Recently I came across this video advocating for comprehensive climate and energy legislation that is currently before the Senate. This bill is called “The Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act” and I think this is a slam-dunk no-brainer. Why not combine the two most pressing needs in America today: jobs and a “clean-energy” economy?

Check out the video below to be introduced to what the NRDC Action Fund is up to:

If you think this political action is worth advocating for, the website NRDC Action Fund at “This is Our Moment” will provide you an opportunity to email your state senator and encourage them to take action now. If you saw the “State of the Union” address from President Barack Obama, than you are aware that job creation will be his focus for the upcoming year.

Help the US government know that we don’t want just jobs for the sake of jobs, but a whole new industry of jobs and financial resources directed towards helping the United States become a world leader in clean/alternative energy industry.

Included in my appeal to the Hawaii State Senator, I included the following special note:

“I also want to share just one point of personal, heartfelt awareness. It simply would be smart to combine the two most pressing needs of the present moment: jobs and environmental sustainability. For many decades we have been taught in school about America’s manufacturing and innovation prowess, especially since WWII.

However, as I’ve become a young man, I watched as those jobs have moved overseas and America increasingly lose her world stature and respect because she has been unwilling to stand for something other than military-industrial/oil interests. Let’s make a stand now and show that America is ready and willing to be a world leader — not only to benefit the masses outside our borders by innovation, leadership, and utilization of our amazing ability to get products out to the world — but also by generating, nurturing and keeping the jobs that will save the environment of our planet here at home.

We can do this and I trust you will see beyond any immediate lobbying efforts that want to maintain the status quo, and instead, take into account the generations beyond this moment that will benefit from a powerful step forward through energy and climate legislation. Get the money out to businesses, research institutions, schools, and individuals who not only want to succeed in the “business model,” but who also recognize their contribution is not only to their bottom line, but to the world itself.”
Please take action now. Whether or not you agree with the direction Obama has taken the United States. Whether or not you agree that a “change” has come to Washington [D.C.]. Whether or not you like current Health Care legislation (for the record, I’m quite disappointed). All that doesn’t matter now. This is all about America’s future and frankly the future of the world’s natural environment. Let’s at least get the money government spends to “help the economy create jobs” focused in the “right” direction.

Please take a stand: Consider whether this stands for your interests and would be worth spending a few moments emailing and advocating for.

Our government (and Obama) needs to hear from us.