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to avoiding oil or gas from the middle east. it should also mean individuals and communities becoming energy producers. community-based energy projects create a preference for clean energy, since the owners live next to the power plant. locally owned energy projects double the return on our investments in wind energy and, more importantly, mean paying ourselves for our own power.

they’re asking nothing more or less than for earned-income partners to have access to the same per-kWh renewables credit as the well-heeled.

ps. 3… 2… 1… blast off!

pps. need a grid, now.

ppps. and you know what, people from the windy places like the midwest, they might want to consider offering shares to people living in less windy places in coal country, if those states don’t build revenue sharing. which they probly won’t. because they were underwritten by dicks.

pppps. no — you’re right — i don’t know what’s next.

when in doubt, predict stealing.

why am i so slow?

is it because so much energy i devote to making me laugh?

how is that fair.

The new century began on an inspiring note when the countries that belong to the United Nations adopted the goal of cutting a number of people living in poverty in half by 2015. And as of 2007 the world looked to be on track to meet this goal.

good god…! why hasn’t this horror— oh. “the.” the number of people living in poverty.

words matter, folks! don’t let anyone tell you they don’t! they save lives.

ps. what’d you call that, the “millennium disfigurement goals”?

borrows a proven, winning frame. For 15 years, the accountable-development movement has been winning such safeguards: we know the research, the arguments, and the organizing.

So now, almost every state and lots of big cities attach wage and health-care job quality standards to some subsidies. Nearly half the states and many cities use clawbacks to recapture money when companies fail to deliver. And by the end of this year, at least 26 states will have online disclosure of company-specific costs and benefits.

Without asking cash-strapped taxpayers for an additional dime, we can get more jobs — more green jobs and more transit-accessible jobs — and a lot less CO2.

State and local governments have the power to make this happen — right now.

the grandfather carrot to the building codes’ new-construction stick.

meanwhile… on the other side of the big tent…

“While it’s important in the radical left to have conversations about capitalism and powering down, that’s not where we’re starting out with green jobs,” Kim told the CPE audience.

Mateo Nube, training director for the Movement Generation Justice and Ecology Project, suggested that both short- and long-term goals are important. “We need to build an infrastructure for the transition. We need to rebuild our food production systems in a way that actually takes care of everybody and is sustainable. From that vantage point, the idea of green jobs and a New Deal makes a lot of sense. But in that process, we have to incorporate an understanding that a constant-growth model is suicide.”

the science on energy sources being settled, and all.

in fact, in fact, i’ll tell you what i’d do.

i’d have every government in the world declare oil, coal, and natural gas as hazmats. call them a strictly-regulated commodity whose waste we have no room for and fix the price — a feed-out tariff — no more buyer beware shit — preventing any further investment in developing alternative fossil sources or licking dry wells with fresh water or any other “i have no clue about the state of the world” bullshit that people are doing for a couple bucks — aka one euro — and then.

and then i would tag a remediation price on using that energy that would really spur change — by capturing the majority of the current value of the energy — and kicking it over to a fund for building the clean’lectricity superhighway — electranet — windobahn — super-duper-grid — and all the safe generation and demand reduction we can fit — and then.

and then i would declare this an international program of truce on energy supply. with an agreement that in the future, all countries and regions would help each other build their own electricity, arms races could be dropped and zero-return-on-investment military handouts could be turned toward building functional, sustainable infrastructure development — yet more money for bringing the green economy up to speed — and then.

and then we could begin our debate on who has to eat dirt and who gets fat.

pps. how nice, how nice, if this had one bit thing to do with where there’d be money and resources to build new things — got a rope in front of you you could leap and grab climb up the next place that’s better bigger brighter — but it’s too far to jump with all your clothes on you have to be naked to make it — there’s new threads waiting at the next level — but everybody’s gonna see