Green buildings are where tech is most advanced.

Why not require that all buildings not already permitted by December 2007 be net zero - or at most 10% of 2007 averages?

Great News.

Policies like this will move our country forward. For small applications like individual houses, it's clear that microhydro and solar will work well. For larger applications, there is co-generation, that can create heat and electric, by burning fossil fuels efficently on site, rather then wasting so much energy as convention systems currently do.

I would hope that this proposal would include more in investment in pump storage. That's a technology, whose use will have to grow as we use more renewable sources of energy. Done right, it's environmental impact can be done minimally (and be largely self-contained), done wrong, it can destroy whole ecosystems (like the proposed Storm King Project that would dump directly in the Hudson River).