Obama, the Green President

The word is out, and the scuttlebutt surrounds asking; What will he do next? In the blogs, and in the papers, it seems nearly everyone is "all a wonder" about the next steps of President-Elect Obama, some of what they are saying is...

My biggest concern, I suppose, is that Obama hasn’t yet really sold his environmental vision to the American public. Klein calls him out on this: “So why haven’t you given the big speech about it?” I think that speech is coming, and I likewise believe that we could be entering a transformative era for environmental politics, but a lot of us have been waiting too long to take anything for granted. (from a post for WorldChanging) ~ Adam Stein is a co-founder of TerraPass. He writes on issues related to carbon, climate change, policy, and conservation.

Kieth Johnson for Green Capital ~ The Wall Street Journal ... Nuclear power will be a hot potato in the next administration, after the Department of Energy recommends focusing all nuclear-storage options on Yucca Mountain, in the NYT. Meanwhile, a documentary look at how environmentalists have learned to love nuclear power, at Angel Asaini (HT).

Yes we can. The Obama campaign narrative set a high bar for us… but we’re up to it. We’ve proven, once again, that we’ll choose hope over fear… now, let’s follow that choice up with meaningful, thoughtful and cooperative action. Hope is renewable… our challenge, our responsibility, is to insure that hope is sustained. Jeff McIntire-Strasburg writing for Sustainablog

Have a great weekend.