Platform: Laura Wells

 According to her campaign website as of July 26, 2010, Laura Wells advocates reducing carbon emissions through conservation and efficiency, coupled with a rapid, phased transition to cleaner sustainable local energy sources, in order to reduce California's contribution to global warming. She is opposed to the use of nuclear power and carbon sequestration.

She supports Community Choice Aggregation (CCA) and putting the generation of energy into local communities' hands. She advocates local use of renewable sources of power. According to her website,

"Renewable sources such as wind and solar can allow people and communities to control the means of producing their own energy in virtual perpetuity. This creates tremendous opportunities for the democratization of energy, and the elimination of risky public vulnerability to criminal energy profiteering, such as that which occurred with Enron (which cost California billions). It also reduces long-term dependency on foreign energy sources that turn oil-rich countries into potential war zones for decades to come. Powerful industries have already gained support from the two mainstream parties to create enormous solar facilities and wind farms that will keep these energy sources in the hands of relatively small groups of people so that they can continue to profit from something that could instead be available to many at much lower cost."

Wells states that "Fair policies must be adopted to address climate change so that benefits and burdens are shared equitably." She also advocates public and private investment in retrofitting for energy efficiency and renewable energy, which will create thousands of new jobs in a wide variety of fields and an opportunity for disadvantaged communities to benefit. She believes that the public needs a better understanding of the myths and facts surrounding water policy, that more representative planning processes are needed, and that the public benefit must trump water profiteering. (More about her water platform on her website.)

Wells also supports ranked choice (instant runoff) voting, public campaign finance, and proportional representation. (More about her positions on improving democracy.)

She notes that Green Party candidates do not accept corporate campaign contributions, and that it is the only party with Ecological Wisdom as one of its main platform planks.