Great piece, Ben. I've been thinking a lot in the past few years that ENGOs and the environmental community in general needs to start focusing more on solutions based, collaborative advocacy, as opposed to the more oppositional posture it's more associated with historically. Good reasons for that, but I think reality is forcing a convergence between status quo institutions and outsiders/ environmentalists who've promoted public good issues, such that collaborating for solutions increasingly makes sense.
Great piece, Ben. I've been thinking a lot in the past few years that ENGOs and the environmental community in general needs to start focusing more on solutions based, collaborative advocacy, as opposed to the more oppositional posture it's more associated with historically. Good reasons for that, but I think reality is forcing a convergence between status quo institutions and outsiders/ environmentalists who've promoted public good issues, such that collaborating for solutions increasingly makes sense.