EDITOR: This is another piece on "greenwash funding". It is a paper that was presented at a University. I think this article will also give you cause to think about the directions we are taking.

I am not including the entire article here, but rather a small excerpt with the address you can go to to download it in its entirety.

The environmentality of 'Earth Incorporated': on contemporary primitive
accumulation and the financialisation of environmental conservation

Sian Sullivan (s.sullivanbbk.ac.uk)
Paper presented at the conference
An Environmental History of Neoliberalism, Lund
University, 6-8 May 2010.*

http://www.worldecologyresearch.org/papers2010/Sullivan_financialisation_conservation.pdf

In the latest James Bond film, Quantum of Solace, the villainous business tycoon Domenic Greene, makes a moving (and familiar) speech to potential company sponsors at a spectacularly glamorous, environmental fund-raising gala in Bolivia. He states:
We are in a spiral of environmental decline. Since 1945 17% of the planet's vegetated surface has been irreversibly degraded. The Tierra Project is just one small part of a global network of
Eco-Parks that Greene Planet has created to rejuvenate the world on the brink of collapse. I hope that tonight you make a decision to be part of that.1.
Meanwhile, Greene is creating immense environmental and social upheaval: investing in oil
pipelines and profits in various localities globally; creating a scarce resource of Bolivian water
by diverting it into huge hidden dams, thereby increasing dependence on private provision which he of course owns; and managing a tight cabal of self-serving global élites intent on resource capture on a massive scale....

Go to the article to read the remainder;
http://www.worldecologyresearch.org/papers2010/Sullivan_financialisation_conservation.pdf