Building a Solar Future: Repowering America's Homes, Businesses, and Industry with Solar Energy 3/09/2010

America has virtually limitless potential to tap the energy of the sun. Solar energy is clean, safe, proven and available everywhere, and the price of many solar energy technologies is declining rapidly. By adopting solar energy on a broad scale, the nation can address our biggest energy challenges – our dependence on fossil fuels and the need to address global warming – while also boosting our economy.

Building Maryland's Future 1/14/2010

Sprawling development threatens Maryland’s last remaining open spaces, while global warming threatens to inundate parts of Maryland’s Chesapeake Bay waterfront over the next century and create major disruptions to agriculture, natural systems and human health across the state. Transit-oriented development – the creation of compact, walkable, mixed-use neighborhoods around transit stations – can contribute to addressing both of these difficult challenges. Transit-oriented development can consume less land than traditional forms of development, reducing the pressure to pave over open spaces. And residents of transit-oriented developments drive much less than residents of sprawling suburban areas, reducing global warming pollution, easing our dependence on oil, and reducing traffic on our roads.