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- Are you interested in becoming an organizer in your area?
- No
- Tell us about your experience with alternative energy:
- Back in the 70's we heated our pool with Solar Panels. Living in California, solar power makes sense. Homes should have solar panels built in. Wind power and all other alternatives makes sense. Drilling on our coast cannot happen. It would be a travesty.
- What excites you about this campaign?
- Synergy! I believe America wants change. It's powerful when people join together. I'm so impressed with Mr. Pickens. I think it's fantastic that he's made so much money in oil and he's now pushing alternative fuels. He's the perfect leader. I believe America needs a push and the time is NOW! I want to be part of the solution and leave the next generation with a surplus. I actually believe it's our duty. God created this beautiful earth and we should do everything possible to keep it as effecient as possible.
- What do you want to do to help?
- I'm a producer and I'd like to create some videos to inspire people to join the team to push for new energy. I could create some fun, informative videos to post on youtube or for tv etc... I want to help get the word out!!!
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Good News is Blowing Our Way:
* Claim: Barack Obama says his energy policies would create 5 million new "green-collar" jobs in the economy.
* Rocky Truth Patrol says:
* This is shaky only because it's an economic estimate based on a job category that no one officially tracks - at least not yet. And depending on which economic models are used to make these estimates, Obama's forecast of 5 million green-collar jobs might actually be too low, some experts think!
Obama says his administration would invest $150 billion over 10 years in a "clean energy economy" and "help the private sector create 5 million new green jobs."
Obama takes his figures from two recent studies. The University of California at Berkeley said energy efficiency alone could create 5 million jobs nationwide in the next decade. Note that this study counts jobs created directly in this field, but also indirect jobs created by the demands of the new workers and "induced" jobs created by overall growth in the economy.
The University of Tennessee recently estimated that 5.1 million new jobs could be created by 2025 if the nation got a quarter of its energy from renewable sources. That job number also includes indirect jobs.
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that the nation should expect 15.6 million new jobs in the decade between 2006 and 2016. Adding 5 million "green" jobs would represent just a 3 percent boost in the total employment, which hovers at about 150 million.
The Apollo Alliance, a nonpartisan organization of business, labor, environmental and community leaders, has said they wouldn't count indirect jobs, as do the studies on which Obama relies. However, spokesman Keith Schneider said the alliance actually believes, based on analysis of these studies and others, that the 5 million figure might be too low.
"It's going to be more than that," Schneider said. "The demand for this sector of the economy way outpaces the capacity."
For example, Schneider said, wind energy - a big issue for Coloradans - is facing a capacity crunch because there is currently a three-year backlog for the plate steel needed to make the wind turbine blades. The industry needs people to make the steel, then the blades, then install them, then maintain them, he said. But federal policies - including a tax credit that has expired before and is about to expire again - have made business bumpy, he said.
"The Apollo Alliance's research on the jobs question shows us clearly that if the United States pursues a new national economic development strategy to replace fossil fuels with clean sources of energy and the tools to use them, the economy will generate 5 million new jobs, and likely much more than that," Schneider said.
* Provide multiyear tax incentives for renewable-energy production and energy-efficiency projects.
* Set national mandates that would require utilities to get at least 20 percent of their electricity from wind, solar and geothermal energy by 2020.
* Add and updating the building code to require energy-efficiency measures in the construction of new buildings and the renovation of existing buildings, and setting a goal to reduce buildings' energy use 50 percent by 2030.
* Set prices for carbon-dioxide emissions and creating a program that caps emissions from different industries and allowing companies to trade emissions allowances.
* Upgrade and expanding the nation's electric grid to enable it to support electric cars and the transport and storage of renewable energy.
* Provide incentives for utilities to invest in energy-efficiency technologies.
* Increase the fuel efficiency of cars and trucks and investing more money in private-public partnerships that would develop transportation systems that rely on little or no oil, such as electric cars.
* Provide incentives to consumers and small businesses to buy plug-in hybrid cars and alternative fuels, including natural-gas-powered cars.
* Invest more federal dollars in cleantech research and development, including ways to capture and store carbon-dioxide emissions from coal-fired power plants.
* Speed up the process of setting aside public lands and improving the permitting process for renewable-electricity projects on public lands.
* Shift from ethanol made from corn to ethanol made from wood chips, agricultural waste and other nonfood feedstock, and encouraging a joint U.S.-Brazil partnership to turn sugar cane into ethanol in the Caribbean.
Please join our group:
http://push.pickensplan.com/group/greenjobsnow
Please take a look at the executive summary on my page and join the group "Paradigm Shift Institute". We are in the process of establishing a nonprofit innovation laboratory in Houston Texas dedicated to inspiring young people to pursue technology careers and to the development of the next-generation of strategic technologies to meet our current global challenges. Alternative energy is a major focus of our program.
Right now, we are in need of people willing to sponsor our efforts or to finding sponsorship for us.
We believe this can be the beginning of an effort that can spread to other areas of the country and create a critical mass of new technology ideas and innovative technologists to meet the challenges.
Any assistance you could provide would be appreciated.
Best Regards,
Norman
Please read my essay about ETT, Evacuated Tube Transportation Technology on my personal page.
Thank you,
Tony Toigo
I will check out the site. I do think a video presentation would be an important tool to get this info across. And, one that has some entertainment value as well.
I look forward to discussing further.
Best,
monique
I cant imagine you ever being old. How many years have you had that picture in cryogenic storage?
Look no joke, I am very interested in your skill sets. As it turns out you are the first in your trade to post on this site that I am aware of and Video presentation will be a desired asset for presentation to investment bankers so please take this seriously, go to my page, review the comments and sign up for the group titled "FINANCE THE PLAN" after you decide this is a good choice for you.
Look forward to discussions in person.
Kind Regards,
Richard Bradford
Davie, Florida
I don't see this name very offer in the community however I see it ever time I talk with my sister. I too have a differnet name , Marco. Polo never heard that on before. SPREAD THE WORD!!
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