you know you want to be there!

the best point in the article is towards the end -- it all comes back to people getting involved with government and being responsible for our democracy.

Quoted: So while faddism may influence people's marketplace choices, many still ask the million-dollar question: What will happen when the canvas bag-toting, hybrid car-driving, "green" credit-card-wielding (GE just announced a card with carbon footprint-reducing rewards) consumer goes to the polls?

"That's the key," says Jon Isham, a professor of international environmental economics at Middlebury College in Vermont. "That's where we need to go above and beyond the idea of a fad."

Quoted: Ecofriendly buying choices alone can't sustain America's lifestyle, experts warn – unless 'looking green' becomes 'voting green.'

from the press release I sent out yesterday.

Yay! My first media hit in the new job!

yay us again!

Started to read this -- the first page is definitely right on....now I'm going to go pick up the hard copy and read the rest.

Quoted: What does America need to regain its global stature? Environmental leadership.

My organization Washington Conservation Voters is part of the coalition helping to put this on. Pretty cool stuff.