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Two priorities strike me in the development of a Next Steps Strategy: <BR> <BR>One is to establish a legislative agenda that presents our party's priorities for the next session of Congress;<BR> <BR>The other is to establish a focused state electoral strategy for 2010 that includes targeted campaigns for victory. <BR> <BR>To begin this process states should submit summaries of the most recent election campaigns so that the discussion can be zeroed in. California will be having a meeting in January to discuss a state electoral strategy in January. <BR> <BR>The issue of public infrastructure has been raised in the campaign and inevitably raises issues of energy transition. See below for a plan posted prior that focuses on working models of renewable energy. <BR> <BR>As a foreign policy proposal there should include a mapped proposal for withdrawal and recognition of Kurdistan and Palestine that includes diplomatic status, foreign aid and economic assistance and implementation of Kirkuk Referendum in the Kurdish Autonomous Region. <BR> <BR>As a social justice program there should be reconstruction of brownfield urban areas using green models for local integration of economies of scale.<BR> <BR>The energy transition agenda includes the following:<BR> <BR>A. Establish the highest percentages for renewable energy production and alternative transportation systems that require the introduction of alternative energies in a twenty year period; <A href="http://www.earth-policy.org/Books/PlanB_contents.htm" target=_blank><FONT color=#0068cf>http://www.earth-policy.org/Books/PlanB_contents.htm</FONT></A><BR> <BR>B. Economic compensation packages that address workers impacted by the transition <A href="http://www.epi.org/content.cfm/studies_cleanenergyandjobs" target=_blank><FONT color=#0068cf>http://www.epi.org/content.cfm/studies_cleanenergyandjobs</FONT></A> ;<BR> <BR>C. Monitoring systems to evaluate the changes in greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere <A href="http://www.ec.gc.ca/pdb/ghg/ghg_home_e.cfm" target=_blank><FONT color=#0068cf>http://www.ec.gc.ca/pdb/ghg/ghg_home_e.cfm</FONT></A> ; <BR> <BR>D. Incentives for the development of alternatives to petroleum-based products <A href="http://www.greenbiz.com/toolbox/essentials_third.cfm?LinkAdvID=4151" target=_blank><FONT color=#0068cf>http://www.greenbiz.com/toolbox/essentials_third.cfm?LinkAdvID=4151</FONT></A> ; "Petroleum is also the raw material for many chemical products, including solvents, fertilizers, pesticides, and plastics; the 16% not used for energy production is converted into these other materials." <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petroleum" target=_blank><FONT color=#0068cf>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petroleum</FONT></A> <BR> <BR>E. Reduction in the production of single-user modes of transportation <A href="http://www.worldwatch.org/node/808" target=_blank><FONT color=#0068cf>http://www.worldwatch.org/node/808</FONT></A> , increase in public investment in mass transit operated with renewable energy <A href="http://lrta.info/Facts/facts130.html" target=_blank><FONT color=#0068cf>http://lrta.info/Facts/facts130.html</FONT></A> ;<BR> <BR>F. Transition of investment of public utility companies in solar and wind technology, decreasing proportion of energy provided by coal, nuclear and oil <A href="http://www.energybulletin.net/5000.html" target=_blank><FONT color=#0068cf>http://www.energybulletin.net/5000.html</FONT></A> ;<BR> <BR>G. Establishment of stakeholder boards for oversight and review <A href="http://maineghg.raabassociates.org/member.asp?sort=other" target=_blank><FONT color=#0068cf>http://maineghg.raabassociates.org/member.asp?sort=other</FONT></A> , Public Utilities Commissions elected by energy users and represented by qualified advocates including environmental, residential, municipal, and rural;<BR> <BR>H. Congressional budgetary commitments through carbon taxes <A href="http://www.carbontax.org/" target=_blank><FONT color=#0068cf>http://www.carbontax.org/</FONT></A> that transition from military expenditures to energy conversion research and development, implementing Swenson's Law :" To avoid deprivation resulting from the exhaustion of non-renewable resources, humanity must employ conservation and renewable resource substitutes sufficient to match depletion." <A href="http://www.hubbertpeak.com/swenson/" target=_blank><FONT color=#0068cf>http://www.hubbertpeak.com/swenson/</FONT></A> <BR> <BR>I. Establishment of Green Building codes; <A href="http://www.smartcommunities.ncat.org/buildings/gbcodtoc.shtml" target=_blank><FONT color=#0068cf>http://www.smartcommunities.ncat.org/buildings/gbcodtoc.shtml</FONT></A> <BR> <BR>J. Revamping of commercial railroad system and increasing mileage of track- increase requirement for piggy-backing of trailers across states; <A href="http://europe.theoildrum.com/node/2229" target=_blank><FONT color=#0068cf>http://europe.theoildrum.com/node/2229</FONT></A> <BR> <BR> <BR>Martin Zehr<BR>GPSF <BR><BR><BR>
<DIV> </DIV><BR><BR><BR><BR>> Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 11:42:44 -0800<BR>> From: brookse32@aim.com<BR>> To: active@sfgreens.org; sustainability@sfgreens.org<BR>> Subject: [Sustain] Prop H: Regardless Of The Final Vote We Have Already Won!<BR>> <BR>> Remember all, that though the vote itself was lost, we have already won.<BR>> <BR>> We have forced PG&E to spend more money than has -ever- been spent on a<BR>> San Francisco campaign. And, after both Lennar corporation's $7 million<BR>> ballot deception to force toxic gentrification on the Southeast side in<BR>> the last election, and now PG&E's even more outrageous moves to buy this<BR>> election at an even higher (ludicrous) price, it is a -very- good bet<BR>> that we will easily pass a strong corporate and independent expenditure<BR>> campaign finance reform measure in the next year.<BR>> <BR>> And we have now built a strong and angry coalition of progressives and<BR>> Supervisors who are -pissed- at PG&E.<BR>> <BR>> PG&E's days are numbered.<BR>> <BR>> So we have already won ;)<BR>> <BR>> But most importantly, the Community Choice renewable energy project (the<BR>> first 51% referred to in Prop H) is already moving forward regardless of<BR>> Prop H and PG&E is going to attack it as well. Our campaign has helped<BR>> strongly reveal all of the tactics that PG&E will use to attack<BR>> Community Choice, and we will now be ready for them. And those attacks<BR>> will carry much less weight, both because Community Choice is much less<BR>> vulnerable to them in the way it is worded, because State law actually<BR>> forbids PG&E from attacking Community Choice, and because the angry core<BR>> of organizers that PG&E has just attacked on Prop H, are now primed and<BR>> ready to kick PG&E's ass on a much more level playing field with<BR>> Community Choice.<BR>> <BR>> We will need all of you to help us win the Community Choice fight; which<BR>> will -absolutely- bring us that 100% clean energy by 2040 regardless of<BR>> last night's outcome. Prop H simply would have made it easier too get there.<BR>> <BR>> To see why Community Choice is so important and why it will need your<BR>> help, go to:<BR>> http://our-city.org/campaigns/communitychoice.html<BR>> and<BR>> http://communitychoiceenergy.org/<BR>> <BR>> Note that Community Choice has already passed as law, and it is now<BR>> going out for bids to contractors. The key fight will be to get<BR>> customers to stick with Community Choice and not opt out for PG&E over<BR>> the next year. This is a fight that we definitely can win, if we stay on<BR>> it with a sharp focus.<BR>> <BR>> If we win this fight San Francisco -will- go 100% renewable and soon.<BR>> <BR>> Note also that there are two more appointments to be made to the SF<BR>> Public Utilities Commission (which is overseeing Community Choice) and<BR>> the Supes now have the power to leverage those appointments and make<BR>> sure that they will support Community Choice; and also support closing<BR>> down the city's remaining polluting power plants.<BR>> <BR>> So we have actually won our first battle by getting fully up in PG&E's<BR>> face! and forcing its bullshit out in to the light of day.<BR>> <BR>> Now let's win the war for Community Choice which will kick PG&E the hell<BR>> out of the City, and lead the world to save the planet.<BR>> <BR>> peace<BR>> <BR>> Eric Brooks<BR>> <BR>> -- <BR>> "I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate <BR>> themselves." – Che Guevara<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> _______________________________________________<BR>> Sustainability mailing list<BR>> Sustainability@sfgreens.org<BR>> https://list.sfgreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sustainability<BR></body>
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