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“National Clean Energy Project: Building the New Economy” Joins Together Historic Group of Leaders to Tackle National Energy Policy Live streaming coverage Monday, Feb. 23 at 10:15 a.m. EST

Website: http://www.pickensplan.com/summit/
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The National Clean Energy Project includes a distinguished panel of participants. President Bill
Clinton will address the panelists. Vice President Al Gore will address the panelists and join the
discussion.

The event will kick off with opening remarks from former U.S. Senator and United Nations
Foundation President Timothy Wirth followed by brief comments from the Honorary Chairman of
the event, Senator Reid, Vice President Al Gore, as well as by business leader and clean energy
advocate T. Boone Pickens and Center for American Progress Action Fund President John Podesta.

These speakers will touch on the key themes of the forum, including over coming clean energy
infrastructure challenges, and reducing America’s dependence on foreign oil. This will be followed by a roundtable discussion among the invited participants moderated by Mr. Wirth.

The discussion will focus on guiding the transformation of our nation’s energy policies with particular attention on modernizing the electricity grid, integrating energy efficiency and distributed generation into its operation and regulation, rapidly increasing transmission capacity for renewable energy and reducing our nation’s dependence on foreign oil through natural gas, plug-in hybrids and batteries in the transportation and distribution system.

The National Clean Energy Project builds on the August 2008 “National Clean Energy Summit”
sponsored by Senator Reid, CAPAF, the University of Nevada Las Vegas. The participants in the
summit concluded that inadequate access to transmission was one of the most significant barriers to widespread development of renewable energy.

The goal of this forum will be to discuss the best, most cost-effective options to “green the grid” and lay the groundwork for a broad national consensus between as many key stakeholders as possible on a clean energy agenda that will reduce emissions, increase reliability and affordability, and make us more secure and competitive. This important event will influence the development of a new and better national energy policy and should help speed its adoption.

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Comment by V. H. Hammontree, D. Min. on June 24, 2009 at 10:59am: Boone has added one more little part of the Plan.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/t-boone-pickens/propane-and-the-pickens-p_b_219724.html

Comment by V. H. Hammontree, D. Min. on June 16, 2009 at 6:15pm: Take a look at this.

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/06/highaltitudewindpower/

Comment by V. H. Hammontree, D. Min. on June 12, 2009 at 3:58pm: Domestic natural gas supplies will replace our need for foreign oil. Independent studies continue to show that America's natural gas reserves are sufficient to meet all of our needs for well over 100 years.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/t-boone-pickens/stop-worrying-about-world_b_204063.html

Comment by V. H. Hammontree, D. Min. on May 13, 2009 at 6:57am: It is time to start calling these guys weekly and letting them know what needs to be done. They only respond to direct action...not threats...just encouragement.

For the children...

Comment by Cheryl Shuman on May 12, 2009 at 5:11pm: Thank you so much for inviting me to join your group! I'm looking forward to making a difference and getting to know all of you.

Kindest Personal Regards,
Cheryl Shuman
Beverly Hills, CA

Comment by Eric Koch on March 21, 2009 at 10:16am: Leter to Les Knight,

so i'm thinking...tech is the human adaptation,it's use,has finite tendancys (e.g. self deteriorization and environmental destruction) the former being as art in the eye of the beholder...the latter,however, if carefully moderated,could foster healthy rates of unintentional species mutation)...

so wile i see the chances of short term survival of techic off spring (as an insect) i don't foresee the survival of the human animal....what worries me however is a tendency for cycling...as a mechic entity(toward the end of its term) will seek to recreate it's creator...the creator, of course, embeds knowledge of him or her self as a way of crediting ones self to it's existence...it doesn't know why, it just instinctively recreates that witch created it.

i don't think this adaptation could be removed from the species...for with out it, it would surely parish...and so i've decided to foster a tempering attitude (one aimed at avoiding cycling and rampant ecological destruction)....for if any thing comes of this, i think the most appropriate niche would be a contemplative species...captivated with gently stirring its surroundings back into a healthfully diverse state.

as our troubles seem to be a product of the cycling...rulgert

Comment by James Everitt on March 20, 2009 at 12:30pm: In God We Trust - More Than A Motto?

In God We Trust: The Motto
One of the first found references of the motto “In God We Trust” is heard in the U.S. National Anthem, The Star-Spangled Banner. The song was written by Francis Scott Key in 1814 and later adopted as the national anthem. In the last stanza Key writes a variation of the phrase: “...And this be our motto: In God is our trust. And the Star Spangled Banner in triumph shall wave, O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.” The words were shortened to In God We Trust and first applied to U.S. coins in 1864.

In God We Trust: The History
The U. S. Department of Treasury states “the motto, IN GOD WE TRUST, was placed on United States coins largely because of the increased religious sentiment existing during the Civil War. Secretary of the Treasury Salmon P. Chase received many appeals from devout persons throughout the country, urging that the United States recognize the Deity on United States coins.

From Treasury Department records, it appears that the first such appeal came in a letter dated November 13, 1861. It was written to Secretary Chase by Rev. M. R. Watkinson, Minister of the Gospel from Ridleyville, Pennsylvania. As a result, Secretary Chase instructed James Pollock, Director of the Mint at Philadelphia, to prepare a motto, in a letter dated November 20, 1861:

Dear Sir: No nation can be strong except in the strength of God, or safe except in His defense. The trust of our people in God should be declared on our national coins. You will cause a device to be prepared without unnecessary delay with a motto expressing in the fewest and tersest words possible this national recognition. It was found that the Act of Congress dated January 18, 1837, prescribed the mottoes and devices that should be placed upon the coins of the United States.”

Pollock suggested "Our Trust Is In God," "Our God And Our Country," "God And Our Country," and "God Our Trust." Chase picked "In God We Trust" to be used on some of the government's coins. The first time "In God We Trust" appeared on our coins was in 1864 on the new two cent coin, and by 1909 it was included on most the other coins. During the height of the cold war, on July 11, 1955, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed Public Law 140 making it mandatory that all coinage and paper currency display the motto.

In God We Trust: The Foundation
American history demonstrates repeatedly that the nation was founded on Christian principles and its founding fathers wished to acknowledge that fact all over Washington D.C. buildings, in official documents, and historical speeches. Less than a hundred years after its Declaration of Independence, In God We Trust was proclaimed on its coins. America is a free nation, and freedom of religion is still guaranteed in the Constitution’s First Amendment.

President Thomas Jefferson wrote, "The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time" and asked ‘Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are of God?’"

The Bible says:

"It is better to trust the LORD than to put confidence in man" (Psalm 118:8).
"He has put a new song in my mouth, praise unto our God; many shall see it, and fear and will trust in the LORD" (Psalm 40:3, NKJV).

"It is good for me to draw near to God: I have put my trust in the Lord GOD, that I may declare all thy works" (Psalm 73:28 NKJV).

"The fear of man brings a snare: but whoever puts his trust in the LORD shall be safe" (Proverbs 29:25 NKJV).

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Comment by Earle U. Scharff III on March 9, 2009 at 1:33pm: Just another reminder.
Please Let me know if you are able to attend
Spouses significant others etc can attend No Pets Please

We should be going to McCormick and Schmicks afterwards

We are having a Forum to discuss RI's Role in renewable and alternative energy production as well as consevation. We would love to have you attend and add to the discussion. The forum will be held at:

Providence City Hall Room 302
Wednesday March 11, 2009
7:00pm-9:00pm

Speakers include :

Kim Anderson-Pickens plan leader of RI districts 1 and RI district 2

John Rupp- Chairman of the Board of RIPTA

Andrew Dzykewicz- Commisioner of RI Office of of Energy Resorces

John T Jacobson - Developer of Energy efficient buildings

Julian Dash- Director of RI Economic Development Renewable Energies Fund

Dave Eldredge Driller for Geo- Thermal

Comment by William "Leland" Luster on March 8, 2009 at 12:42pm: Thanks for posting the event; I don't see any activity like that happening here in Las Vegas Nevada, I wish I did. Maybe our district leaders will take a hint from your posting, we can still hope right? LOL, Leland