ABSTRACT
Exemplifying the essence of networking, group members attended one another's meetings; the groups maintained overlapping board memberships and shared many members. In 1982 David Brower, now the graybeard of environmental action, founded Earth Island Institute. Two years later he would help Earth Firster Randy Hayes create Rainforest Action Network. Hayes was later joined by Roselle. By 1977 Greenpeace had become an international organization which would eventually grow to be the world's biggest environmental group, with offices from Washington to Hamburg to Moscow. The Fund for Animals coordinated planning with PET A and the New England Anti-Vivisection League. PETA allegedly created an underground group, True Friends, and seems to have had ties to the Animal Liberation Front. Because these groups were small, their influence escaped public attention. But their strength derived from networking, not size, an informal cooperation fused by commitment to the same ideal.
