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...despite a growing group of committed activists, many of them young, climate change seems to remain a soft issue, like most anything smacking of environmentalism. Most Americans are in favor of it (who doesn't like nature?), but aren't necessarily willing to take to the streets or the ballot box for it. That's perhaps understandable - fear of a warmer world in the future is a lot less palpable than fear of terrorism today - but it's a failing. Climate change is the most important issue facing the world today and tomorrow, not just because of the risks...
...brainchild of environmentalist and author Bill McKibben and a group of students from Middlebury College, Step It Up aims to shove global warming to the center of the national political agenda, and it's exactly the sort of sustained campaign needed to make climate change matter at the ballot box. (Listen to McKibben talk about Step It Up on this Greencast...
Cambridge voters head to the polls today to select the newest roster of local government officials, but if trends continue, fewer than a third of the city’s registered voters will cast a ballot...
Democratic Sen. Barack Obama had no trouble getting onto the South Carolina ballot, yet it took his Facebook group, “Barack Obama: 1,000,000 Strong for Barack” eight months to garner 381,000 members. Colbert’s had 750,000 in less than a week...
Colbert makes you think and he has a real contribution to make to political dialogue—at least as much as other long-shot Democratic hopefuls like Mike Gravel or Dennis Kucinich do. So let your native son back on the ballot, South Carolina! This is, after all, a man who “tripled” the population of African elephants by getting his viewers to alter their Wikipedia page. Just think of what he can do for Iraq...