<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>How do I join energy working group? I will be at Occupy Boston tomorrow evening. I could hep with wiki page. I'm an energy guy and Sustainability Director at SNHU. See my latest op-ed below.</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>Roy</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span><div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in">Roy
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93278 Op-Ed 600 words</div>
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<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in"><b>A Message to the Occupy
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What now? That's up to you.
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A great rising in the streets against the intolerable may catalyze
healing change and basic reform. Or it may be met by further
repression, the club, the gun, and mass arrests.</div>
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As a long-time Clamshell Alliance non-violent activist, now energy
consultant and writer (www.EcoCivilization.info), I'll offer a few
principles to help inform your shaping of the modes of healing
change.
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Business as usual in not only unfair and unjust, it is
unsustainable. We are the path to global ecological and economic
collapse. If we do not alter this path, we face a future defined by
climate change, resource wars, crop failure, collapsing fisheries,
depleted aquifers, famine, epidemics, failed states, and mass
migration of the desperate.
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In response to this fundamental threat, economic growth must mean
ecological improvement, not ecological destruction. We cannot
continue down the current path toward catastrophe and collapse.
Energy, agriculture, forestry, and industry must pursue available
means to reduce waste and pollution while employing sustainable
techniques.</div>
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There are immediate steps we can take to put to reverse the tidal
wave of poison, put millions to work, and build sustainable
community based businesses. In a generation we can build an efficient
renewable resource energy system to replace fossil fuels and nuclear
power. Non-polluting efficient renewable resources can heat and cool
our homes, power our cars, our businesses.</div>
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We can put millions to work quickly going house to house, business to
business, to improve energy efficiency several fold. We can use the
dollars from this river of energy waste to finance the combined
efficiency-renewable resource transformation. The work can be done
through mechanisms such as a Feed -in-Tariff soliciting competitive
bids to install a combination of efficiency and renewables,
improvements paid for by deductions from savings on your utility
bill.</div>
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This efficient renewable resource transformation is not a technical
problem. It's a political problem. We have the technology. There's
enormous waste and copious renewable resources. There's capital
available. We face a crisis of the imagination of business as usual.
What's needed is the government determination to put the
transformation in motion.
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We need constructive structural adjustment.</div>
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To send signals for sustainability throughout the economy we can
adopt an ecological consumption tax system. We tax the bads, that is,
pollution, and not the goods, that is, income. We can phase out all
income taxes and phase in a smart ecological sales tax, an ecological
value added tax on all goods and services. The more polluting,
depleting and ecologically damaging, the higher the tax. Sustainable
goods and services will gain market share and be more profitable.
Polluting goods and services will lose market share and become less
profitable.
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Since consumption taxation is regressive, since poor people spend
all income, a negative income tax for the poor can maintain tax
equity.</div>
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And to keep the momentum of the efficient renewable transformation, a
community based National Trust banking system, with local democratic
control, can be established using tax dollars for initial
capitalization, A small Tobin tax on financial transactions can
raise both raise funds and control speculation. An inheritance tax
on estates of millionaires can help fund the negative income tax and
maintain inter-generational equity, serving as an antidote to
plutocracy and rule by billionaire babies.</div>
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The Occupy Wall Street movement is a fundamental challenge to
bankrupt financial and political business as usual. Our futures have
yet to be written. From crisis can come healing change.</div>
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Roy Morrison is Director of the Office for Sustainability at Southern
New Hampshire University. His next book, <i>Sustainability and
Liberation,</i> is forthcoming.</div>
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Fact check:</div>
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Continental Renewable Grid:
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Gregor Czisch (2011). Scenarios for a Future Electricity Supply:
Cost-optimized variations on supplying Europe and its neighbors with
electricity from renewable energies. London: The Institution of
Engineering and Technology.
http://www.amazon.com/Gregor-Czisch/e/B003VMWITA</div>
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Global Renewable Prospects:</div>
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Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Working Group III
Mitigation of climate Change (2011). SSREN (Special Report on
Renewable energy Sources and Climate Change
Mitigation).Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Online:http://srren.ipcc-wg3.de/report/IPCC_SRREN_Full_Report. Viewed
July 16, 2011.</div>
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Millions of Green Collar Jobs:</div>
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Jerrold Oppenheim and Theo MacGregor(2008). Energy Efficiency Equals
Economic Development. Energy Corp.</div>
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Will Hewes (2008). Creating Jobs and Stimulating the Economy through
Investment in Green Water Infrastructure. American Rivers Inc.
http://www.americanrivers.org/assets/pdfs/green-infrastructure-docs/green_infrastructure_stimulus_white_paper_final.pdf</div>
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Efficiency Prospects:</div>
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Ernst von Weisacker,Karlson Hargroves, Michel Smith, Cheryl Desha,
Peter Stasionopoulos (2009). Factor Five: Transforming the Global
Economy through 89% improvements in Resource Productivity.Sterling
Virginia:Earth Scan.</div>
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Ecological Tax Reform:</div>
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My Book Markets, Democracy & Survival (2007)
,available for free download on line, discusses ecological
consumption taxation in detail.
<http://www.ecocivilization.info/id39.html></div>
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