Frustration with current environmental conditions. Lack of healthy political dialogue leading to common sense approaches to environmental and energy problems.

More than those reasons, this blog also is the result of hope for better environmental policies. There are reasons to celebrate positive changes and to demand constant progress. Here we shall not condemn one political party or the other, as both main U.S. political parties have failed to produce the magnitude of leadership necessary to tackle the environmental problems we face today and in the near future.

While some will argue that one party or the other has championed better environmental policies, the fact remains that neither has done well enough and such arguments are not bringing us closer to solutions.

Here, the goal is to inform people of both real-world and virtual (web-driven) changes both for the better and yes, we have to shine a spotlight on those for the worse, in order to facilitate an educated, informed dialogue, hopefully leading to tangible positive changes.

In the end, the two important questions you will not necessarily answer, but at least keep in your mind here and more importantly, when you leave here and open your wallet, is “What is the environmental impact of my decision?” and, “What is the human impact of the environment on humans as it changes from our own consumption?”

Environmental policy includes ethical and moral issues just as economic and foreign policy do. It has the potential to unite countries singularly but it also transcends borders and could unite people in one battle not against nature, but for nature. It’s not the classical nature vs. nurture debate, but rather a decision we all need to make to nurture nature.

The solutions are within reach — for those with the will to reach forward.