Joel Makower has a fascinating roundup of recent green poll results. He concludes:

So, what do we know that we didn’t know pre-Earth Day? Not much. It’s business as usual: Americans want clean, affordable, and care-free solutions to climate change and every other environmental challenge. But don’t ask most of them to change their habits, spend more, or go very far out of their way.

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But for companies, it’s a different story. They’re the ones we’re looking to for solutions — for example, to create products, processes, and policies that solve global warming.

That is, if global warming turns out to really, truly be a problem.

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The jury’s still out on that one.