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[Untitled] Obama's New Course on Energy, Climate: Accordingly, the Obama stimulus package includes funds to weatherize two million homes with better insulation and windows, and to improve the efficiency of 75 percent of federal buildings.

[Untitled] What Obama's innaugaration means for green energy: Obama made it clear that this was a top priority, but the ever-deepening economic crisis has only added to the urgency of passing a stimulus program that relies heavily on developing the clean energy and energy efficiency sectors. In recent days, the president-elect and his team have said that their stimulus plan will include $20 billion in clean energy tax credits, a goal of doubling renewable energy production in three years, and the near-term creation of a half-million jobs in the clean energy sector.

[Untitled] United States - Jan 15 | Energy Bulletin: Democrats in Congress rolled out recommended spending increases and tax cuts totaling a whopping $825 billion on Thursday and debated whether to release a huge new infusion of bailout cash for the financial industry, a rapid response to President-elect Barack Obama's plea to tackle national economic woes.

[Untitled] Directory:Barack Obama's Stance and Policies on Renewable Energy ...: Barack Obamaand Joe Biden will strategically invest $150 billion over 10 years to accelerate thecommercialization of plug”in hybrids, promote development of commercial scale renewableenergy, encourage energy efficiency, invest in low emissions coal plants, advance the nextgeneration of biofuels and fuel infrastructure, and begin transition to a new digital electricity grid.The plan will also invest in America's highly”skilled manufacturing workforce and manufacturingcenters to ensure that American workers have the skills and tools they need to pioneer the greentechnologies that will be in high demand throughout the world. All together these investments willhelp the private sector create 5 million new green jobs, good jobs that cannot be outsourced.

[Untitled] Climate Panel Seeks Obama's Ear | Audubon Magazine Blog: Becker said. “I think there is a lot of promise that the federal government is finally going to get off their butts and tackle these problems.”

[Untitled] Climate Progress » Blog Archive » How would you spend $50 billion ...: The details and cost of the so-called green-jobs program are still unclear, but a senior Obama aide, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss a work in progress, said it would probably include the weatherizing of hundreds of thousands of homes, the installation of “smart meters” to monitor and reduce home energy use, and billions of dollars in grants to state and local governments for mass transit and infrastructure projects.

[Untitled] Worldchanging: What if Climate Change is Not an Energy Problem?: David Holmgren pointed to an Australian study - sorry I cant locate the exact reference, but it's in his book (Permaculture, 2002) - suggesting that apart from the obvious benefits restoring soil fertility globally could create a massive carbon sink - if I recall correctly he wrote this would be the equivalent of half the world's transport emissions? There is also all the stuff about biochar, reforesting the world & etc.

[Untitled] The Oil Drum | DrumBeat: January 13, 2009: he has (equipped with the work of Nouriel Roubini, Nassim Taleb, peak oil theorists and others) been extraordinarily prophetic about the meltdown and much else. His vision of the future is dark, but he has written an optimistic bestselling novel (World Made By Hand) about how we might live in the ruins of the industrial economies.

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