why you should listen to your kids

GOOD magazine, which you know is a favorite, published a map of how the election looked with just the vote of our youth. (Isn’t it sad that I still think of myself in this group even though I am very much not… anyhoo.)

If the youth vote was the only voice in the election, Obama would have won 455 electoral votes–91 more than he has in the official count.

More statistics at the site, which is HERE. And more stuff HERE.

I got to say… I LOVE THE MAP!! I will think twice before I yell at one of “them” about their loud music and the clothes they wear.

tomorrow is the day

After the 2000 debacle, I am always hesitant to say this, but… tomorrow we will know who our new president is and the results of the individual propositions.

I have spent the time researching the issues that concern the environment and I hope they have been of help to you. Please go to the “Election 2008″ category (on the right) for a full write up of each ballot measure, as well as links to the different positions of all the candidates.

I look forward to reporting the news as it comes in tomorrow.

Please get out and VOTE.

GOOD sheet – Election ’08

You know I love those GOOD Sheets! Starting today, you can find them online and in Starbucks discussing the differences between the two candidates. Well worth the read for someone who may be undecided.

HERE is the link.

presidential positions

HERE is a link, provided by GRIST, on the two major candidates and their positions on Endangered Species.

Know who your voting for.

Vote for the Environment

Here are some links to evaluate your presidential choice and their environmental policy.

A great “at a glance” sheet of the top five candidates can be found HERE.

HERE is a link to all the current and past candidates and their records.

And finally, HERE is a list of the leading newspaper endorsements and excerpts on energy policy.

Thank you to Grist for compiling all this data.

And HERE is a list of all (president, congress, senate) the endorsements from the League of Conservation Voters.

not so grand

The Bush Administration is rushing forward with plans to mine the Grand Canyon for uranium, ignoring a command from Congress to cease such operations…

you can read more HERE

If you live in SoCal…. this affects you. I promise.

Oh… and there is this:
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) has been strangely silent on this issue, despite his claimed commitment to protecting the Grand Canyon from drilling

Dear Mr. President:

I have frequently written about Bill McKibben, because gosh darnit, I like him and his writing and what he stands for. He started the website www.350.org, and I want to direct you all to a fantastic campaign. Click HERE.

They are asking all of us to sign a petition to our future employee, asking him to attend the UN Climate Meetings.

In last nights debate, for the first time, both candidates spoke about what they would do about climate change if put in the office. This asks them to walk what they talk.

Please take the 10 seconds to sign it and get our voice heard!

Don’t be silent….

Suppose the energy crunch has grown to cripple the economy, we’re moving products, twenty years from now, on old railroads and gas guzzling trucks. The air becomes clogged with pollution again from fossil fuels because they’re all we have. India, China, Russia and Brazil are, by then, grabbing and outbidding us for resources. Our failed education system has cost us our innovative edge. We can’t compete. We might even have fallen back to a second rate power, we Americans. And the young people twenty years from now and the older folks who can remember it, will look back on the fall election of 2008 that set the course for this century and see videotapes of us arguing about lipstick…lipstick.

This game that’s being played is not an insult to a candidate, it’s an insult to the intelligence of our democracy, which is really all we have, each of us, to decide and build a future. Our only escape from all this is to force ourselves, against all the distractions, to think through the hearts and minds of those young people who will have to live in the world we are now deciding who’s to build, who’s to lead us to

Chris Matthews

Don’t be silent….

Suppose the energy crunch has grown to cripple the economy, we’re moving products, twenty years from now, on old railroads and gas guzzling trucks. The air becomes clogged with pollution again from fossil fuels because they’re all we have. India, China, Russia and Brazil are, by then, grabbing and outbidding us for resources. Our failed education system has cost us our innovative edge. We can’t compete. We might even have fallen back to a second rate power, we Americans. And the young people twenty years from now and the older folks who can remember it, will look back on the fall election of 2008 that set the course for this century and see videotapes of us arguing about lipstick…lipstick.

This game that’s being played is not an insult to a candidate, it’s an insult to the intelligence of our democracy, which is really all we have, each of us, to decide and build a future. Our only escape from all this is to force ourselves, against all the distractions, to think through the hearts and minds of those young people who will have to live in the world we are now deciding who’s to build, who’s to lead us to

Chris Matthews