Running for Office on Climate Change?

Steady pressure

What is lacking is a sustained search for small steps away from knee jerk and new ways to bring the attention of your voters to the smaller steps required to make serious contributions to your campaign’s image. Remember Governor Moonbeam in California? Jerry Grown was right and with a national audience you have no way to know how your ideas will resonate and in climate change now is the time to beat your drum.

Why?

Since the technology is available, the barriers to entry are low; the criteria are not the viability or profitability of your project but its marketability and again the marketability of the image to the voters and beyond that to your supporters. This is key; you are spreading a message to a much wider audience than just your district, county or state. If a project, complete and in a package is ready to go, show up at the inauguration, tout your presence become an integral part of the concept.

Case in point: No one owns the upcoming methanization of Rural America, yet, although clearly there are enough contenders, from digester manufacturers, engineering firms, individual component producers, and international (European, Canadian, Chinese) systems and off the shelf items, from generators, storage and others. Add to that the legislation a candidate can champion to support or oppose the electrification or natural gas replacement groups, the individual farmer the CO-Ops that can be built into local pressure groups to lighten the energy load, tax burden, local ordinances and others. The international banks that are already into the space like Rabo Bank from Holland or Triodos in Belgium are deeply invested in food and agriculture.

Keep reading on the next pages for more on clean natural gas from cows, from schoolyard to White House, choose your battles and allies, and more.