Global warming is an alarming threat that is accelerating faster than almost anyone anticipated. We must act dramatically!

Our administration would move America away from being the leading “Society of Consumers,” to being the leading “Society of Conservers.”

At the National Press Club in D.C., I said as president I would immediately sign the Kyoto Protocol, spearhead drives to cut the use of fossil fuels exponentially, and move us back to ‘local production for local consumption.'

“We want to make sure our children have a future,” I told a newspaper in Griffin , Georgia .

And we would point to “green” models we've researched in our vast travels.

In Oberlin , Ohio , Full Circle Fuels converts engines to run on bio-diesel, sells bio-diesel at the pump, has a community garden and only sells “green” products. It's the station of the future, I told the Elyria Chronicle newspaper.

National Geographic calls America 's Great Plains states the: “ Saudi Arabia of wind.” And in Mandan , North Dakota and Weatherford , Oklahoma , we looked at tremendously successful wind turbine projects. And our administration would propose subsidies for states with the best “wind potential.”

In Manchester , Michigan , we learned about an award winning “Zero-Energy” solar home and in the Upper Peninsula's Hancock , Michigan , we researched a geothermal home that had a $17 heating bill, for January.

In Demming , New Mexico , we learned about the “Southwest Desert Sustainability Project” which provides homeowners with strategies for insulation retrofitting and alternative energy strategies.

We would also tout alternative vehicles, bicycling and, well, walking. Remember that? And in High Springs , Florida , we learned about a “Walkable Community Model” that would make these slower modes of transportation easier -- and safer.

And the White House would become the ‘Green House,' with solar cells, wind turbines, no air-conditioning and bicycles instead of limousines.