The Breakthrough Institute is a centrist environmental think tank that is changing the way the green movement views development and the environment. Its approach- that traditional environmentalism won't be successful if it is constrained by a no-growth attitude toward development - is expressed in a recent book written by Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus, Break Through - From the Death of Environmentalism to the Politics of Possibility. The book has been favorably reviewed by Newsweek, the New York Times, and other publications of note. Though I don't necessarily share their belief in the inevitability of human-induced global warming, their challenge to rethink environmentalism is refreshing.
You can read more about the Institute and its philosophy at its website http://thebreakthrough.org/index.shtml
Disclaimer - Mike Shellenberger, in addition to being the president of the Institute, is also my cousin. There is no accounting for the random action of genes.
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