Really excellent interview. Important well thought out answers and plans, especially in regard to promoting worker co-ops as an economic ground shift.

However! Please rewind on the biofuels idea. Once digging deeper into this subject you'll find that biofuels and biomass are actually worse for the environment and the climate crisis than fossil fuels.

To get a good primer on why, go to http://www.biofuelwatch.org.uk

Biofuels and biomass are ravaging the agricultural and forest lands, and local economic stability of millions in the global south through a dynamic known as Indirect Land Use Change, and are also actually increasing rather than decreasing greenhouse gas emissions.

And this includes your proposal for increased digester gas. Because gas (methane) is over 100 times more powerful than CO2 as a greenhouse gas, producing more of it through such methods as digesting is incredibly problematic because a lot of it leaks in production, transport and use; thereby ramping up global warming not reducing it.

Capturing much smaller scale existing gas directly into local pipelines for fuel use is fairly benign, but producing a large excess of it on purpose definitely is not.

Most importantly, current climate crisis tipping points are so serious that all of the biological material that might be fermented into gas fuel and returned to the air through burning, should instead be composted (creating less methane) with the carbon in those materials returned to the earth for soil health and long term carbon capture in a process known as 'carbon' farming. We need to start aggressively drawing down carbon into the soil to dramatically lower its currently far too high content in the atmosphere, not just achieve zero net releases from burning.

So please look into all of this, hopefully to change course.

Otherwise, you have an awesome platform!

Oh wait, I don't think you could.

Although a throwaway reference to the "one percent" could surely have been slipped in, along with an allegation of a vast right-wing conspiracy, perhaps?

And maybe a whine about Gore losing in 2000 for completeness?

Neither Selby nor Rizzo have the RP/WB force behind them, and they're both decent, hardworking people. I know they're not as shiny as Julian, but when it comes to public office, do you want someone blowing a whole lot of hot air, or someone who's going to work their behinds off to get the job — and not treat it as a stepping stone for something better and higher?

Ambition isn't always the best thing.

because his willingness to put himself on the record to a local news agency carries far less weight than your anonymous post here.

Guest please tell us what to think. We know nothing until an anonymous Guest tells us stuff.

if the tenants union endorses him I'll be ashamed... all the "progressives" lining up like ducklings behind someone who doesn't have their best intrests at heart. there are better options in d5.

Julian's parents are hardly millionaires. That's a load of BS... and a "violent criminal record"... big surprise to hear this lie used against a promising young African American male. Obviously the establishment has its trolls out trying to character-assassinate a rising progressive star. Don't believe the lies.