The Live Earth concerts this weekend showed an amazing outpouring of concern and ideas for stopping global warming.  Watching, I found myself enraged and embarrassed that my country could be the world's worst offender in omitting greenhouse gases and my government could remain so resistant to taking even relatively small steps to address the climate crisis.

Even if Congress were to pass strong measures to curb greenhouse gas emissions this year--which is no guarantee, with folks like John Dingell (D-Auto Industry) writing initial bill language--I worry that we'll still be too slow to prevent major economic and ecological tremors.  And I know that most Americans, for several years, have wanted action from Congress on global warming.  It hasn't happened.

So the question is, how can we get a Congress that will act on global warming?