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| Obama Stimulus More About Politics Than Jobs |
9/9/2010 |
| Obama Stimulus More About Politics Than Jobs
By Don Miller, Associate Editor, Money Morning
U.S. President Barack Obama yesterday (Wednesday) finished unveiling of a $350 billion stimulus package that the White House hopes will assuage the fears of troubled homeowners and create jobs. But with midterm elections looming and Congressional Democrats expected to sustain heavy losses, it's unlikely the plan will even get passed - much less generate any meaningful economic growth.
Indeed, the true aim of Obama's new stimulus is to put Republicans in a difficult position.
"The president has changed the conversation from whether to renew or terminate President Bush's tax cuts to his own tax-cut agenda, and is promoting a couple of business-friendly proposals that Republicans have previously promoted," David Wessel wrote in The Wall Street Journal. "So Republicans either oppose them, and look hypocritical, or back him: a win-win for Democrats."
Obama's new proposals employ a front-loaded approach with tax cuts to spur business spending and infrastructure projects to promote job creation.
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//moneymorning.com/2010/09/09/obama-stimulus
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| Al Gore's Film - An Inconvenient Truth - An Active Solution |
4/10/2009 |
| Al Gore in his Oscar winning documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, has created international awareness of the escalating negative impacts climate change will have on civilization. Unfortunately, many persons are either in denial or they feel it is too massive a problem and they are powerless to change the inevitable. America must get out of the deer-in-the-headlights mindset and start proactively changing the course we are on.
We are at a critical juncture in the history of modern civilization. If we want to strongly counteract the effects of climate change, we MUST dramatically reinvent the way we work, live and play.
The website listed below encourages us all to look for proactive ways to change our ecological impacts.
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http://www.climatecrisis.net/takeaction/becomeactive/
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| Senate Bill 375: Redesigning Communities to Reduce Greenhouse Gases |
3/31/2009 |
| The single-largest source of greenhouse gases in California is emissions from passenger vehicles, and in order to reduce those emissions, we must work to reduce Californians' vehicle-miles traveled (VMTs). That means helping people spend less time in their cars to get to work and to the grocery store. In order to reach California's greenhouse gas reductions goals set out in the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (AB 32), we must rethink how we design our communities.
Global Green Village is focused on revitalizing existing communities into European Villages. NOT promoting urban sprawl.
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http://gov.ca.gov/fact-sheet/10707/
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| NY TIMES - Reinventing America’s Cities: The Time Is Now |
3/25/2009 |
| NICOLAI OUROUSSOFF
Published: March 25, 2009
THE country has fallen on hard times, but those of us who love cities know we have been living in the dark ages for a while now. We know that turning things around will take more than just pouring money into shovel-ready projects, regardless of how they might boost the economy. Windmills won’t do it either. We long for a bold urban vision.
Global Green Village is proactively working with San Francisco Bay Area cities to revitalize them economically and environmentally. A GreenPrint for Sustainability!
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/29/arts/design/29ouro.html?_r=1&emc=eta1
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| Bay Meadows development on hold in housing slump - A Great Opportunity!! |
3/18/2009 |
| (Palo Alto Daily News (Palo Alto, CA) Mar. 18--Developers say they have put the second phase of construction at the Bay Meadows site on hold indefinitely because of the dismal housing market, but antici-pate they'll start building before an April 2012 deadline.
This is an opportunity to rethink our existing openspace in the bay area. Do not build over it - preserve it for future generations. |
http://www.baymeadows.com/
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| Pacific Institute study on Climate Changes impact on Sea Levels |
3/11/2009 |
| The Pacific Institute report, The Impacts of Sea-Level Rise on the California Coast, concludes that sea-level rise will inevitably change the character of the California coast, and that adaptation strategies must be evaluated, tested, and implemented if the risks identified in the report are to be reduced or avoided.
We at GGV believe that developing sustainable communities will be the one of the strongest paths we can take to curb climate change issues.
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http://www.pacinst.org/reports/sea_level_rise/index.htm
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| Global Green Village Announces Partnership Program! |
6/30/2008 |
| Global Green Village Announces Partnership Program! |
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| GreenPrint Workshop Held at Oracle HQ |
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| Global Green Village held a “Sustainability-oriented” workshop at the Housing Leadership Council’s annual conference that was held on October 23, 2009 at Oracle Headquarters in Redwood City. The event was sold out.
Historically this conference has focused primarily on the public sector and it has consisted of 250-300 elected officials and key city staffers who are looking at housing issues facing the peninsula. Our workshop invited other sectors to participate.
The current theme of the event this year was.... " It is the Worst of Times - It is the Best of Times - ". A counterpoint play-off of Charles Dickens's book, A Tale of Two Cities.
The theme of our workshop, we can kick-start the economy through our revitalization program which dramatically reinvents the way communities revitalize themselves. The format of the workshop consisted of a panel that covered several sectors to demonstrate the point that ultimately we must collaborate if we are going to become more sustainable.
Our panel of speakers/sectors included were:
Amy Newfouse – Land Use Attorney – Senior Partner DLA Piper
Marian Lee - Executive Officer of the Planning & Development Division. S.M. County Transit District
Professor Nick Watry - Cal Poly – San Luis Obispo’s Architectural College
Peter Ingram - City Manager, Redwood City
Kim Cranston – Downtown Property Owner/Environmentalist
Marty Keller – Principal – First Community Housing (Affordable Housing)
Greg Greenway - Threshold 2008 – (Community Leader)
Steve Dworetzky – SVP United American Bank
Moderator – Mark Moulton, Former Executive Director of Habitat for Humanity
We were able to show that the GreenPrint methodology can act not only as an economic stimulus and catalyst for the community, it ultimately can make us more sustainable as a region.
We will be having an all day Town Hall Meeting in February 2010 that will expand on the theme and get into specifics on the action plan necessary to make it happen.
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| September 9, 2010 Obama Stimulus More About Politics Than Jobs
By Don Miller, Associate Editor, Money Morning
U.S. President Barack Obama yesterday (Wednesday) finished unveiling of a $350 billion stimulus package that the White House hopes will assuage the fears of troubled homeowners and create jobs. But with midterm elections looming and Congressional Democrats expected to sustain heavy losses, it's unlikely the plan will even get passed - much less generate any meaningful economic growth.
Indeed, the true aim of Obama's new stimulus is to put Republicans in a difficult position.
"The president has changed the conversation from whether to renew or terminate President Bush's tax cuts to his own tax-cut agenda, and is promoting a couple of business-friendly proposals that Republicans have previously promoted," David Wessel wrote in The Wall Street Journal. "So Republicans either oppose them, and look hypocritical, or back him: a win-win for Democrats."
Obama's new proposals employ a front-loaded approach with tax cuts to spur business spending and infrastructure projects to promote job creation.
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| September 9, 2010 Obama Stimulus More About Politics Than Jobs
By Don Miller, Associate Editor, Money Morning
U.S. President Barack Obama yesterday (Wednesday) finished unveiling of a $350 billion stimulus package that the White House hopes will assuage the fears of troubled homeowners and create jobs. But with midterm elections looming and Congressional Democrats expected to sustain heavy losses, it's unlikely the plan will even get passed - much less generate any meaningful economic growth.
Indeed, the true aim of Obama's new stimulus is to put Republicans in a difficult position.
"The president has changed the conversation from whether to renew or terminate President Bush's tax cuts to his own tax-cut agenda, and is promoting a couple of business-friendly proposals that Republicans have previously promoted," David Wessel wrote in The Wall Street Journal. "So Republicans either oppose them, and look hypocritical, or back him: a win-win for Democrats."
Obama's new proposals employ a front-loaded approach with tax cuts to spur business spending and infrastructure projects to promote job creation.
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| September 9, 2010 Obama Stimulus More About Politics Than Jobs
By Don Miller, Associate Editor, Money Morning
U.S. President Barack Obama yesterday (Wednesday) finished unveiling of a $350 billion stimulus package that the White House hopes will assuage the fears of troubled homeowners and create jobs. But with midterm elections looming and Congressional Democrats expected to sustain heavy losses, it's unlikely the plan will even get passed - much less generate any meaningful economic growth.
Indeed, the true aim of Obama's new stimulus is to put Republicans in a difficult position.
"The president has changed the conversation from whether to renew or terminate President Bush's tax cuts to his own tax-cut agenda, and is promoting a couple of business-friendly proposals that Republicans have previously promoted," David Wessel wrote in The Wall Street Journal. "So Republicans either oppose them, and look hypocritical, or back him: a win-win for Democrats."
Obama's new proposals employ a front-loaded approach with tax cuts to spur business spending and infrastructure projects to promote job creation.
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| September 9, 2010 Obama Stimulus More About Politics Than Jobs
By Don Miller, Associate Editor, Money Morning
U.S. President Barack Obama yesterday (Wednesday) finished unveiling of a $350 billion stimulus package that the White House hopes will assuage the fears of troubled homeowners and create jobs. But with midterm elections looming and Congressional Democrats expected to sustain heavy losses, it's unlikely the plan will even get passed - much less generate any meaningful economic growth.
Indeed, the true aim of Obama's new stimulus is to put Republicans in a difficult position.
"The president has changed the conversation from whether to renew or terminate President Bush's tax cuts to his own tax-cut agenda, and is promoting a couple of business-friendly proposals that Republicans have previously promoted," David Wessel wrote in The Wall Street Journal. "So Republicans either oppose them, and look hypocritical, or back him: a win-win for Democrats."
Obama's new proposals employ a front-loaded approach with tax cuts to spur business spending and infrastructure projects to promote job creation.
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