Help Set the Environmental Agenda for the 44th President
Over the last month or so, I’ve been keeping my eye on a fantastic new project called On Day One (which I’ve written about here). The organizing theme behind the project is to help ’set the agenda’ for the next president of the United States by providing policy suggestions and political direction based on user-submitted material.
Now, On Day One is honing-in on the critical environmental issues of today in an upcoming five-day online debate co-sponsored with Grist.org’’s Gristmill, and UN Dispatch. And I am excited that I’ve been invited, along with Dave Roberts and Kate Sheppard from Grist, Nigel Purvis from the Brookings Institute and Resources for the Future, to be one of four online panelists invited to debate and discuss the user-submitted ideas – one idea a day throughout the week.
Mark Leon Goldberg from On Day One writes:
“Over the next week, we’ll be collecting YOUR ideas on dealing with energy and climate issues. Should we be taxing carbon or capping and trading it? What should we do about alternative energy–is ethanol or other biofuel the answer? What about local and sustainable agriculture? You tell us!
We’ll pick five of the most innovative, provocative, or just plain common sense ideas submitted and hand them over to our panel of experts for review.
Starting June 23rd, each of our experts—including Dave Roberts and Kate Sheppard from Grist, Nigel Purvis from the Brookings Institution and Resources for the Future, and Tim Hurst from Red, Green and Blue will debate and discuss one idea a day throughout the week.
The discussion starts in less than two weeks, so submit your ideas on energy and climate. Don’t feel like submitting an idea? Then vote on one and discuss the ideas already on the site.”
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Tim:
I do not know much about Kate and Nigel, but I have been debating with Dave Roberts about nuclear energy for several years. He seems unable to move past what he “knows” and continuously repeats about the historical challenges that the technology has faced. Many of his objections have been overcome by events, others never were as big an issue as he thinks.
I hope that you and some of the other panelists are able to be a bit more open to the idea that heavy metal fission is a tool that has power for both good and evil and that in the fight for a cleaner, more prosperous world we need to make the best use of all of the available tools.
If you have any questions or would like to arm yourself with some information before the discussion starts “On Day One” please do not hesitate to ask.
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