Breeding-Vasquez Aff

We begin our 1AC by noting that
Implementation of the JOBS ACT is at a standstill – lobbyists are gumming up the works and regulator’s are overburdening crowdfunding provisions
GUPTA 2012 (Udayan, “Dodd-Frank Lobbysists Delaying JOBS act implementation”, Institutional Investor, 10/12, l/n)ken

Implementation of the JOBS Act, …  also will keep holding up the JOBS Act.

AND, S.E.C. Restrictions are too burdensome and unrepresentative of the commons – Change is needed to create an open community financing network

Cunningham ’13 (William M, 1/15/13, http://www.sec.gov/comments/jobs-title-iii/jobstitleiii-200.htm)sam m.

In about six months, … than it needs to be.

FINRA restrictions further delay by an additional year

Washington Post 2012 (11/19/12, Deadline Approaching)ken

Meanwhile, the SEC … long wait," Rowe said.

Delays require congressional action to move crowdfunding forward –restrictions just increase the cost of crowdfunding and prevents investment

QUINN 2012 (Daniel, 12/27/12, “The SEC is holding up Crowdfunding Platforms approved through the jobs act” http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-902680)ken:)

When The Jobs Act …  throughout the country.
THEREFORE THE PLAN:

The United States Federal Government should exempt solar energy production crowdfunding 

projects from Securities and Exchange Commission and Financial Industry Regulatory Authority 

compliance for energy production in the United States.

ADVANTAGE – ENERGY POVERTY –

Conventional Financing is not available for small scale solar projects in the status quo – Plan is key to rapid deployment of distributed solar

MONTGOMERY 2013 (James, Mosaic Plans Crowdfunding for Solar Projects, http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2013/01/mosaic-plants-crowdfunding-flag-for-solar-projects) KEN:-) 

Right now there …  crowdfunders, do.

AND: Poverty outweighs other impacts

Abu-Jamal 1998, Mumia, a former reporter, A Quiet and Deadly Violence, http://www.flashpoints.net/mQuietDeadlyViolence.html

It has often …  The War on the Poor.
US Securities law is modeled globally
CAL-CAP 2007 (http://www.calcpa.org/Content/24630.aspx)Ken:)

 Because there are … auditing and ethics standards by 2009.
Solar panels alleviate poverty and solve warming.
Rheannon 11(Francesca, degrees from UWM in History, American U in Economics, University of Massachusetts Amherst in Counseling,  University of Connecticut in Social Work, Solar Power To The People, CSRWire Talkback, 4/26/2011 http://goo.gl/j0Te9
stroud)

Jones was making the point … that benefits all.
Solving climate change requires simultaneously solving the financing systems that promote inequality 

GUAY 2013 (Justin, “Social Bankability” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/justin-guay/social-bankability-solar-_b_2440626.html?utm_hp_ref=tw, 1/13/13)ken

If we are going … not a moment too soon.
Energy poverty is the worst kind of poverty. Small scale solar is the best solvency  
Walsh.  2011.  Brian Walsh, “The Worst Kind of Poverty: Energy Poverty,” Time Magazine, October 11, 2011. – M.E.
"Lacking access to electricity … everyone deserves a light.
Use of fossil fuels causes warming breakout with a quick timeframe
Hansen, Director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, 12
(James, January 30, 2012, “Top Climate Scientist on Need for Clean Energy Action”, http://cleantechnica.com/2012/01/30/top-climate-scientist-on-need-for-clean-energy-action/, 7/17/12, atl)

The threat of human-made …  people and future generations.

Warming causes extinction
Tickell 2008 (Oliver Tickell, Climate Researcher, The Gaurdian, August 11, 2008, “On a planet 4C hotter, all we can prepare for is extinction”, http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/aug/11/climatechange)
We need to get …  would undoubtedly die.
We can’t wait years for SEC approval of crowdfunding – the Time Frame is now

Vidal 2012 (John Vidal,  Environment Editor at the Guardian Newspaper. “Arctic expert predicts final collapse of sea ice within four years” http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/sep/17/arctic-collapse-sea-ice)  RJG

One of the world's …  boost to global warming."

Our Crowdfunding exemption will result in a wave of funding for solar projects

BRADFORD 2012 (C. Steven, “Crowdfunding and the federal securities laws”, 2012 Colum. Bus. L. Rev. 1, Columbia Business Law Review)ken
A crowdfunding exemption would undoubtedly facilitate capital formation. Very small businesses, particularly startups, have an unmet need for capital that securities crowdfunding would help to meet.
The investor-protection …  therefore, be positive.

Solar allows the decentralization of power sources

Behles ’12 (Deborah, law prof and clinical attorney at Golden Gate U, "An Integrated Green Urban Electrical Grid," 36 Wm. %26 Mary Envtl. L. %26 Pol’y Rev. 671)


The energy grid … new urban grid.
A small number of profit driven elites control status quo energy – democratic financing changes this power dynamic

Hoffman and Pippert 5 [Steven M. Hoffman, PhD, Professor of Political Science at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota, and Angela High-Pippert, PhD, Director of Women's Studies at the University of St. Thomas, and serves on the ACTC Women's Studies Coordinating Committee, “Community Energy: A Social Architecture for an Alternative Energy Future”, Bulletin of Science Technology & Society 2005 25: 387]

The evolution of … continue to be a promising alternative¶ (Sawin, 2004).

Elite control of energy leads to violence that is the cause of the neg’s disads
Champain 11 [Phil, Director of Programs at the peacebuilding NGO International Alert, “Changing energy provision – a peacebuilding opportunity?”, January]
Consider the conflict …  for vulnerable communities.

ADVANTAGE – THE SHIFT –

Corporate industrialism is unsustainable – ecological catastrophe, war, economic concerns all make a collapse inevitable – and a transition toward sustainable localized economies is critical for survival.

Carr 05 [Mike, PhD in Bioregionalism, studied under UBC's sustainability expert Bill Rees] Bioregionalism and Civil Society : Democratic Challenges to Corporate Globalism. Vancouver, BC, CAN: UBC Press, 2004.  P. 1-3
Before 11 September 2001, …  picture of what I understand by globalization.

Growth based economy will result in resource wars – Steady-State Bioregionalism is try-or-die

EnergyBulletin 2012 (“A Conversaiton with Herman Daly” http://www.energybulletin.net/stories/2012-02-25/conversation-herman-daly)

Have we in the United States … mobility and global economic integration.

Solar is key to urban Re-inhabitation
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Carr 05 [Mike, PhD in Bioregionalism, studied under UBC's sustainability expert Bill Rees] Bioregionalism and Civil Society : Democratic Challenges to Corporate Globalism. Vancouver, BC, CAN: UBC Press, 2004.  Pg. 196-8
Reinhabitation for urban regions …degradation or possible disintegration” (1982, 13).

Solar is the first step to bioregionalism

Carr 05 [Mike, PhD in Bioregionalism, studied under UBC's sustainability expert Bill Rees] Bioregionalism and Civil Society : Democratic Challenges to Corporate Globalism. Vancouver, BC, CAN: UBC Press, 2004.  p 140.
The first bioregional … entire urban region.