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Are you interested in becoming an organizer in your area?
Yes
Tell us about your experience with alternative energy:
Chairman of Eastgate Council of Governments' Citizens Advisory Board, Member of Trumbull County Planning Commission's Economic Development Task Force, Alternative Energy and Conservation Activist since 1970's, Realtor specializing in commercial & industrial economic development. Member of Board of Directors of Warren Area Board of Realtors(WABOR) and Mahoning Valley Real Estate Investors Association (MVREIA.)
What excites you about this campaign?
You are putting resources into something that is 35 years overdue. (Remember OPEC's 1973 meeting in Kuwait City?)
What do you want to do to help?
Organizing, political advocacy, site selection, permit procurement, and grant/loan funding for manufacturing, infrastructure, and construction.

Global Green USA Finds City (Youngstown) Fertile Ground

To the Pickens Plan Army:

You have heard me describe the Youngstown Ohio region (in northeast Ohio and
western Pennsylvania) as a hotbed for Green Energy technology and business
opportunity.

The Youngstown Business Journal published this article, an example of their outstanding business news coming from the Youngstown region. (I strongly recommend subscribing to the Youngstown Business Journal daily news broadcasts, and in-depth printed newspaper.)

- James Jay Pirko
OH-17 District Leader

Global Green USA Finds City Fertile Ground
Dec. 18, 2009 6:32 a.m.
By Dan O’Brien
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio -- The city missed out on the technology revolution during the last decade and it won’t make the same mistake with the “green” revolution, vow U.S. Rep. Tim Ryan, D-17, and Mayor Jay Williams.

Ryan and Williams announced Thursday a partnership with Global Green USA, a nonprofit organization based in Santa Monica, Calif., that pledges to help the city get grants and philanthropic contributions to boost its stature in environmental and neighborhood redevelopment.

“We are committed to make sure that we don’t miss the green revolution that’s coming,” Ryan told reporters during a conference call. Ryan and about 30 other members of Congress joined world leaders in Copenhagen yesterday at the United Nations Climate Change Conference.

“We have a partner with Global Green that’s internationally recognized and is going to help re-brand Youngstown and put Youngstown back on the map,” Ryan said. “This is something that totally takes Youngstown to the next level.”

Ryan said Global Green’s expertise in the field “expedites what we thought would take much longer” to accomplish.

Matt Petersen, president of Global Green, said his company would help the city craft an environmental and neighborhood sustainability component to its Youngstown 2010 plan.

“We were looking for a community to work with in the state of Ohio for awhile,” said Petersen, also on the call from Copenhagen. He noted that the organization wanted to work with an area in which it could “create a model that embodies everything we need to do in this world, such as green jobs and affordable energy to low-income families.”

The idea has already received $25,000 in contributions from Youngstown State University alumnus Jack Scott, president of Applied Systems and Technology Transfer. That figure was matched by the Raymond John Wean Foundation, which has taken an aggressive role in promoting and supporting housing and neighborhood revitalization projects.

Petersen said he’s impressed with the work that’s already been done relative to Youngstown 2010, the city’s long-range land use plan that was launched six years ago.

“It will help us contribute to Youngstown 2010 in regards to the ‘greening’ of the city,” Williams said.

That could translate in identifying new ways to adapt green space in the city that’s been vacated as a result of demolition projects, Williams said. “Global Green has got a strong history on finding productive ways to reuse this space,” he said.

As an example, the mayor said green parcels could be reused to develop an urban agriculture program. “It could be a plan to provide fresh food in the inner city to a small-scale economic venture,” he said.

The partnership with Green Global would also yield a design competition to redevelop areas of the city, in specific a neighborhood along the south side.

“It’s still in the early stages,” Williams said. “I think by early next year we’ll have more to report.”

Here are the goals of the partnership, as stated in press materials:

• Create a climate action and sustainability plan that builds on Youngstown 2010 and could be implemented near to mid-term.

• Establish a neighborhood-specific plan on an as-yet unidentified area of the south side that suffers from devastating levels of blight.

• Attract provocative and creative ideas through design competition that could bring national attention and resources to the project.

• Establish measurable indicators of progress, documenting model policies and best practices t hat would be shared with regional and national leaders.

• Leverage existing investments and secure funding commitments from local and regional organizations and congressional appropriations.

• Create a regional framework of ideas and next steps that will identify how the “greening” of Youngstown could influence the greening of Rust Belt communities in the Midwest.

Copyright 2009 The Business Journal, Youngstown, Ohio.

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At 5:05pm on November 25, 2009, John Wesley Nobles said…
Jim,
Thank you so very much for you generous contribution to The Green Revolution Show today. Your district and state have to be very proud of you today. We certainly appreciated hearing from you, and hope we can do it again sometime in the future. You, Veronica, Sean, and Congressman Ryan all did a marvelous job in promoting HR 1835.

Thanks again,

John
At 11:04am on November 7, 2009, Veronica Gold, OH State Leader said…
Hi JJ,
After sending you an email, I remembered my promise not to fill your inbox with stuff. From now on, unless you tell me differently, I'll use our common website.
Please let me know if you submitted our/your thank you letter on behalf of Rep. Ryan to Youngstown news outlets. Thank you so much for all you do. Veronica
At 10:43am on November 2, 2009, JUDI JULIANO said…
Thanks for being a "friend" to the country! I live in Steubenville Oh. Where do you live? I would like to help organize a group in my area.
At 2:00am on November 2, 2009, JUDI JULIANO said…
Three cheers for Congressman Tim Ryan!!!!! And thanks to you and Pickens Plan for keeping me informed!
At 3:20pm on November 1, 2009, Veronica Gold, OH State Leader said…
Hi J.Jay,
If you care to email regarding the letter for Congressman Ryan, please contact me at vgold@bgsu.edu. Thanks a bunch.
At 3:13pm on November 1, 2009, Veronica Gold, OH State Leader said…
Hi Jay, Regarding your request to forward your comments, say no more. It's done and I'll keep you posted with any information that comes my way. Veronica
At 2:43pm on November 1, 2009, James G. Lewis said…
Hi Jay . . . My name is Jim Lewis and I am an advocate for promoting and developing 'clean energy' processes and businesses in the NE area of Ohio.

Our company has patented technologies that can convert natural gas to LNG and landfill gases to clean methane for pipeline uses. Currently, we are working with some of the area politicians to get these processes started in Ohio to help produce low cost, clean fuels for our country's energy independence.

I had the opportunity to visit the Dakota Gasification Plant in its early days when it was being built as an answer to the OPEC issue of the 1970's. Now that we are 70% dependent on foreign fuels, it is my hope that the US will become energy independent of all fossil fuels within the next 7 to 10 years. It can be done! We have the technology. Let's get the support that we need! Sincerely, JL
At 3:09pm on July 8, 2009, Lynne Pultea said…
Is this meeting still going on Saturday July 11th and where is it going to be located at? Thanks. I will be off of school now to fall so if there are any Green Energy Ohio meetings let me know or the Eastgate Meeting? Lynne
At 10:46am on June 4, 2009, Lynne Pultea said…
Thanks for the invite to the meeting tonight but i have school to 730 and would not make it to youngstown till 830 or 9 Sounds very interesting. Wednesday nights in the summer are probably the best night for me to attend any meetings. Just keep me informed on everything.
At 8:36am on May 26, 2009, Lynne Pultea said…
J Jay I have just joined and very interested in attending this meeting tonight. But I won't be able to for i have classes this evening. Is there going to be another one soon that I could attend. I am currently working on my engineering degree and at the current time an operating engineer. I am also working on getting my LEED AP for green building. Also I tried the green energy for ohio website and could not get on.
 
 

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