ABSTRACT
This article examines Friends of the Earth International (FoEI). Given its diversity, FoEI is perhaps a ‘movement’ within, the environmental movement. Its federal style of governance is very different from (say) the more centralized Greenpeace. While FoEI is the set of initials for the international headquarters (based at Amsterdam in the Netherlands—Error! Hyperlink reference not valid.>), it can also be seen as the totality of the Friends of the Earth groups around the world. To get a more accurate assessment of Friends of the Earth, the second, broader approach is the one used in this article: ‘FoEI’ is used to describe the entire movement, and ‘Friends of the Earth’ refers to a particular grouping within that movement.
