The Clean Energy Corps is a program that will provide jobs and job training in the new green economy. It is designed to simultaneously stimulate the currently sagging economy, begin the important process of addressing global climate change, and provide a pathway for low-income and unemployed people toward good paying jobs with a reliable future.

I propose that the federal government subsidize part of the original investment needed to develop a national network of unusually comprehensive housing cooperatives. Long-term fixed-interest government loans would be needed to help with the costs of purchasing, renovating and maintaining the property and to pay for the necessary training and salaries of resident employees until the earned income of community businesses can cover their costs. The project's intention would be to provide for most of its residents' social and economic needs, as well as for their housing.

For 5 days a group of approximately 400 people from all over the world will Walk for Peace in Colombia led by Sabine Lichtenfels, Padre Javier Giraldo and Benjamin von Mendelssohn.

Passing through villages and hamlets surrounding the area of San Jose, an area unprotected between the fronts of civil war, participants will be confronted with the threatened reality for Colombian peasants and how they can be part of developing global peace strategies for crisis areas around the world.

This November 4, Californians should vote YES! on Prop 2 – a modest measure that stops cruel and inhumane treatment of animals, ending the practice of cramming farm animals into cages so small the animals can't even turn around, lie down or extend their limbs.

Anti-nuclear activists successfully stopped the nuclear industry once before, but nuclear energy is too important to America to allow that to happen again. Despite the activists' attempts to mislead the public, nuclear energy is a proven, viable, economical, and environmentally sound solution to U.S. energy needs and legislative carbon constraints.