For many years the widespread perception that environmentalists are all about yelling “No!!” has been like a pair of concrete galoshes dragging our issues down into the political margins. A lot of the polling and opinion research I’ve seen over my years in NRDC’s inner circle shows that people are much more likely to listen to environmentalists if we give them the kind of thing you’re providing here — solutions, solutions, positive solutions.

Personal favorite of this kind: last summer’s OnEarth article Falling in Love with Wind, about the Maple Ridge Wind Farm in upstate New York, the largest in the eastern U.S.