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Here is the The Green Stimulus Act, tell me what you think?

By agreeing to the following, each nation is NOT required to perform all functions. We all must consider our own economic situations, however this memeber believes Climate Change comes before all, and we all need to respect eachothers actions and opinions.

The following as an immediate Green Stimulus action that will take place in your current, if has not started or you wish to amend, fiscal year or next or within your time frame. This stimulus plan as been put forth by “Green Recovery: A Program to Create Good Jobs and Start Building a Low–Carbon Economy,” and can be seen here

http://www.worldchanging.com/archives//009040.html

This Act will not require you to perform all of most of these but by agreeing to this Act your country must agree to one of the following;

Stimulus Goals:

1) To combat Climate Change

2) To introduce an immmediate plan of action that will prepare the way for more action by the World Assembly to form long term plans

3) To help countries become more dependent on themselves

Stimulus Investments:

• Transit agencies and ready–to–go transportation projects: Provide money in assistance to transit agencies to reduce transit fares and expand services, and begin construction on ready–to–go rail and other projects.

• Refundable residential energy efficiency tax credits: Increase funding for refundable residential energy efficiency tax credits raise the maximum credit for household efficiency upgrades to $2,000.

• Clean renewable energy bonds: Increase CREB funding for consumer–owned utilities to jump–start renewable energy projects.

• “Cash for Clunkers” rebates for older cars: Initiate an annual program to purchase and scrap older, more polluting cars, in exchange for an owner agreement to acquire a more efficient vehicle or use alternative transportation.

• The Weatherization Assistance Program: Fully fund the Weatherization Assistance Program and move toward a goal of weatherizing 200,000 (your country can change the number) a year or more.

Recovery investments:

• Energy efficiency and conservation block grants: Increase appropriation to fund states, cities, and counties in pursuing clean energy projects.

• Solar roofs on federal buildings: Authorize installment of 2,000 megawatts of solar power on federal rooftops, and amend federal electricity contracting to allow for 30–year power purchasing agreements.

• New Starts Transit project investments: Fully fund the New Starts Transit budget in a Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users.

• Green school construction and renovation: Support state and local school modernization, and renovation.

• Green affordable housing HOME block grants: Supplement block grant funding through the HOME program for energy–related projects.

• HOPE VI program for green community revitalization: Appropriate money for greening HOPE VI projects to meet Energy Star and green communities standards.

• Smart grid federal matching funds: Fund the Smart Grid Title of the Energy Independence and Security Act to support money for infrastructure investment and demonstration projects.

• Workforce investment in the Green Jobs Act: Create anappropriation for the Green Jobs Act, to provide job training and workforce investment in energy efficiency and renewable–energy installations.

• Green jobs restoring the land: Expand existing programs to restore parkland, forests, wetlands, wildlife refuges, and rural ecosystems.

• Manufacturing Extension Partnership: Expand the capacity of domestic manufacturing modernization efforts

• Advanced coal technology to capture carbon: Invest money to deploy demonstration carbon capture–and–storage technology at a coal–fired power plant.

• Additional green infrastructure for clean water: Invest in broader community benefits and green jobs with in green storm water infrastructure.

Welcome to the WA.

A resolution against global warming and to promote environmental issues. I'm all for it. However, you first would need to word it in the form of a proposal, the proper format of which can be seen in the passed resolutions to date.

In addition, a resolution cannot be entirely optional. That is not how it works. There can be optional bits but there must be mandatory aspects. That is a rule here.

Not all nations call their administrative subdivisions "states" or "counties". Kelssek has provinces. Furthermore, not all nations are federations, so they may not have "federal buildings". I also have no idea what HOPE VI and Energy Star is, or what the Smart Grid Title of the Energy Independence and Security Act is, or the Green Jobs Act for that matter.

Even more importantly, you might want to consider that not all WA member nations are on planets which face climate change issues.

[OOC: It seems you've just copy-and-pasted from some environmental lobby group, and probably an American one. I realise it's your first post but you have to do a LOT better than that.]

In it's current version it is illegal as optionality is not allowed in WA proposals.

We would support sensible measures to insure environmentally responsible behaviour on the part of member states.

However there is no evidence that "Global Warming" of the kind which is said to have occurred in the mythical "Real World" is actually occurring in this world. We would oppose any law which attempted to remedy a fairytale phenomenon.


Yours,

And you can't include urls for other sites, as you did there, because each proposal has to be fully self-contained...
And there are MANY nations within the W.A. that don't use "$" for their currencies...

I see you've made a start on an environmental proposal but it needs to be more generalized and self-contained. It also has to be compulsory for all member states and it has to mandate something like banning fossil fuels or making compulsory for renewable production to account for a percentage of a state's energy output.

it has to mandate something like banning fossil fuels or making compulsory for renewable production to account for a percentage of a state's energy output.


What ?


Yours,

I think it was an example of compulsion, rather than what the esteemed ambassador wants to see from an enviromental resolution

Oh we see,


Yours,

And there are MANY nations within the W.A. that don't use "$" for their currencies...

And your bringing that up is merely being pedantic.

Bob Flibble
WA Representative

I look forward to a rewritten proposal, honorable ambassador from Tx.

Something like my Clean Energy Bonus Act, I suppose. Before it got constructively mulled :). I always love the "where is the evidence that Climate Change is happening?" argument, don't fall into the trap of trying to please these claims, its a diplomatic trap, like a cop asking you "do you know why I pulled you over?". I would like to see them prove that it isn't happening in NationStates. That being said, not all nations exist in a geographical land such as Earth, however the argument against that would be is that for life to have existed in a world it would have to have similarities to Earth...atmosphere,gravity,heat,water. That argument does counter arguments like "my nation lives in space colonies", because that just means their population moved from its earth-like home (probably because it was polluted). However if nations are claiming their inhabitants are not human, can't help you there.

Personally, I'd sooner have a tea party with L&E, than see such a proposal reach the floor of the festering snakepit.
Excelsior,
Sen Horatio Sulla

I too look forward to a re-written proposal.

The idea is commendable, the writing however needs serious work.