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Jack Lindblad is running to a certain win California's 39th State Assembly District seat in 2012. In a back-to-back contest and one-on-one rematch with the incumbent in 2010 having yielded 22%, tripling the vote from the 8.1% showing in 2008, Lindblad is poised to win in the top two positions in the June Primary. Lindblad was the only Green candidate on the ballot for California Legislative office in 2008 and won among the highest showings for third parties, and lives in the San Fernando Valley. He anchors his award-winning sustainable urban design and architecture practice with a healthcare facility emphasis in the San Fernando Valley. His work is recognized for excellence and innovation. Lindblad campaigns on a Green-values platform for more parks, for a carbon-neutral, relocalized, steady state economy basing development on bio-regional determinism, not developers. Lindblad will advance the green 10 Key Values' moral imperatives in California's Legislature to balance the budget, manage multiple collapses, mitigate and adapt to ecological collapse's worst catastrophes. He has supported various community grass-root efforts, including forming neighborhood councils, co-authoring sustainable community plans, stopping gentrification, revitalizing the Tujunga-Pacoima Watershed, and assisting in the 'No on B' winning effort to provide unfettered solar power to Los Angeles stakeholders. Jobs, Quality of Life, Fully Funded Public Education - the California Dream for All. Vox Populi is coming to Sacramento!
Monday, August 1, 2011 last minute Desparate Duopolist Deception/Sell-out to Raise Debt Ceiling (1 comments)
Obama has trotted out, at the last minute, a false deal that raids Social Security - read caves to the Repugnicans - for his six wars and endless militarist spending - to justify raising the nation debt ceiling to over 16 trillion dollars through 2013. The lack of accountability shows an Insidious facism that completely blurs any separation between government and corporatist enterprise.
Tuesday, March 31, 2009 Tax policy implications for a Sustainable, Green, Steady State Economy for the 21st Century (series: part 2 of 2)
Jack Lindblad draws together the economic and ecological collapses' connectedness to urge a steady state economy and tax policy based on relocalization and bio-regional determinism to retire endemic deficit spending and adapt to, mitigate, and restore ecological services from climate change by reducing emissions 70% by 2015 for a less than 2 °C rise from 2000 levels to avoid escalating, horrific effects of deepening collapses.
Monday, March 30, 2009 Tax policy implications for a Sustainable, Green, Steady State Economy for the 21st Century (series: part 1 of 2)
Jack Lindblad draws together the economic and ecological collapses' connectedness to urge a steady state economy and tax policy based on relocalization and bio-regional determinism to retire endemic deficit spending and adapt to, mitigate, and restore ecological services from climate change by reducing emissions 70% by 2015 for a less than 2 °C rise from 2000 levels to avoid escalating, horrific effects of deepening collapses.
Saturday, February 28, 2009 Assembly Candidate Lindblad urges a No Vote on LA Charter Amendment B (2 comments)
Assembly Green Candidate Jack Lindblad was not surprised to see that his Assembly seat opponent, the current office holder, and other state legislators siding with Mayor Villaraigosa and the Los Angeles City Council - bought and sold by the Department of Water and Power union, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 18, one of Measure B's largest contributors. Lindblad urges a No Vote on Charter Amendment B.
Friday, February 27, 2009 Assembly Candidate Lindblad urges a No Vote on LA Charter Amendment B
Assembly Green Candidate Jack Lindblad was not surprised to see that his Assembly seat opponent, the current office holder, and other state legislators siding with Mayor Villaraigosa and the Los Angeles City Council - bought and sold by the Department of Water and Power union, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 18, one of Measure B's largest contributors. Lindblad urges a No Vote on Charter Amendment B
Tuesday, January 20, 2009 Four years for Obama to lower emissions to levels to avoid climate change worst effects (1 comments)
President Obama has forty-eight months to stabilize global-warming gas emissions at a level widely considered safe says leading climate change scientist Jim Hansen. Head of the UN's Nobel-winning panel of climate scientists, Rajendra Pachauri argues that global CO2 emissions must be reduced to negative figures by 2050 to spare us the worse effects of looming, unmanagable climate catastrophes.
Saturday, November 1, 2008 Local water shortages loom closer for the Los Angeles regional community
Jack Lindblad, running for Caifornia Assembly to represent the 39th District on the Green Party ticket that includes the northeast San Fernando Valley, reveals the nature of the local water crisis facing Los Angeles and points to revitalizing the Tujunga/Pacoima Watershed as a locally-based solution.
Tuesday, October 21, 2008 Financial meltdown offers green economy growth (1 comments)
With financial markets world-wide frozen and if failed political governance are held to account, opportunities now are beckoning for a environmentally sustainable, regulated, green-collar, solar-thermal, carbon and resource tax-based economy to emerge.
