Posted on 04/29/2010 7:33:32 AM PDT by combat_boots
Emerald Goals
Green Our Cities
Our goal is to achieve significant reductions in the carbon footprint and energy consumption and increased energy savings and efficiencies. To this end, we encourage cities to:
Substantially increase the energy efficiency of citywide building stock over ten years while prioritizing poor communities.
Buildings are the largest national source of energy consumption, costing $400 billion annually in energy bills and comprising 80 percent of local carbon emissions in some cities. Yet, efficiency gains between 30 and 50 percent are possible using existing, cost-effective technology. Reducing energy consumption requires a comprehensive retrofit of building stock. The most significant residential gains in efficiency will be made by retrofitting the poorly maintained, oldest, and least efficient building stock concentrated in poor communities. To achieve such large-scale energy reduction, partners can:
•Establish a comprehensive, participatory planning process supported by professional planning and management
•Develop a variety of financing mechanisms that leverages the resources of utility companies, private investors, and federal, state and local government programs
•Retrofit government office buildings, schools, hospitals, affordable housing projects, waste stations, as well as private residential housing stock
•Prioritize retrofits in low-income neighborhoods Implement deep, not simple, retrofits wherever possible.
Simple retrofits insulating inefficient buildings and perhaps providing more efficient appliances, can improve energy efficiency and create short-term jobs. However, they miss critical opportunities. Deep retrofits are designed to coordinate energy upgrades with solutions to other safety hazards or deficiencies in buildings, link the building stock to the broader infrastructure; maximize gains on a neighborhood scale, and target improvements to community needs. Moreover, the complex work and large-scale changes required by deep retrofits provide wide-ranging green job opportunities in design, manufacturing, and construction or installation. To promote comprehensive gains in energy efficiency, cities can endorse efforts to:
•Coordinate energy efficiency retrofits with other building improvements for healthy housing including lead abatement, installation of current communications technology, disabled friendly alternations, water conservation, and indoor air quality
•Define retrofits to include landscape, urban vegetable cultivation, water, and communications (broadband and future technologies) systems so that buildings can properly link to the broader urban infrastructure.
•Pursue neighborhood level projects rather than focusing on buildings in isolation
•Encourage building technology innovation that furthers energy efficiency in building materials, construction techniques, and retrofits
•Develop long-term energy efficiency strategies that link the city to the region and promote regional manufacturing for the building technology required for retrofits
Build Our Communities
Our goal is to generate good jobs and lifetime construction careers, create new high-road, community-based enterprises, reduce urban poverty and chronic underemployment especially in communities of color, and raise living standards. To this end, we encourage cities to:
Support high-quality job creation through the requirement for labor standards.
Construction is a high turnover industry susceptible to the influx of poorly-trained, poorly-paid workers and employers who resist training workers. Labor standards can compel employers to support training programs that both ensure uniform, high-quality construction work and establish the decent wages and benefits critical to stabilizing communities. Thus, energy efficiency efforts have the greatest long-term impact when they link to the growth of a well-paid, well-trained green workforce at scale. To promote this approach, cities can:
•Promote the use of community workforce agreements, either at the neighborhood or city level, and aid in development of such agreements
•Adopt a coordinated curriculum for high-skilled green construction in conjunction with incentives for the use of credentialed green labor
•Support workforce development, including both credentialed vocational training and a supply of remedial general education and work readiness. This includes expanding the union-based apprenticeship system.
•Coordinate efforts to ensure the provision of an adequate local supply of qualified contractors and workers to do the large-scale work demanded by this plan Expand access to high-quality jobs and contracts to minorities, women, and low-income residents.
Communities of color have been disproportionately impacted by the economic crisis and historically excluded from the benefits of economic growth during good times. Energy efficiency efforts can maximize economic impact by introducing career opportunities to minorities and communities with high rates of unemployment and poverty. Workforce development not only helps individuals but also reduces spin-off costs from unemployment and poverty. Moreover, long-term economic advancement requires business development within disadvantaged communities. To expand economic opportunity, local efforts can agree to:
•Where in place, utilize and enforce community benefits agreements in energy efficiency projects; otherwise promote and support concepts of agreements
•Further linkages between community workforce training programs and union pre-apprenticeship curriculum; linkages to other publicly funded workforce training partnerships in ECC cities (e.g. those led by community colleges); and connections for program participants to training and jobs in the broader infrastructure arena.
•Increase opportunities for minority and women-owned contractors to administer and carry out green construction projects
•Support development of the workforce in complementary industries such as manufacturing, engineering, auditing, and recycling
Strengthen Our Democracy
Our goal is to increase labor-community input in urban political decision-making and promote pro-working families economic development strategies. To achieve this goal, cities can:
Build lasting democratic capacity to shape the urban economy.
Low wage earners often lack voice and access to the formal venues and informal networks that generate public policies and economic strategies. Yet, low-income residents stand to benefit greatly from the long-term cost-savings and potential for small-business creation of conservation and efficiency efforts. The most effective energy efficiency strategies require widespread cooperation. This requires people to communicate, identify common interests and goals and obstacles to reaching them, and to work together toward achieving them all activities that can help build democratic capacity. Efforts to deeply organize our communities and align community and labor interests should not be confined to increasing energy efficiency in buildings. These alignments will increase the public capacity to meaningfully influence our cities economic, social and political futures. We support efforts to:
•Provide financial incentives and extensive training to enable community groups to support resident organizing around efficient and sustainable communities
•Build resident capacity to aggregate the demand needed to build collective enterprises and attract specialized and high quality contractors
•Organize residents to advocate for policies and programs that support local sustainability
•Build partnerships with labor to increase community leverage around energy efficiency in urban political decision-making.
Endorse and advocate for regulations and legislation furthering these goals
Government policy is powerful tool in ensuring coordination among different constituencies and groups to achieve their joint priorities. The regulation of new energy projects can guarantee job standards and community access to those jobs; ensure transparency and equal opportunity in labor markets; and repair damage done to individuals within underserved communities by helping them grasp the opportunities of retrofits. In addition, government regulation can organize the money needed for energy efficiency work by removing unnecessary constraints on community ability to capture and aggregate the value flowing from their work. Methods to achieving this include to:
•Support local policy such as a community workforce agreements to enforce local source hiring, specify required skills, set apprenticeship utilization rates for contractors, and make explicit the assumption that union-employer partnerships provide vocational training
•Establish special tax districts for energy efficiency and clean generation
•Engage state utility boards in the cost recovery of capital for such programs through the requirement that all utilities offer on-bill financing.
•Develop forward-capacity markets at the federal level
•Encourage policy that shifts public spending away from direct purchases of labor or materials toward credit enhancement that make available capital for energy efficiency. One possible method is a public fund for default insurance and securitization services.
I am printing out every page I can find that this Joel Rogers has printed in case they “disappear” off of his website. www.cows.org. He is the “wizard” that Beck is talking about, and head of the Apollo Alliance.
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Should I be worried?
See Post 6 for Board members. I noticed that within 1/2 hour of Beck’s 1st mention of the names, the link went dead and had to be searched, so, I posted them before they could go to ground completely.
I’d clean my registry and use an anonymizer. Scan your PC and reboot.
Maybe the admin mod can offer some advice.
There’s a site map link at the bottom of the home page; that was the one I used.
Did Lindsey get that SC nuke plant? (And/or, the rumored Defense Secretary post???)
http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/summary.php?cid=N00009975&cycle=2010
Top 5 Contributors, 2005-2010, Campaign Cmte
Contributor Total Indivs PACs
Nelson, Mullins et al $79,491 $70,491 $9,000
Scana Corp $57,630 $51,130 $6,500
EnergySolutions LLC $35,800 $35,800 $0
Edens & Avant $31,900 $31,900 $0
Blue Cross/Blue Shield $31,450 $24,950 $6,500
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Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.) is helping to negotiate a nuclear energy amendment that could help bring aboard swing votes who support the industry. Architects and backers of the nuclear effort include Sens. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), who are seeking more federal financial backing and other support.
(snip)
Nuclear Energy Institute spokesman John Keeley said the industry’s priorities include greater funding for loan guarantees. Congress has set aside $18.5 billion thus far for nuclear plant loan guarantees under a DOE financing program first authorized in the 2005 Energy Policy Act. But this would cover only a small number of new plants.
Four proposals remain in the running for DOE guarantees from this funding, according to several published reports. They are: UniStar Nuclear Energy/Constellation Energy Group’s proposed Calvert Cliffs plant in Maryland; NRG Energy Inc.’s South Texas Project; Southern Co.’s Vogtle plant in Georgia; and Scana Corp.’s Summer plant in South Carolina.
0bama
Joyce Foundation
Chicago Climate Exchange
Generation Investment Management
Al Gore
David W. Blood
Goldman Sachs
Hank Paulson
Maurice Strong
Soros
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http://www.muckety.com/Generation-Investment-Management/5000777.muckety
Generation Investment Management
People related to Generation Investment Management:
David W. Blood - co-founder & senior partner
L. John Doerr - advisory board member
Mark Ferguson - managing partner & CIO
Albert A. Gore Jr. - chairman
Peter Harris - managing partner & COO
Peter S. Knight - managing partner
Colin le Duc - managing partner
Miguel Nogales - managing partner
Other current Generation Investment Management relationships:
Ausra, Inc. - investor
Generation Investment Management
http://www.muckety.com/David-W-Blood/29954.muckety
David W. Blood
Gender: Male
David W. Blood lives and/or works in
London, UK.
David W. Blood current relationships:
Acumen Fund - advisory council member
Generation Investment Management - co-founder & senior partner
Hamilton College - trustee
David W. Blood past relationships:
2008 Barack Obama presidential campaign - London fundraiser co-chair
Goldman Sachs Asset Management - CEO
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Barack Obama’s Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac Connection (08, Obama’s connection to the housing collapse)
Tuesday, April 27, 2010 11:13:35 AM · 25 of 29
maggief to penelopesire; Liz; hoosiermama; STARWISE; onyx
http://bsimmons.wordpress.com/2010/04/23/will-obama%E2%80%99s-goldman-sachs-attack-expose-al-gore-or-other-dems/
Will Obama’s Goldman Sachs Attack Expose Al Gore? Or Other Dems?
April 23, 2010
Will Obama’s Goldman Sachs Attack Expose Al Gore? Or Other Dems?
Richard Pollock On April 22, 2010
Whether Wall Street colossus Goldman Sachs has committed a crime remains to be seen, but the investigation may well uncover the environmental lobby and its public figurehead. For nearly a decade, Goldman Sachs has been a quiet but major investor in cap and trade. And Goldman’s main investment partner has been Al Gore.
About a decade ago, Goldman executives recognized that personal fortunes could be made with the invention of a carbon trading system through the passage of a U.S. cap-and-trade bill. This area was well suited to Goldman Sachs, the architects behind the complex world of futures trading and exotic derivatives.
Goldman joined Al Gore in 2004 and capitalized his investment company, Generation Investment Management. Strangely for a man who was a heartbeat away from the presidency, Gore decided to register his company in London — not the United States.
In November 2004, Gore unveiled GIM. Standing at his side was David Blood, the CEO of Goldman Asset Management. Blood was to become his co-founder (the new company was quickly nicknamed “Blood & Gore”). It was established with the initial capital of $206 million, much of it from Blood clients at Goldman Sachs.
Gore also turned to Goldman Sachs guru (and later Bush Treasury Secretary) Henry Paulson to help him establish GIM. At the time, Paulson himself was an eco-warrior of sorts, serving as chairman of the board of the Nature Conservancy.
Today, seven of Gore’s GIM chief partners are from Goldman Sachs. The company is now valued [1] at $2.2 billion.
It doesn’t stop there. The Goldman Sachs/Gore team then established the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX), a new cap-and-trade carbon trading platform, and partnered with the UK-based Climate Exchange, Plc (CLE), a holding company [2] listed on the London Stock Exchange [3]. CLE does carbon trading in Europe. In late 2004, they also created the Chicago Climate Futures Exchange [4] (CCFX).
In September of 2006, Climate Exchange Plc acquired [5] the remainder of CCX it didn’t own [6] and placed £12.2 million of new shares with Goldman Sachs [7].
Goldman is reported to have made an investment of $23 million in the venture. Between Gore and Goldman, they are the largest investors in the Chicago Climate Exchange, owning 20% of it.
Last year, in an expose from Rolling Stone writer Matt Taibbi (“Inside the Great American Bubble Machine [8]“) Taibbi identified Goldman Sachs as the father of some of our most notable modern day economic crises. He profiled a firm that handsomely profiteered over both the tech bubble and the metastasizing housing bubble.
Taibbi predicted Goldman’s next big play in cap and trade. This would become our next bubble. Taibbi tagged Goldman Sachs a “gangster state, running on gangster economics.”
Marc Morano, publisher of Climatedepot.com, agrees:
Goldman Sachs is helping to engineer the next great bubble. And we are talking about subprime science, subprime politics, and subprime economics. Goldman Sachs is at the forefront of the subprime economics of carbon trading.
Although cap and trade has temporarily faded in Washington, D.C., carbon trading still lives in the nation’s capital. Next week, Senators John Kerry (D-MA), Lindsey Graham (R-SC), and Joe Lieberman (I-CT) are expected to unveil a new cap-and-trade bill.
The idea of turning a free, colorless, and odorless gas into a product still attracts the money people. Myron Ebell, director of Freedom Action, says:
These Gore investments could potentially make him a billionaire. For a guy who started with just a small fortune he could end up with a very large one.
In describing its own mission, CCFE’s website is reminiscent of last Friday’s SEC fraud charge on mortgage derivatives:
Chicago Climate Futures Exchange® operates the leading U.S. marketplace for environmental derivatives, financial instruments whose underlying values are tradeable environmental assets.
CCFE was launched in 2004 and is part of the Climate Exchange Plc (LSE: CLE.L) group of companies, which comprise the world’s leading exchanges specializing in environmental derivatives. Also owned by Climate Exchange Plc are the European Climate Exchange® (ECX®) and the Chicago Climate Exchange® (CCX®), of which CCFE is a subsidiary. ECX is the dominant exchange by trading volume for carbon derivatives in the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme.
Morano thinks the tarnished Goldman Sachs brand can taint Al Gore and cap-and-trade advocates:
You add to that the underpinnings of the people who backed [cap and trade] and helped create it are tied to Al Gore and Goldman Sachs, and then you have a real crisis in confidence. And then you have more woes for the global warming establishment.
Goldman Sachs is one of the most politically connected investment firms in all of America. In the 2008 political cycle alone, the Goldman Sachs PAC lavished $5.9 million upon candidates for Congress.
Three out of four Goldman Sachs dollars went to Democrats. Nearly $1 million more went to Barack Obama. Goldman Sachs was the second-highest contributor to the Democratic presidential candidate. And in the last three years Goldman Sachs spent a cool $12.3 million to lobby the halls of Congress.
Even Barack Obama, who seems to be needling Goldman in his war against Wall Street, has himself turned to the storied Wall Street firm. Neel Kashkari, who led Goldman’s security investment banking practice, was tapped to run Obama’s TARP government bailout program.
As the presidential attack on Goldman intensifies, will Obama wound some of his closest political allies?
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http://www.muckety.com/David-W-Blood/29954.muckety
David W. Blood
Gender: Male
David W. Blood lives and/or works in
London, UK.
David W. Blood current relationships:
Acumen Fund - advisory council member
Generation Investment Management - co-founder & senior partner
Hamilton College - trustee
David W. Blood past relationships:
2008 Barack Obama presidential campaign - London fundraiser co-chair
Goldman Sachs Asset Management - CEO
Attaboy
Let’s see...Soros help get a coal mine blown up. Follow it up with a once in a lifetime explosion on an oil well in the Gulf...hmmm, can you accelerate CCX’s activities? They gotta get it done before November you know...
Target rich environment.
BIG NAMES
John J Brennan- chairman of The Vanguard Group Inc. of Malvern, Pa.
Other members of the working group are James H. Bodurtha, the independent chairman of the BlackRock Funds of BlackRock Inc. of New York, Richard S. Davis, managing director of BlackRock, Mark R. Fetting, president and chief executive of Legg Mason Inc. of Baltimore, Martin L. Flanagan, president and chief executive of Invesco PLC of Atlanta, and George C.W. Gatch, president and chief executive of the JPMorgan Funds, a unit of JPMorgan Chase & Co. of New York.
Rounding out the group are John W. McGonigle, vice chairman and chief legal officer of Federated Investors Inc. of Pittsburgh; James A. McNamara, president and chief executive of Goldman Sachs Mutual Funds, a unit of The Goldman Sachs Group Inc. of New York; Randall W. Merk, executive vice president of Charles Schwab & Co. Inc. of San Francisco and president of Schwab Funds; Paul Schott Stevens, president and chief executive of the ICI; and Michael Wilens, head of asset management at Fidelity Investments of Boston.
All declined to comment on what the board may recommend
5 of these member's companies are in the CCX top 10 Share holders.
1) James H Bodurtha -— BlackRock Funds
2) Richard S Davis-—BlackRock Funds
3) Martin L Flanagan-—Invesco PLC
4) James A McNamara-—Goldman Sachs
5) Michael Wilens===Fidelity
the others so far what I have is
6) John J Brennan-—Governor of the National Association of Securities dealer, governor of United Way,Dartmoutn college and Harvard Business school
7) Mark A Fetting-—Legg Mason Inc, Director of Rolls Royce, Prudential Financial, Partner at Greenwich Assoc, VP T Rowe Price, Wharton school and Harvard business.
8) George C>W> Gatch-—Jp Morgan funds of NY
9) John W McGonigle——Federated Investors Inc of Pittsburg
10) Randall W Merk-—Charles Schwab & Co of San Francisco, President Schwab Funds
11)Paul Schott-—president and cheif executive of the ICI
CCX
5 out of the top 6 share holders in CCX chicago climate Exchange
1)Intecontinental Exchange has Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley on their investor list
http://ir.theice.com/sec.cfm?DocType=&DocTypeExclude=&SortOrder=Description%20Ascending&Year=&Pagenum=9
https://www.theice.com/history.jhtml
2)Invesco Asset Management Limited
http://www.invesco.com/portal/site/global/Directors/
http://atlanta.bizjournals.com/atlanta/stories/2009/10/19/daily24.html
http://atlanta.bizjournals.com/atlanta/stories/2010/04/26/daily38.html?jst=pn_pn_lk
3)Blackrock Advisors
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlackRock
http://www2.blackrock.com/global/home/index.htm
4)Generation Investment Management LLP
http://www.generationim.com/sustainability/challenges/
5)Fidelity (Institutional group)
https://www.fidelity.com/
Thanks for the heads up.
At least some folks are getting the info. This thing is quite a puzzle and fantastic fraud.
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