29th December 2007

Molly Scott Cato who lives in Stroud and is the Green party's Economic Spokesperson. She took 17% of the popular vote in an online poll of top Green blogs for 2007.

Molly's blog, Gaian Economics, has the heading: "All other green campaigns become futile without tackling the economic system and its ideological defenders. Economics is only dismal because there are not enough of us making it our own. Read on and become empowered!"

See Gaian Economics at: http://gaianeconomics.blogspot.com/

Molly Scott Cato said of the vote: "I am extremely chuffed that Gaian Economics has been chosen as Green Blog of the Year. I started blogging about a week after the top 100 green blogs was produced last year so missed out on that. I was a sceptical blogger at first and was persuaded to learn about this new literary genre by my brother-in-law, who grew tired of me moaning that my book was not selling as well as I wished, and that people didn't like reading more than a page at a time."

Molly Scott Cato's book, "Market, Schmarket" came out last year and has been welcomed by many. Mark Anslow in The Ecologist writes of it: "Just occasionally, you read a book that gives you an Archimedes-in-the-bath moment. Market, Schmarket is one of those."

Jim Jay, who organised the online voting said: "One of the interesting things about 'Green Blogs' is that the range from left to right, from respectable to disgraceful to personal is absolutely phenomenal. And what is a political blog anyway? These questions make compiling the list an interesting thing to do, but also impossible to come to any satisfactory conclusion. How can you really compare the blog of an environmental campaign with the personal thoughts of a green leaning academic? How do you compare the blog of a local councillor who uses it to keep their constituents informed to that of a witty green field anarchist who makes no play for respectability? It would be like trying to compare George W. Bush with a donkey. Oh. Actually. That's a bad example (i)."


Note:
(i) http://jimjay.blogspot.com/2007/12/gaian-economics-peoples-choice.html