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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:
- We have a ranch up in Saint Jo, Texas. They are putting a wind farm up very close in Muenster, Tx. We actually see them being put up now. We wanted to consider putting them on our land but the neighbors were not interested. I also run The Odee Company which is a carbon free printing company located in Dallas and we are making a big push with the green movement.
www.odeecompany.com/green-printing.php
- What excites you about this campaign?
- Reducing our foreign dependence on oil. I have a real concern for my children's future. The government is not doing it. The only way to get them to change is to show them. We have to lead, they won't.
- What do you want to do to help?
- I possibly could help from a printing standpoint. Times are pretty tough but I would certainly see what I could do to help.
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Ralph Branscomb
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Happy New Year Buzz,
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 Buzz, 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.
Are you still out there in the world of the PP? I hope so.
Well, I feel I need to apologize in advance for leaving a blog type of comment here on your comment wall but I wanted to inform you of my current intentions.
Here goes....
Following is the seed that I first began planting on the pages of some of my friends on PP on the 23rd of Nov.
I want to be a part of the Green solution. I recognize that I can probably have a greater and more effective impact by concentrating my creativity and production on a local/regional target than doing otherwise. I also recognize that acting along the lines of what I already have personal experience with i.e., the constructin industry and/or incorporating a familiar reality in what I do is a strong plus in anything I set out to accomplish. And, I know that while acting locally it is critical that I be thinking globally.
HERE IS THE SEED I AM PLANTING
I want to share this seed with you because it just might be a seed that you would want to plant where you are residing.
What I am going to do is form a for profit corporation that is a construction company, and investment club, an online social community, a market research company, a research and development company, a documentation and educational video production company and an environmental company. There's more but those are all the top liners.
What will this company do (broad generalities only):
It will begin by doing infill development i.e., in Fort Smith, AR there is an abundance of vacant properties with the city limits that can be purchased and new dwellings (single family, duplexes, three and four-plexes) can be erected. Currently there are hardly any builders in this area that are demonstrating interest in building on these properties. Instead the bulk of the local builders seem to have their attention on building in whatever new subdivision is being developed.
The company will target these inner city vacant properties to purchase and construct new dwellings suitable and appropriate (in style and design) to the neighborhoods where they are located. The dwellings will be aesthetic, have high curb appeal, in most cases be small as the lots are small, will be built to endure, will be practical, will be healthy homes, will enhance the neighborhood, indeed the city, and...will be constructed with viable GREEN technologies. Each dwelling built by this company will be model of green construction and green technologies utilized in home building.
The company will circumvent the need for borrowing capital by opening up investment (per project) to the general public (local, national or international). Participation in this will be made very simple and inclusive. For example: The range of investment accepted will go from as low as $10 to as high as, but not exceeding, 5 percent of the total project's cost. Therefore, the lowest number of investors that could ever be possible on any project would be 20. Investments are done by project.
Every project will be audio/video documented from beginning to end. The video documentation will be made available to any investor who has invested in the project. Also, when the dwelling is sold the buyer will receive a copy of the entire video documentation of their new possession from planning to completion. Of course, investors will not only be able to follow the progress of each project that they have invested in online but there will be opportunities for interaction as well. There will be web cams at each job site, weekly reports will be posted online by the project mgr. including detailed photos and anecdotes and detailed weekly expenditures. And, any and all tech used in the building of the project will be thoroughly explained as it is incorporated. I guess you could say that this aspect of the company is like doing an in-house HGTV type of production.
The entire operation process of the company will be transparent.
Nothing is executed unless the money to pay for it is immediately available. Nothing is ever purchased on credit.
All personnel who are involved in anyway with a project of the company or the company itself are a member/investor of the company. The exception to this would be anyone involved with city or state government. In other words, a member of the building dept. wouldn't be required to first be an investor in the company in order to issue a building permit or do a building inspection.
This is not a volunteer based company. Those who deliver a service for the company will be paid for the service just as they are usually paid for delivering their service. All frontline and backline costs are factored into the overall cost of a project. The video production and the online access availability are atypical expenses to a construction project. However, these elements are critical to the purpose and operation of the company so they will become a typical expense included in the budget of each project. The company's motto: Purpose - Product - Profit (listed in relative order of importance).
Okay. There's the seed I'm planting in very broad and general terms. I'm sure you will see and extrapolate all the possibilities and potential of such a company. Feel free to ask any questions that you may have or comment as you wish. I am totally willing to share any of this project and how it progresses with anyone. In my opinion, if we had myriad of these companies in active operation we could all only benefit by such a circumstance.
If I don't hear any thing back from you I will take that as your not being interested. If I do hear back from you I will keep you on the list and as I progress in putting this company together I will keep you posted. In fact, I may have need of your services at some point in this operation.
I have helped to construct many dwellings of many different sizes over the last 35 years but I have never constructed a house that totally utilizes green technologies. I will have to recruit those who have this expertise from the PP site. Access to green expertise does not seem to be available locally.
As odd as this may sound, the initial drive/purpose behind this intention/idea of mine is not the increasing of my, or the investors, monetary wealth but it certainly is not about losing money or giving money away or any thing like that either. Instead, the primary impetus behind this is to...through the building of Green and Healthy homes, instigate and impel a shift in lifestyle i.e., going from a lifestyle of wanton consumption without regard for one's impact on one's social, physical, external,internal and future environment to a lifestyle where one has an elevated consciousness regarding their intimate relationship with all that is and their lifestyle reflects that state of enlightenment. I see the building of green and healthy homes as a viable vehicle to assist in this transitional journey from one lifestyle to another. BUT, here's the 64 thousand dollar question...will enough others see the same thing, at least enough to get the vehicle moving? Once it's moving then good marketing and promotion campaigns can attract others into the activity. The more who get involved in this the more impact it will have. And, down the road a ways, after all the bugs have been worked out and the vehicle is running smooth...then the monetary ROI will both accelerate and expand as will the scope of Green projects that are taken on.
Thank you for your time.
May we always desire to play a better game and create a better tomorrow (for everyone!).
Monte
When you get a chance you might want to go and check out the Artists Round-Up Group that is not so much a group as it is a roster. It is a good venue to promote yourself and your services. Just sign in start a discussion and title it your name and begin to tell everyone about who you are and what you do. And Yes, you ARE an artist! To find it just go to groups and enter artists in the search.
Hope to see you there soon!
May we always desire to play a better game and create a better tomorrow (for everyone!).
Monte
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
A patented technology where travel occurs without air friction or rolling resistance (like “Space Travel on Earth”). ETT provides 50 times more transportation per kWh than electric trains or cars. ETT is clean, safe, and faster than jets. The focus of ETT is to maximize transportation value with proven technologies.
mike