "etc", the Environmental Traveling Companions where he organized and guided inner-city youth and disabled, down whitewater rivers.

Who pays his salary?

His office expenses?

His travel expenses?

His overhead and taxes?

His conference arrangement fees?

[SierraWasp]

I think you need to search out the series from the Sacramento BEE from 5 or 6 years ago, entitled "Fat of the Land," or something very much like that.

It was written by one of the two Pulitzer Prize winners of the previous series called "Sierra In Peril" in the early 90's. Evidently the guy finally had a pang of conscience and wrote the truth about the fund raising power of these hugely rich EnvironMental NGO's like Friends of the River, Inc., etc.

The series is a real eye opener and answers all the questions being asked here in the last few replies!!!

Calcowgirl, you are a priceless asset to FreeRepublic.com IMHO!!!

[calcowgirl]

It looks like the Rivers Foundation of the Americas is a primary funder of both the International River Networks and a group called American Rivers:

http://www.rivernetwork.org/

http://www.amrivers.org/

http://riversfoundation.org/rfa/about/

[pepperdog]

It would be very interesting to see who his silent associate is. You can be sure he has one (or more), and I wouldn't be surprised if we didn't recognize the name.