[Eco] Tom Vilsack's energy plan

[Luisa]

Wow! Can you imagine that?! Actually living by the principles 
of Ecological Economics?! That would be wonderful. And for 
the whole USA?!

Also hopeful is the Maryland Global Warming Solutions Act. 
Robin sent info on a Grassroots Conference Call to learn 
about the political strategy to pass this act.

I think some of you know that I am an alien (I am a Mexican 
citizen). There are many reasons why I would want to become a 
resident. But only one for which I would like to become a 
citizen, and that is, to vote. (I am sneaky though, and I 
vote in other ways: with my money, actions and lifestyle - 
and you can vote like that too!).

Anyway, this is wonderful!

Luisa


--On 2/17/07 9:55 PM -0500 Rebecca Stallings 
<becca at wunderland.com> wrote:

> I already knew that Barack Obama has a solid environmental
> record. Looks like Tom Vilsack also is a good presidential
> choice, environmentally speaking:
>
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> It Takes a Vilsack to Raise Our Hopes
> Presidential candidate Tom Vilsack outlines bold energy and
> climate plan
>
> If Democratic presidential long-shot Tom Vilsack had his
> way, the U.S. would embrace a mandatory cap-and-trade
> system to slash greenhouse-gas emissions 75 percent by
> 2050, break its oil addiction, and create hundreds of
> thousands of clean-energy jobs. This week, the former Iowa
> governor became the first presidential hopeful to outline a
> detailed energy policy. Just picture it: new power plants
> carbon-free by 2020; fuel providers reducing carbon
> emissions 1 percent a year for a decade; a
> 25-cent-per-gallon federal tax credit for cellulosic
> ethanol production; a nigh-unto-petroleum-free
> transportation system by 2040; and the Energy Department --
> now "an advocate for fossil-based fuel providers" --
> renamed the Department of Energy Security. Ballsy! Vilsack
> even pledged to green his stumping by offsetting his travel
> and office electricity use. "[O]ur nation's destiny truly
> hangs in the balance," he said. While he checks "become
> proficient in hyperbole" off his to-do list, feel free to
> salivate.
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> The above excerpt is from Daily Grist, a handy enviro-news
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> 		---'Becca
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