Our Sustainable America

Health and Happiness in a Sustainable America

an economic model for the 21st Century and beyond ...

Using human creativity, energy, entrepreneurialism and fairness, Sustainable America's economy transforms natural resources into the prerequisites listed below for America's sustainability as a united, prosperous nation and democracy: Health and Happiness Shared as Widely as Possible.

Sufficient, clean, quality food, water, air, clothing, shelter, healthcare and time for relationships with loved ones, friends and community, all of which a Sustainable American economy provides the opportunity to enjoy without degrading these natural resources and prerequisites for health and happiness for future generations!

Better Health & Harmony in a Sustainable America

we'll enjoy pricing that tells the truth

... making us ever freer from pollution!

we'll enjoy a green, equitable job boom

we'll enjoy pricing that tells the truth

... as billions of TCT fees will be rebated back to millions of Americans, many of whom have been left out or behind due to racial or sexual discrimination, their jobs went overseas, or whose current jobs in polluting industries have now become uneconomical. With these hundreds of billions, millions will get training for good-paying jobs installing and help starting their own businesses installing solar, wind, insulation, weatherization, detoxification etc.

we'll enjoy Less inequality & more fairness & Harmony

we'll enjoy pricing that tells the truth

We'll enjoy breathing fresh, clean, safe air everywhere!

This shrinking of inequality and growth in fairness and social harmony are vital to the sustainablity of American democracy, as well as America itself.

We'll enjoy breathing fresh, clean, safe air everywhere!

... and that includes those nasty greenhouse gases we can't see!

We'll enjoy drinking, swimming and fishing in clean water!

We'll enjoy breathing fresh, clean, safe air everywhere!

We'll enjoy drinking, swimming and fishing in clean water!

No more reservoirs, well water, lakes, rivers and aquifers contaminated from fracking, mountaintop removal, chemical pesticide and fertilizer run-off, nor leaks and spills of oil, industrial waste, sewage and their resulting algae blooms!

we'll enjoy better health and lower healthcare costs!

We'll enjoy breathing fresh, clean, safe air everywhere!

We'll enjoy drinking, swimming and fishing in clean water!

... with healthier air, water, soil, food, packaging, homes, workplaces, transportation, cities and countryside.

We'll Enjoy Organic Food Costing Less Than Junk Food

with pricing that tells the truth, organic, regenerative, family farming replaces conventional, chemical-laden, factory farming

Organic Agriculture, in its widest definition which includes regenerative agriculture, is a production system that focuses on enhancing soil fertility, health and biodiversity using caring and natural methods of animal husbandry, fertilization and pest control.

Because organic/regenerative farmers use minimal off-farm inputs like water, gasoline and no off-farm inputs like chemical fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides, which will all cost more as they pollute our food, air, aquifers and waterways, organic foods will underprice and replace chemical-laden, conventional factory farming.

healthy soil, healthy food, healthy waterways, healthy world

With organic/regenerative farming's primary focus on the importance and fertility of soil, detailed in the Basis of Life video, America will also enjoy unpolluted, healthier food, air, rivers, lakes, reservoirs, now drinkable and swimmable, not to mention larger, healthier seafood catches from the currently polluted Chesapeake Bay and Gulf of Mexico.

To use an analogy, organic/regenerative farming is like feeding children natural, nutritious food they eat and digest naturally.

In contrast, chemical-laden, conventional factory farming is like feeding children intravenously and separately different lab-made vitamin pills and supplements, sometimes contaminated with chemicals, some known as toxic, others not tested at all.

We'll Enjoy Healthier Homes

The Petition's Plan to implement True Cost Pricing and Green Economy Rebates, and our current work-in-progress Plan to reduce harmful chemicals will result in ever fewer harmful chemicals in our homes and everywhere else. That means for example, carpeting, flooring, paint and furniture won't be off-gassing harmful volatile organic compounds (VOC’s) and other harmful chemicals for years. This will reduce the huge, unacknowledged problem of indoor air pollution, that can be two to five and occasionally one hundred times worse than outdoor air pollution!
Moreover, some of the billions of Green Economy Rebates could go to train and hire former employees of polluting industries, as well as those left out due to racial discrimination or their job went overseas, to go door to door sharing with neighbors how to detox their homes plus save money on their power, water, garbage and car gas bills.

... and We'll Enjoy Saving and Producing Our Own Energy!

we'll also enjoy greener building codes

These greener, local building codes for new single-family homes, and perhaps some if not most renovation projects, subsidized to some degree by Green Economy Rebates, will encourage and perhaps in some areas even require if feasible, the following:

Solar photovoltaic panels which could also power plug-in and all-electric cars, trucks, bikes, scooters and various electric appliances that would substitute for polluting gas appliances.
Passive solar design to orient roofs, skylights and exterior walls and their windows to make the best use of the sun’s heat and sunlight. (See video.)
Exterior walls could be painted either light or dark depending if the owners wanted them to reflect or absorb heat.
Interior "green walls" covered with foliage will also help clean the air and again reduce indoor air pollution.
Solar hot water panels to pre-heat hot water for basic hot water use, pools and hydronic radiant flooring.
Very high rated, non-toxic insulation and double/triple pane windows, which with True Cost Transformation Pricing could cost closer to if not less expensive than single pane windows.
Depending on water availability and costs, recycling of grey-water from showers and sinks to backyards and gardens, and rainwater storage in cisterns. Also conserving water would be dual flush or no flush compost toilets.
Thicker wiring wasting less electricity will cost closer to if not less than thinner wiring with True Cost Transformation Pricing.

The True Value of Land in a Sustainable America

With True Cost Transformation (TCT) pricing taking into account the true, long-term costs of losing various benefits land can provide, its conversion to less valuable, long term use becomes very, if not sometimes prohibitively expensive, depending on its location and specific situation.
For example, building inside city limits on undeveloped lots, i.e. urban infill, will become in general more economical than building outside city limits, especially if it's on prime agricultural land.
As another example, cutting down a forest or very large wood lot will become more expensive as forests take carbon dioxide out of the air, pump oxygen back in, filter, clean and recharge aquifers, plus they slow down water, preventing floods and the silting up of waterways and soil erosion.
This is especially important with tropical rainforests that help regulate global climate by massive sequestration and provide habitat for an incredible amount of biodiversity.
As a result, the U.S. will take responsibility both for being history's biggest emitter of greenhouse gases and cause of global warming, 422 billion metric tons of CO2, and for leading our world in working to achieve net zero; taking out of the atmosphere as much greenhouse gases as we emit.
Which is to say we'll pay Green Economy Rebates to indigenous tropical rainforest tribes and adjacent communities to maintain, protect and importantly reforest lands surrounding their rainforests. That way, they'll begin to sequester the greenhouse gases already emitted by us (instead of proposed offsets that “justify” emitting even more CO2!)

We'll predictably and increasingly tax beef coming from the ongoing deforestation of the Amazon, products using palm oil from massive Southeast Asian deforestation and other similar products causing tropical deforestation.

As a result of TCT fees levied on paper made from virgin pulp and clear cutting, and the huge, global need for more trees, sustainably harvested and certified lumber and recycled paper will underprice and replace them.
In most cities which need many more trees for cooling, cleaning the air and reducing deaths from heat waves, cutting down a certain number of trees, say ten, will require planting or paying for planting at least twenty others.
Living Christmas trees in peat pots that can and will be replanted will now underprice and replace “normal” but in truth dying Christmas trees.
We Americans will look back at our custom of killing 30,000,000+ trees at Christmas, which we and humanity need more of, as truly crazy.

Reduce, Reuse, Remanufacture, and Really Recycle!

home compostable, which will lower garbage bills, will become the new "gold standard" in recycling

Reusable, Recyclable, Compostable & Remanufacturable

Given our titanic Plastic Pollution problem described in A Perfect Storm of Colliding Emergencies on What We Face, truly biodegradable plastics, home or industrially compostable packaging with biodegradable paper and ink labels will increasingly underprice and replace so-called recyclable plastic, both single and multiple use. That's because for the most part, current plastics can't and don't get recycled, and because nature is the least expensive recycler.
As more of the 65% of currently misnamed "recyclables" and solid waste now going to land-fill becomes home compostable, home compostable products not requiring frequently visiting garbage trucks and large plants will not only underprice recyclable and industrially compostable but households nation-wide will enjoy lower garbage bills as they'll need less stops.
Reusable will also quickly underprice and replace single-use so for example, reusable sports and thermos bottles and organic canvas grocery bags will underprice and replace disposable plastic water bottles and plastic bags which will both have very hefty True Cost Transformation (TCT) fees on them.
While biodegradable plastics become perfected and made in scale, Norway very successfully implemented its own type of TCT fee on single-use PET and HDPE plastic and metal beverage containers, which become exempt when they achieve a 95% return rate or more.
Highly manufactured products will more and more be designed to consist of remanufacturable components, that in some cases the manufacturer will pay to have returned, as is already happening in Europe.