Energize America, the people-powered plan for a sustainable energy future, has evolved.  Evolved from unknown bloggers sharing concerns about mounting energy problems, to a blogger community developing a holistic approach, to the blogosphere working with Congress to develop specific legislative approaches to help deal with the nation's challenges.

In Chicago, at  YearlyKos 2007, three of these people came together to review the process, discussing achievements to date, and laying a path into the future.

This diary focuses on the material presented by Jerome-a-Paris,

From Nowhere to Vegas

Make the Right Choice the Easy Choice is one of Energize America's core principles.  When it comes to energy, all too often, there are bureaucratic, financial, and other factors that inhibit the right choice being the easy choice for government, businesses, and individuals.

Sadly, this is not limited to energy issues.

Just today, listening to NPR, I learned that there is a twist to agricultural insurance that serves as a barrier to good, sustainable, organic agricultural practices.

Energize America is chock full o' cool.   There are great ideas in the plan to expand solar, wind, and other renewable sources.  There's support for much improved conservation, and there are R&D targets that could take us to the next generation of clean power and keen cars.

However, this is the part that's...eh, not so sexy.  But it's important.

In a plan that's all about making sure America has all the energy it needs for the future, this is one part of the plan that's about putting restrictions on an existing domestic energy resource.

This is where we outlaw mountaintop removal coal mining.