Upon completing books, authors come to realize how, along the way, many helping hands make the entire journey possible. This was certainly the case with Green Governance. What began as a series of informed hunches, an essay then too long to meet standard law review page limitations, was allowed to expand and mature through the support of many generous and insightful people of varied talents. Our first debt of gratitude must go to Harriet Barlow and the Harold K. Hochschild Foundation for having had sufficient faith in our vision to give us an indispensable seed grant. In the same spirit, University of Iowa College of Law Dean Gail Agrawal and Director of Financial Aid and Research Assistantships Susan Palmer provided much-needed research assistant support in both the early and late stages of our endeavor; and the staff of The University of Iowa Center for Human Rights assured us essential logistical and moral support throughout. Further, as our work germinated, we were fortunate to encounter Burns Weston’s longtime friend Victor Arango who, as if on cue, introduced us to the Arsenault Family Foundation, which, thanks to Marcel Arsenault, provided significant, vital support toward the completion of our Book. Particularly helpful – and ever gracious, too – was Meadow Didier, former Program Director of the Arsenault Family Foundation, who clearly saw the value of our ideas and helped shepherd them forward. We are similarly indebted to John Berger, Senior Editor at Cambridge University Press, who saw immediately the potential of our project and cheered us onward well before our manuscript was completed and ready for copy editors’ eyes. Such publisher faith and encouragement is by no means commonplace, and it emboldened us to work more speedily and effectively than otherwise we might have done.