ENVIRONMENTALISM  (CONT)

-- Third, we should allow ourselves the time to celebrate the achievements of environmentalism and the liberal project. But we should not let our affection for our past prevent us from creating a new, coherent, values-based progressive movement. We are now in the winter of liberalism; it's time to let go of our narrow ideas to build something worthy of the legacy of liberalism. Only then will we see the spring.

Adam Werbach is executive director of the Common Assets Defense Fund, a former president of the Sierra Club and author of "Act Now, Apologize Later" (Harper Collins, 1997).

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