EPA Blog
The US EPA is blogging, or at least people at the EPA are being permitted to post at the “Official Blog of the US EPA.” It is called Greenversations, and today’s question is Why are you or aren’t you buying green power?
It is a WordPress blog with comment moderation. Either the awareness of the blog is limited, or the comments are over-moderated as there are few on the site. I like that it dual posts in English and Spanish.
I also liked learning that the EPA’s press secretary, Jonathan Shrader, is a bike commuter.
May 29th, 2008 01:56
Hi there. Thanks for mentioning our blog.
We post every comment that meets our comment policy (posted in the upper right corner). Basically, if people keep it civil, they can say what they like.
In the first thousand or so comments, we’ve posted everything but about two comments that were full of invective, a few that were advertising, and a lot of pure spam. So it’s more a matter of awareness, but we’re working on it.
Did you see that we have almost 80 comments so far on green power? Our question about biking two weeks ago broke 700 comments.
So thanks again - we’re still looking for good ways to get the word out. Feel free to email me if you have good suggestions!
Jeffrey