I'm involved actively at an international level with environmental protection, representing our rural interests, of course, and initiatives by Microsoft, Time-Warner, Home-Depot etc are a direct result of the successful invasion by American consumers of corporate boardrooms. It's not all a bad thing.
In eastern Nova Scotia, we've literally taken over provincial forest policy development, operating woodlots to the world's most rigorous and greenest sustainability standards, developed bottom-up without bureaucratic interference; that is, landowners are driving it instead of having things done to us.
We've discussed here a wide range of approaches to ameliorate conditions in the shooting sports. Our development model has become a case study of the Forest Stewardship Council, greenest of certification standards. Simply, it's organizing people resources in a different way to increase social and economic values.