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- Are you interested in becoming an organizer in your area?
- Yes
- Tell us about your experience with alternative energy:
- talking all about it in "Eco Fantasy Tour" book/CD/play
- What excites you about this campaign?
- the solutions! the community! the coming together to make it happen!
- What do you want to do to help?
- I'm in the process of finishing up an environmental, educational magical journey through the forest with Cousin Nature book/CD. In time it will all come to life on stage in a 2500+ theater full of children to be video taped and aired for a wider audience. We are a non profit organization and eventually plan to a have a "school kit" available for schools everywhere to put the play on themselves. We hope to "have the children teach their parents well!" Besides teaching the next generation about energy solutions through entertainment the proceeds will go our non-profit organization, Ozark Environmental Awareness Fund, to implement a recycling system for all the trash left behind the millions of tourist that pass through Branson, MO, every year. As of now there is no recycling!
I've been working on Eco Fantasy Tour the book/CD/play for two years and have now come to the point to where I'm looking for video footage that will be added throughout the live show. Basically the first show will be in a 500+theater full of children in Branson, MO (students bussed in and tourists) and the 2nd show will be in a 2500+theater to be video taped for distribution. With Bass Pro Shops help I'm producing a promo video that also will include footage that I'm looking for. What I'm looking for is 1. footage of landscapes as if they're traveling over the land in their flying air car...it is a fantasy story :). Such as beautiful countryside’s, windmill farms, solar paneled buildings, elect trains, organic farms....anything else along those lines. I'm sure Bass Pro can come up with wildlife! and 2. footage of inventions out there that are on the cutting edge. such as air cars, windmills, solar towers etc. We are a non-profit organization, Ozark Environmental Awareness Fund, and would love to have eco companies sponsor us that have a new exciting products that we can include in the video and will also have credits in the back of the book. Our website ELFlive.org is not quite up yet but will be shortly. If anyone out there in this great community has any idea's of where I might find such footage or companies that would want to be apart of this great adventure please let me hear from you....thanks, kris we hope to educate and inspire a whole new generation! The profits from OEAF will go back into the local needs of the Ozarks, esp Branson, MO who does not have a recycle program and millions of tourist come through this town every year and leave their trash behind!
The video below is alittle something I put together. I've incorporated Doug Starfield's pictures of alternative energy solutions with beautiful landscapes. My intention is to convey how beautiful Earth is and why it's important to protect her with new solutions. The music is by Tom Shinness, www.tomshinness.com, who contributed this song for the fairy dance scene in the upcoming Eco Fantasy Tour CD and play.
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I am so sorry that it has taken me this long to get back to you! I was traveling with Mr. Pickens. We did have a Town Hall at the University of Arkansas. It was amazing! You can watch the Town Hall, in its entirety, below:
Yesterday, Boone held a Pickens Plan Town Hall at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville. Over 750 people packed the auditorium, spilling over into three overflow rooms. Boone talked about his plan to end our dependence on foreign oil and took questions from the crowd.
It was really something special!
To watch the Town Hall in its entirety, please click here.
I'm glad you enjoyed it. If your tour ever brings you to our neck of the woods make sure you let us know. We've got plenty of room, a 1/2 way decent piano and an old vintage Martin sitting in a case. We could always dust it off and have a little jam here in NJ. Of course you'll need to bring your own piano player...and maybe a guitar player also.
Every time a try to play my wrist cramps up and my fingers bleed. It's been a long time.
Regards,
Jack
You have to look at this site called Playing for Change a friend sent me today. I know you will love it. Very creative and good music besides.
I share your KIDS video with everyone. They always love it. Let me know what you think about the link I'm sending.
Jack Costantino
Jack shared your video with me. It was AWESOME!
Great job!
Geoff
Just cruising by and wanted to say I read your comment to Monte about your emotional reaction to the comments about your video psoted at the ROUND-UP. I want to tell you I had the same reaction to your video and other music you have written and performed. The beat of your open heart is expressed in the lyrics and compostion of your creations.
Never give up.
Regards,
Jack Costantino
Thank you for posting the comment. Your computer may need an Internet Explorer upgrade and an Adobe upgrade. Check your Internet and Adobe version numbers under the Help category at the very top of your browser page, not the PPlan page. You can download updated versions or buy the programs out of the box. You might just need some major maintenance work done on your computer. If possible purchase a refurbished laptop, or a new laptop if you can afford one. Just my two cents so that you can communicate more easily.
I understand your issues and I will try to make people aware that you need funding. It is a shame that Branson, MO does not care about their kids and the future of their land and community.
Keep yourself healthy and safe.
Marilyn
WOW...I LUVVVVVVVVVVVVVV your music. Outstanding way to get the kids and energy message across, fun and beautiful to listen to.
THANK YOU!
Jack Costantino
We hope to "have the children teach their parents well!"
Kris...This is soooooooo right! We are in absolute synch on the importance of our children as part of the answer to a problem their parents have handed them to solve for themselves.
Please visit and join the ROUND-UP.
If you agree with the concept of teaching conservation in our early education curriculum, K-12, share the site with your network and add a comment with your views. It's an idea in formation, and everyone's input is sought and welcome.
We’re very happy to have you with us. With you along, and 1.4 million others, maybe we’ll actually get this thing done. Keep you horse watered and your powder dry, it's going to be a long dusty ride.
Regards,
Jack Costantino
Jim Muhaw
District Leaders, NJ-11
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Davis Timber Frame Co.
Haven't heard from you in a while. Your other email adds I have for you are not working. Hope all is well. I'd like to hear how ElfLive is doing.
Now, here's what I'm up to....
Kris, 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 Kris because it just might be a seed that you too would want to plant there in Branson.
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, Kris. 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 or otherwise participate 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.
Your Friend, Monte
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