It has taken me a long time to learn that I cannot do everything by myself. You have heard me speak of a 30-year transition or mitigation plan that would prepare us for and guide us through bringing into balance sustainable energy resources and their demand. Along with my ideas for a basic structure of this plan, I also want to get ideas from our state legislature and District 25 residents. This is not business as usual. Asking for your input through the use of internet and telephone polls, your information would be used to develop a “community narrative.†This “community narrative†would form the basis of a process known as open sourcing (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participatory_democracy), one definition of which is the process of constituents helping to shape a political direction.
Open sourcing originally referred to a set of principles and practices used to write computer software. Let me give you an example. Bill Gates has the web browser “Explorer†for which we have all paid dearly. Mozilla Fire Fox is (some say) a superior browser. It was not developed in a corporate for-profit context. It was developed by very adept people communicating over the net with their ideas until they morphed their ideas into a user-friendly (and free!) browser. And the people did it for free because of their beliefs.
I believe the 30-year transition plan must follow a similar path. By capitalizing on the request for input, we all have the opportunity to help shape a plan that balances the supply and demand for sustainable energy resources. Natural acceptance of the plan can then follow.
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