39th Assembly Green Candidate Lindblad discusses jobs, education, environment on Radio Espuelas

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PRLog (Press Release) – Sep 30, 2010 – Jack Lindblad, vying for the 39th Assembly seat on this November’s ballot, says that his presentation on Espuelas Spurs Debate at 5:00 PM, today, Thursday afternoon on AM radio 1020, will “focus on how three critical District concerns: jobs, education, and a sustainable, quality environment will advance once elected.” To honor that pledge, Mr Lindblad continues he will “fight until every person in the district who needs a job can get one, recapture our position as a world-class public education system, and make our region sustainable: in water, improving our air quality, and freeing traffic gridlock.

Fernando Espuelas' daily radio talkshow airs on 1020AM in Los Angeles, the number 1 Latin AM station in the market, and part of the Univision Radio network, and also online at espuelas.com. read more

39th Assembly Green Candidate Lindblad to address a failed political climate in Sacramento at forum

PRLog (Press Release) – Sep 27, 2010 – Jack Lindblad, vying for the 39th Assembly seat on this November’s ballot, says that his presentation will “focus on how three critical District concerns: jobs, education, quality of life and a sustainable environment will advance once a change of the narcissist political climate in Sacramento is reached by voting out corporate partisans. Being unaccountable to constituents while beholdened to Lobbyist interests explains Legislator's failure to live up to their duties and live within their means.”

Panorama High School, 8015 Van Nuys Boulevard, Panorama City, 91402 is the location of a candidate forum, today, Monday evening, September 27, 2010 at 7:00 PM. Meet candidates for the 39th, 40th Assembly, 20th State Senate Districts 27th, 28th Congressional Districts. Candidates for the office of Superintendent of Public Instruction have been invited. Ask questions; get answers! read more

The relocalization process of restoring the Tujunga-Pacoima Watershed

The objectives of restoring the Tujunga-Pacoima Watershed point to a green jobs based economy arrived at by a process of Relocalization involving some key concepts featured in Biologist Jason Bradford's Relocalization: A Strategic Response to Climate Change and Peak Oil:

Relocalization is based on a systems approach that doesn’t solve one set of problems (peak oil) only to make another problem (climate shift) worse.

Relocalization is based on an ethic of protecting the Earth System--or Natural Capital-- knowing that despite our cleverness, human well-being is fundamentally derived from the ecological and geological richness of Earth.

Relocalization starts from the premise that the world is a finite place and that humanity is in a state of overshoot (relying on an oil-based economy and resource consumption levels beyond the planet's carrying capacity). Perpetual growth of the economy and the population is neither possible nor desirable. It is wise to start planning now for a world with less available energy, not more.

While we can’t know future threats precisely, scientists do agree that creating a carbon-cycle neutral economy should be the dominant task occupying our minds. This is exactly what Relocalization aims to do.

Relocalization advocates rebuilding more balanced local economies that emphasize securing basic needs. Local food, energy and water systems are perhaps the most critical to build. In the absence of (past) reliable (but now exhausted) trade partners, whether from peak oil, natural disaster or political instability, a local economy that at least produces its essential goods will have a true comparative advantage.

Relocalization takes a different perspective altogether. Instead of working to keep a system going that has no future, it calls us to develop means of livelihood that pollute as little as possible and that promote local and regional stability. Since much of our pollution results from the distances goods travel, we must shorten distances between production and consumption as much as we can.

Then given the processes involved, What is Relocalization?

Relocalization is a strategy to build societies based on the local production of food, energy and goods, and the local development of currency, governance and culture. The main goals of Relocalization are to increase community energy security, to strengthen local economies, and to dramatically improve environmental conditions and social equity.

The Relocalization strategy developed in response to the environmental, social, political and economic impacts of global over-reliance on an oil-based economy. Our dependence on once cheap non-renewable fossil fuel energy has produced climate change, the erosion of community, wars for oil-rich land and the instability of the global economic system.

Urban planning and design must be ordered by the watershed. One needs to insure that survival of civitas will be dependent on having close-at-hand access to (work, food, water, energy, shelter, clothing, health care, education, culture). Bio-regional determinism effected by the process of Relocalization will define watersheds as the basic political governing, economic and social units where the grassroots governs from the bottom up.