ABSTRACT
This chapter highlights various apparent mismatches between what is said and what is done in Friends of the Earth International (FoEI), specifically around the notions of flatness, decentralisation, inclusion, consensus and facilitation. In the activists experiments there is a back and forth movement between experimenting with practices and processes of decision-making which feeds into experimenting with concepts. Considering the multiple and simultaneous scales of emplacement that activists inhabit, as well as the environmentalist notion that everything is ultimately interdependent, the question of personal interests versus political ones is open-ended. Inclusion is central to the FoEI Mission, yet there are significant forms of exclusion embedded in being an organisation. The chapter explores flatness notions through the lens of the Strategic Vision and Planning Process (SVPP) and related activities. The SVPP is a plan for activities on which FoEI embarked on in 2004.
