jessica ryabin's List: Issues Tracking

• for the challenges we face are bigger than party, and bigger than politics."
• a "compromise to get things done"
• olitical leaders work together.
• proportion of Americans who say it is getting better is now higher than at any time since last spring
• were 24% and 27%, respectively.
• Americans overwhelmingly favor new legislation that would provide incentives for using solar and other alternative energy sources.
• producing energy from traditional sources such as oil and gas
• large public outcry.
• who educate our children with the same level of respect
• or the economy
• ask millionaires

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• demand for alternative forms of energy continues to rise,

  • A key issue Obama must face in the next year.
• 250 million euros in European wind and solar farms.

  • A good start. Now what about elsewhere in the world...
• pressure to move over to environmentally friendly energy sources is mounting among the public at large

  • The public is what will really get the government to move to alternate sources of energy.
• increased by almost 25 percent within the space of the last 12 months.

  • We are now understanding more and more the urgency to invest in clean energy.
• market in other eurozone countries

  • Hopefully they will begin to invest in renewable energy in places other than Europe, although Europe would be the ideal place to start. China and India are also key places to begin investing alternate energy sources in.
• in these sectors.

  • Again, only mentions sections in Europe.

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• opening of nearly 38 million acres in the Gulf of Mexico to drilling,

  • Not what we need right now. Obama doesn't seem to have griped the importance of finding alternate sources of energy.

• to give the country a peek at bipartisanship
• rom President Obama’s State of the Union address to earn support from both sides of the aisle.

  • Showing cooperation across party lines.
• both parties say they want to tackle this year,

  • Cooperating and bipartisanship stands as a key issues BOTH parties want to "tackle" this year.
• combative tone and go-it-alone threat signaled a re-election campaign shifting into high gear.

  • By Obama trying to increase taxes on his own without consent from Congress, he is dismissing the idea of bipartisanship, which may cost him re-election in 2012.
• differences between Republican and Democratic perceptions of the president are at historic highs

  • Not a good sign for our government. We need to urgently change this to allow for more improvement.

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• according to the company statement.
• according to the company statement.
• in rural areas and address climate change.
• iness in India)
• Nehru National Solar Mission, a government initiative to expand solar production in India by 1,100 MW over the next two years.

  • Progress in India, as well.
• 60,000 rural homes
• some 8,000 tonnes of greenhouse gas emission, according to the company statement.
• company statement.
• according to the company statement.
• increase energy access in emerging markets by investing in technology, scaling new business models and reducing costs – so that more people use solar power,”

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• investing in clean energy technology projects

  • Nice! Investing in clean energy has now moved to Russia, a highly-industrialized and dependent-on-natural-resources country.
• initial public offering (IPO)

  • Off topic, but this is what just happened to Facebook.

• The committee worked for weeks on its new map, with its Republican and Democratic members agreeing that they would make decisions about boundary changes based on population, not politics.

  • A good example of bipartisanship.
• offered new maps that committee members agreed were fairer than what they approved Friday night. They agreed to amend their map.

  • Shows that compromise is even better when disagreements are made. So disagreeing is not necessarily bad, just too much off it can lead to disorganization and instability of government.
• achieved the by-the-numbers fairness

  • More by numbers rather than from what party.

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• concerns over global warming
• has come from a most unlikely source: Saudi Arabia's oil minister.

  • This is a big step for the gradual replacement of oil with renewable sources of energy.
• able supplier of crude oil to world markets for many decades."

  • Now this statement completely contradicts his earlier concern over global warming and greenhouse emissions.
• oil is a necessity of modern life.

  • I disagree. It WAS a necessity in past decades, but leading up to the 21st century, we've become much more modern and can find an alternate to oil.
• investing heavily in energy efficiency and in developing renewable sources of energy, particularly solar.
• 3,000 hours of sunshine per year, emitting about 7,000 watts of energy per square metre

  • Good, now they should use this advantage to reduce global warming and other factors impacting the environment.
• economically.

  • That is a good point, Those countries with financial advantages are better able to increase efficiency of using energy.
• creating jobs and employment opportunities."

  • Another reason for finding alternate sources of energy.

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• offshore for opportunities to continue growing their businesses.

  • Implies that America is not yet stable enough to invest in costly forms of renewable energy.
• European governments and industry have been leading the way forward in terms of developing offshore wind resources and technology.
• South Korean government’s strategic renewable energy plans
• world’s largest offshore wind farm
• US$9 billion
• Korea Electric
• Scotland’s been working for years to establish itself as a clean energy leader
• US$158 million)
• 500 green jobs
• green

  • A plus in investing in clean energy.
• gearbox systems for Samsung HI’s giant offshore wind turbines,
• great potential of Scotland as the key energy provider of the European continent
• four keystone offshore wind energy areas off the mid-Atlantic coast

  • America also taking a step.
• clean energy resource that will reduce our dependence on fossil fuels, curb harmful air pollutants, and create good paying American jobs in manufacturing and construction,
• Eleven offshore wind energy project developers have submitted proposals for a total 12,000 MW of capacity across offshore wind sites that stretch from New Jersey to Virgnia.
• producing power by 2016 or 2017

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• Bipartisanship is working for Kansas.
• Broad political support
• construction of the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility in Manhattan.
• Republican and Democratic officials working together to advance the projects.

  • yay!
• Kansas Legislature approved a $5 million appropriation for research
• bipartisan action carried the da

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