It may seem naive but I think the feds should spend their money buying equity in both large scale wind projects and de-centralized roof top solar schemes. They have the check book power right now, when it's needed, and the long term revenue will boost federal coffers for ever, cutting the need for some future taxes.
I know that socialism is a dirty word at many parties, but I am a small scale manufacturer and a huge supporter of energy revenue for governing bodies. Why freely give money or incentives to private industry when states and the feds need revenue desperately. Private industry will find new ways to profit of our needs and state (or locally) owned utilities are part of what helped build our nation into the greatness it is about to fall from. This will solve the lack of viable credit markets, put teeth in any generation standards they agree to, help fund our national security, and help restore faith in our federal government's ability to meet public demand!
And yes please give me carbon tax, at the meter, at the pump, and especially at the stationary points of emission, and make it a stiff one, we need the money and the incentive. While you're at it, why not invest all the revenue into owning more generation and transmission capacity and make our government rich again!
It sucks to be governed 4 sure, but at least we could be governed by responsible stewards that own equity in major revenue generating infrastructures and follow a simple set of principles that steer our policies...oh yeah, that's the constitution...
What ever happened to that thing anyway?
Here's an updated set of principles that could be used for a strategic plan to get back to the business of having fun around here permaculture's guiding principles scroll down and read on. They are very bsic common sense principles that anyone making a profit will relate too...
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Monday, February 23, 2009
Sunday, February 1, 2009
Wrap it up with a bow?
So it seems that times like these call for fairly comprehensive, strategic action for everyone. Individuals and organizations that want to be profitable or at least effective will be rendering a life in balance and cooperation with surrounding ecosystems. That includes social, economic, and terrestrial. Relating to our federal govt' throwing money to private banks, i'll say no more. We don't need to fund zombies and prison gaurds. Funding "shovel ready" projects could help a little, keep some folks employed anyway. But we need a lot more than just a few jobs.
We need to re-inhabit our economic ecosystem.
So much of it has been off shored or done away with in the name of "growth" and ROI bottom lines, that it's effectively a clear cut we now have to re-plant. So clear cut may be a bit much, severely disrupted for sure and "gutted" of it's natural supply chain. This leaves most of us with little choice beyond imported, plastic, genetically altered, wage slave produced, and sure to break in 4 months to a year products.
Initiatives that up the use of recycled materials and agricultural fibers in our supply chains will improve our long term, collective bottom line. If those materials are truly renewable, like non tree agricultural fibers or post consumer waste, it will improve all the more because our collective natural long term capital will remain intact, while our short term seasonal capital renews itself annually. This principle can be applied almost anywhere in the economy. Design, manufacture, building, even the service and entertainment sectors can save money and support net gains of material prosperity by choosing appropriately in supply chain and design decisions.
If currency is also allowed to circulate regionally and profits are well distributed then the overall effect is even more noticeable. The same money continues purchasing goods and services, adding value to peoples' lives till it goes away, along with most of the profit, to a distant bank account and share holders' dividends.
Here's the wiki on ethical purchasing.
Worth a read.
Alternative currencies wiki
Here is something a little more thought out.
Along the way small steps can help the use of alternatives, be they post consumer or post wasteful. Here's an idea:
Executive order that commands all paper trails for the white house and congress(if possible) and why not the entire public school system too, be printed on paper containing minimum of 80% post consumer (or 50%PC/25% split w/ non tree sources). That would make the paper that no one wants to recycle worth more. Every piece of paper would be recycled because of the demand needed to sustain this new order. Transport and domestic paper production would increase w/ a net reduction in over all harm to our shared resources (atmosphere, water, landscapes etc.). Agricultural fiber production would begin being profitable and eventually with this constant in flux of annual fiber, paper prices could stablize as would the price of many things.
Recycled paper value low, problem solved. Trees that could be sinking carbon into their trunks and the ground being turned needlessly into paper? Solved. Massive dumping of toxic materials from tree to paper process into rivers, solved. Little or no market for agricultural fiber products, solved.
Here is the original executive order William Jefferson Clinton signed to get a 30% post consumer content in "non permanent" documents. Tell president Obama to go another step, if the order is still in place.
While you're at it, how bout an executive order legalizing industrial hemp again, granting farmers the power to grow most of what we need in the field. All that while taking carbon out of the air, improving soil, and providing for a massive resurgence of US ingenuity in industrial production.
Check out some Industrial hemp facts here.
Why not throw heavy subsidies at alternatives to forest sourced lumber using agricultural composites, encourage use of local currencies, and write a guide for states and counties to follow loosening up building codes and permit requirements.
Want another reason to laugh, check this out!
It seems technology has once again shown us that we can live life and use less electricity. Magnetic refrigeration, welcome to the party. Read here for a NYT article.
Seems like a good investment...
And as though you didn't already know that giant fuel providers and oil extraction companies would eek out profits even in this atmosphere, read here.
Seems like another good investment, if you want to make blood money. Thanks for reading, stay involved...go to
congress.org and tell them all.....
We need to re-inhabit our economic ecosystem.
So much of it has been off shored or done away with in the name of "growth" and ROI bottom lines, that it's effectively a clear cut we now have to re-plant. So clear cut may be a bit much, severely disrupted for sure and "gutted" of it's natural supply chain. This leaves most of us with little choice beyond imported, plastic, genetically altered, wage slave produced, and sure to break in 4 months to a year products.
Initiatives that up the use of recycled materials and agricultural fibers in our supply chains will improve our long term, collective bottom line. If those materials are truly renewable, like non tree agricultural fibers or post consumer waste, it will improve all the more because our collective natural long term capital will remain intact, while our short term seasonal capital renews itself annually. This principle can be applied almost anywhere in the economy. Design, manufacture, building, even the service and entertainment sectors can save money and support net gains of material prosperity by choosing appropriately in supply chain and design decisions.
If currency is also allowed to circulate regionally and profits are well distributed then the overall effect is even more noticeable. The same money continues purchasing goods and services, adding value to peoples' lives till it goes away, along with most of the profit, to a distant bank account and share holders' dividends.
Here's the wiki on ethical purchasing.
Worth a read.
Alternative currencies wiki
Here is something a little more thought out.
Along the way small steps can help the use of alternatives, be they post consumer or post wasteful. Here's an idea:
Executive order that commands all paper trails for the white house and congress(if possible) and why not the entire public school system too, be printed on paper containing minimum of 80% post consumer (or 50%PC/25% split w/ non tree sources). That would make the paper that no one wants to recycle worth more. Every piece of paper would be recycled because of the demand needed to sustain this new order. Transport and domestic paper production would increase w/ a net reduction in over all harm to our shared resources (atmosphere, water, landscapes etc.). Agricultural fiber production would begin being profitable and eventually with this constant in flux of annual fiber, paper prices could stablize as would the price of many things.
Recycled paper value low, problem solved. Trees that could be sinking carbon into their trunks and the ground being turned needlessly into paper? Solved. Massive dumping of toxic materials from tree to paper process into rivers, solved. Little or no market for agricultural fiber products, solved.
Here is the original executive order William Jefferson Clinton signed to get a 30% post consumer content in "non permanent" documents. Tell president Obama to go another step, if the order is still in place.
While you're at it, how bout an executive order legalizing industrial hemp again, granting farmers the power to grow most of what we need in the field. All that while taking carbon out of the air, improving soil, and providing for a massive resurgence of US ingenuity in industrial production.
Check out some Industrial hemp facts here.
Why not throw heavy subsidies at alternatives to forest sourced lumber using agricultural composites, encourage use of local currencies, and write a guide for states and counties to follow loosening up building codes and permit requirements.
Want another reason to laugh, check this out!
It seems technology has once again shown us that we can live life and use less electricity. Magnetic refrigeration, welcome to the party. Read here for a NYT article.
Seems like a good investment...
And as though you didn't already know that giant fuel providers and oil extraction companies would eek out profits even in this atmosphere, read here.
Seems like another good investment, if you want to make blood money. Thanks for reading, stay involved...go to
congress.org and tell them all.....
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