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The TagosGreen™ Business Community brings together sustainability experts and industry professionals to actively discuss sustainability concepts, strategies, and operational methods that result in real environmental improvements.

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Tell us about your experience with alternative energy:

I moved from Occidental Petroleum the end of 2007, after 29 years, to the Tagos Group, www.tagosgroup.com, an integrated supply chain and logistics company that also has a "Green" procurement and professional services segment in Houston. Tagos has built out it's online catalog of green products to be one of the largest and most comprehensive on the web. I'm also helping support the development of the TagosGreen business community, www.tagosgreen.com, which brings experts and others interested in sustainable development together to share experiences and ideas. Finally, I have worked to establish The Power Alliance, a woman and minority owned alliance, that provides right of way services, supply chain and logistics and design and development of new transmission lines and support structures for wind, solar, geothermal and natural gas developers.

Originally from Central California where I became familiar with the early Zond wind development in Tehachapi.

What excites you about this campaign?

We do have a great need to limit our imports of fossil fuels but there are many other common sense things we need to do also with regard to the environment and our basic infrastructure. We need to look at the whole and work together to move the country forward in this area. This group needs to be more participatory in discussion about real solutions.

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Let's get to buying and building in New Mexico

Tired of listening to "The Sky is Falling Media"? Move to New Mexico and buy a home, or better yet, add to their economy and build one, a green one. As recently mentioned in the New Mexico Business Journal, New Mexico banks have money to loan. Now it's a sad state of affairs when interest rates are at all time lows and banks are begging home buyers to buy and the buyer puts more stock in the talking heads on TV instead of taking advantage of opportunity.

Yes, parts of our economy are in a reces… Continue

Posted on December 16, 2008 at 9:00am —

Sick and tired of TVs Talking Heads!

I'd just like to take a few seconds to stray a little from the PickensPlan and developing new sources of energy for US energy independence to yell at the TV through my blog. Nearly every night I have the same lady, she must not have anything of substance to offer to anyone, pointing out all the pork in the Obama infrastructure plan. I am absolutely sure there are billions and billions of pork in it. However, bike paths are not pork!

If there is one activity in this nation that addresses more is… Continue

Posted on December 11, 2008 at 1:30pm —

TagosGreen.com - Tagos Corner - 12/10/2008

What does a new administration bring?

Ok, the elections over, well technically not until the 15th when the electoral college votes, but for all intents and purposes we have a new President and most likely many new policies. And, as the President-elect and his spokespeople have stated, much of his domestic agenda will be focused on GREEN. Remember, by green we're talking about all the integrated materials, projects and consulting and everything else that goes into sustainable development.… Continue

Posted on December 10, 2008 at 2:38pm —

TagosGreen.com - Tagos Corner - 10/14/2008

Opportunities in the wake of Panic

It's hard to believe when I wrote about a lot of noise out there that it could have gotten as loud as it has. Who would have thought that in the last two months we would have gone from $140/barrel oil to $80/barrel oil, a bank crisis, a credit crisis, a recession, a depression, no wait.........oh that's right, it's election year in the U.S. I actually read an article this morning talking about how gas prices of $2.79 a gallon were signs of bad times to… Continue

Posted on October 14, 2008 at 2:30pm —

TagosGreen.com - Tagos Corner - 8/24/2008

There's a lot of noise out there

For the past couple of weeks I've been doing a lot of reading and istening and what I'm hearing is a lot of noise. Whether it's the news, the politicians, or the blogs, there's just a lot of noise. It really hit me listening to Nancy Palosi on Meet the Press on Sunday as she talked about the dangerous and evil fossil fuel that we have to do away with but in the same breath praised natural gas. Now, either Speaker Palosi is uninformed, which I doubt, or sh… Continue

Posted on August 24, 2008 at 2:30pm —

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At 9:52am on January 2, 2009, Bill Dykes said…: Also, just as a fyi, Songdog, my nephew by marriage, has been on the front line since he was a teenager. He now lives in the straw bale house he grew up in (my sister and her husband stomped the adobe themselves) which had solar for electricity and has been off the grid since the early 90s. No heating or cooling required due to the design. Indoor plumbing came with the drilling of a new well in the late 90s and he is now looking at acquiring a high performance wind lift pump for the water to continue to stay off the grid. He's been motivated his entire life and should be a great asset. You can probably also find him with an internet search of People Magazine - World Trade Center - first bombing - elevator. He was one of the two teenagers who comforted the kindergarteners in the elevators until rescue.

At 9:45am on January 2, 2009, Bill Dykes said…: Got 100 invitations out there! Expect member participation to pick up when people get back to work next week. Thanks for your hard work!

At 6:31am on January 1, 2009, Kim Anderson said…: Hi Bill!

Thanks for bringing "Songdog" to the party! GOT MORE?

Happy New Year's Day.

When will we ever have a chance like this again to become energy independant before we give this country away?

Our new Congress is sworn in less than 10 days from now - they must be told loudly and clearly that we demand action to reduce our dependance on foreign oil!

WE CAN DO THIS. We need your help. THERE IS NO INFLUENCE WITHOUT NUMBERS!

Please watch the latest amazing "Boone Cam" recap:
http://media.pickensplan.com/downloads/PP/pollingsignupsheet.pdf

Please download the petition, get them filled in and fax them back fast. If all of us do this small thing we can build this effort to millions!
http://media.pickensplan.com/downloads/PP/pollingsignupsheet.pdf

Best and Happiest!
Kim

Please join your local congressional district - they could use your help!

At 9:31am on December 19, 2008, American High Tech Realty, LLC said…: Thanks for the add!!
Let me know about alliance!

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At 3:12pm on December 13, 2008, Adam said…: How do I even begin to approach a major corporation without any connections?

At 6:56pm on December 10, 2008, WALTER REED said…: Hi Bill:

Thanks for the friend invite. Your are quite correct; Speaker Palosi is uninformed alright, as is most of Congress. The lions share of energy funds will be gained by the nuclear industry (non-economic life cycle) as well as Congress being led by some real nut jobs (Al Gore among them). Lobby bribe Dollars and the 'play to pay' game is alive and well.

Just like the Congressional bail-out of Wall Street of some $8.5 Billion with no accountability, they are again behaving as an agitated 'Yosemite Sam', just shoot'n money at whatever corporate owned lobbyist group best pads their retirement. Corruption appears to be systemic in our political and civil servant system.

Our largest reserve is Coal and yes, we now know how to crack methane from coal, but it is sill a hydrocarbon. We can make synfuel and perhaps more importantly, we can (and in a limited way) actually do) crack calcium carbide from coal, which is a non-petroleum fuel (medium). Shipped much the way as salt or sugar, it is converted at the point of use adding small amounts of water ((or by a local conversion facility) to compressed acetylene gas, which is a very fine fuel having the lowest pollution and green house emissions of any fuel next only to Hydrogen. Acetylene, the hottest burning gas known to man and is indeed, the overlooked green fuel. It is also an ideal fuel selection for the silent and highly efficient Any-Fuel Opus high-torque engine. T

There is even a new cost effective system to reclaim the energies of spent oil fields (capped and plugged phase 2 & 3 oil fields) without pollution - all the way through distribution and consumption, including sequestering of C02.

All said, both Congress and Detroit are deaf to this and so many other inventions waiting in the wings, such as ammonia differential temperature engines, the HARTH technology, and various new breakthroughs for wind generation, begging for risk capital investment and commercial introductions.

During the past 150 years, it was the direct result of the independent inventor (not the nuclear, institutional or mega-corporation) that has created some 80% of all new jobs in this country. I submit, that if we turn that great resource, the American Independent Inventor, loose that this would do most to re-establish high-paying jobs, rebuilding our manufacturing base, and ultimately reducing our trade-deficit with new product and systems that the world never dreamed or or seen before.

But that isn't the case; business is as usual and the Band Plays On.

Kind regards,
Walter

At 6:19pm on December 10, 2008, Lisa said…: Hi Bill,
Thanks for the add! My bank is actually out of Houston, even though I am here in the heart of Ohio-I also have a link to TX. I would like to learn more about The Power Alliance too.
Thanks-Lisa

At 9:41pm on August 30, 2008, Bill Dykes said…: Definitely a problem finding the straw and keeping it dry in Texas. They were in northern Santa Barbara County, CA. Easy to find the straw bales and nice and dry, plus the soil was ideal for adobe. My sister would take her bottle of wine and fill the pit with water and straw and stomp all afternoon. Very soothing. You can see the lodge they built too at www.songdog.com. Her daughter in law has it now.

At 12:42pm on August 28, 2008, Mike said…: Hey Bill
Wow!!! $5000. I wanted to build a straw bale cottage just to see how it would go and i still might but i had a hard time finding a source for straw plus it is important to keep it dry which is hard to do for long periods here.