Hello All Space Owners and Coworkers, This month will be an all out War against Prop 23 in California! Although, our space is focused on supporting the green business/ cleantech community and we are working together to defeat the Proposition to suspend AB32, I still need your help:
I am feeling troubled with the poll numbers and I need help energizing young people and students. I am eager to learn more about more approaches, but if I take a step back and think about the "medium" that reaches me the fastest way possible... the "Good news" youtube video that's gone viral does the job! 100k, 200k, 500k, 1million views, and I get fired up! So please watch my latest youtube video at least once or twice (http:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdcaBbVVUTs), click the "share" buttons for Facebook, Twitter, etc. and ask people to "share" it with a message: No on Prop 23! Our space was selected for a TV show called, Next 500, which takes you inside the most innovative and captivating companies set to one day emerge as Fortune 500 powerhouses. This was honor for us and we want to share this with all of you! Just getting passionate at 1am! I need to know if coworking has a voice in statewide politics and I think people listen to views, likes, and shares... Thoughts anyone? Will you help me? This is an article that lays out some of our greatest fears (also see attached): Proposition 23 poll shows a dead heat among California voters: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/greenspace/2010/09/proposition-23-poll-global-warming-california.html A recent PPIC poll, similar to the LA Times one last week, shows us that we have our work cut out for us. According to the Poll: Likely voters are divided on Proposition 23 (43% yes, 42% no, 15% don’t know), which would suspend California’s air pollution control law (AB 32) until unemployment falls to at least 5.5 percent for a full year. The divide is reflected across parties, regions, and demographic groups. Half of Democrats (48%) would vote no, a plurality of Republicans (45%) would vote yes, and independents are split (43% no, 42% yes). Proponents of this measure—as well as the other propositions in the PPIC survey—have linked the outcome to economic recovery. Proposition 23’s advocates contend that AB 32 will cost the state large numbers of jobs in tough economic times, while opponents say the law encourages growth of green jobs. Asked what impact state actions to reduce global warming will have on jobs, a plurality (41%) of likely voters in the PPIC survey say the result will be more jobs, 24 percent say the number of jobs will not be affected, and 26 percent see fewer jobs as the result. An overwhelming majority (81%) of likely voters say the outcome of Proposition 23 is very important (45%) or somewhat important (36%) to them, with 53 percent of those who plan to vote yes and 45 percent of those who plan to vote no viewing the outcome as very important. Second, scary scenario is in the works as KPBS reported: "The last number I saw there are more than 40,600 people working in green and clean tech companies in San Diego and Imperial Counties," said Jim Waring, chairman of CleanTECH San Diego. Waring said suspending AB 32 may send green tech investment money to other states or countries. "We talk to companies that move here because they see potential to grow their businesses here because we have this framework,” said Waring. “So if Proposition 23 were to pass, the air would go out of that balloon, if you will." One of those companies is Kai BioEnergy. The Hawaii company produces bio crude oil from micro-algae and has an office in San Diego. "We are here because California has always been on the leading edge of innovation and if California doesn't step up for the leadership, companies will innovate somewhere else," said Mario Larach, CEO of Kai BioEnergy. That's exactly what worries CleanTECH's Waring. "I was talking to someone from Massachusetts last week and that's probably our biggest U.S. competitor for jobs,” said Waring. “And he tongue-in-cheek laughed and said 'Well, if Proposition 23 passes let everyone know we'll take the jobs in the clean and green technology that California will lose.'" Most of the funding for the Yes campaign comes from two large Texas oil companies, Valero and Tesoro. Let me know what you think about all of this and give us feed back on our facebook page RE the Next 500 EcoHub clip (http://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=RdcaBbVVUTs) Leave comments here: http://www.facebook.com/EcoHub -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en.
