Green Options » Ideas for Change in America http://greenoptions.com/tag/ideas-for-change-in-america Posts tagged 'Ideas for Change in America' Sat, 17 Jan 2009 14:47:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Ten Winning Ideas for Change http://ecolocalizer.com/2009/01/17/ten-winning-ideas-for-change/ http://ecolocalizer.com/2009/01/17/ten-winning-ideas-for-change/#comments Sat, 17 Jan 2009 14:47:36 +0000 Becky Striepe http://ecolocalizer.com/2009/01/17/ten-winning-ideas-for-change/ Since Obama’s election in November, the website Change.org has allowed anyone with an idea for the new administration to post it on the site for folks to vote on. Today, they revealed the top ten Ideas for Change in America.


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Macon Phillips, the Director of New Media who is responsible for President Obama’s transition website, Change.gov, accepted the ideas on behalf of the Presidential Transition Team. There were over 8,000 ideas and 600,000 votes, and over 175,000 people participated! They’re going to pair up each winning idea with a nonprofit to help work toward making these things that folks care care about into policy. Here are the ten winning ideas:

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