[Energy] join?

dana at occupyboston.org dana at occupyboston.org
Thu Nov 17 01:17:13 EST 2011


Roy-
That's great that you want to join up in our work!
I can subscribe you to the energy list (Do you want to
use the snhu address or the yahoo one?)
We don't have regular meetings, but I can keep you
abreast of the things we are doing. Working on the Wiki
sounds like a great idea.
I won't be in camp tomorrow evening, but could talk in the
afternoon. Maybe call me? or give me a number to text/call you?
Thanks!
-Dana
617-319-3958

Quoting Roy Morrison <roy.morrison114 at yahoo.com>:

> 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.
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> Roy
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> Roy
> Morrison									sustainability at snhu.edu
> P.O. Box
> 201									603-496-4260
> Warner, NH
> 93278								Op-Ed 600 words
> ____________________________________________________________________________
>
> A Message to the Occupy
> Movement
>
> by
>
> Roy Morrison
>
>
> What now? That's up to you.
> 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.
> 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.
> 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.
> 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.
> 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.
> 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.
> 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.
> We need constructive structural adjustment.
> 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.
> Since consumption taxation is regressive, since poor people spend
> all income, a negative income tax for the poor can maintain tax
> equity.
> 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.
> 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.
> Roy Morrison is Director of the Office for Sustainability at Southern
> New Hampshire University. His next book, Sustainability and
> Liberation, is forthcoming.
>
> Fact check:
>
> Continental Renewable Grid:
>
> 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
>
> Global Renewable Prospects:
>
> 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.
>
> Millions of Green Collar Jobs:
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> Jerrold Oppenheim and Theo MacGregor(2008). Energy Efficiency Equals
> Economic Development. Energy Corp.
>
> 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
>
> Efficiency Prospects:
>
> 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.
>
> Ecological Tax Reform:
>
> My Book Markets, Democracy & Survival (2007)
> ,available for free download on 			line, discusses ecological
> consumption taxation in detail.
> <http://www.ecocivilization.info/id39.html>
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> Roy Morrison
> roy.morrison114 at yahoo.com
> sustainability at snhu.edu
> www.RMAenergy.net
> www.EcoPowerHedge.com
> www.EcoCivilization.info
> 603-496-4260
> P.O Box 201
> Warner, NH 03278





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