NewWays for Environmental and Social Change

Change doesn’t occur without informed leadership. Here are 15 green initiatives NewWays recommends to the incoming administration.

1. 
   Green industry Stock Exchange. A changing economy requires broad investment into new organizations. (startups:greensx)

2. 
   Create an American Carbon Trading Exchange.

3. 
   Translate Green technological innovation for specific business sectors. We now wade in hundreds of new Green innovations for businesses. A sector by sector account for how these energy and resource saving technologies can upgrade different industries is greatly needed. Here’s a low-grade example of this type of analysis for the Hospitality Industry. Carrot Mob is another form of this consultation: they went to businesses promising to deliver customers in exchange for Greening their stores.

4. 
   CO2 sequestering Incentivies the adoption of limited CO2 producing concrete production to decrease the high levels of CO2 release in the production of concrete.

5. 
   Design an American VW BUG for the 21st century. Fund the design and manufacturing of a single car that can be plugged in, run on solar power or run on bio-fuels, which the government uses and which is available to purchase to the general public
   -or-
   Fund a government owned car manufacturer that will pull together Green technology to produce hibride vehicles that run of multiple renewable energy sources.

6. Make public transportation free to all. Today, transit riders only pay 10% of the total operational costs of public transportation organizations. Increasing the use of mass transit promotes Green commutes and brings community members closer together.
7. 
   Container ShippingRevisit trade policy and address large-distance (3,000+ mile) perishable food transportation
8. Ban the use of genetically modified food products entirely and restrict the mass use of antibiotics on livestock (and restrict the corporate trademark of food DNA).
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10. 
    Ban the use of archaic forms of shipping and packing materials such as Styrofoam, un-recycled plastics and cellophane.
11. 

    Mountaintop Removal

    Ban the use of Mountaintop Removal Coal acquisition methods and the use of the term “clean coal”.

12. 

    Bottled Water

    Create a Federal Clean Water fund which minimally taxes all bottle water companies and uses these funds to help redesign and improve the drinking water of cities and towns across the nation.

13. 
    Undue the Bush’s administrations wide-spread attack on environmental issues including reducing standards for arsenic in drinking water, pulled out of the Kyoto treaty on global warming, the “roadless rule” for logging, to name a few.
14. 

    Solar Power

    Build a consolidated national Solar Power plant plan in which state and federal funds work to build a 100 mile solar power plant, which will fulfil the nations power needs while utilizing overdue renewable energy technologies. Initially, a mile long solar power plant should be constructed, and the option to renew and factorially upgrade the capacity of the plant should be given each year.

15. 
    Nominate Hank Green of EcoGeek head of the Department of Transportation or Department of Energy. His leadership in promoting and highlighting new energy and transportation technology and innovation makes him a leading candidate to facilitate the kind of infrastructural change that the US economy and country deserves.