Jack Lindblad | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
I am running as a Green for State Assembly in CA.
| Job History: | |
 | Occupation: Architect - Private Practitioner:
• Responsible for project budget determination, analysis and adherence. All projects have been profitable and delivered on-time. • Master of Architecture, Texas A&M University with an Outpatient Healthcare Facility thesis. • Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Design, University of Washington. • Pioneered a mix of services which defined Diagnostic and Treatment Ambulatory Outpatient Surgical Medical Centers with MRI Facilities as a new building type. Employed innovative day-lighting techniques integral to the building design. Jack's work has included religious campus planning and revitalization of existing commercial centers to foster pedestrian-friendly, transit-oriented, mixed use sustainable urban environments • Testified as expert witness in forensic consultations. • Taught at Woodbury University, contributes to professional journal articles and has been listed in the Who's Who Registry. • Featured panelist on "Healthcare Interiors that Work" at the Pacific Design Center's Healthcare Forum in Los Angeles in 1987. • Exhibitor of the Aspen Medical Center at Association of Western Hospitals Convention in Anaheim California in 1986. • Consultant to Veterans Administration, developed 250,000 square foot Sepulveda California VA Outpatient Diagnostic and Surgery Center concepts into preliminary and design development physical modeling presentations. Defined and input comprehensive parameters into a successful run of a Texas A & M University computer energy audit in 1980. • Evaluated a major computer complex (from a building envelope perspective) in a premiere application of the State of California 1st Generation Energy Standards in 1978. Social Justice and Community Activism: • Organizer for the winning effort to defeat payola-inspired Los Angeles Measure B - Solar • Candidate of the Green Party for the 39th California State Assembly Seat in 2008. • Candidate for Pacifica's foundation radio station KPFK Listener-Sponsor Board in 2007. • Participant, May 2006 Los Angeles and San Fernando Valley Immigration Rallies. • 2008 Green Party of the United States National Committee and Presidential Nominating Convention Delegate for Cynthia McKinney • Elected Member, Green Party Los Angeles County Council; 20th Senate District 2006-2008 (Northeast San Fernando Valley) • Participant in rallies and demonstrations for the impeachment of the Bush regime. • Participant in San Fernando Valley-based vigil demonstrations against the US war in Iraq. • Organizer of Organic Consumers Association (OCA) November 13-19 "Breaking the Chains" Campaign against Panorama City Wal-Mart as part of national mobilization to educate consumers about the detrimental effects of large chain stores and promote local, independent alternatives in 2005. • Co-organizer, Media event to increase public awareness of the detrimental community impact of long-vacant, blighted, building code-compromised 13 story Panorama Towers. • "Conflict Resolution Training-Mending Human Relations" sponsored by L.A. City Human Relations Commission, National Conference for Community and Justice Program Graduate, 2003. • Co-author and presenter, award-winning Panorama City Urban Design Assistance Team Study for developing of a sustainable historic commercial area in cooperation with the Los Angeles City Council and Planning Department. • Coro Southern California Neighborhood Leadership Development Program Graduate, 2003 • Served as an initiator of the Panorama City and Valley Glen Neighborhood Council formations. • Active member in the Economic Alliance of the San Fernando Valley Livable Communities Council. • Testified to deny Los Angeles City planning approval to telecom providers requests to install tranceivers (under U.S. Telecommunications Act of 1996 (TA96) deregulation) in commercial areas exposing occupants to electromagnetic radiation (EMF). • Candidate of the Peace and Freedom Party for the 24th US Congressional Seat in 1992. • Organizer of San Fernando Valley Coalition for Peace and Justice weekly vigil demonstrations on Ventura Boulevard against the US-led Iraq invasion in 1991. • Organizer of 'Censorship in Corporate Media' on-site demonstrations against local media outlets of corporate-owned ABC, CBS, and NBC initiated during the media spin build-up to Gulf War I in 1991. • Candidate of the Peace and Freedom Party for the 43rd California Assembly Seat in 1990. Environmental Activism: • Panelist/speaker on climate change and water at USC's town hall forum, sponsored by Focus the Nation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering young people to help accelerate the transition to a cleaner energy economy, co-sponsored with the USC Institute for Genetic Medicine and the USC Levan Institute for Humanities and Ethics. • Contributor and Author of three-part Installment Newspaper Article: "Life as we know it will become extinct" promoting revitalization of the Tujunga-Pacoima Watershed published in the July, September and October 2008 editions of North Valley Reporter based in the North East San Fernando Valley. • Workshop participant/presenter of Los Angeles Citywide General Plan Framework for the Van Nuys-North Sherman Oaks District. • Featured in California Centers Magazine as an advocate for compact shopping and business environs along the 16-mile Ventura Boulevard Corridor. • Workshop participant of Paolo Soleri's energy-efficient, sustainable city (arcology) prototype in Arizona. • Co-presenter on "Artist-Owned Live/Work Space as Catalyst for Central Business District Recovery." • Featured speaker representing the advocacy group 'Fans of the Sepulveda Basin' at US Army Corps of Engineers Hearings on saving the Sepulveda Dam Basin Wilderness Area in 1992. • Featured speaker at Amgen Headquarter on holding Big Tobacco financially accountable for runaway health care costs associated with smoking in 1992. • Featured speaker at Los Angeles Valley College's Earth Day Event in 1991. • Organizer, Low-cost Jitney Service for the San Fernando Valley in 1990. |
| Important Issues: | |
| Top Priorities:
*Stop Global Warming* - Deployment of strategies and tactics to reduce and cope with climate change. *Single-Payer Health Care* - Guaranteed quality single payer healthcare for all. *Clean Money* - Banning of all corporatist lobbying and campaign spending. *100% Amnesty* - Human Dignity and full Immigration rights for all. Survival of human species is in the balance. I will bring the moral and ethical imperatives of the Ten Key Values to the California State Legislature in Sacramento. The Green Party's Ten Key Values which form our party's political framework should be reflected in our society's politics, everyday day life and our inter-personal relationships. Without these ethical and moral imperatives at play, the existing political landscape remains dominated by the greed, corporatist, militarist and fraud-based nature of the duopoly party of Democrats and Republicans. This reality has led human culture on earth to the brink of self-annihilation. If we as a human species are to survive as a culture, current political decision-making must be transcended with a commonly-held harmonic convergence to our Green Party's Four Pillars and Ten Key Values. Jack Lindblad, in his public comment for the Commission on the 21st Century Economy, received, read and acknowledged by Governor Schwarzenegger, posted under "Public Comments" - down this page, as a pdf, draws together the economic and ecological collapses' connectedness to urge a steady state economy and tax policy based on relocalization and bio-regional determinism to retire endemic deficit spending and adapt to, mitigate, and restore ecological services from climate change by reducing emissions 70% by 2015 for a less than 2 °C rise from 2000 levels to avoid escalating, horrific effects of deepening social, economic and ecological collapse. Mr. Lindblad vied for the 39th State Assembly District seat in 2008; was the only Green candidate on the ballot for California Legislative office; is now running to win in 2010 by building on the successes of his 2008 campaign, and lives in the San Fernando Valley. Focusing on water issues, sustainability and a steady-state economy, Lindblad is using viral media, including Twitter and has designed his own Blogger site to promote his campaign. He anchors his award-winning sustainable architecture practice with an urban design and healthcare facility emphasis in the San Fernando Valley. His work is recognized for excellence and innovation. Lindblad campaigns on a Green-values platform for more parks, for a carbon-neutral, steady state economy basing development on bio-regional determinism, not developers. He has supported various community grass-root efforts, including forming neighborhood councils, authoring sustainable community plans, stopping gentrification, revitalizing the Tujunga-Pacoima Watershed, and assisting in the 'No on B' winning effort to provide unfettered solar power to Los Angeles stakeholders. Mr. Lindblad campaigns on the Green Ten Key Values of a Green New Deal in the California Legislature to build a relocalized, bioregional, steady state economy - arising from the financial meltdown and 'Great Disruption' borne of a failed-growth economy. Repudiating the failed, "business-as-usual" growth economy, whether in politics or his architecture practice, will lessen the likelihood of human extinction. Being a effective squeaky wheel in advocacies for health-care patient rights against Big Insurance, for local water reliance, successful in the Panorama City commercial area revitalization and in tipping the balance against the Mayor of Los Angeles thwarted solar power grab has prepared Lindblad to be his District's grassroots community advocate in the State Legislature. Lindblad's overall vote count attained 8.06% - comprising a preeminent 1600% of the 39th Assembly District's Green registered base to rank among the top Green Party results whether for partisan or non-partisan contests. Lindblad's 2006 and 2008 GPLAC Council Council runs (representing the 20th State Senate District) and 2008 Assembly run - requiring signature gathering to qualify to be placed on the ballot - yielded 140 new Green Party registrants, and represented a 2008 increase of Green registrants by 20%, signaling a reversal of a steady decline over the past ten years and seeing ongoing growth in organizing Green Party registration numbers in the east San Fernando Valley, and Lindblad's home 39th Assembly District. |
| Why Vote For Me: | |
| Once elected, I will remain a Green, supporting and advancing legislation to reduce and cope with global warming's economic, political, social and environmental effects, to see a transition to a green-collar economy and to promote sustainable living.
People before profits. Power to the people. My election to the Assembly will empower all constituents of the 39th District with direct stakeholding and representation in Sacramento over the oppressive and burdensome private moneyed interests who currently hold sway in the legislative agenda. Against the dire backdrop of what scientists are saying that humanity has until 2015 to stop unchecked global warming 'before it's too late' to avoid catastrophic effects to the health and economy of humankind, I am seeking to be elected to the California State Assembly. California's Assembly legislates for a state that (if considered a nation) would be the world's eighth-largest economy and the twelfth-ranked contributer to global greenhouse gases. The current Democrat officeholder, beholden to corporate interests in a mostly Latino working class district is not reflecting the urgency required of political leadership to transform our wasteful, consumptive society from pending extinction to sustainability that both Democrats and Republicans refuse to address in realistic measures. My architecture firm and my legislative agenda once I'm elected to the California state assembly share the same goal: To require all new construction and remodeling to meet the California Energy Commission 2020 target of net zero energy in building performance by means of implementing graduated reductions of fossil fuel usage to zero by implementing innovative sustainable design and tax strategies, encouraging transit-oriented, pedestrian friendly mixed-use development, generating on-site renewable power and/or certified renewable energy credits. The overall objective is to 'get off the grid' by achieving net-zero-energy performance. |
Contact Jack Lindblad
| My Web Site: | Jack Lindblad's Official Web Site |
| Phone: | (818) 785-2724 |
| Mail: | Lindblad for Assembly |
| 8211 Shadyglade Ave | |
| North Hollywood CA 91605 |
Please feel free to learn more about all my campaigns:
2008 2010
Candidates who are running as endorsed Greens or running non-partisan campaigns that are supported by the Green Party, from local to national office, may have a free web site through this page.
Green and Green-friendly campaigns that already have a web site, may still be listed in our directory with a link to their official election site. Green candidates with little or no campaign budgets and no technical support can still have their qualifications, issues, and contact information available online.