Green Options » New Deal http://greenoptions.com/tag/new-deal Posts tagged 'New Deal' Thu, 05 Feb 2009 19:17:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Economic Stimulus Package: Will Obama Push for a Smart Grid? http://redgreenandblue.org/2009/02/05/economic-stimulus-package-will-obama-push-for-a-smart-grid/ http://redgreenandblue.org/2009/02/05/economic-stimulus-package-will-obama-push-for-a-smart-grid/#comments Thu, 05 Feb 2009 19:17:40 +0000 Timothy B. Hurst http://redgreenandblue.org/2009/02/05/economic-stimulus-package-will-obama-push-for-a-smart-grid/ power lines covered with ice

Spending in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act on environmental projects being debated in Congress right now already includes $100 billion in ‘green stimulus.’ But because of the stated preference for so-called ‘shovel-ready‘ infrastructure projects, long-term infrastructure projects like mass transit and a smart grid may suffer.

The bill already includes spending for incentives for clean energy; the retrofitting of public buildings and public housing; low and moderate-income home weatherization; clean water and environmental restoration projects. But mass transit and smart grids require the kind of planning and long-term investment not encapsulated by that tidy new buzzword, ’shovel-ready.’

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]]> http://redgreenandblue.org/2009/02/05/economic-stimulus-package-will-obama-push-for-a-smart-grid/feed/ Add Your Name to Those Asking for a Real — and Green — New Deal http://ecolocalizer.com/2009/01/13/add-your-name-to-those-asking-for-a-real-and-green-new-deal/ http://ecolocalizer.com/2009/01/13/add-your-name-to-those-asking-for-a-real-and-green-new-deal/#comments Tue, 13 Jan 2009 19:46:59 +0000 Shirley Siluk Gregory http://ecolocalizer.com/2009/01/13/add-your-name-to-those-asking-for-a-real-and-green-new-deal/ Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum at Wikimedia Commons, public domain)Want to add your two cents’ worth to the incoming Obama administration’s call for New Deal-type investments in the US? You can help ensure a better future — and a greener one at that — by endorsing the Post Carbon Institute’s new proposal: “The Real New Deal: Energy Scarcity and the Path to Energy, Economic and Environmental Recovery.”

Written by Post Carbon Instituters Richard Heinberg, Asher Miller, Daniel Lerch and Andrew Calvo, “The Real New Deal” calls on President-elect Barack Obama to completely redesign our economy and society to wean it from its dependence on cheap (and soon-to-be not-so-cheap) fossil fuels.

“Our 21st century nation’s dependence on 20th century fossil fuels is the root of the economic and environmental threats we face,” the report’s executive summary states. “A coordinated, comprehensive transition to an economy that is no longer dependent on hydrocarbon fuels and no longer emits climate-changing levels of carbon — a Real New Deal for a post-carbon world — will be the Obama Administration’s greatest opportunity to lead the nation on a path toward economic, energy and environmental recovery.”

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]]> http://ecolocalizer.com/2009/01/13/add-your-name-to-those-asking-for-a-real-and-green-new-deal/feed/ Is There a Green Upside to the Economic Meltdown? http://inspiredeconomist.com/2008/11/06/is-there-a-green-upside-to-the-economic-meltdown/ http://inspiredeconomist.com/2008/11/06/is-there-a-green-upside-to-the-economic-meltdown/#comments Thu, 06 Nov 2008 15:41:53 +0000 Jim Witkin http://inspiredeconomist.com/2008/11/06/is-there-a-green-upside-to-the-economic-meltdown/ Economic Meltdown by BHowdyThe economic meltdown could be good news for the area of clean energy investing, according to Steven Fraser, a senior lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania and author of the recently published “Wall Street: America’s Dream Palace.” Fraser believes that backlash to the recent economic crisis will result in a new era of enlightened regulation and investment akin to Roosevelt’s New Deal, which helped America climb out of the Great Depression. Fraser offered these opinions in a recent interview on WHYY’s Fresh Air program.

In the interview, Fraser said he felt “very confident” that “real anger at Wall Street” will result in better regulation and more oversight of commercial and investment banking. The steady deregulation of these sectors over the past 25 years has created an “orgy of speculation” and brought us to the current crisis. The future of our economy will depend on rebuilding our infrastructure and a shift to new forms of clean energy, according to Fraser. Any overhaul of our banking and investment sectors should move capital into these areas and away from highly leveraged speculation.

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]]> http://inspiredeconomist.com/2008/11/06/is-there-a-green-upside-to-the-economic-meltdown/feed/ Diversifying America’s Transportation Portfolio: A “Green Deal” http://gas2.org/2008/07/31/diversifying-americas-transportation-portfolio-a-green-deal/ http://gas2.org/2008/07/31/diversifying-americas-transportation-portfolio-a-green-deal/#comments Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:49:30 +0000 Nick Chambers http://gas2.org/2008/07/31/diversifying-americas-transportation-portfolio-a-green-deal/ The Green Deal

Okay. Let me get this one out of the way: gas hasn’t been all bad. In fact, gas has allowed us to accomplish some pretty amazing things. To be clear, when I say “gas,” I’m using the term as an easy way to loosely refer to all liquid fuel products made from buried and fossilized hydrocarbon deposits.

Ooooh… I can hear the flamers’ keys clicking away furiously already. But, before you type that horribly thought out gunslinging response, hear me out.

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