Garnering considerable buzz in the world of politics as of late, the micro-blogging tool twitter <http://mashable.com/2009/03/16/twittergrowth-rate-versus-facebook/> is growing at an astonishing 1,382 percent—adding 7 million new accounts in February alone—and showing little sign of slowing down. Although politicians themselves may be relative newcomers in the world of communicating in 140-character or less, those who write about and study politics aren’t. And that goes for those who favor environmental politics, too. The following is a list of eco-political twitters:
- @emilygertz <http://twitter.com/ejgertz> The lead blogger at change.org’s Stop <http://globalwarming.change.org/> Global Warming blog, Emily Gertz’s work is all over the interwebs, including powerhouses like WorldChanging, Scientific American, and Grist.
- @ghoberg <http://twitter.com/ghoberg> George Hoberg is an environmental/natural policy resources professor.
- @greendig: <http://twitter.com/greendig> Greendig’s goal is to To make accessible the latest and greatest in green technology, environmental art, and eco-activism.
- @greenskeptic <http://twitter.com/greenskeptic> Blogging the new green economy as The Green Skeptic <http://www.greenskeptic.blogspot.com/> since 2004, Scott Anderson lends his expertise on cleantech and social-entrepreneurial ventures.
- @grist <http://twitter.com/grist> More than just a twitterfeed, the folks at Grist.org <http://grist.org/> have developed a mix of links and conversational tweets on their twitterstream. While the content at Grist is not entirely politics, the content at Gristmill<http://gristmill.grist.org/> pretty much is.
- @kgrandia <http://twitter.com/kgrandia> Kevin Grandia is the Managing Editor of DeSmogBlog <http://www.desmogblog.com/> and also Director of New Media for Hoggan and Associates in Vancouver, Canada.
- @revkin <http://twitter.com/revkin> Andrew Revkin is a long time science writer for the New York Times and leads their Dot Earth <http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/> blog in addition to his print duties. His tweets often offer little snippets of what he is currently writing/researching (thus giving his followers a taste of what they can expect in tomorrow’s Times).
- @sheagunther <http://twitter.com/sheagunther> Green Options http://greenoptions.com/ cofounder and mainstay on the green blogosphere, Shea Gunther is now blogging at Mother Nature News http://www.mnn.com/.
- @sustainablog <http://twitter.com/sustainablog> Jeff Mcintre-Strasburg has been blogging at sustainablog <http://sustainablog.org/> since 2003, which is right around the time Guttenberg invented the blog. Mcintre-Strasburg is co-founder and former Senior Editor at Green Options.
- @YaleE360 <http://twitter.com/YaleE360> With some of the most respected thinkers and doers in science and the environment, the YaleE360 <http://e360.yale.edu/> website hit the ground running with thought-provoking environmental journalism.
