Green is Not Just Local It's Global

Here are a few story as evidence of this trend.

• “Green” Politicians in Canada may gain majority due to missteps of conservative prime minister. It’s good to see our neighbor to the north going green. If Obama’s economic and environmental plan goes forward the U.S. could be in a great position to create a green coalition with other first world countries like Canada.
• Nations of Africa to vote as one bloc in support of tighter restrictions on carbon emissions in upcoming meeting in Poland to update the Kyoto Protocol, which is set to expire in 2012. More evidence that the world is starting to demand more sustainable systems. If things like Kyoto really begin to be accepted and are given teeth for enforcement, globalization will spread green like wildfire.
• The U.S. Army is taking a modest step towards green with the planned lease of 4,000 electric vehicles. How do you know a green revolution has started? When an ultra conservative and traditional institution like the U.S. Army starts embracing it. Green Government Contracts anyone?
  

I think this is a historic time, a chance for the U.S. to regain its positive image by leading the efforts towards a greener world economy. Perhaps though a little competition is in order. If another world power, say China, starts really moving towards green it could exhilarate global green efforts tremendously. Now before you call me a commy, look what we did during the Cold War. We put a freaking man on the moon, when less than 50 years earlier no one had even flown solo across the Atlantic Ocean! What do y'all think?