No Organic Cotton at the Green Ball - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Having also taken the Metro to and from the festivities – and avoided the limousines waiting outside to return — I considered my green duty to have been done.

The Three Silent Figures Hovering Over the Obama White House - Capital Journal - WSJ.com

Start with Mr. Gore.
Though the former vice president’s influence gets the least attention, it may be the most striking. Because the smoldering economy and wars in Iraq and Afghanistan soak up so much attention, relatively little attention has been paid to how much members of the Obama energy and environment teams figure to try to shake up the status quo — and how much Mr. Gore’s fingerprints are on their thinking.
His influence starts with the woman who is going to be the White House energy and environment “czar,” Carol Browner. She cut her teeth as a staffer in the office of then-Sen. Gore, before running the Environmental Protection Agency in the Clinton years. The Gore lineage extends from there. Just as Ms. Browner worked for Mr. Gore, so the new head of the EPA, Lisa Jackson, and the new head of the White House Council on Environmental Quality, Nancy Sutley, once worked for Ms. Browner at the EPA.
Moreover, Mr. Obama’s choice for energy secretary, Steven Chu, a Nobel Prize-winning scientist from the University of California at Berkeley, places a Gore-like emphasis on climate change and alternative fuels. “These are people who believe firmly in the kind of environmental agenda that Al Gore has developed and advocated, and they appear to me to be in favor of the boldest possible action as fast as we can conceivably do it, given budget constraints,” says Mr. Galston.

Energy Outlook: Tempering Optimism with Patience

We've all heard the President-elect mention the need for patience in confronting our economic problems, echoed by countless commentators elaborating on the scale of the challenge involved. If I could offer him one piece of advice on Inauguration Day, it would be to ask the American public for the same degree of patience in transforming our energy economy. It took a century to evolve into its present shape, and its major hardware has lifetimes ranging from ten to sixty years. Despite the great progress and truly impressive growth of alternative energy over the last few years, displacing our reliance on conventional energy is not the task of a few months or years, no matter how much of the planned stimulus package is ultimately devoted to making a down payment on this transformation.
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...President Obama might consider asking Dr. Chu a few questions on the subject of why hydrocarbon fuels have been so successful for the last hundred years. The answers have at least as much to do with chemistry and physics as they do with economics and domestic and geopolitics.