Poor Barack Obama. We bloggers have been all a flutter over our new president since the day he won the election. Reminding him to keep his promises(Sustainablog), posting our requests and ideas on how he should run as president, how he should turn America green while saving the economy, and how when he signed on as pres he also took up position as Captain Planet. Matt Hickman from MNN.com points out that the poor guy must be sick of us, which he very well may be. But I like to think the opposite.
This is the first time I have been excited about our leadership, its the first time I ever bothered to vote and now I’m a little piece of something historic. And it seems like there are millions more who are just as excited if not more. Especially those of us trying to bring awareness to the abuse of our planet. Instead of feeling annoyed or attacked, I like to think that Barack is feeding off of our energy, our enthusiasm, and recognizing that we arent telling him how to do his job,we aren’t putting the weight of all of our hopes and goals on his shoulders, but we so desperately want to help him accomplish them.
Eco Geek, excited about Obamas ambitious goal to double Americas renewable energy production in three years, posted some of their advice to help him reach that goal (here is step one and step two). Max Gladwell also wrote a two parter dedicated to the new commander in chief (here and here). The No Impact Man points out that those of us who care about changing Americas wasteful ways shouldn’t start slacking now that we have an eco minded president, but we need to “lay it on thicker” because now there is finally somebody who will listen. You can go to any green blog and find a post to Barack Obama, not because we’re being bossy, but because we know he’s listening and we want to help. All he has to do is ask and we’ll put our rings together (Captain Planet reference) and back him up!
So when it comes to my message to our new leader theres not much more I can add to what my fellow bloggers have posted other than Go get ‘em tiger! and We got your back!
published by: Ashley (intern)
Filed under: Green
