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- Are you interested in becoming an organizer in your area?
- Maybe--But Not Sure What to Organize
- Tell us about your experience with alternative energy:
- I'm an 18 year old living in North Richland Hills, TX and like many in my generation, I'm very interested in keeping our environment clean for our and future generations. I've seen firsthand how our environment can severely effect communities and the individuals that live there.
- What excites you about this campaign?
- The opportunity to take action to what has been a problem for far longer than is acceptable is what excites me so much about this campaign. It is a shame that we, as Americans and those living on this Earth, have had knowledge of the impact of our actions towards the environment and what it ultimately means for us and our children to come. It is exciting to see an opportunity to find and be involved in a solution rather than complain about rising gas prices and mumble about how the government should do something about it. It is all of our responsibility to make this happen as we are the ones who are suffering for it. We live in a country where our words can be heard without limitation and it is extremely important to become involved in solutions such as this campaign.
- What do you want to do to help?
- Speak in schools I attend. I am also a movie maker with access to a public channel that can reach students, teachers, and parents.
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looking for Sweetwater clips
At the moment I'm looking for clips or footage or even before and after pics of Sweetwater, TX so that I can put it in a PSA. If anyone reads this and has those photos or clips let me know!
Posted on August 6, 2008 at 5:21pm —
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Happy New Year Alethea,
Last year I helped so many members of Pickens Plan learn about personal home energy plans. It's all about conservation of power, and home power generation, things I have been doing at my residence to lower my electricity costs. Send me a friend request a to add me Alethea, I'd be honored to have you as a friend here.
BTW, Texas: I just posted an article link on my pickens page about Home Wind Systems in Texas. Your state's representatives, governor, and public utility commission officials are not in your corner with this "weak policy" on Net Metering. Instead they have the tables turned against green power for businesses and homeowners. Texas has created multiple sets of rules for loopholes and you have less rights than people in other states. You should read that article, important.
TX-26 district has been organizing our group through the month of Dec. I see you have not been attached to a congressional district. We invite you to join district-26.
We have members from Denton, Tarrant, Dallas and Collin counties.
Regards, Joey Horn
P.S. You have a wonderful webpage.
Have you noticed the Referral Rewards up to $1,000 listed on Green Jobs Now! group page? Join the Group!
http://push.pickensplan.com/group/greenjobsnowcom
I am glad Mr. Pickens started the contest.
You did some really Great one I hope you win
EdwardAt 4:21am on August 1st, 2008, Edward said…
Hello Ron A.Rhoades!
Thank you for all the information you have been posted on this site for the benefit of all members.
I just sent this idea to Mr. Pickens.
What do you think of it?
Edward
www.PickensPlanet.com
Dear Mr. Pickens,
What a journey! You have so many people behind you and you deserve it. Your ability to mobilize Americans for one purpose - stopping the addiction to foreign oil - is remarkable.
The internet site, the TV appearances, the Washington trips, the Town Meetings, Ask Boone etc.. I don't know how you do it.
You are an inspiration to all Americans, and now, even overseas to the citizens of the planet.
I had the idea - since America is the land of movies, TV shows, and advertising in general, and since we have most of the Steven Spielbergs of the creative world right here - that maybe you should think to start a contest. Once a month you could select the best produced commercial to use in your campaign.
Among all the hundreds of homemade and professional videos, audio spots, print ads, and cartoons you would receive, you could reward the authors with a photo opportunity with you every three months and a "Yes, I Can" Award (an Oscar Hollywood style Webcast, of course). If you give the people the chance to tell everyone what they like best about you, the Plan, why we should have alternative energy now and how one person can make a difference, their testimonies will move the world.
So, before you know it - at home, at work, at school, in retirement homes, in youth centers, on military bases, even overseas - thousands of citizens of all ages will start to compete for the "PickensPlanet I CAN" Award. In doing so, they will involve everyone around them. It will be contagious. For example, teachers will start competition projects in class on how to best communicate the need for alternative energy and will send you the class winner's ideas, thereby creating even more awareness.
If you watch the video below from Enduron in Germany that obtained the "Oscar" at the Cannes Film Festival last year, you may consider that perhaps this year Texas will host in Dallas the International "I CAN" Festival. I posted this idea on your site in my group, " The International Group from PickensPlanet."
Thank you from all of us who believe in you.
God bless you,
Edward
My name is Geoff Bailey and I am the Pickens Plan regional campaign director for Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisiana. I know how involved you've been on the site for the past two months and I just wanted to thank you for all of your hard work!
I am actually looking for folks who would like to blog about the plan in different states. If you would like to be one of our bloggers in the great state of Texas, please let me know.
I just wanted to personally introduce myself. And I hope you are having a great day!
Geoff
Have you seen T. boones AUTO MATIC system to send
e-mail to your rep. You type in a few key strokes and
it auto adresses the e-mail to all your reps and the GOV.
of your state based on zip code. Has a sugested draft of a letter to send. NEVER EASYER. Spread the word to click on the ACTION CENTER at the main web site.
Kim
Texans unite!
Mike Cutler
Cutler Real Estate Services
Part of the answer to this whole problem is to make all states energy deregulated as Texas and New York are. Give people a choice of switching to green energy through their energy provider. Deregulation leads to choices, incentives and lower prices, as these two states show, and the website illustrates specifically, with real world prices you can check on from many providers.
In regulated states, there is no choice and utilities have a monopoly hold on everything. They will not change, or if they do, it will take another fifty years. They have a strangle hold on everyone and will not let them go..it feels kind of like being in Egypt back in the Old Testament days. Consumers are powerless and helpless for the most part, and are dictated to by oil companies and utilities who buy their carbon fuels.
By contrast, if customers have a choice, as they do for long distance service, then they can switch FAST. Consumers can easily switch to a green energy company that supplies all of their power from wind for example.
Consumer demand will drive the green market as well as investors who will supply it to the demand, rather than utilities freezing everyone out of choice and forcing everyone into extinction due to burning carbon based fuels and 10,000 years of buildup of toxic radioactive fuels.
The only thing left is education, which means that green energy providers hire sales people who will educate first, and then sell green energy to consumers who are truly AWARE and making an INFORMED choice.
We cannot wait another thirty years for the government or anyone else to save us. We have the power NOW to change things, today.
Especially for those living in Texas or New York it is possible to switch to green energy today, without building anything and without buying expensive panels, towers, etc., using links below.
Eric S. Green Sustainability Consultant
http://www.aaagreenenergy.com (Green wind energy sign up)
http://www.electricityratescompared.info (Compare rates for free)
http://www.care2.com/c2c/group/ambit (Discussion group)
http://www.energyconsultantcareer.info (Career Information)
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