Still undecided about the candidates?

When it comes to the elections, as usual, things are getting messy and confusing.

Many issues are vying for your attention in 2008: the military industrial complex, the economy, health care, social security. These issues deserve attention, but if you only have time to look into one issue, that issue needs to be the health of our environment. Without clean water to drink, clean air to breathe and clean soil to grow food in, what do we have? And what will we be leaving the future generations?

Unfortunately, the Bush Administration has been making a joke out of our environmental laws and regulations for the past eight years. This means we need to elected someone who will not only work to reinstate these laws and rollback the rollbacks, but also move us forward.

We need a leader who will help us fight for change.

I’m not going to tell you who to vote for, but I am going to provide you with some mega-awesome resources. With all this good information at your finger tips, how can you refuse?

Grist.org
How Green is Your Candidate?
Interviews and info on the presidential candidates’ environmental positions
http://grist.org/feature/2007/07/06/candidates/

League of Conservation Voters

View the candidate’s Environmental Scorecard and the 2008 Voter’s Guide

The Stranger
Our Endorsement for President
For the February 9 caucus
http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=496336

NPR.org
2008 Election Issues: Climate Change
http://www.npr.org/news/specials/election2008/issues/climate.html
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10840816

 

Project Vote Smart

The voter’s self-defense system

 

Environmental Voting Guide

For specific state-by-state candidate advice, see the Grinning for links to organizations rating officials in all 50 states. Find out how your elected officials have been voting on issues of air, water and energy.