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The Elkhart Blog is a project at msnbc.com that NBC's Chuck Todd publicized when President Barack Obama visited the Indiana town to announce a $2.4bn federal investment in renewable electric battery development. The President conceded that Elkhart, with an unemployment rate of 17%, is an appropriate test case to judge his administration's progress towards economic revitalization. "Is that fair?" Todd asked. "Absolutely." ABC's sidebar feature on Obama's green jobs initiative was more imaginative, more exotic--not to mention more visually stunning. Jeffrey Kofman took A Closer Look at the Uyuni Salt Flats of Bolivia. They contain more than half of the world's known reserves of lithium. Batteries made from lithium are "far lighter, more durable and hold a charge much longer than any other." Evaporation ponds are being built to extract the lithium from the brine under the salt surface, Kofman showed us: "That vast sea of white could offer this poor country a richer future and the planet a greener future."
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