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Are you interested in becoming an organizer in your area?: Yes

Tell us about your experience with alternative energy:: Hybrid Car
Cold Climate Heat Pump
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extensive interest and independent research on alt energy

What excites you about this campaign?: The sheer scope - finally someone big and important enough cares! Also, I am excited about the comprehensiveness of Pickens Plan. It is encompassing of all alternatives and the utilization of domestic supplies. Brilliant and beyond singular, self-promoting causes.

What do you want to do to help?: PUSH CONGRESS AND OUR LEADERS INTO IMMEDIATE ACTION

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Short term: Use local energy stores

I believe that every area should use whatever resource that is locally available to power their lives (homes, businesses, powerplants, etc.) For example, I live in Northeastern Pennsylvania where coal is readily available - here we should use coal (note that we have several wind turbines dotting or ridges and NG is just ramping up and these will be great, in the FUTURE) Many argue that we should invest in solar, but we only receive 60% of the solar power of Florida. Obviously, it would be a bett… Continue

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At 8:49am on January 17, 2009, Alex van der Beek said…: Hi,
check this out!
http://www.solarbotanic.com
Real Green Solutions, with real green jobs coming to America
Join our efforts, visit my page

At 1:49pm on December 15, 2008, Leslie G. said…: PLEASE TAKE A PETITION TO WORK TODAY!
I am asking everyone to please take petitions to school or work or wherever you are going today! It is very easy. Kim Anderson was able to gather 75 signatures Thursday and Friday while Christmas shopping and running errands. Everyone wants to get off of foreign oil; we just need to gather their names. WE CAN DO THIS, with everyone’s help.

At 9:51pm on November 29, 2008, Faye said…: Please visit www.FAREnergy.org - The Florida Alliance for Renewable Energy would like to make Florida a leader in solar energy. Since 1991, Germany, Spain, Denmark, and over 40 other nations, states, and provinces, have pioneered legislation that have proven to promote the fastest, cheapest, and widest growth of renewable energy. In many of these countries these policies are called "Feed-In Tariffs" (FITs). Producers of renewable energy are paid a premium rate or "tariff" for each kilowatt of energy they "feed into" the grid. Here in North America FITs are being called, "Renewable Energy Payments" (REPs). The name has changed but the fundamental principles of these policies stay the same: Everyone who produces renewable energy is guaranteed that they can connect to the power grid and sell their energy to their utility company. There is no limit to the amount of renewable energy that can be sold to utility companies.
Utility companies sign 15-20 year contracts with all their renewable energy producers. All contracts are transparent and open for inspection.

The contracts include long-term agreed upon prices that the utility companies will pay for the energy they buy. The prices are set high enough to be an incentive to new producers and for existing producers to expand their production capacities. Prices vary according to the source of the energy (i.e, sun, wind, water, bio-mass, etc.) and the size of the energy-producing installation.

The utility companies can recoup their increased costs of paying higher prices for renewable energy by spreading these costs among all their customers.

An Independent Review Board is established by the government that periodically sets the prices and terms for new contracts.

How do REPs work?

Renewable Energy Payments are the mechanisms or instruments at the heart of specific state, provincial or national renewable energy policies. REPs are incentives for homeowners, farmers, businesses, etc., to become producers of renewable energy, or to increase their production of renewable energy. As such, they increase our overall production and use of renewable energy, and decrease our consumption and burning of fossil fuels.

Thank you! Happy Holidays!

Faye Roller - Administartive Director
Florida Alliance for Renewable Energy
1-888-501-FARE
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At 11:22pm on November 21, 2008, Faye said…: Leef thank you, have an excellent weekend! please if you have time visit:

www.FAREnergy.org and spread the word about renewable energy payments - also sign up to endorse FARE...thanks!

At 11:21pm on November 21, 2008, Faye said…: Leef, thank you!!! have an excellent weekend!

:)

At 5:35pm on November 4, 2008, Gregory L. Smith said…: Ok, I get the gist of your comment. I actually have had a few dead cats this fall, fallen prey to some strange new malady, mostly on roads. I think the term is pancakitis. But no, I do not have farmer's bind weed, but I often get it in the back yard and I love it, since it is a legume and it makes feed seeds for wild birds, mostly titmouse... I just can't allow it to take over on low lying trees or I have a real mess for another year. Still, I did have fireflies this fall and I do not have a significant herd of Pillbugs yet, so I think it is a break-even year for pests. I still have to fight some small colonies of termites, since I have too much wood to eat! And most of it isn't in my head... You know, scarecrow syndrome...LOL! Thanks! Gregor
And yes, in the past it has been a pest, but I usually use a mixture of salt and pond water and it dies out from the resulting fungus outbreak. I have some very healthy fungi in my pond. They are used mostly to de-structure leaves. May be a slime mold in there but it ruins the beans if they are still producing and the resulting crop does not germinate.

At 9:09pm on November 1, 2008, Monte Smith said…: Hi LeeF,

I started following a chain of links that began back on a page in AR and I have now landed here on your page. Since I'm here I want to invite you to come and look at the elephant. The elephant is in the room. You'll see...

http://push.pickensplan.com/profiles/blog/show?id=2187034%3ABlogPost%3A1366404

May we always desire to play a better game and create a better tomorrow (for everyone!).

Monte

At 6:46am on October 31, 2008, Dr, Randall S. Currie said…: I left you a weed note on my site. Gregory you have been to my site come take a peek. discusstion on how to 'attempt to kill"
bind weed with organic methods. Can you swing a dead cat in OK. with out hiting a bind weed plant.

At 10:35pm on October 29, 2008, Gregory L. Smith said…: Having lived in Oklahoma almost 90% of my life, I have found that the real culprits for grass are usually either Oat type weeds, Johnson's grass, Crab grass, or Dandelions. All have different root structures, but they also need to be removed to make the grass look good and to allow native lilies to show better in the spring, just like the johnny jump-ups, that also grow from small corms perhaps 10" below the soil level.I do not use broad-spectrum herbicides but opt for isolated use of crabgrass preventer.If you use herbicides over the entire yard's lawn, you lose a lot of hardy native plants that look good in the yard until mid-summer. Chick weed is an example of a very useful weed, which can look sorta ugly, but plays a significant role in micro-environments of my lawn. I personally like fireflies, but noticed that they failed to occur much on city lawns during the June-July visible cycles.The reasons are they do not survive the poisons in the grass-level environments, since Diazenon
and Sevin are often used to curb other pests, and so the larva and the female worm versions of the adult do not live long enough to mate. It could actually happen that the North American Firefly could die out simply due to Pesticides and Herbicides. That is why I do not use them except in isolated patches away from major locations within the lawn. Would like to know your take on this issue and do you think the NA Firefly is now endangered? Thanks! Gregor Smith gregors@att.net

At 1:38pm on October 28, 2008, Dr, Randall S. Currie said…: What was your control treatment for your Dandelion experiment. You said you still have to pull some. Over a 40 year period I have seen that pulling alone works for Dandelions.

Corn gluten does not get them all!

Many people TALK about bring balence to the soil to control weeds.
But in the end there are several Major weeds that this does not work for.
Palmer amaranth and bindweed being to major players. Once you have these Pandoras Box is open.
There is no one chemical solution for all weeds just as there is one "organic" solution. All of them help. Over 18 years and much controled reseach with formal controls and statistical methods that organic production IS VERY good way to raise crops if you add herbicides! Togeher they protect the soil and reduce over all environmental damage. Delete Comment