Vanguard will engage on topics that could affect long-term value, like climate change, he added, "to understand their processes for overseeing and managing those risks".
HuffPost Green readers have shown that they are totally engaged on topics like the local food movement, sustainable agriculture, factory farming, seafood politics, farmers markets and even hot farmers.
Even worse, there is a persistent groupthink about technology and politics, despite the vast interest that most nerds have with engaging on these topics.
To arrive at balanced public policy, America needs a plurality of voices in the public dialogue: foreign relations, business, religion - and science, and the overwhelming majority of likely voters want the candidates to engage on the topics of healthcare, climate change, energy, education, and innovation and the economy.
Perhaps deciding that there wasn't much to be gained from engaging on such an incendiary topic, some of them didn't say much.
"It gives us an opportunity to engage on a topic that we have been itching to engage in for the past six months," Mr. Podesta said in an interview.
But this time the White House has made clear that it does not want to engage on the topic, which beyond threatening to distract attention from the health care push could also put further strain on Mr. Obama's broad but tenuous electoral coalition of liberals and moderates, Democrats and independents.
In the end, that data was superficial, enough to keep a conversation going with a specialist but without the ability to fully engage on a topic.
