Politics

That’s right folks; the long wait is finally over. Has your newborn already outgrown those Ronald Reagan ‘Trickle-Down Diaper Covers’ that were hand-me-downs from your cousin?

Is it possible to change the world by doing nothing? This blog post says it is and tells you exactly how to go about saving the world by doing absolutely squat!

GreenCrawler.com's blog features a great article from Gist.com that gives a quick-and-dirty rundown of the candidates’ green positions, with current platforms, voting records, video, audio, and more.

Wal-Mart just announced that it's selected capitol buildings in 19 states and Puerto Rico to assist with cutting emissions and save on energy costs. The company will actually pay engineers to do the energy audits and for the capitols. Whoa.

According to a recent study completed by Gerry Fairbrother of Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, over 50% of our nations states will not have enough funding to help the 47 million Americans who are currently uninsured.

Now, I am usually the last person to be defending economists, but when it comes to designing energy tax policy, perhaps an economist is not a bad person to talk to, no? Former Labor Secretary in the Clinton administration, Robert Reich thinks so

TalkGreen is currently looking for writers who could be part of the team.

The world can reach a significant new climate change pact by the end of 2009 if current talks keep up their momentum, the head of the United Nations climate panel said on Sunday.

The United Nations began negotiations on a sweeping new pact in March after governments agreed last year to work out a treaty to succeed the Kyoto Protocol by the end of next year.

Can we educate our children about environmental science without the politics that often accompanies such discussions? Do environmental efforts have to be political or even politically motivated?

Untreated sewage flowing into the sea from Gaza as we still cannot seem to rise above our differences and tackle the common environmental threat!

It's no secret that, under the Bush administration, the EPA has cut back on information available to the public through channels like the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) and the EPA libraries. The initiative may indicate a desire on behalf of the EPA to repair the bruised relationships between the agency and the public, and to restore public confidence in the EPA’s ability to perform its duties without political interference from the White House.

On Earth Day 2008, Thomas Friedman was giving a lecture on the politics & economics of global energy at Brown University. Shortly into the lecture, a female audience member ran on stage and threw a green pie at the New York Times columnist.

Earth Day could be a powerful tool for education, discussion, and the mobilization of concerted political action on behalf of the environment. Earth Day could even be a national holiday, recognized with all of the rights and privileges associated with the title. Earth Day could take on greater political significance were heads of state to assemble along with heads of environmental groups, trade associations, labor unions, and indigenous populations.

If you've ever wanted to ask your lawmakers in Congress how they feel about the environment, renewable energy, or any number of topics -- this site is for you. AskYourLawmaker.org invites visitors to submit questions and vote on questions that reporters from Capitol News Connection ask members of Congress. The site is always collecting questions concerning the environment. In addition to that, they are currently collection Earth Day questions to ask Congress on April 22. All answers are posted as audio files and transcripts.