Whether you are a political or an environmental analyst, the word you’ll likely use to describe Barrack Obama’s new environment team at the White House is green.

From a political point of view, the team led by Steve Chu – director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California and a Nobel laureate in Physics, doesn’t seem to have any experience and may, at times, fail in those crucial political negotiations that circle around environment issues. However, for those concerned about the planet, the team really is green as it seems to be made up of a team of people that have the planet’s best interests at heart.

Apart from Steve Chu, the team will consist of Lisa Jackson, who until recently headed the commission on environmental protection in New Jersey and is now all set to head the Environmental Protection Agency, Carol Browner, who will fill in the new position of White House Energy czar and Nancy Sutley, who will head the White House Council on Environmental Quality.

Stacked with people who know a lot about the latest green energy technology, environment standards and what needs to be done to improve it during the next few years, unlike the past Bush administration, this team has worked long and campaigned hard for a cleaner planet.

With green jobs an important part of the agenda for the next government, expect stringent pollution control laws, a probable backing of emission standards that California has been asking for and a tight leash on polluting big boys who were let lose in the Bush regime.

Sounds like a good direction to be headed to.

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Everyone is aware of the fact that the government is still debating about the $700 billion that will go in to bailing out financial institutions from their present credit crisis. But what one does not know is about the special benefits that are a part of the bill, and we’re talking about “green benefits”.

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1. The Bicycle Commuters Act will provide a $20 tax credit per month to those companies that employ bicycle commuters. This step will be taken so as to support these companies to add infrastructures such as lockers and bike racks. It might also bring forward other big companies to encourage bike commuting.
2. The transportation and domestic fuel security provision will give the first 250,000 electric cars bought in the US a tax credit of $2,500 plus an additional $417 per kilowatt-hour for batteries greater than four kilowatt-hours. It’s a limited-time offer because after those 250k units, it will be reduced to a smaller amount.
3. Production and investment tax credits for renewable energy would be extended so that installation of solar and wind power in homes and offices became easy.

Now, do you see the plan in a different light? – via USNews

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McCain will be the winner in the presidential debate in Nashville when it comes to clean coal, pounding Obama (not your diamond in the rough) into a smoldering ember ready to burn out in a matter of weeks.

It won’t matter what the two say or do during the debate, the media will present Obama as the leading candidate, the winner by a slight margin.

Every media outlet will look for a survey until they find one with the results that they want to put the lump of coal, um, Obama into the lead.

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John McCain is apt to come out on top this November in the presidential election. You wouldn’t know that he has a chance to win by reading anything else in the media. Thank goodness, we bloggers have a voice.

Reason 1 – John McCain has suspended his campaign to help push the bailout plan. Gosh, a congressman who works. What a novelty.

Reason 2 – Barak is playing catch up to McCain giving consideration to halting his crazy money raising/spending activities, too.

Reason 3 – McCain believes something needs to be done to combat global warming. I might add, that none of these two reasons so far are why I would vote for him. The bailout seems ridiculous and global climate change is not something we can fight..unless he means educating the world on being better stewards of the planet. I believe in treating our planet better.

Reason 4 – Palin is his running mate. I caught a glimpse of a CNN report the other morning that was criticizing McCain for his choice of Palin because she does not buy into all the human caused global climate change hype. I don’t see this as a point to criticize at all. If McCain and Palin thought exactly alike, why would we need both of them?

McCain does not think of himself first, he works, he leads, and even he’s not always right, he know how to listen or least choose team members who are not yes-people. That’s why he’ll win.

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So, the question is “Will Sarah Palin deny that polar bears are resorting to cannibalism?” Or is it “bearbalism?”

On CNN news this morning the announcer said that Sarah Palin and presidential candidate John McCain are at odds on human caused global warming. In my mind, this is a good thing. If both of them were thinking exactly alike, one of them would be redundant, no?

Palin acknowledges climate change, melting glaciers in some parts and all that, and that the polar bears are scrambling. She doesn’t think it’s caused by humans. FWIW, I agree with her.

But, another CNN report says that the polar bears are starting to feast on one another for survival. GP wonders what Palin has to say about that. My bet is she’ll say something like, “they must be really really hungry. But, not because of human caused global warming.” Sometimes these kinds of things happen when you look at the big picture of history.

What do you think?

Yeah, I am a creationist and not ashamed to admit it. That is why I love our planet, our home (Earth) and advocate that we be the best stewards of the resources with which we have been entrusted.

I live in the ‘neighborhood’ of the knuckleheaded tree sitters of Berkeley. They are north of the Bay and I am located to the south of the Bay (SF Bay.) That is neither here nor there. Recently, the treesitters voluntarily gave up their perch…to the disappointment? chagrin? of some of their followers, dare we say, worshipers?

Good grief! So, who are these guys lifting up their innermost thoughts to? Who are they hoping will listen? What kind of response are they expecting? No, I can’t read their minds, but I do know this, if the environment is their god, and environmentalism their religion/faith, nothing, and I mean nothing should be able to remove them from it. Nothing will take my faith in the Creator away.

What do you believe in?

It can be expected that Obama would be green with envy as Lynn Forester de Rothschild picked McCain to back in the upcoming election.

McCain told Ohioans he preferred their company to Hollywood celebs. The AP says

“Lynn Forester de Rothschild has said she thinks Democratic nominee Barack Obama is arrogant and has a problem connecting with average Americans.

Rothschild is a member of the DNC’s Democrats Abroad chapter and splits her time living in London and New York.”

Obama says, “Ouch!” Or does he? How much difference does the backing from Hollywood and other celebs make anyway?

Shouldn’t Obama and McCain’s positions be about the environment, energy and economy (3E’s), and education, make that 4E’s? These should/must be the deciding factors, not Matt Damon or even Baroness Lynn Forester de Rothschild? If Obama is worried about losing backers from Hollywood, he is worried about the wrong thing. McCain is definitely not courting the elite.

Here at GP, we’ll go with making decisions on the issues.

How about you?

If somebody is going to commute by taxi, a solar-powered taxi, you might want that somebody to be someone with influence, someone who can reach the world. Louis Palmer of Switzerland created a solar-powered taxi for use in New Delhi. Good for him, the UN Chief, Ban Ki-moon of South Korea commuted to work aboard the solar-powered vehicle to promote alternative energy sources.

GP wants to know why only one day? Why not every day? Why does promoting alternative energy sources have to be a once in a while thing and not an all the time thing?

Okay. I admit, it’s better to do it sometimes than never. And, if the UN Chief can do his part to get the word out, the world will be better for it, no?

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Now that we do know a bit about Matt Damon, Sarah Palin and the dinosaurs, another celebrity is taking on the Alaskan Governer saying “I can’t stand her. She can suck it”. Suck what, you may ask …

However, the most interesting part is who made this juicy political commentary and why? Well guys, Pamela Anderson did in an E! network interview after being told that governor Palin has a large bearskin rug in her office.

I’m not sure how good/much she understands politics, but the pink vegetarian definitely took the bait on that one and proved that her opinions on politics are meaningless, too, I’m not sure how good she is on environment policies or if she’s just interested in animals or not, but I do have a question.

Her (probably) sudden love for animals is because she needs a better image to cover her porn history or does she really want to do something for our furry friends? Wanna guess where I put my money on?

We really think your body, hair and everything look great on you, but how about refraining yourself from political statements dear? Check out Pam … doing it.

Just for the record, Anderson is a PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) activist, and you already know what we think about their protests. Stand up people (girls)! Better get right to the point like Pam did.

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Matt Damon wants to know some things about Sarah Palin.

1. Does Sarah Palin think there were dinosaurs here 4,000 years ago?

2. Can Sarah Palin use her folksy charm to face down Vladmir Putin?

3. Does Sarah Palin know how absurd she sounds? (look who’s talking)

4. Can Sarah Palin handle the nuclear codes?

5. Does Sarah Palin know he is afraid of her becoming president?

6. Sarah Palin realizes he thinks she might be the president pretty soon?

Wait a sec. The guy knows something about John McCain’s intentions that the rest of us don’t?

Does he know that Sarah Palin couldn’t give a hoot or a holler about what Matt Damon wants to know? When the Hollywood knuckleheads have to weigh in to help out the Democrats, you know the Dems are hurting. Obama? Is that the best you can do?

What I want to know, is what does Sarah Palin think about the environment? Not what she thinks about 4,000 years ago. I want to know what Obama thinks about the environment. The best we can get out of him is, “What do you want me to think?” Or “What does Sarah Palin think? I’ll think differently.”

Damon … your movies are good, but your opinions on politics are meaningless.

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