How green is your candidate?

During any Thanksgiving downtime this week/weekend, you might want to brush up on the environmental positions of your your favorite, or yet-to-be-favorite! - candidates for the upcoming 2008 US Presidential Election. And the best place to do such a thing is at grist, yo.

If you haven't been the grist.org before, it is, basically, a superb site to find lots of "independent environmental journalism" (and it's non-profit, to boot). They write most, if not all, of the content themselves; and it's top quality. Besides, what I really appreciate is that they take a grounded approach to the issues (ex. Farm Bill, public transit, climate change); if they were too, ahem, hippy-dippy, I wouldn't be able to read them, much less recommend them. ;)

Yes, so check out their "How Green Is Your Candidate?" section, which contains interviews and stat sheets on the energy plans and environmental positions of all the current presidential candidates. While those aren't the *only* issues that should be important for the upcoming election, they *are* pretty big ones in my book.

And while it's still a few months away, the Presidential Primaries will be here before we know it; in fact, California is holding theirs on February 5th, 2008 (aka Super Duper Tuesday) along with 22 other states. Find the full schedule at opensecrets.org.