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I'm a contractor working in Vermont's technology sector and feel, with Scudder Parker at the helm, we Vermonters have an opportunity to lead the nation with environmental legislation, energy efficiency, and renewable biological fuels.

Vermont has always bred inventors and innovators. We have world leaders here, including Global Health Council in White River Junction; VLS's Environmental Law School in South Royalton, voted the best in the nation; Mobile Medical International in St. Johnsbury; the only company in the world to provide mobile surgery units with full accreditation; Concepts ETI in White River Junction, which provides support for most of the world's turbine engineers; Vermont Environmental Consortium in Northfield, which is supporting technology companies as they enter global markets; and Northern Power Systems in Hinesburg, which provides world-wide wind engineering.

Close to home, Vermont Technical College in Randolph Center is developing plans for a electric power generator that will supply energy for its buildings using cow manure and other bio-fuels.

Vermont's leadership with Scudder Parker can support, lead and promote these and other world-class renewable energy innovations across Vermont. Strengthening his ability to work with such firms is the fact that Scudder Parker was co-founder of Efficiency Vermont and a former director. Vermont was the first state in the nation to start a self-supporting entity to reduce electricity demand. It has been very successful. Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, called Efficiency Vermont one the five most significant and innovation programs in the United States in 2003.

Jim Douglas doesn't seem to comprehend Vermont as an emerging world leader in this department. The global economy is rapidly changing Vermont's economic profile. The loss of factories and farms is painful for many of us, but we have the exciting opportunity to substitute parts of traditional agriculture with this new green, technological revolution, and Scudder Parker, with his impressive background in running the Energy Efficiency Division at Vermont's Public Service Board (PSB), is the one gubernatorial candidate capable of the leadership to move us successfully in that direction.

Ed Lincoln

Randolph Center