Green Financing in Municipalities Across Virginia
Target:
Gov. Kaine; Alexandria, VA City Council, but also all local govts in VA
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For a long time, we have heard people talking about going green and creating green jobs, but often it has been lip service with very few specific proposals that would do much to to change the economics of individual decision-making. While government rules to mandate greener technologies and incentives to spur green technology are vitally important, sometimes simple solutions make bigger changes faster. Green jobs don't just appear, but must be created because vast numbers of individuals run the numbers in their own budgets, and find that installing a solar water heater or other green technology saves them money or at worst breaks even. Our current climate crisis won't be addressed by expecting us all to be virtuous. We have to make it economically feasible for people, especially in the economic downturn we find ourselves in. So, finally, someone somewhere (Berkeley, CA's First Solar initiative might be the first) came up with the brilliant idea that energy saving efforts should have the upfront costs of installing green technology or paying for that home energy audit be offset by the yearly incremental savings of reduced energy bills. Together with other like-minded residents in your municipality or other prescribed geography, the costs are financed over time and assessed incrementally on an individual's property tax or sewer/utility bill. No more will you run the numbers and say, "I can't guarantee staying in this house for 25 years, so I'm not sure installing this geothermal heat exchange system makes sense for me."
So, join with other residents who think the green revolution begins here and now and in their own house or business. Not in 5, 10, 15 or 20 years, but right now. Look up the details of Senate bill 1212, and urge Governor Kaine to pass it. Local municipalities can begin drafting ordinances now (although the Virginia Municipal League is drafting a model ordinance that could save your locality considerable time and energy -- I'll post more here as I find out more).
Sign this petition to show your support for this bill and express your interest as well in investing in some energy-saving measure for your home or business (describe what you'd like done). The goal would be to share this list locally with the Alexandria City Council, but others are welcome to sign and show their support as well.
So, join with other residents who think the green revolution begins here and now and in their own house or business. Not in 5, 10, 15 or 20 years, but right now. Look up the details of Senate bill 1212, and urge Governor Kaine to pass it. Local municipalities can begin drafting ordinances now (although the Virginia Municipal League is drafting a model ordinance that could save your locality considerable time and energy -- I'll post more here as I find out more).
Sign this petition to show your support for this bill and express your interest as well in investing in some energy-saving measure for your home or business (describe what you'd like done). The goal would be to share this list locally with the Alexandria City Council, but others are welcome to sign and show their support as well.
For a long time, we have heard people talking about going green and creating green jobs, but often it has been lip service with very few specific proposals that would do much to to change the economics of individual decision-making. While government rules to mandate greener technologies and incentives to spur green technology are vitally important, sometimes simple solutions make bigger changes faster. Green jobs don't just appear, but must be created because vast numbers of individuals run the numbers in their own budgets, and find that installing a solar water heater or other green technology saves them money or at worst breaks even. Our current climate crisis won't be addressed by expecting us all to be virtuous. We have to make it economically feasible for people, especially in the economic downturn we find ourselves in. So, finally, someone somewhere (Berkeley, CA's First Solar initiative might be the first) came up with the brilliant idea that energy saving efforts should have the upfront costs of installing green technology or paying for that home energy audit be offset by the yearly incremental savings of reduced energy bills. Together with other like-minded residents in your municipality or other prescribed geography, the costs are financed over time and assessed incrementally on an individual's property tax or sewer/utility bill. No more will you run the numbers and say, "I can't guarantee staying in this house for 25 years, so I'm not sure installing this geothermal heat exchange system makes sense for me."
So, join with other residents who think the green revolution begins here and now and in their own house or business. Not in 5, 10, 15 or 20 years, but right now. Look up the details of Senate bill 1212, and urge Governor Kaine to pass it. Local municipalities can begin drafting ordinances now (although the Virginia Municipal League is drafting a model ordinance that could save your locality considerable time and energy -- I'll post more here as I find out more).
Sign this petition to show your support for this bill and express your interest as well in investing in some energy-saving measure for your home or business (describe what you'd like done). The goal would be to share this list locally with the Alexandria City Council, but others are welcome to sign and show their support as well.
So, join with other residents who think the green revolution begins here and now and in their own house or business. Not in 5, 10, 15 or 20 years, but right now. Look up the details of Senate bill 1212, and urge Governor Kaine to pass it. Local municipalities can begin drafting ordinances now (although the Virginia Municipal League is drafting a model ordinance that could save your locality considerable time and energy -- I'll post more here as I find out more).
Sign this petition to show your support for this bill and express your interest as well in investing in some energy-saving measure for your home or business (describe what you'd like done). The goal would be to share this list locally with the Alexandria City Council, but others are welcome to sign and show their support as well.
We, the undersigned, support Senate Bill 1212 that has passed both houses of the Virginia legislature and is now waiting for Governor Kaine's signature. The bill allows local governments to create green financing districts, whereby individuals and business owners could make energy saving improvements to their properties and have the upfront costs be offset by the yearly incremental savings of reduced energy bills.
We believe that green jobs do not just magically appear, but have to have local demand to support them. By making stretching the time horizon for payback over multiple owners of a property or business, we bypass the dreaded multi-year payback period and make living green a gift to pass on to every subsequent owner.
Governor, please support this bill and, local governments, please create a local ordinance that creates low-cost administration for green financing. A poor economy is all the more reason to create real locally driven demand for green products of all types and at a price everyone can afford. There is no safer bet than investing in energy-efficiency and proven green technology.
We believe that green jobs do not just magically appear, but have to have local demand to support them. By making stretching the time horizon for payback over multiple owners of a property or business, we bypass the dreaded multi-year payback period and make living green a gift to pass on to every subsequent owner.
Governor, please support this bill and, local governments, please create a local ordinance that creates low-cost administration for green financing. A poor economy is all the more reason to create real locally driven demand for green products of all types and at a price everyone can afford. There is no safer bet than investing in energy-efficiency and proven green technology.
We signed the "Green Financing in Municipalities Across Virginia" petition!
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10:49 am PDT, Oct 3,
Name not displayed, United Kingdom
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3:43 pm PDT, Aug 7,
Name not displayed, Illinois
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8:43 am PDT, Jul 6,
Sara Ferreira, Portugal
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1:53 am PDT, Jun 19,
Gail Dair, Australia
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8:04 am PDT, Jun 13,
An Custers, Belgium
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5:20 am PDT, Jun 13,
Frida Simms, Virginia
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2:20 pm PDT, Jun 11,
Carl Rosenstock, Wisconsin
# 26:
12:43 am PDT, Jun 8,
Ari Kolman, Canada
It's imperative that the lakes, rivers, ravines, oceans, forests, wet-lands and all wildlife habitat, be cleaned and saved for the people & animals who use them and as heritage to the generations to come!! There's a little Green Job to give people.. Oh ya Green Jobs? Going Green? Going Gangrene is what it is.. It’s not just about putting on a green jacket and continuing to work and live like we have.. But it’s to bad it seems as though that’s the way it is.. While something small is turning a little green, there’s something else (somewhere else) turning even more tar-black and toxic filled.. It’s to bad you're not interested in Windmills or Water Wheels, putting them up all over would create Green Jobs all over as well as reduce colossally the Carbon Monoxide, Hydro Carbon, Oxides of Nitrogen, Aldeides, Pb Compounds, Sulfuric Dioxide and the rest of the stuff killing our planet, our animals, our global families and us... It's to bad you're not interested in saving the Animals of the world, because that would also create green jobs. It's to bad you're not interested in Cultivating Marijuana Trees because that would create Green Money. It’s to bad you’re not interested in Helping the Elderly; Diseased, DEVELOPMENTLLY DELAYED, MENTAL, HANDICAPS, Homeless and the Hungry with Socialized Green Programs, because that would create Green Jobs and Green Money, and It's just so to damn bad.. Going Green does not mean you put on a Green Jacket and continue doing what your doing. IT’S TIME FOR CHANGE OR WE’RE ALL FU!@#$%D!! You will go on continuing to allow the destruction of families; The Poisoning of people through Radio Active & Toxic Foods; Diseases, Products, and toxic pollution particles in the Water to drink and air to ingest when we breath, UNTIL WE SCREAM LOUD ENOUGH FOR YOU TO STOP PISSING ON US ALL WITH YOUR TOXIC CHEMICAL ADDICTIONS!! (The perfect receipt for Corporate & Government Profit)… PLEASE NO MORE ALREADY - BUSH HAS DONE SO MUCH DAMAGE so; We Need Solar Powered Everything, if they’re not powered by Windmills.. Solar and Windmills and Non-Gasoline Cars.. No Nuclear! NO MORE NUCLEAR PLEASE. NO MORE Coal-Fired Power Plants. No More Stockpiles of Nuclear Weapons. No More increasing the number of U.S. nuclear reactors! No More Uranium, NO MORE OIL DEPENDENCIES/ADDICTIONS SO NO MORE DRILLING or MINING & No More Developments…. No More Dumping In Great & Precious Lakes, rivers, and oceans.. No more petroleum-based Plastic Bags or Styrofoam products shipped all over the world… No More BLOODY SLAUGHTER of Precious Animals, No More Animal Clothing & Leather Shoes & Accessories, No more Palm oil products of deforestation AS WELL AS Plant and Animal Murder.. No more animal tested surgical procedures and products for humans.. No more raising animals for food, NO MORE PESTISCIDES, NO MORE FERTALIZERS; as Organic farmers are being told to use specific toxic fertilizers and poisonous insect sprays dictated by newly formed agencies in the Government.. No More suppression of organic farmers.. No More toxic chemicals from the oil drilling industry & Rocket Fuel that continues to contaminates drinking water in 28 U.S. states and territories while also being found in powdered infant formula. No More of this PLEASE… No more War on Trees, No more War on Marijuana, or War Period.. No More Gluttonous Consumerism, NO MORE Asia, JAPAN, Iran, Iraq, Sudan, Afghanistan, Armenia, Nigeria, Pakistan, India, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Spain, Costa Rica, Korea & CHINA Trading because of the terrible total contempt for their people, environment and animals. If there’s any product trading from anywhere it should be with companies who are trying to help & contribute to our planet by setting an example and encouraging other businesses & companies to practice with policies that run a completely ecologically sustainable and socially responsible business & company.. No more Environmentally Hazard Products or Animal poisoning & breeding for food and Slaughtering. No More Cutting Down Our Valuable Precious Trees, No More genocide, ethnocide, euthanize and false imprisonment, No more ripping families apart.
It's imperative that the lakes, rivers, ravines, oceans, forests, wet-lands and all wildlife habitat, be cleaned and saved for the people & animals who use them and as heritage to the generations to come!! There's a little Green Job to give people.. Oh ya Green Jobs? Going Green? Going Gangrene is what it is.. It’s not just about putting on a green jacket and continuing to work and live like we have.. But it’s to bad it seems as though that’s the way it is.. While something small is turning a little green, there’s something else (somewhere else) turning even more tar-black and toxic filled.. It’s to bad you're not interested in Windmills or Water Wheels, putting them up all over would create Green Jobs all over as well as reduce colossally the Carbon Monoxide, Hydro Carbon, Oxides of Nitrogen, Aldeides, Pb Compounds, Sulfuric Dioxide and the rest of the stuff killing our planet, our animals, our global families and us... It's to bad you're not interested in saving the Animals of the world, because that would also create green jobs. It's to bad you're not interested in Cultivating Marijuana Trees because that would create Green Money. It’s to bad you’re not interested in Helping the Elderly; Diseased, DEVELOPMENTLLY DELAYED, MENTAL, HANDICAPS, Homeless and the Hungry with Socialized Green Programs, because that would create Green Jobs and Green Money, and It's just so to damn bad.. Going Green does not mean you put on a Green Jacket and continue doing what your doing. IT’S TIME FOR CHANGE OR WE’RE ALL FU!@#$%D!! You will go on continuing to allow the destruction of families; The Poisoning of people through Radio Active & Toxic Foods; Diseases, Products, and toxic pollution particles in the Water to drink and air to ingest when we breath, UNTIL WE SCREAM LOUD ENOUGH FOR YOU TO STOP PISSING ON US ALL WITH YOUR TOXIC CHEMICAL ADDICTIONS!! (The perfect receipt for Corporate & Government Profit)… PLEASE NO MORE ALREADY - BUSH HAS DONE SO MUCH DAMAGE so; We Need Solar Powered Everything, if they’re not powered by Windmills.. Solar and Windmills and Non-Gasoline Cars.. No Nuclear! NO MORE NUCLEAR PLEASE. NO MORE Coal-Fired Power Plants. No More Stockpiles of Nuclear Weapons. No More increasing the number of U.S. nuclear reactors! No More Uranium, NO MORE OIL DEPENDENCIES/ADDICTIONS SO NO MORE DRILLING or MINING & No More Developments…. No More Dumping In Great & Precious Lakes, rivers, and oceans.. No more petroleum-based Plastic Bags or Styrofoam products shipped all over the world… No More BLOODY SLAUGHTER of Precious Animals, No More Animal Clothing & Leather Shoes & Accessories, No more Palm oil products of deforestation AS WELL AS Plant and Animal Murder.. No more animal tested surgical procedures and products for humans.. No more raising animals for food, NO MORE PESTISCIDES, NO MORE FERTALIZERS; as Organic farmers are being told to use specific toxic fertilizers and poisonous insect sprays dictated by newly formed agencies in the Government.. No More suppression of organic farmers.. No More toxic chemicals from the oil drilling industry & Rocket Fuel that continues to contaminates drinking water in 28 U.S. states and territories while also being found in powdered infant formula. No More of this PLEASE… No more War on Trees, No more War on Marijuana, or War Period.. No More Gluttonous Consumerism, NO MORE Asia, JAPAN, Iran, Iraq, Sudan, Afghanistan, Armenia, Nigeria, Pakistan, India, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Spain, Costa Rica, Korea & CHINA Trading because of the terrible total contempt for their people, environment and animals. If there’s any product trading from anywhere it should be with companies who are trying to help & contribute to our planet by setting an example and encouraging other businesses & companies to practice with policies that run a completely ecologically sustainable and socially responsible business & company.. No more Environmentally Hazard Products or Animal poisoning & breeding for food and Slaughtering. No More Cutting Down Our Valuable Precious Trees, No More genocide, ethnocide, euthanize and false imprisonment, No more ripping families apart.
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1:56 pm PDT, May 19,
Alison Lambert, Florida
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8:50 pm PDT, May 10,
Janet Haug, Virginia
# 23:
3:50 pm PDT, Mar 28,
Mervi Rantala, Finland
# 22:
9:09 am PDT, Mar 27,
Marlize Albers, United Arab Emirates
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5:52 am PDT, Mar 23,
Julia Tawyea', Pennsylvania
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3:27 pm PDT, Mar 22,
Caleb L, Arizona
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5:36 pm PDT, Mar 15,
Jennifer Gardner, Florida
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6:36 pm PDT, Mar 12,
Adam Hruby, Minnesota
# 17:
6:41 am PDT, Mar 12,
Leslie Murphy, Virginia
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5:14 pm PDT, Mar 11,
Nick Hawley, California
# 15:
9:51 am PDT, Mar 11,
Véronique Brière, Canada
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2:45 am PDT, Mar 11,
Filomena Pereira, United Kingdom
# 13:
5:11 pm PDT, Mar 10,
Steve Dale, Australia
IF GOVERNMENTS WONT USE GREEN POWER THEN VOTE THEM OUT AND ELECT THOSE WHO WILL.
IF GOVERNMENTS WONT USE GREEN POWER THEN VOTE THEM OUT AND ELECT THOSE WHO WILL.
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4:13 pm PDT, Mar 10,
Name not displayed, Canada
We need creative thinking out of the box for solutions on going green
We need creative thinking out of the box for solutions on going green
Would love to go solar !!
# 11:
12:20 pm PDT, Mar 10,
Brian Melton, Idaho
# 10:
9:26 am PDT, Mar 10,
Emmi Ollila, Finland
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7:58 am PDT, Mar 10,
Name not displayed, New York
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7:43 am PDT, Mar 10,
Jamie Scott, Texas
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7:40 am PDT, Mar 10,
Ceren Kiran, Turkey
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7:35 am PDT, Mar 10,
David N Moore, Connecticut
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7:10 am PDT, Mar 10,
Elena Golovacheva, Russian Federation
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6:09 am PDT, Mar 10,
Kelly Fischbein, Virginia
# 3:
2:54 am PDT, Mar 10,
Erika Stone, Virginia
# 2:
2:20 am PDT, Mar 10,
Razvan V., Romania
# 1:
9:55 pm PDT, Mar 9,
Jeff Elder, Virginia
I'm tired of running my spreadsheet and finding out that I have to live in a certain house for 20 years to pay off some green technology. The fact is we all move so often that it would never be a smart move to invest in one. But green financing solves that and passes on the green technology to the next homeowner(s) (or business owner) to chip in for their portion of the deal. It's a win-win for everyone.
I'm tired of running my spreadsheet and finding out that I have to live in a certain house for 20 years to pay off some green technology. The fact is we all move so often that it would never be a smart move to invest in one. But green financing solves that and passes on the green technology to the next homeowner(s) (or business owner) to chip in for their portion of the deal. It's a win-win for everyone.
You name it... I'd consider it. I'll take full advantage of whatever Alexandria, VA has to offer in its ordinance when it clears the council. But I think geothermal heat exchange would be great to run the numbers on. Also, I think a small thing many folks could do would be energy audits. Even rain barrels, though not costly, could arguably be rolled into one green financing package.
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