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The Next Environmentalism: How Movements Respond to the Changes That Elections Bring — From Nixon to Obama

AMIDST THIS PERIOD of unprecedented collapse of the global financial system, we witnessed another extraordinary moment; an election that potentially offers an enormous change in the U.S. political landscape. For the environmental movement— namely, the multiple groups and networks and organizations that constitute a range of perspectives, organizing, and constituencies that lay claim to some aspect of what we call environmentalism—the election of Barack Obama offers opportunities and challenges in how to respond to this electoral moment. Perhaps more than any other election since 1932, the Obama victory in 2008 offers the notion that the change agents include those who have mobilized and participated and organized rather than just those who seek election. This is based on Obama’s continuing statements about what the election was all about as well as how the organizers on the ground interpret their own role. Does this mean then that we might be witnessing a change not just in electoral terms, but as a moment when change becomes associated with the organizers and the social movements and a reinvigorated civic culture? Is this also a moment for a reinvigorated