Earth Island Institute

The Earth Island Institute is a non-profit environmental group founded in 1982 by David Brower.

[1][2] Located in Berkeley, California, it supports activism around environmental issues through fiscal sponsorship that provides the administrative and organizational infrastructure for individual projects.

[5][6][7] Earth Island Institute sponsors a number of fledgling activist groups which it refers to as Incubator Projects.

[8] Villagers claim EII promised them $2.4 million Solomon Island Dollars (about $335,000 U.S.) to stop trading dolphins and dolphin-derived products for two years, but only received $700,000.

Earth Island Institute Director Lawrence Makili accused the association of mishandling the first $300,000 invested under the original MOU.