Obama is increasingly talking about upgrading and adding to the Government's building stock. One can only hope that as this plan is developed they include innovative designers from all fields in this ambitious plan. Then again, maybe we can demand it.
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new light bulbs (rolls eyes)...
Adding 2.5 million new jobs installing new light bulbs.
Change we can believe in!
Obama was recorded saying, "I don't consider this to be a good format for me, which makes me more cautious. I often find myself trapped by the questions and thinking to myself, 'You know, this is a stupid question, but let me … answer it.' So when Brian Williams is asking me about what's a personal thing that you've done [that's green], and I say, you know, 'Well, I planted a bunch of trees.' And he says, 'I'm talking about personal.' What I'm thinking in my head is, 'Well, the truth is, Brian, we can't solve global warming because I f---ing changed light bulbs in my house. It's because of something collective'."
david, is that true? cause if it is, that is great.
here's the thing i am trying to wrap my head around, if we proceed on the course that everyone sees as turning around the economy, how in the world can we be sustainable at the same time?
new roads, new buildings, new infrastructure all = new concrete, new raw materials, new mining, new industrial equipment, new pollution, new[old] problems?
what we should do, i think, is perhaps identify/map all the existing structures/infrastructure[rail] that have been neglected or filled with dot com thousandaires, and reclaim those spaces for new[old]industries?
beta - i think, from what i've read, that you're closer to their plan than not. my understanding for schools, for example, is to renovate, upgrade, add to, versus creating from scratch. of course, some buildings you'll need to tear down...
my hope is that all this work has at least a 100 year life-cycle kind of thought (and budget) built in. if not, where are we going to be in 20 years when it all starts crumbling again?
RECONSTRUCTION---WITHOUT DECONSTRUCTION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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