Building a New America with Christ*s Values: How to Create Good, Sustainable Jobs and Shift to Renewable Energy Before Oil is Unaffordable

Building a new America with Christ's Values provides solutions to our most critical problems:

- the need to create enough sustainable jobs,
- the need to shift to solar, wind and, hydrogen power before oil is unaffordable or unavailable, and finally
- the need to stop destructive climate change. The Department of Defense has instructed the military that they must be independent of oil by 2040.

There is hope for an abundant future, but only if we:

- Develop a national energy and transportation plan and proceed with rapid implementation to stop burning fossil fuels.
- Shift resources from the Military Industrial Complex to a Nation Building at Home Complex.
- Establish a new business model and banking model as provided by the Mondragon Cooperative Corporation, which is worker owned.
- Follow Christ's teaching: "As I have loved you, love one another."

Duane Errol Fleming is a city planner and the author of The Home Ownership Plan to enable young people to buy a home earlier in life. He co-drafted legislation for the plan with Representative Robert Wexler. The bill, Restore the American Dream Act is now sponsored by Representative Ted Deutch, who will advance the bill when the House of Representatives is functional again. This plan was one of the twenty-one finalists out of 22,000 submissions to the national "Since Sliced Bread.com" contest. For videos and detailed information, visit his website at livelihoodsystems.com. Fleming lives in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida and keeps a close eye on sea level rise and beautiful ocean sunrises.