My architecture firm and my legislative agenda once I'm elected to the California state assembly share the same goal: To require all new construction and remodeling to meet the 2030 target of a graduated reduction of fossil fuel usage to zero by implementing innovative sustainable design and tax strategies, encouraging transit-oriented, pedestrian friendly, mixed-use development, generating on-site renewable power and/or certified renewable energy credits. The overall objective is to 'get off the grid' by achieving net-zero-energy performance.
The goals set in California were inspired by the 2030 Challenge goals, in which the nonprofit organization Architecture 2030 calls for no fossil fuel use for buildings by 2030. But California's goals are focused on net-zero-energy performance instead of fossil fuel use. CEC based its definition of net-zero-energy performance, and many of its recommendations, on a report by the California Public Utility Commission (CPUC), which states that a goal of “no net purchases from the electricity or gas grid” may be met with energy-efficient design and “onsite clean distributed generation.” Neither agency explains how net-zero-energy performance would be calculated in a building needing to offset natural gas usage with renewable energy.
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Saturday, January 19, 2008
Lindblad announces run for California State Assembly
Against the dire backdrop of what scientists are saying that humanity has until 2010 to stop unchecked global warming "before it's too late" to avoid catastrophic effects to the health and economy of humankind, Jack Lindblad is announcing his candidacy to be elected to the California State Assembly.
California's Assembly legislates for a state that (if considered a nation) would be the world's eighth-largest economy and twelfth-ranked contributor to global greenhouse gases.
The current Democrat officeholder in a mostly Latino working class district is not reflecting the urgency required of political leadership to transform our wasteful, consumptive society from pending extinction to sustainability that both Democrats and Republicans refuse to address in realistic measures.
California's Assembly legislates for a state that (if considered a nation) would be the world's eighth-largest economy and twelfth-ranked contributor to global greenhouse gases.
The current Democrat officeholder in a mostly Latino working class district is not reflecting the urgency required of political leadership to transform our wasteful, consumptive society from pending extinction to sustainability that both Democrats and Republicans refuse to address in realistic measures.
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