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In honor of the ephochal National Hanging Out Day, we ask:

Come on in to the forums and discuss!

Recent Comment by Ides_oMarch : "We use a solar/wind dryer...clothesline...for everything, except towels. I love nice s..." [read]

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It is not really a TreeHugger question; in this day of "flying is dying" we should be asking if people should be allowed on airplanes. But hey, Andrew did a post on it, noting that in Europe, passengers will soon be able to use their phones on planes, so it is fair game.

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The news is not pretty, what with bank failures, bailouts and foreclosures and see-through condos and four dollar gas and six dollar per bushel corn and increased calls for protectionism. Some say we are already in a recession; others say that measures taken by the Federal Reserve will avoid it; others say we are circling the drain. How does this affect you?

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Another in our series where we pose questions to the Presidential Candidates and ask where you stand. (see also energy and chemicals)

It has been said that in the future wars will be fought over water, not oil. Political fights have already started; Candidate Bill Richardson said (and purportedly recanted) "I want a national water policy. We need a dialog between states to deal with issues like water conservation, water reuse technology, water delivery and water production. States like Wisconsin are awash in water.” Michigan Congressman Vern Ehlers responded negatively: "I would suspect we'd call up the militia and take up arms,We feel that serious about it." A professor noted: "It doesn't make economic sense to send Great Lakes water to the High Plains or the Southwest, but we know the thirsty will be calling."

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Now that we are in the American election spin cycle, what would we ask the candidates if we could? What would we expect to hear? For the next few days you can do it at 10questions, but we will use a survey per week to look at issues big and obscure that we might want our candidates to think about.

We recently noted that the FDA has a long list of "grandfathered" chemicals that have been around for so long that they are assumed to be safe, and they go into stuff that we use on our kids, even though some are associated with brain and nervous system damage, hormone disruption, allergies and cancer. Many are common ingredients in baby shampoo, lotion, diaper cream, and sunscreen.

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One worldwide poll recently showed that people will pay more and make sacrifices to address climate change. Another American poll recently found that consumers were willing to pay more to make their homes more green. Running that poll here on TreeHugger is preaching to the converted, but let's do it anyways and find out why you want a greener place to live.

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The farm bill. The energy bill. People in Washington are making laws that will profoundly affect the future of our cities, our health and our climate, and yet we see so little interest in them. One codger I know says of people today: "few of them grew up in the generation we did where empowerment to change governance was a common ideal." But whose responsibility is it to affect change, to make things happen?