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- Are you interested in becoming an organizer in your area?
- Yes
- Tell us about your experience with alternative energy:
- I come from a family in the energy industry. My husband's family owned Richland Coal in Kentucky, and my brother is an Environmental Engineer in Seattle. We have researched and studied alternative fuel and energy sources for years. We have looked within our own everyday living for ways to conserve energy and reduce our own consumption. We are proactive in using natural gas, E85 and I have learned how to make bio-diesel from waste veggie oil. I am a very large supporter of wind energy and want to be on the forefront of expanding that exploration to exploit all sources of wind.
- What excites you about this campaign?
- Taking back America, honoring the legacy that we have been left by the giants that were before us that their gift to this country is not in vain.
- What do you want to do to help?
- I'm a visionary and I have a gift of putting things in terms people can understand. I can speak, hold events, organize and mobilize. That's my gift. I'm also a pretty good spin doctor. I can market our objective with some great Energy War Propaganda. I have helped in charitable and political fundraising efforts and met with moderate success.
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http://transitiontennessee.ning.com/
Action Alert
This Tuesday before the second Presidential debate in Nashville, Tennessee please join us for a Rally and March. This is your opportunity to show the media and our presidential candidates that we want strong action for clean energy and the solutions to climate change. The Rally site will have powerful visuals including a blow up coal power plant, large model wind farm and a solar PV system. You bring your voice! We will bring the green hard hats! The green hard hats symbolize the development of the green jobs movement, but the more people the more effective the message.
Please join us and help spread the word.
What: Presidential Debate Rally and March on clean energy and climate change.
When: Starting at 5:30 p.m. Central Time, Tuesday, October 7th.
Where: Starting at Fannie Mae Dee's (Dragon) Park. Nashville, Tennessee.
For more information: Contact Gil at (865) 789-5482.
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TENNESSEE DAY OF ACTION for
CLEAN and JUST ENERGY
NASHVILLE, TN - OCTOBER 7th
Come to Nashville! Tuesday, October 7th is the Tennessee Day of Action for Clean and Just Energy
Show our candidates and elected officials up and down that ballot that Tennessee is voting for clean and just energy!
Schedule of Events
(All Times Central)
Monday, October 6th - 1pm - Fannie Mae Dee's (Dragon) Park - Opening Press Conference
backdrop of a solar array, model wind farm and an inflatable power plant.
students, media and Tennessee residents are welcome to attend this informative event.
Tuesday, October 7th - Day Of Action!
Check-in (for schedule, map, shirt, ect.)
12pm - 3pm plaza at north entrance to Legislative Plaza
3pm - 5:30pm Fannie Mae Dee's Park
1:00 pm - Teach-in; Tennessee's Energy Future - Room 29 Legislative Plaza
Featuring Argun Makhijani - President of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research
Energy Specialists, Officials, Students, and Citizens will discuss the potential for a carbon free, nuclear free Tennessee.
3:00 pm - Taking It to the Streets - Downtown
Get in on the force of Climate Voters that's sweeping across this nation with Power Vote! We'll take our message and our clipboards to the streets to engage more people in voting for a clean and just energy future.
4:00 pm - Critical Mass Bike Ride for a Sustainable Tennessee - Meet at War Memorial Mall
4:00 pm Meet Up -- 4:30pm Ride - Join with cyclist from across Tennessee to advocate for alternative transportation. Use Your Bikes and Your Bodies to show our officials we want a clean energy future! Ride will commence at rally
5:30 pm - Rally and March - Fannie Mae Dee's (Dragon) Park - wear your green
Students and citizens will gather sporting green hard hats, symbolizing the development of the green jobs movement. Speakers will cover the importance of this debate, work of Tennessee students, green jobs, energy solutions, and the national movement for clean and just energy.
can't read - view online at http://climateaction.net/tndayofaction
I live in Knoxville, and when I signed up to PickensPlan, I looked for groups in Tennessee. There were groups centered in Nashville and Memphis, but not Knoxville, and the activity and leadership in our state in general was kind of weak at the time. I began the group East Tennessee for Sustainable Infrastructure and I would appreciate any input. You can find it here
I can also answer any questions about the plan or navigation of the website.
Please invite friends to the plan, as we need all the help we can get for Congress to take us seriously. We wish to be a million strong by January. There is a now a button to contact congress and a pledge on this page
Thank you very much,
Eric Lykins, Pickens Plan Campaign Ambassador
Companies are stepping up their environmental initiatives, and that may mean a boom in "green-collar" jobs.
A recent forecast by the American Solar Energy Society found that renewable energy and energy-efficient industries were responsible for the creation of nearly 8.5 million jobs in 2006, and by 2030 that number is expected to reach 40 million.
Colleges and universities are taking notice, according to Challenger, Gray & Christmas Inc., a job placement consulting group.
Many have introduced specialized degree programs in eco-commerce, environmental accounting, green and social marketing, and ecological economics.
"The demand for 'green-collar' jobs is really exploding, especially as the cost of energy continues to climb," said John Challenger, the group's chief executive. "Students need to start thinking about developing skills that will give them an edge for these types of careers that did not even exist until recently."
Popular jobs include urban planners, forestry professionals and environmental lawyers, Challenger said. There is also a growing demand for architects and engineers with Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification from the U.S. Green Building Council, a Washington, D.C.-based non-profit.
http://push.pickensplan.com/group/greenjobsnow
TRANSPORTATION is the master key to basic survival, and the cornerstone of the economy. We all know that transportation presently depends on oil production, and oil production is peaking. We must focus first on transportation – it is the highest priority. The PickensPlan to transition vehicles to natural gas is a great start toward 100% energy independence, but is a stop-gap measure till we can transition to all electric transportation. Electric energy is strained without adding transportation demands; so we must focus on drastic efficiency improvement.
Evacuated Tube Transport (ETT) is a patented technology where travel occurs without air friction or rolling resistance (like “Space Travel on Earth”); ETT can accomplish 50 times more transportation per kWh (or carbon credit) than electric cars or trains. ETT is silent, low cost, safe, faster than jets, less expensive than freeways, and is electric so it can make maximum use of wind or PV power. As a visonary I thought you might want to learn more about ETT
As moderator of EnergyTalk LIVE at BTR; hosted by AlternativeEnergy.com site, I would like to find reps from these groups to support putting energytalk in every school or community center in every region.
All of the tools and tech support are provided through our company, and we are helping to create training for trainers courses in partnership with Green Mechanical Council and members and organizers of the pickens plan; which has topped 100,000 members in its first month!
With Al Gore’s challenge for 100% renewables in ten years, and Obama’s support for Pickens Plan, the opposition to clean energy in taking a holiday…time to change the locks on the capitol buildings!
vhbeazel@yahoo.com
We offer tech support and hands-on training for energy groups' organizers; Pickens has indeed raised an army, as he said that he would...now it is time to train the leaders of this into an active fighting force. We offer our site as a community resource; anyone can use it and the radio shows are building momentum for bringing energytalk to every school campus in the country.
vhbeazel@yahoo.com
We could really use someone to help with this effort...
Come join us at the group Paradigm Shift Institute, a proposed nonprofit organization promoting education, innovation, entrepeneurship, and the solving of national and global crises.
I hope you can help us make a future for our children.
Norman
-RYAN
energygreen.us
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