In the near future we will find ourselves with less plentiful and more expensive energy. We will have to recognize the limits on our natural resources - our land, our forests, our oceans, our water and our landfills. When energy gets expensive, life will get local. Local resources will matter. Local control over the economy will matter.

We are at the defining moment.

We propose a fairly radical decentralization, the pushing down of power, resources and decision making to town and county government as much as possible. When energy gets expensive, life will get local. Centralized structures won't work.

Corporate Reform

LD1: "Corporations are not persons"

Counties

Counties can take on new roles as the seat of a decentralized local government

Data Privacy

The State - meaning Maine, the Federal Government, the towns and other authorities - is collecting massive amounts of data on citizens.

Department of Peace

Fear and insecurity can lead to violence - war, domestic abuse, bullying and attacks on others with different beliefs or practices.

Energy

Our renewable energy is the sunlight falling on 21 million acres of Maine, the tides and the wind.

Growth

Our wealth depends on our cutting back our consumption and our growth.

Health Care

Rather than conceive Dirigo as individual health insurance, we should reconceive Dirigo as a public health service - comprehensive, understandable, affordable and fair. Universal, where the only precondition is residency in Maine.

Impeachment

The President has placed himself above the law. It our duty
as citizens to initiate impeachment. The State Legislature has that authority.

Precautionary Principle

The Precautionary Principle and its tenets provide overarching guidance for the State and its individual departments to maintain and develop policies and regulations for a healthier the State of Maine.

Public Health

Public health is likely to transform itself to conceive of the earth as its central concern because this is the next logical step.

TABOR

The right solution is not caps and restrictions, but aligning authority over taxation and spending and keeping that authority at the most local level with the citizens.

Transportation

A public transportation system to connect every community in Maine with light rail.

Trash

LD2: "Garbage is not commerce"

Water

Water is the sustainer of life - a human right.

WTO/GATS

Carve Maine out. Entirely.

The rules we've depended on for all our lives no longer give us good results.

The forces we confront are too powerful for timid half measures.

We need to change the rules.

See also questionnaires or principles. Or email us.