The White House Green Agenda

Energy Plan Overview
Provide Short-term Relief to American Families

Crack Down on Excessive Energy Speculation.
Swap Oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to Cut Prices.

Eliminate Our Current Imports from the Middle East and Venezuela within 10 Years

Increase Fuel Economy Standards.
Get 1 Million Plug-In Hybrid Cars on the Road by 2015.
Create a New $7,000 Tax Credit for Purchasing Advanced Vehicles.
Establish a [...]

The Speech President Obama Should Deliver… But Won’t

This is an abridged excerpt from David Korten’s new book, An Agenda for a New Economy: From Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth to be published by Berrett-Koehler, Feb 2009.
Barack Obama was elected to the U.S. presidency on a promise of change. Before his inauguration, indeed before his election, I drafted the following as my dream [...]