You can find it at: Blogger: User Profile: Jack Lindblad, Green Party Candidate for California Assembly, 39th District – Architect – Private Practitioner

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I’m about advancing the Green Ten Key Values of a Green New Deal in the California Legislature, and in so doing, help manage multiple collapses, mitigate and adapt to ecological collapse’s worst catastrophes, to revitalize watershed, to build a relocalized, bioregional, steady state economy – arising from the financial meltdown and ‘Great Disruption’. Repudiating the “business-as-usual” growth economy, whether in politics or my architecture practice, will lessen the likelihood of human extinction. Being a effective squeaky wheel in advocacies for health-care patient rights against Big Insurance, for local water reliance, successful in the Panorama City commercial area revitalization and in tipping the balance against the Mayor of Los Angeles thwarted solar power grab has prepared me to be my District’s grassroots advocate in the State Legislature. I was the only Green Party Candidate running for State-wide Legislative Office in 2008 and by learning from what worked in my 2008 effort, the Lindblad Campaign is ramping up commensurate to win in 2010!

the above link will take you to the Lindblad Assembly Campaign and http://lindbladarchitects.com takes you to my award-winning Architectural Practice site

here’s part of my campaign plank in my run to win the 2010 contest for 39th California Assembly District.

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Science says we must make the most of the time left until 2015 to transition to a 100% renewable energy economy
• Nobel-prize-winning physicist and US Energy Secretary Steven Chu on climate change: “I don’t think the American public has gripped in its gut what will happen. We’re looking at a scenario where there’s no more agriculture in California. I don’t actually see how they can keep their cities going, either.” (2009)
• Only six years left for global warming target: UN panel chief Pachauri says to avoid looming climate catastrophe.
• Key to meeting the July 2015 deadline is transformation to renewable energy, conservation, consumption reduction, a steady-state economy replacing the ‘growth’ economy.
• Facing state government shutdown, the state of California’s yawning budget meltdown and economic, societal and political collapses provide telling evidence to scupper the failed “growth-economy” model and to adopt a steady-state economic model, to meet the challenges of lowered greenhouse gas emissions by 70% by 2015 and lowered consumption to meet the imperative to transform to a 100% renewable energy economy by 2015 – to avoid catastrophic sea-level rise, desertification, water shortages, acidifying oceans, agricultural collapse, and mass urban populations turned to millions of climate refugees.
• Nobel prize-winning tmospheric chemist Paul Crutzen, “I would like to be optimistic that we’ll survive, but I’ve got no good reason to be. In order to be safe, we would have to reduce our carbon emissions by 70 per cent by 2015. We are currently putting in 3 per cent more each year.”

http://network.greenchange.org/blogs/8237-bringing-the-green-new-deal-to-america

I’ve considered alternative names (New Green Deal, Green Deal, etc) and I think Green New Deal works best for a few reasons. It has the best flow. It ties in with the European Greens’ plan, reinforcing the idea of Green as an international movement. Finally, it taps into the history of the New Deal and ever so subtly lays claim to the Rooseveltian legacy.

“I think we need to better articulate our message on economic issues, particularly reassuring small business owners that we aren’t going to tax the shit out of them. We have to show how we can support them through investing in Main Street.”

Agreed.

Jonathan and Greg – I like your suggestions. Here’s a revised version of a couple points, taking into account the feedback I’ve gotten:

-Institute free public higher education and universal daycare
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-Cut military spending by at least two-thirds and invest the dividend into programs to:
1. give America a world-class public transportation system
2. retrofit 10 million homes with energy-conserving insulation
3. power America with 50% renewable energy by 2020, and 100% by 2030
4. fund a Civilian Conservation Corps to restore and conserve natural ecosystems

On an unrelated note The Green Candidates Resource Center is ready to help any Green candidates gearing up for elections. http://greencandidatesresourcecenter.com/

I suggest an addition from Jeremy Cloward’s campaign for the special congressional election in California’s 10th district (jeremycloward.com): Child care. Those of us who are parents know that child care is intricately related to the ability to work. Too many jobs bring in only enough money to pay for the child care they require – and not very high quality child care at that.

Cloward suggests a two-thirds reduction in the military budget, which still leaves our military at a rate of spending higher than that of China, the next biggest spender. The savings could go to pay for universal day care, provided through an expansion of local public school systems that already exist.

I like the phrase “Green New Deal” – as it will bring in people searching for the phrase New Deal.

I don’t know if I agree with some of the specifics yet (I need to do some more research) but I definitely agree that it is time for a Green Political Resurgence in America and it needs a unified message such as this to support the candidates and send a simple and clear message to the voters of what the Green Party offers.

I would call it the “New Green Deal” perhaps, to differentiate it from the green washing occurring at all levels of government and media.

I like a simple list, and I think this is a great start.

I think we need to better articulate our message on economic issues, particularly reassuring small business owners that we aren’t going to tax the shit out of them. We have to show how we can support them through investing in Main Street.

But on another note – we need an effective means of recruiting good candidates to run for office, candidates who can speak clearly and convincingly on how the Green Plan is worth voting for.

We should be talking about this a whole lot more!