How Green Is Your Candidate?

Monday November 19, 2007, 5:19 pm
Thank you. The news media focus on all the wrong issues.

Sunday December 9, 2007, 1:19 pm
Great Resource - Thanks!

Sunday December 9, 2007, 1:54 pm
John Edwards seems the greenest:

First presidential candidate to call for reducing greenhouse-gas emissions 80 percent by 2050, in March 2007. Would launch a cap-and-trade program in 2010 to bring emissions down 15 percent by 2020, as an interim step to the 2050 goal.

First major presidential candidate to make his campaign carbon-neutral, in March 2007. He's buying carbon offsets to neutralize the effects of his campaign travel and office energy use, while also cutting energy consumption at campaign offices, buying recycled-paper office products, and encouraging staff to walk to work and take other energy-saving measures.

Introduced a detailed energy plan before any of the other candidates.

Proposes a $13-billion-a-year New Energy Economy Fund that would invest in renewable energy, efficiency, carbon-capture technology, and cleaner cars; help entrepreneurs start new clean businesses; encourage Americans to buy more-efficient appliances and save energy; and help workers in carbon-intensive industries transition to new job fields. The fund would be financed by the auctioning of permits to emit greenhouse gases and the repeal of some oil-industry tax breaks.

Calls for a ban on new coal power plants unless they're compatible with carbon-capture and -storage technology.

Opposes nuclear power.

Opposes government investment in coal-to-liquid technologies.

Has been endorsed by Friends of the Earth for his position on nuclear power and early support of strict climate legislation.

Saturday December 15, 2007, 12:29 am
Go Kucinich! He lives in a 1600 sq. ft. house and drives a Ford Focus! Go Grist, always cutting edge enviro news reported in a way that you can laugh at the horrors of where we are at! Noted, thanks, Eco!