The Energize America panel at Netroots Nation included Adam Siegel, Jerome Guillet, and Mark Sumner, all of whom have been instrumental in moving the discussion forward on peak oil, global warning and now Al Gore’s challenge to the American people. They discussed the goals of Energize America and how they are planning on reaching citizens and enlisting their help in both formulating a plan and lobbying Congress and state legislators to implement that plan.

I’m just back from Netroots Nation in Austin, America’s premier blogging conference, where I sat in on an interesting panel on Rural America.

The focus was the issues that our citizens who live in rural areas deal with daily. Here’s a summary of what those are: