Since Barack Obama won the race for the White House, greens have been poring over his every word in an attempt to figure out just how environmentally friendly the 44th president will be. The early signs have been pretty promising: Obama has said all the right things about tackling climate change, reforming Detroit and treating the economy and the environment as complementary priorities.

Now, though, it’s time to move beyond post-election pleasantries and start to get specific. To help Obama along the way, a battery of 29 green groups - including major players like the Sierra Club, the Union of Concerned Scientists, the World Wildlife Fund, Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace have published a 291-page opus setting out exactly what the next president needs to do to put things right.

The tract - entitled Transition to Green (pdf) - sets out a series of guiding principles that could almost have been transcribed from the Obama campaign website. Certainly, few members of Obama’s environmental transition team would argue with the document’s call for the next president to prioritize climate change, insist on on scientific integrity and governmental transparency, and make environmental reforms part of any new economic stimulus package.

The devil, though, is in the details. The report takes the principles Obama espoused on the campaign trail, and sets out in exhaustive detail - agency by agency and official by official - the precise actions that will be needed for the Obama administration to live up to its promises. That ranges from long-overdue rollbacks of Bush policies to major new initiatives, and from obvious flagship issues like energy reform and climate change to a laundry list of less headline-grabbing environmental priorities like military oversight and oil-and-gas leasing regulations.

As such, Transition to Green is really a manifesto for the post-Bush environmental movement. In cataloguing the criteria against which, four years from now, we’ll assess the environmental achievements of President Obama, the report is also setting out the criteria against which America’s environmentalists will have to measure their own achievements during Obama’s first term. It won’t be enough to simply cheer from the sidelines: if Obama is to live up to his potential, greens will need to continually push to keep his flagship projects on course and to ensure that less media-friendly environmental priorities don’t fall through the cracks. That won’t be an easy task; still, this week’s report is a good place to start.

Source: http://www.plentymag.com/blogs/political/2008/11/a_postbush_manifesto.php

From where I sit the jury is definitely still out.

I don’t want to be a spoil sport or to piss on the parade; BUT do do (that where I feel we are now as a result of the latest media circus) the research, this man is not what the media spin would have us believe. Does anyone really believe that the corrupted US electoral system has been repaired?????? Does anyone in their right mind really believe that such a huge percentage of average American’s have overcome their racist ways sufficient to allow for the first Afro American (born in Kenya and unable to produce a legitimate birth certificate according to some sources) to be elected (by the overwhelming will of the people???) as President of the worlds last ‘super power’.

Any human with integrity elected to the position will make impeachment of the criminals currently in the house the top priority.

America has signed up for an Obamanation, and I sense this will be the case.

Best research at this early stage indicates that we may be in for a big surprise as most of the sheeple have been very craftily manipulated into a state of sleep. It is ever so when talk is loud of the AMERICAN DREAM; a dream requires ipsofacto that the dreamer’s are asleep does it not.

Personally I decree that this man be accountable to his promises (on behalf of humanity otherwise there will be more calamity for sure); however look at the substance of the rhetoric (what is it that this man is really saying?) and look at the support team as this is not a one man game at all. I know there will be great changes in these next few years as we are gifted the chance of aligning fully with our divine essence and anchoring the plan for hu-man-kind (a species as yet only existing as a potential IMHO)

Mother Earth is alive and undergoing rapid transformation and those who align with the highest design will sense the path through the heart of the matter and embrace the my story (mystery) as “I AM” expressing. Co- creation does not have leaders it has equally valued participants, out there (or is that in here) in the heart land where the mystery is grand and feelings (emotional health and well being?) are understood as the fuel for the fabric and structure of our transformative (alchemical) reality. This is where the future lies (IMHO). Most definitely it is not found in the lies and manipulations of a redundant and corrupted political system.

It is time for integrity and response ability and individual empowerment; anything else is IMHO a distraction. We are called to attend to our own relationship with the Mothership, we will also know when we are called to make our point of view more public.

"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty." - Gandhi

I trust your comment is a general one Stephen and is not holding a judgment of my sharing this opinion. For surely all opinion is valid, I honour and respect your right to hold any opinion even though I may disagree and see it differently.

There is nothing in my comment which should lead you to think I do not have faith in humanity. I do. However, I am very aware that, as a species, we are subject to all manner of manipulative and coercive forces or energies. It is a time where high discernment is required, to ensure we can co-create the state of peace and freedom we know in our hearts to be our destiny.

I am not prepared to believe what is written in the mainstream media without that I do some research myself. The media has become another tool for those who have a long time (intergenerational over thousands of years) commitment to the control and enslavement of humanity through a number of interconnecting mechanisms. Media, money, fear, sexuality and separation are merely a few of the vectors. I sense that Mr Obama has deep connections with these ones.

I have merely pointed out that action speaks louder than words and that I do not feel confident at all in the information and message being presented with regard to the 'newly elected' 44th president. I beleive there is an unspoken agenda and it is totally consistent with the Neo Con NWO, I pray that I have this wrong

As they say time will tell; but I for the moment am continuing to look inward and ask my inner teacher that I be aligned with the divine design to ensure my activities are for the highest and best good at this time.

So mostly I do and share very little, I prefer to watch and wait until spirit inspires me. Breath with awareness of the Hunab Ku pulsing through all that is.

In' Lakesh