{"id":13658,"date":"2015-07-15T11:00:20","date_gmt":"2015-07-15T19:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=13658"},"modified":"2015-07-14T11:55:09","modified_gmt":"2015-07-14T19:55:09","slug":"from-the-junejuly-zephyr-the-rich-green-benefactor-debate-re-visited-part-1by-jim-stiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/15\/from-the-junejuly-zephyr-the-rich-green-benefactor-debate-re-visited-part-1by-jim-stiles\/","title":{"rendered":"(From the June\/July Zephyr) THE RICH \u2018GREEN\u2019 BENEFACTOR DEBATE, RE-VISITED: Part 1\u2026by Jim Stiles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Excerpt:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>About 15 years ago, I became aware that some of the world\u2019s wealthiest bankers, financiers, and industrialists were throwing huge amounts of money at this country\u2019s mainstream environmental organizations. The \u2018contributions\u2019 trickled all the way all the way down to the grass roots; in exchange, many of these mega-wealthy benefactors acquired positions of influence, often as members of the groups\u2019 boards of directors.<\/p>\n<p>One day, I was in Salt Lake City, visiting a \u201cprominent Utah environmentalist,\u201d and I asked for his thoughts. How seriously had Utah\u2019s \u2018green\u2019 organizations been affected by this kind of financial support?\u00a0 While there were many to consider, the most disturbing to him was a venture capitalist named David Bonderman. Bonderman was (and is) the founding partner and the real power at TPG Capital, a private equity firm with more than $65 billion in assets;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>To read more of Jim&#8217;s article, click the image below:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2015\/06\/01\/the-rich-green-benefactor-debate-re-visited-part-1-by-jim-stiles\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-13659\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/bonderman-12-e1425349211925.jpg\" alt=\"bonderman-12-e1425349211925\" width=\"313\" height=\"379\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2015\/06\/01\/the-rich-green-benefactor-debate-re-visited-part-1-by-jim-stiles\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2015\/06\/01\/the-rich-green-benefactor-debate-re-visited-part-1-by-jim-stiles\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt: About 15 years ago, I became aware that some of the world\u2019s wealthiest bankers, financiers, and industrialists were throwing huge amounts of money at this country\u2019s mainstream environmental organizations. The \u2018contributions\u2019 trickled all the way all the way down to the grass roots; in exchange, many of these mega-wealthy benefactors acquired positions of influence, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13660,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13658\/revisions\/13660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}