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SLDI and the Obama-Biden Plan Contents Open Letter to the Obama Administration ……….. 3 Introduction ……………………………………………. 4 Plan Sections National Defense ………………………………………… 6 Economy ……………………………………………….. 7 Manufacturing and Green Jobs ………………………… 7 National Infrastructure …………………………………. 7 Technology, Innovation and Creating Jobs ……………. 8 Small Business …………………………………………. 10 Energy and the Environment …………………………... 11 Foreign Policy …………………………………………. 11 Homeland Security ………………………………………. 12 Rural Communities ……………………………………. 12 Service …………………………………………………… 13 Technology ……………………………………………. 13 Urban Communities …………………………………… 15 Conclusion ……………………………………………… 16 Page 2 of 16

SLDI and the Obama-Biden Plan December 12, 2008 President-elect Obama, the Obama Administration and Transition Team; On behalf of Sustainable Land Development International (SLDI), I have the honor of sharing with you a vision of the future which is held by thousands of professionals who, hopefully, will be directly involved in executing significant portions the Obama-Biden Plan as outlined on the www.Change.gov website. We are the entrepreneurial developers, engineers, builders, planners, architects, financiers, attorneys, and others in private and public service, who deliver practical solutions to some of the most important social, environmental and economic issues we face. We accept your offer to “join in the work of remaking the nation,” and seek your assistance in broadly implementing a practical and comprehensive sustainable development decision model and best practices system; and providing the requisite technology and training through "the deployment of modern communications infrastructure to improve America's competitiveness and employ technology to solve our nation's most pressing problems.” In answer to your call for sustainable development to combat the current crises, SLDI respectfully offers a holistic solution that balances the needs of people, planet and profit - for today and future generations. SLDI, a developer-led and cooperatively-owned technology and information-resource association, stands ready to transform the industry that creates the very infrastructure of our civilization. Sustainable development in the U.S. starts with our national infrastructure, and we must be aware that this investment demands sustainable principles and practices from a triple-bottom-line perspective. If our infrastructure is unsustainable, ultimately nothing else can be. SLDI is delivering the practices and processes, as well as the knowledge, skills, relationships and technologies required to implement them in a comprehensive way. In addition to the world’s first and only comprehensive sustainable land development decision model and best practices system, the innovative and transformative technologies and services SLDI provides include clean and renewable energy, green building, ecosystem restoration, carbon sequestration, soil enhancement, water purification and retention, and many others. In this proposal, we offer specific ideas on how SLDI constituents and the SLDI sustainable land development decision model and best practices system can deliver solutions to the multitude of national and global crises we face today. Further, we humbly submit a number of published works which provide information about SLDI and the philosophies we espouse on behalf of our membership. Sincerely, Anthony J. Wernke President twernke@sldi.org SLDI References Sustainable Land Development International Sustainable Land Development Today Sustainable Urban Redevelopment Breakthroughs Events SLDI Knowledge Project Latest SLDI Newsletter The Need for Industry Leadership People, Planet and Profit Beyond Buildings SLDI’s Strategic Plan Achieving Sustainable Land Development Building a Bridge to a New Global Culture Page 3 of 16