One Czar to Solve Them All
Should Obama bring a climate czar to the Cabinet? Hope and history-making aside, Barack Obama's speech in Chicago on Tuesday night laid out the president-elect's top priorities. Climate change made the short list. "For even as we celebrate tonight," he told a riveted nation, "we know the challenges..
By Ben JerveyNov 09, 2008
Ben Jervey
Ben is a writer and editor covering climate change, energy, and environment, and is currently the Climate and Energy Media Fellow at Vermont Law School. He was the original Environment Editor at GOOD Magazine and his work has appeared regularly in National Geographic News, Grist, DeSmogBlog, and OnEarth. He recently worked with the non-profit Focus the Nation to publish an Energy 101 primer. When living in New York City, he wrote a book, The Big Green Apple, on how to live a lower impact life in the city. A bicycle enthusiast, Ben has ridden across the United States and through much of Europe.