Local Central Florida Events.

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Permalink Reply by Ray Osborne on September 11, 2008 at 10:42pm

The meeting at our business luncheon went very well
earlier today. I was impressed on how motivated
people at our table were on getting something done.

Indeed "Let's walk the talk." and get some things done.

Meeting and listening to other local Picken's People
inspired me to start a "Local Projects" Group. Visit and
join if you feel it may be meaningful to you.

http://push.pickensplan.com/group/localp

Hope you don't mind me promoting my new book.
Join me at the Orlando Library this Saturday at
10:30am . If you are there please introduce yourself
to me as a Picken's Plan person at the tail end.
See Link:

http://www.ocls.info/Programs/Articles/Newsletter/08September/OCLS-...

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Permalink Reply by Ray Osborne on September 14, 2008 at 10:05am

Next meeting in the Space Coast of Florida.

http://push.pickensplan.com/events/event/show?id=2187034:Event:1093101

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Permalink Reply by Ray Osborne on September 17, 2008 at 7:58pm

Our next event. You're invited.

http://pickensplan.ning.com/events/event/show?id=2187034:Event:1093101

Time: September 20, 2008 at 11:30am
Location: Piccadilly Cafe 'Rotary Room" Merritt Square
Street: 777 E. Merritt Island Cswy
City/Town: Merritt Island.
Website or Map: http://maps.google.com/maps...
Contact Info: 321-243-8097
Event Type: Local, meeting
Organized By: Ray Osborne


Time: September 20, 2008 at 11:30am
Location: Picadilly Cafe 'Rotary Room" Merritt Square
Street: 777 E. Merritt Island Cswy
City/Town: Merritt Island.
Website or Map: http://maps.google.com/maps...
Contact Info: 321-243-8097
Event Type: Local, meeting
Organized By: Ray Osborne

Check out New group.
http://push.pickensplan.com/group/localp

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Permalink Reply by Ray Osborne on September 18, 2008 at 10:55pm

Agenda for luncheon meeting.

1) People get food, sit down, eat brief chat.
2) Call meeting to order.
3) Intro time, everyone gets a chance to introduce themselves and say anything on their mind. 2-3 minutes. (max) Items could include upcoming events, what they would like to see.

4) Program starts on the topic of :Local Projects. I start with my
ideas that I posted here and then we go around the group and see
if anybody else has something they would like to see done locally.

5) Discussion about next meeting, where, when, who they would like to see as guest speaker.

6) We break up, people either sit and around and talk or go and pay for their bill. approx 1:30pm

If anybody has other ideas on how they would like to see the meeting go then post a response. But I have been organizing groups and this one of the best formulae to getting things done rather than just talk.

Remember this is about "walking the talk" a "thousand points of light" a group that is proactive about "works". We encourage our guests to 'share a ride'. If you have a distance of more than 15 miles consider meeting up with "Picken's People" from your area and meet up and drive on over together.

PS. Be prepared to talk to press and media people. Get your facts straight if you do talk to them.

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Permalink Reply by Ray Osborne on September 24, 2008 at 8:02pm

http://www.push.pickensplan.com/events/event/show?id=2187034:Event:...

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Permalink Reply by Bill Tucker on September 25, 2008 at 6:51pm

Hello All,
Saturday September 27 as part of a Green Jobs Now cooperation there will be a Brevard County company showing thier products for solar and wind here is an excerpt from the website:
Product Showcase
Cape Canaveral, FL
September 27, 2008 09:00AM to 03:00PM

Hosted by John Broughton
Event Description:

NRGmanager, LLC is a renewable energy product distributor and consultant. Please feel free to stop by the shop to view some of the latest solar and wind products available and to discuss how much renewable systems may cost.

Max Attendees: 20 (Currently 7 Registered)


Invite Friends to this Event


Location:
377 Imperial Blvd., Unit 4, Cape Canaveral, Florida 32920
Directions:
Driving on A1A up towards Port Canaveral locate the RaceTrac Gas Station. Acroos the street you will find Imperial Boulevard. Head east on Imperial Blvd and drive to the end of the road and turn left into a warehouse district. NRGmanager,LLC is located in the 2 story red barn looking building, third on the right. Drive all the way around the building for parking. Once there you will see the garage bay doors open and solar panels. Feel free to walk in and discuss renewable energy products.

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Permalink Reply by Ray Osborne on September 29, 2008 at 8:32am

Joint Meeting of IEEE Melbourne Life Member Chapter and IEEE Florida Tech Student Chapter
Subject: Renewable Energy
Speaker: Frank Leslie, Adjunct Professor at Florida Tech’s Department of Marine and Environmental Systems
Date and Time: Thursday October 9, 2008. Pizza and soft drinks will be served starting at 7:00PM. Presentation will start at 7:30PM.

Location: Florida Institute of Technology Campus, Room P133 (Library Pavilion)
(P133 is connected to Evans Library; entrance is outside the library; pdf map is attached)

Abstract:
Florida Tech's work in the field of Renewable Energy is an important initiative to protect US security since it focuses on eliminating the US dependency on foreign sources of energy. Research in basic sciences (generating and storing power) is fundamental to the national renewable energy program. Florida Tech currently has two graduate course (ENS 4300 and ENS 5300) as well as hands on laboratories that feature deriving enegy from windmills, batteries, natural gas, hydrogen, solar radiation, photovoltics, solar thermal, biomass and coal shale extractions. The US currently is not in a leadership role in these technologies which is particularly evident is by the US dependency on oil. Our automobile consumption is 10 times more costly than Saudi Arabia ($4.00 per gallon vs. $ 0.4 per gallon). In the 1970's France chose to invest in Nuclear Power, using US technology to overcome their dependancy on foreign sources of fuels.

Bio:
Frank Leslie began his engineering career as a Sperry Polaris field engineer installing inertial navigation systems on Polaris submarines. He moved in 1965 to Florida to work for RCA Missile Test Project on the Air Force Eastern Test Range, supporting tracking ship navigation systems. He worked in the Technical Analysis Department that Dr. Jerry Keuper had headed about three years earlier. He earned his M.S. in Space Technology at Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne FL in 1968. In 1978, he joined Harris Corporation as a communications systems engineer and worked on a multitude of primarily Government contracts.

After retiring from Harris in 1999, he became an adjunct professor in Florida Tech’s Department of Marine and Environmental Systems, where he developed and has taught the Renewable Energy course for six years at the senior/graduate level. He develops energy instrumentation and works with meteorologists on wind resources in keeping the data on the internet. During this time, he has designed and installed wind and solar equipment on the eight-story Roberts Hall and created a trailer system that raises a small wind turbine to 35 ft., added a small hydropower demonstration system to the Botanical Gardens stream, and served as advisor to the sustainability Green Campus Group. His website is my.fit.edu/~fleslie.

He is a director of the Florida Renewable Energy Association (the Florida Chapter of the American Solar Energy Society), was a member of the 2007 Florida Energy Commission’s Renewable Energy Advisory Group, and is the energy chair of the Turtle Coast Group of Sierra Club. He is a Life Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and a member of the Space Coast Clean Cities Coalition (Alternative Fuel Vehicles).

In diverse parts of his experience, he was a nuclear fallout shelter analyst, volunteer ambulance emergency medical technician (EMT) and crew chief, a Sierra Club wilderness trip leader, amateur radio operator, and amateur wind turbine designer.

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Everyone is welcome. No RSVP is necessary.

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Permalink Reply by Ray Osborne on October 6, 2008 at 9:06pm

http://push.pickensplan.com/events/event/show?id=2187034:Event:1260682


Next luncheon, guest speaker on green building principles.

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Permalink Reply by Ray Osborne on October 10, 2008 at 7:47pm

Here are some events I am involved with. I always have time to talk about the Picken's Plan.

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