1.31.2006 ET

(CSRwire) San Francisco, CA--SustainLane congratulates President George Bush on acknowledging in the lead-up to Tuesday's State of the Union Address that America needs to get off hydrocarbons and convert its economy to renewable energy sources.

"...We have to wean ourselves off hydrocarbons, oil," Bush said in a recent CBS News interview preceding today's State of the Union address. "And the best way, in my judgment, to do it is to promote and actively advance new technologies..."

We view The President's call to leadership as not only a giant leap toward an economy built on renewable sources, but an economy that puts health--that of the environment, of our economy, and of ourselves--at the top of everybody's agenda.

We at San Francisco-based non-partisan for-profit SustainLane wholeheartedly support this post-carbon economy path, and we are helping promote our nation's transformation by providing our virtual community (www.sustainlane.com) with resources that are helping build an alternative to the oil economy through the use of renewable energy and more.

Doing Our Part

In our online community, we help each other learn how to make ourselves and our families less fossil fuel dependent in our homes, in our transportation choices and at our jobs. Whether it's through green building, using public transportation, choosing safer alternatives to plastics, driving biodiesel vehicles or eating food from local producers, our mission is to collectively transform the health of the U.S. economy for the post-carbon era.

"The President's desire to support emerging technologies, often called 'clean technologies,' is a vote for American jobs, and healthy local economies," said James Elsen, President and CEO of SustainLane. "SustainLane understands this imperative, which is why we have just launched the nation's largest regional directory of local businesses and internet companies that embody the entrepreneurial energy around the exciting new direction of sustainable products and services in our country."

The SustainLane e-Directory (The SLED) http://www.sustainlane.com/sch-search-directory-call.php is a searchable directory of more than 1,500 businesses in Northern California, and also those found on the internet, that make weaning ourselves off hydrocarbons a little easier. You will find a range of solar and green building contractors, native landscaping designers, and restaurants and markets featuring food that is farmed or produced locally and sustainably and without the use of petrochemically based fertilizers and pesticides. Getting the nation off hydrocarbons will not only take the adoption of new energy-related technologies, but it will also take a shift in spending patterns toward America's local economies, all while conserving energy intensive resources, such as water, food and the basic products we use every day. We'll help you make those decisions, and we're asking people everyday for their own suggestions and recommendations, and adding that information to our website for free universal access for all to see and use.

The SustainLane US City Rankings

SustainLane's US City Rankings http://www.sustainlane.com/cityindex/citypage/ranking/ are the nation's first real indication of which cities are preparing for the post-hydrocarbon economy. City leaders such as Portland are focusing on achieving energy conservation through green building, and San Francisco's Mayor Gavin Newsom has increased recycling to approximately 70% of its total waste stream, saving significant energy, while generating revenue. Seattle's Mayor Greg Nickels has led 200 of the nation's mayors across the political spectrum to agree to limit greenhouse gasses through hydrocarbon emission reductions, while Austin's Mayor Will Wynn has helped make Austin the number one U.S. city consumer of renewable wind and solar energy in the nation, creating a citywide clean-energy industry incubator in the process.

"I agree with Americans who understand being hooked on foreign oil as an economic and a national security problem," Bush said. We applaud our President's statements, and believe that the issues of health, economy, and leadership are indeed bi-partisan issues that require and deserve widespread support and encouragement. Now for the hard work...we need to make it happen. Each of us has the opportunity everyday to help our nation move toward a happier, healthier, non-carbon way of being. It is our intention at SustainLane to provide the support for Americans on this personal, and national, journey to the post-carbon society. Come join us at www.sustainlane.com

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