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- Are you interested in becoming an organizer in your area?
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- I support 100% the PickensPlan to convert to clean energy.
We need to go forth with building windfarms & putting in place a natural gas infrastructure to secure America's energy future & create momentum to hold our lawmakers accountable for their energy policies.
Thank you Mr. Boone for speaking up on this topic and for leading with a clear & rational plan that will positively impact our nation & the future of our children.
- What excites you about this campaign?
- I am very excited to be involved in the PickensPlan and to help spread the word about this wonderful plan to save the environment, save money and get off foreign oil. I believe wind & natural gas is the answer.
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I apologoize in advance for leaving a blog comment on your comment wall.
Kimi, on the 10th of November a friend of mine on the PP site, Iain McKennon, left me a comment on my wall. Within his comment Iain said, "My approach to Pickens at this point in time is to think globally and act locally." Unbeknownst to me at the time that particular comment of Iain's firmly lodged in my mind and has ever since been gradually working its way into a position of being an influential element in my creativity regarding Green solutions.
Speaking of friends, an old friend of mine used to tell me that the road to attaining an affluence (in anything) was to go with what one knew not new things that were as of yet untried. While I am sure that there are exceptions to this rule, I do believe that empirically, my friend's advice can be seen to be immensely more true than not.
So, here I am at a juncture in my life where I want to play an effective role in environmental repair, in preventive envirionmental health and overall be an active participant in a Green solution. Therefore, in listening to a couple of friends, it occurred to me 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 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 continue to be thinking globally.
HERE IS A SEED I AM PLANTING
I want to share this seed with you Kimi because it just might be a seed that you or someone you know would want to plant where you are residing.
What I am going to do is form a corporation that is a Green construction company, an investment club, an online social community, a market research company, a research and development company, a documentation and educational video production company and an online course in the ways and means of how to build green. There's even 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 where I live there is an abundance of vacant properties within the city limits that can be purchased whereupon new dwellings (single family, duplexes, three and four-plexes) can be built. Currently there are not any builders in this area that are interested in building on these properties. Instead the local builders 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 to the neighborhoods where they are located. The dwellings will be aesthetic, have high curb appeal, in most cases be small ( 800 sq ft. - 1,500 sq ft.) as the lots are small, will be built to endure, will be practical, 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, in the process of building green homes, will also serve as a vehicle to introduce, educate and enlighten a broad base of investors in numerous cutting edge green technologies that have to do with the home and beyond.
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 company 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 a project's total cost. Therefore, the lowest number of investors that could ever be possible on any project would be 20. Investments will be 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 completed dwelling is sold the buyer will receive a copy of the entire video documentation of their new green home from planning to completion.
Of course, all investors will be able to follow the progress of each project that they have invested in online and interact with the project. There will be web cams at each job site, weekly reports will be 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 Better Homes and Gardens type of production. Who knows...perhaps it could even become a series for PBS.
The entire operation process of the company will be transparent.
Nothing is done unless the money to pay for it is immediately available. Nothing is bought 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 employed by the government eg., builidng inspectors, city planners, etc.
This is not a volunteer based company. Those who deliver a product and/or service for the company will be paid for the product/service just as they are always paid for their services rendered.
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 carried out by this company. The company's motto: Purpose - Product - Profit (listed in relative order of importance).
At this stage in the creative process everything is subject to modification.
Okay, Kimi. 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 you would like to be a sounding board for me or otherwise participate in some way in the ongoing development of this company just let me know by emailing me at mfs01@mynewroads.com
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. There will obviously be a learning curve to overcome and I will have to recruit those who have this expertise from numerous areas including the PP site. Access to green expertise does not seem to be all that available locally.
Monte
GOT 10?
Will you get just 10 signed pledges faxed in, asap?!
There are less than 75 days until Inauguration Day... PLEASE, get just 10 pledges. If everyone did, we would be 14 millions strong! Unlike our forefathers , we will not need to take up arms, but THIS IS OUR REVOLUTION. WE CAN DO THIS.
I look forward to hearing how it is going.
BEST
Kim
Can you help with the petition challenge?
Read my latest blog "HOW TO TURN THE PLEDGE INTO A PETITION" . It is really quite easy. Would lve to have you in the 100CLUB.
Thanks
Kim
It has been a while since we kept in touch last!
We are now over 1.2 million suporters. We will need many more if we are to beat back the damn lobbyists and special interests. Can you help with the pledges? Every American needs to sign on. With pledges we can fan out and reach so many. It is an easy ask- Boone has done the hard work. I was able to get 300 signed in the first 4 days - everyone wants to to get off of foreign oil. We may never have a golden opportunity like this again!
ARE YOU IN?
Best
Kim
Daniel Akaka's office called me today. The spokeswomen sounded like the kind of hot air you can not get clean energy from.
Lets all meet to get this thing going for Hawaii.
T. Southworth
Please congratulate Dianna Brown, she has joined the 100CLUB today- for those that fax/send in more that 100 signed pledges! In addition to her pledge push success, she drives the Welcome Wagon often, providing a steady and passionate hand in sharing our goals to new members.
She is a Picken's Hero!
Best to you,
Kim
Read motivational and educational thoughts on how our members accomplished this goal: http://push.pickensplan.com/group/100pledgeclub
Hope you can push pledges - for Senators, Representatives and Governors, as well as all American Citizens! We need you - ARE YOU IN?
Well...if I have invited you before I want to do so again.
Kimi, I want to invite you to check out the Artists Round-Up group.
Because I knew of no other way to do this on this site I decided to create the project in the form of a group. Although, at least in it's beginning stages, the group is really more of a roster for artists to sign in and make themselves know to each other and to all those who are involved in the Pickens Plan than it is an actual group. It is possible though, and not unexpected, that it perhaps will sooner or later evolve into being a genuine group and doing and having as a genuine group.
For now though, I both invite and encourage you to at least go and check the group out. Once you see the set up you'll know whether it's for you or not. And if the purpose of the Artists Round-Up group does not indicate to you maybe there are others you know who might be interested. In such a cirucumstance I would, of course, appreciate your telling them about the group.
http://push.pickensplan.com/group/artistsroundup
Thanks.
Monte
It has been seen.
It has been said.
When the dreams are gone,
The person is dead.
-MS
Mahalo for the invite. Hawaii nei is particularly vulnerable and dependent on the "oil-umbelical" stretching across the Pacific. Our tradewinds can take up some of the slack with wind energy, however we have no natural gas deposits to draw upon to supplement wind farms. This niche can be filled by converting Algal-biomass to various biofuels, eg. methanol, butanol, hydrogen, biodiesel and natural gas. In addition to biofuels, algaes represent a virtual cornucopia of products for mankind's benefit, eg. food-nutraceuticals, pharmaceuticals (algae have been referred to as "the second rain-forest" for exotic drug compounds & extracts), cosmetics, nano-chips, etc...the list is virtually endless but you catch my meanng.
I'm convinced that Hawaii and the Nation needs to get behind this budding technology and turn it into a 'Booming-Industry' to be shared with the rest of the world, (we can use some of the 700 billion to accomplish this).
There is no time for "Hawaiian-time" here....we need to hele-on!
Aloha Pumehana!
Frank "Palani" Cipriani
www.biofarmshawaii.com
hows it going, thanks for the friendship. Yes lets make the switch to alternative energy :)
aloha
Dan
I look forward to knowing you.
All the best,
RoseMarie LaCoursiere
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