Posted on 08/14/2007 7:55:05 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
State Treasurer Bill Lockyer on Tuesday proposed a $5 billion bond measure to combat global warming by getting California's largest building owner - the state government - to improve its energy efficiency.
Lockyer said he wants the Legislature and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to sign off on a November 2008 ballot measure to retrofit the state's massive building inventory with solar panels and other clean energy technologies.
In a meeting with The Bee Capitol Bureau, Lockyer said the state needs to move "as rapidly as possible" to "green our buildings" if it is serious about its commitment to cut California's greenhouse gases by 25 percent by 2020.
(Excerpt) Read more at sacbee.com ...
Hey California! How’re things going all that easy money you raised with the “Stem Cell Research And Tell George Bush We’ll Do Any Damn Thing We Want” bonding of a few years ago?
It would seem to me they should spend the $5 billion on the border. That would help trememdously. Also send back the illegals. When they accomplish that, look at global warming and see if it still exists.
"In December 2004, Governor Schwarzenegger signed Executive Order S-20-04 calling for the State to lead the way in designing, operating and re-engineering its buildings to make them the most resource-efficient, energy-efficient and healthful public buildings in the nation. The Executive Order also calls for the State to reduce its electricity demand by 10 percent by 2010 and by 20 percent by 2015. "
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January 24, 2007 Presidential Executive Order 13423:
"improve energy efficiency and reduce greenhouse gas emissions of the agency, through reduction of energy intensity by (i) 3 percent annually through the end of fiscal year 2015, or (ii) 30 percent by the end of fiscal year 2015, relative to the baseline of the agency's energy use in fiscal year 2003; "
"...major renovation of agency buildings comply with the Guiding Principles for Federal Leadership in High Performance and Sustainable Buildings set forth in the Federal Leadership in High Performance and Sustainable Buildings Memorandum of Understanding (2006), and (ii) 15 percent of the existing Federal capital asset building inventory of the agency as of the end of fiscal year 2015 incorporates the sustainable practices in the Guiding Principles;"
bet 5 Billion dollars worth of retrofitting uses alot of energy and releases alot of the bad stuff
The Federal Environmental Executive www.ofeef.gov
Vision Statement (February 2003)
Our Vision: A federal government that applies sustainable environmental practices.
Our Mission: To promote sustainable environmental stewardship throughout the federal government.
We define sustainable environmental stewardship to include those concepts, strategies, tools, practices, and approaches that lead to environmental improvement in a manner that is sustainable over time, considers the long term effects as well as the shorter term, more immediate effects, and that contributes positively, even if indirectly, to the social and economic condition.
Our Priorities
We believe that the use of Environmental Management systems (EMS) is the primary management approach to determining, prioritizing, implementing, and improving upon those environmental issues that will lead to sustainable environmental stewardship. Other tools include life cycle assessment and industrial ecology.
Sustainable practices are those practices, technological applications, and methodologies that improve the environment, but go beyond....
(You can say that again! Welcome to the Green Party!)
Let me guess... the first thing they'll do is form a massive new department (Department of Global Warming, or some such thing) which of course will require a massive new office building. That's probably about as far as it will go.
I cant wait to get out of the Peoples Republic of California
Get rid of some unneeded bodies first, then sell the buildings vacated.
At prevailing union wages.
Let Jere Brown fund it out of his budget...
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