We must heed the threat of solar storms

Our centralized, wasteful and non-sustainable electric grid is an anthropomorphic miscalculation waiting to collapse with severe CME solar flares in this planet's immediate future. A Perfect Storm of Planetary Proportions - IEEE Spectrum

Decentralization is a Green Ten Key value highlighted in our Lindblad for assembly 2012 Campaign to Relocalize water resources, energy, material goods, food production and banking as part of revitalizing the Los Angeles river and it's Tujunga-Pacoima watershed with lowered impact development - toward a steady-state, 100% renewable energy economy. This policy implementation is essential to mitigate, adapt to, and revitalize sustainable locales - climate disruption's worsening catastrophes and CME solar flares. Space storm alert: 90 seconds from catastrophe


one main reason to be a locovore and relocalize water, food, material production, banking/finance renewable energy. Get off all macro grids now! Get on all local, micro, smart grids now!

Is Fracking In California Going To Cause Earthquakes?

Did you know that there was fracking going on in hundreds of locations around California, including some in nearby Monterey County? Well, there is, and a new report just came out about it, which includes the revelation that the state basically has no regulations at present around the practice of fracking, which has been known to cause small earthquakes.

Is Fracking In California Going To Cause Earthquakes?

Lindblad is running to a certain 2012 win for California's 39th Assembly seat

In order to qualify for the June 5th ballot, we of the Lindblad Volunteer Campaign gathered 1331 registered voter signatures in every community of our 39th Assembly District - with three of us, including myself, tirelessly outreaching and sharing with our constituents: Green values, Legislative ideas and issues and how they relate to our day-to-day struggle.

Our District-originated volunteer campaign is an idea whose time has come for an undeniable and certain win in 2012 based on long-time award-winning community planning service and electoral progress. We tripled our vote (22%) for California's 39th Assembly seat in 2010 from my 2008 run: 8.1%! For the People's Voice, independent of the duopolistic influences shredding the alternate parties and the middle class. That's our Green values way of having No Corporate Beholdence. All our campaigns never have, do not and never will accept corporate donations.

For effectiveness, competence, time-proven community leadership in our Governance, we the People must throw off the insidious corruption, fraud, deceit and smear of the duopolist Machine politics at play - and deliver grass-roots Representation in Sacramento.

I joined over 1000 California State University at Northridge  students in a walkout on March 2, 2011 demanding full education funding making real the Dream for all California students.

Lindblad is running to a certain 2012 win for California's 39th Assembly seat

Social justice issues are inextricably tied to environmental justice and must be part of the environmental agenda. Once elected, Lindblad will fight in favor of, and advance legislation to:
° Save Our Neighborhoods - Our Quality of Life
Green Jobs economy. Relocalize water resources, energy, material goods and food production. Fully fund our District-wide ground water cleanup projects. Lowered Impact Development - More parks. Halt foreclosures with lowered loan values.
° Abolish Corporate Personhood and politics of personal enrichment
Ban all corporatist lobbying and campaign spending with full implementation of public financing of elections - halts lobbyist influence over land-use planning.
° Protect Human rights - not Privilege and Raids
Human Dignity, building community and fair Immigration rights by immediately ending raids and deportation. Early childhood care, education, mentoring and sports to prevent gang violence. Reverse long term spending on prisons over education.

A Green jobs New Deal version Steady-State economy focuses on rewilding, revitalization of watersheds, jobs in energy monitoring and conservation, mass transit, greenbelts of wildlife corridors - in which high tech plays a part. Fracking is an intolerable threat to ground stability and aquifer potable water. Hydrological fracturing is mistaken seen as a means to extracting natural gas to provide a false transition to a renewable energy economy. Wind, solar, wave, zero-point and free energy will provide our transition to a 100% renewable energy economy.

Three criteria to be met by developers memorialized in our award-winning Panorama Commercial Area Revitalization study: transit--oriented, mixed-use, and pedestrian-friendly - were adopted as part of SB 375 for complying with AB 32, California's Climate Change legislation, to reduce global greenhouse gases by 1/3 (compared to 1990 levels) in 2020. Once elected, Lindblad will further insure our 2020 energy goals are met and exceeded.

Increasing the high tech job sector without a moral compass of frugality, sustainability and relocalization cannot not be a guidepost to a 100% renewable energy, net-zero energy, steady-state economy.

Our communities here in the East San Fernando Valley, lower Tujunga-Pacoima watershed can be a model for the state and beyond to refocus delivering excellent, efficient, and effective governance most productively on the local, bioregional level.

Testifying before the City Redistricting Commission, joined by 50 local residents, my urging to keep the foothill communities in the same district as the mountain pass communities (both in the same watershed) - was met with success. The commission redrew the city council lines per the communities’ request.

Our imperative is to Make Rehabilitation and Education the 'penalties' - not the warehousing punishment that incarceration amounts to.

Since felonies involve higher court costs and result in lengthier periods of incarceration, the cost savings from these reforms would be substantial. These savings would make implementation of the Governor's realignment plan less costly, allowing local authorities to use the money saved to fund rehabilitation, drug treatment, and other proven strategies for reducing crime.

These sentencing reforms will help to preserve scarce dollars for schools and universities, health care and social services. And California will stop spending unnecessary millions to incarcerate people who pose no threat to public safety.

the mission, the vision and the plan.

Our communities along the western slopes of the San Gabriel mountains forsee a future expanding the current 100 billion dollar a year ecotourism industry in California to attain an eco-tourist paradise where our communities serve as portals to the Angeles Crest National Park and as multi-modal hubs to active and passive recreation of a rewilded Los Angeles River and its tributary washes reaching into the upper, forested Tujunga-Pacoima watershed.

Our Revolutionary Communities consensing by voting to office, those candidates reflecting empathy - will steer a course away from an isolated political class of self-absorbed careerists toward equity and social justice. This dynamic finds a resoundant chord in each of our runs for office.

Unfunded mandates are ineffectual. Ballot box voting is a quixotic and problematic game of blaming others with plausible deniability for continuing budgetary problems. Militarist us foreign adventures must be stopped to balance the states and federal budget.

Demonstrable progress and leaps in my vote totals - without corporate donations (we have never have accepted corporate donations and never will) shows this DNA is in the community to springboard our win and spreading - which we will represent the People's Voice in Sacramento - real human beings over corporatists - transcending those political roadblocks of the politics of the moment and the 'art of the deal'. Worker Rights are not to be compromised!

Of Greens in line to win partisan elected office after decades of building the wider constituent base driving that election - In our Heroic Working Class Communities - we are pitted against either the one democrat who allows no one to run against him, is under 22 indictments of voter fraud and perjury in our 39th California Assembly District or the other, a chief Legislative aide to the 'most corrupt Legislator in California' now termed out of the Assembly - where our electoral effort is building on 2010's 22% (in a one-on-one rematch against that much younger corrupt democrat - we tripled our 2008 8.1%).

Jack Lindblad is a proven community leader who pledges, with a staff of community legislative deputies to “fight until every person in the district who needs a job can get a living wage green job, recapture our position as a world-class public education system, and make our relocalized region sustainable: in water, energy, food production and banking and improving our environmental quality."

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An architect by education and profession, Jack Lindblad is running to win California's 39th State Assembly District seat in 2012, in back-to-back contests and one-on-one rematch with the incumbent, earning 21.6% of the vote in 2010 (tripling the 2008 showing), tops for alternative parties. His award-winning sustainable urban design and architecture practice has a healthcare facility emphasis. Lindblad campaigns on a Green-values platform for a carbon-neutral, relocalized, 100% renewable energy, steady state economy, basing development on bio-regional determinism, not developers.

He will advance these moral imperatives in the Legislature to balance the budget, manage multiple collapses, mitigate and adapt to ecological collapse's worst catastrophes, offset existing environmental problems, and alleviate economic disruptions. A member of Economic Alliance of the San Fernando Valley Livable Communities Council, he has supported community grass-root efforts, forming neighborhood councils, co-authoring a sustainable community plan to revitalize the Panorama City commercial area, advocating District-wide multimodal rapid transit, stopping gentrification, revitalizing the Tujunga-Pacoima Watershed, assisting in the 'No on B' win to provide unfettered solar power to stakeholders and assisting in the successful effort keeping the foothill and upper watershed communities in one city council district. His current focus is sustainable urban morphologies and the inherent conservation technologies at work.

Occupation: Architect/Private Practitioner/Community Organizer/Party County Councilmember
Masters degree in Architecture, Texas A & M University with an Outpatient Healthcare Facility thesis.
University of Washington at Seattle, Bachelors degree in Environmental Design and a Yearly Award for High Scholastic Achievement.
Co-Author/Presenter Panorama City Urban Design Assistance Team Study for developing of a sustainable historic commercial area in cooperation with the Los Angeles City Council and Planning Department.
Pioneered a mix of services as a building type: Diagnostic & Treatment Ambulatory Outpatient Surgical Centers & MRI Facilities. Used day-lighting tech.
Member of the Economic Alliance of the San Fernando Valley Livable Communities Council.
Coro Southern California Neighborhood Leadership Development Program Graduate 2003.
Received an American Institute of Architects Innovative Cities award to the Panorama City Plan and 2005 Component Excellence Award.
"Conflict Resolution Training-Mending Human Relations" sponsored by L.A. City Human Relations Commission, Nat'l Conference for Community and Justice Participant.
Contributed public comment for the Commission on the 21st Century Economy, read and acknowledged by Governor Schwarzenegger, posted on this page, as a pdf, drawing together the economic and ecological collapses' connectedness to urge a steady state economy and tax policy based on relocalization and bio-regional determinism to retire endemic deficit spending and adapt to, mitigate, and restore ecological services from climate change by reducing emissions 70% by 2015 for a less than 2 °C rise from 2000 levels to avoid escalating, horrific effects of deepening social, economic and ecological collapse beyond the capacity of governments to respond.

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Jack Lindblad is running to win California's 39th Assembly seat!

The Green party was first introduced in St. Paul, Minn. in 1984. Many efforts such as a few campaigns for electoral office, philosophical discussions, and alternative institution building helped fuel the growth of Green Party chapters around the country. Alaska was the first state to ever archive a recognized Green ballot in 1990. The party grew from there on and after the 1996 elections the Green party formed the Association of State Green Parties (ASGP) who then, filed for national party status.  This party mainly focuses around environmental issues but they also focus on issues that deal with peace and decreasing the power of the corporation. The most recent action in the Green Party includes, Kent Mesplay, Jill Stein, and Harley Mikkelson running for President, Jack Lindblad running for state assembly...Jack Lindblad is running to win California's 39th Assembly seat!

39th Assembly Candidate Lindblad: Vote No on All ‘Ballot Box Budgeting’ Los Angeles Measures

Putting this raft of measures on the ballot, the City Council and mayor have relegated their duties to write the laws - to the public! Our elected officials want plausible deniability - failing to solve the deficit and to balance the budget.

The entire City infrastructure, system and it’s processes are unsustainable. For three years, since 2008, the City has been in a fiscal emergency. It’s getting worse. Foreseeable tax receipts are in steep decline from the collapsed property tax base arising from the financial, social and economic collapse putting people out of their homes on the streets. For the 2011-2012 fiscal year, $130 million less is expected than this year. The City faces a $54 million budget deficit this year and a projected $350 million deficit in fiscal year 2011-2012. The Controller anticipates the City needing to borrow $450 million in Tax and Revenue Anticipation Notes (TRANs) next year to cover cash flow. The City will be required to pay $628 million in debt service next year.

Several sitting City Council members, contested in this election, appear to leave tough decisions to the public by putting these budgetary measures on the ballot. Self-serving City elected office-holders, shirking their personal responsibility to perform obligations of their office, are trying to protect their ‘ticket to ride’!

The measures mistakenly base estimations of future tax receipts increasing. Vote No on Ballot Box Budgeting and No on All the Measures!

The Mayor, faced with escalating City budgetary insolvency and bankruptcy, shall be compelled to declare a Fiscal Emergency, that, under statue, will remove the effect of all or any of the Measures G, H, I, J, L, M, N, O, P, Q that pass. The City’s ongoing fiscal crisis makes this overloaded slate of measures trifling and irrelevant.

Police and Fire pensions are at issue across the country. Many jurisdictions make no draw on the public fund to pay the pensions. DWP and civilian workers are left out. Pensions account for over one-third of the City budget - at a level that sucks the oxygen out basic City services and transformation of DWP to renewable energy. This is a piecemeal approach, removes collective bargaining rights and casts savings over the horizon. New hires are to pay 2 percent of their salaries for health care while being guaranteed the same 90 percent pensions and benefits that existing cops and firefighters get. Slowing cost increases by limiting payouts to the new workers and encouraging them to remain on the job longer makes little inroads on the deficit moving ahead when it’s unlikely there will be a lot of new hires without biting into critical City services. Vote No on Measure G.

Of the City slate of ten (10) measures, the Green Party of Los Angeles County Council passed an endorsement for Measure H only. Heralded by it’s intent to bar contractors from contributing to political campaign and to edge closer to full public financing of campaigns so that citizen candidates with limited assets be given something greater than a slim to no chance of winning, the effect of the measure does nothing to contain independent campaign committees contributions and spending. By the lack of addressing the major loophole, Measure H fails to meet its intent of seeing citizen candidates less likely to lose. The measure has no application to contracts with DWP, the Harbor and Airport Authorities - departments with excessive contracts and big money contributions. Vote No on Measure H.

Council President Eric Garcetti and Jose Huizar caved in to D'Arcy (the same of the failed Proposition B Solar power grab) to slash funding for the OPA/Rate Payer Advocate by 75 percent from $4 million to $1 million and limit its ability to break down the DWP's wall of secrecy with access to full and complete information. The Office of Public Accountability’s requirements to be briefed by the DWP were stripped out. Implementation of this measure will be up to the Council to decide through ordinances, the same Council that waivered in the face of D'Arcy's maneuvers that took away power to evaluate all aspects of DWP activities: disclosure of water and power rate analysis and renewable energy progress in replacing the dirty coal-fired plants. Vote No on Measure I.

Measure J sets dates, timelines and procedures memorialized in the City Charter to prevent ever again the shenanigan from spring 2010 when the city illegally transferred $130 million in "surplus" water revenue to the general fund - not paying back ratepayers - increasing the transfer from "surplus" power revenue from 5% to 8% to the general fund -- a tax coming on top of a 10% DWP utility tax on every bill. The mayor sought to parley a 28% increase in electric rates and the rubber-stamping DWP Commission and leadership cooked the books to justify withholding $73 million in surplus revenue transfers to see the rate hike approved. The extortive attempted rate hike was held to 5% by a City Council fearing being defeated. Measure J smacks of a power grab written with back-doors and paths to not comply with the intent to legislate honesty. Vote No on Measure J.

Ruthless in their disdain for constituents and library users including many students, the mayor and Council so cut funding such that Los Angeles was the first big city in America to shutter its public libraries two days a week. The increase of the libraries’ share of the city’s property tax to 0.030%, phased in over five years, will not open libraries in the near term - due to the measure’s charge-backs:

"Beginning in fiscal year 2014-15 and thereafter, the Library Department shall be responsible for payment of all of its direct and indirect costs, which shall include, but not be limited to, health, dental, pension, building services and utility costs," the measure reads.

The flawed premise of eventual sustainable funding is based on property taxes rising as fast as wages and benefits, cost of resources, water and power, maintenance and all that the mayor and Council define as "direct and indirect" costs. Vote No on Measure L.

The tax on medical marijuana sales is fraught with legal inconsistencies. One, medicine is not allowed to be taxed. Two, California law disallows selling marijuana, only recovery of costs. No profits are supposed to realized. That’s why only non-profits supposedly are managing dispensaries. Third, the City is wanting to tax a federally unregulated, illegal substance to possess. Vote No on Measure M.

The “Citizen’s United” Supreme Court decision removed limits on the amount of money unions, corporations and individuals can spend on elections through independent expenditure committees so Measure N only brings Los Angeles City rules for city and school board elections into line with federal law. Whether it passes or not, the law is not in question. Rich and powerful people are able to spend unlimited amounts, effectively buying elections circumventing City limits on contributions of $500 or $1000. Vote No on Measure N.

After 100 years of squandering the allocations of oil revenues not collected, the expected revenue amounts to $4 million a year or 1 percent of next year's deficit. Next to no impact on the budget is realized by the measure. Measure O makes no earmark to transform the City’s energy generation to renewable sources. The measure allows the political process to dispose of the revenue on the desire of the elected officials. Vote No on Measure O.

Lowering the statutory 5% of the general fund that must be already held in an Emergency Reserve Account to 2.75% and a Budget Stabilization Fund be established. All bets are off in a fiscal emergency that even a lowered set-aside will not escape spending. Vote No on Measure P.

The mayor’s power is extended to exempt deputy fire chiefs from civil service, limiting the number of civil service applicants - increasing the potential for patronage abuses by eliminating the need for full and open examinations and the need to review all candidates seeking promotions in every department. Vote No on Measure Q.