?Where political will prevails, solutions will follow.”
~ Former Progressive Conservative Prime Minister Brian Mulroney on environmental leadership
Few might have thought of Mulroney as a green leader, until his recent crowning as ?Greenest PM? during Earth Week festivities of 2006 asked us to see him in a new light. These and other recent events suggest public interest in environmental issues is on an upswing ? and that the definition of environment is broadening in the public mind. What new policies and actions will come of this renewed attention, and how can public interest and political momentum be sustained? Green politics takes many forms – some passionate, some quite technical – but rarely with the success that most environmentalists would like to see. A common refrain in the environmental movement is to wonder where the environment disappears at election time.

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