Earth Day at The White House

by erica ~ April 22, 2009

In honor of Earth Day, I wanted to check in on the progress of President Obama’s goal to create a clean energy economy. The proposed “Recovery Act” is supposed to create green jobs, redevelop urban communities, and help ensure that new industries around energy efficiency and renewables will become part of the backbone of the American economy for decades to come.

In addition to speaking about those goals with workers at Trinity Structural Towers in Iowa today, which is the former Maytag plant that now houses a green manufacturing facility producing wind towers, the White House Blog will keep a running log all day as things come in regarding Earth Day and any updates of the Recovery Act.

The first entry/update has already been made this morning:

9:20: First installment.  The US Coast Guard has an Earth Day Twitter campaign today talking about the various ways they’re trying to preserve the environment while safeguarding the open seas, including plenty of green building and energy.  Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack marked the day by announcing 56 communities in 34 states will get $144.3 million in loans and grants for infrastructure improvements around water availability and quality — see the list.

Firstly, I think that the White House blog is a great resource that keeps us aware of what’s going on in the White House, the government, and all over America. In addition, I think that today’s blog shows us that President Obama’s goals are not all fluff and things are actually being done to create this “cleaner environment.” It will be interesting to see the updates throughout the day, which gives us some perspective about what and who is participating in these efforts to make America a better place to live!