Match activists' skills and talents. Environmental advocates at times waste their limited resources competing among themselves. The truth is there is room for everyone and every strategy. Rather than spending your energy trying to convince others that yours is the only viable strategy, support a strategy that allows everyone who is willing to be involved to do so in the manner they choose. Focus on interests rather than positions.
Interests are more general and more basic than positions.
Your interest may be protecting the biodiversity of our remaining forest lands. Your position may be that a certain initiative should be passed. Unless your immediate goal is to gain support for the initiative, you will be better able to achieve protection of the biodiversity of our remaining forest lands by looking at the larger picture when working with local decision-makers. It allows you to look at a range of options, see below. Face the decision-makers when testifying or speaking at a public meeting.