Elizabeth Edwards was the keynote speaker for BlogHer -- She's a blogger! And Elizabeth graciously came to the cocktail party at the Chicago Children's Museum after the talk to hang out, meet people, and answer questions.

I don't know who I'm voting for yet -- I have been pretty impressed with John Edwards' plan re: the environment, but I've yet to really compare it to others....

More about Elizabeth's talk later -- For now, you can watch a video of the first part of her talk here.

At the cocktail party I got to shake Elizabeth's hand, thank her and John for making the environment one of the key issues in the campaign, and asked if the two'd been long-time environmentalists, or newbies to the green movement.

Elizabeth said they hadn't seen the urgency of the issue until more recently, but that since a few years ago, she and John have been more actively involved. Here's a recent post she wrote on how her household's trying to go green.