I thought that your post was very interesting and exciting!  I love hearing/reading/seeing about any sign of change in how the world, or the US alone, treats the environment. I believe that it has been too long of a wait for change and that the world does not deserve the treatment it is currently receiving.  Awareness is, in my mind, one of the world's scarcities and that can certainly be seen.  Perhaps one country's decision can be the starting domino of the row that so desperately needs to fall?  Your post was another sign that a new lifestyle is being pursued, and I am thankful for that. 

However, though it may seem forward, I have a small request.  I promise that I did not read or comment on your post to ask this either.  I am a high-school student and am in a tech class in which we are currently blogging.  Our latest assignment's goal is to "join the blogging community".  For this assignment we have to chose a blog site that we visit frequently and I recently wrote a blog quoting Grist's Joseph Romm.  I came back to the site and found your posting so I decided to join the community here.  The assignment requires that we post the link to our blog and if it is not a problem, could you possibly read and give me feedback on my blog about Obama's Energy Plan?  My biggest fear is that I'm presenting incorrect information about the subject.  The link is: http://home.acs.sch.ae/users/CameliaHarb/weblog/317ce/President_Obama's_Energy_Policy_(finally__something_official).html

I truly do feel very strongly about this topic and posters such as yourself give me hope about change.  Thank you so much for posting and for any type of comment/advice you can give me.

Camelia Harb

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