Plan B

I just read a plan by a group called Architecture 2030 that claims to reduce the cost of mortgages, reduce energy consumption and energy bills, create millions of jobs, stimulate the economic recovery and return stimulus money back to the government. Basically, a government mortgage buy-down program would be linked to improving energy efficiency in homes and commercial spaces. You can read a pdf of the plan outline which was presented to the Obama transition team here.

Now I don’t know if this plan will work. I don’t know if it’s a good plan. But I do know that it is a plan. There are a lot of really smart people out there who have some really good ideas about how to solve the mess that our country is in right now.

Maybe we should start listening.