Issue 7: Sustainability

Featured Response: Emily Doubilet || Founder, Sustainable Party

Emily Doubilet

Obama proposes to create 5 million new green jobs - I say 50 million! The subsidies for crooked, old, polluting and profit-only business models need to be reversed towards businesses that serve the triple bottom line: people, planet and profit.

As stronger environmental regulations are enacted, we need green jobs on the ground to retrofit our nation and provide economic revitalization. “The green wave shall lift all boats” is the phrase made popular by national activist Van Jones.

I hope the age of information will evolve into an age of fabrication - a world where simple, green methods for manufacturing products and services through local living economies are within everyone’s reach.

I believe sustainability can be propelled by businesses concerns, as well as ‘do-gooder’ concerns for our natural resources and communities. This change in command should dramatically increase support - funding, subsidies, incentives and regulations - so that businesses do the right thing. Our people and planet need it.

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Recent Responses

wow! i think sustainableparty.com seems like a really promising initiative + emily doubilet seems like a really positive, intelligent person to helm the ship!!! i have really high hopes for this! thanks for sharing!!! let’s party!

—Carlen Altman, 25 from Brooklyn, NY US

Obama’s support of maintaining the (appropriately) failing automotive industry at all costs worried me as to his commitment to transforming our industrial and manufacturing infrastructure in the HERE and NOW towards new, green innovation and industry. We have what we need to make the switch, all except the political will. Can that come from the top down? Please, Obama? Please?

Ms. Doubilet makes excellent points all around. Sustainable Party sounds like the smartest idea to come to party-throwing since the pinata. I hope Obama continues his election-bound track record of giving voice and power to the youth of our nation. It is new and fresh ideas that will turn our economy, and the future of our planet, around.

—Ashlynn Manning, 26 from Brooklyn, NY US

Following up on that last comment…

If you are interested in being featured in CIC, or would like to recommend someone for a specific issue, drop us a line: hello@changeincommand.com

Thanks!

—Change In Command from Brooklyn, NY US

To the commenter referenced as ‘please disclose relationships’, thanks for voicing your concern.

We’re working hard to line up issues and responses for 44 consecutive days. This project was conceived and launched over a 3-day time period, so there wasn’t much room to plan features in advance. We have some great people lined up in the coming weeks, but since we didn’t give our ‘experts’ much notice, we have to give them time now to prepare their responses.

In the meantime, in order to maintain our format of daily issues and responses, we were happy to feature two friends/collaborators from other projects we’ve been involved with - Ben Reece and Emily Doubilet. Since there’s no doubt Ben and Emily are qualified to speak on their respective issues, we didn’t see any conflict here. While we’ve made no attempt to hide these relationships, we didn’t think it was appropriate to reference our involvement with these other projects here given the nature of this website.

Change In Command is intended to provide an open dialogue on a broad range of issues leading up to the Inauguration. We welcome any recommendations for featured responses on any issue.

Thanks again for the comment.

—Change In Command from Brooklyn, NY US

Oh, incestuous Internet. Ben Reece is from LPHI when he’s not Delltree. Sustainable Party is okay to feature without disclosure when you’re Crush & Lovely, and not Boom.

—Please Disclose Relationships, 26 from Wisconsin Rapids, WI US

Van Jones is great. When and where can I vote for you?

—Anonymous from Washington, DC US

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# 14: Race

Featured Response: John McWhorter || Manhattan Institute for Policy Research

# 30: Iraq War

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# 32: Sports

Featured Response: Will Leitch || Deadspin

Inaugural Insight

  • The inauguration for the first U.S. president, George Washington, was held on April 30, 1789 in New York City.
  • Should January 20 be a Sunday, the President is usually administered the oath of office in a private ceremony on that day, followed by a public ceremony the following day.
  • Immediately following the oath, the bands play four ruffles and flourishes and "Hail to the Chief", followed by a 21-gun salute from howitzers of the Presidential Salute Battery.
  • The inaugural celebrations usually last ten days, from five days before the inauguration to five days after.
  • Since Thomas Jefferson's second inaugural on March 4, 1805, it has become tradition for the president to parade down Pennsylvania Avenue from the Capitol to the White House.
  • According to tradition, in the first inaugural, President Washington added the words "so help me God" when reciting the oath, although there is no contemporary evidence of this.
  • In 1977, Jimmy Carter started a new tradition by walking from the Capitol to the White House, although subsequent presidents have only walked part of the way for security reasons.
  • The War of 1812 and World War II forced two swearing-ins to be held at other locations in Washington, D.C.
  • The new President assumes power at noon on January 20th, regardless of whether or not he has actually taken the oath of office.
  • There is no requirement that any book, or in particular a book of sacred text, be used to administer the oath, and none is mentioned in the Constitution.

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