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- Are you interested in becoming an organizer in your area?
- Maybe--But Not Sure What to Organize
- Tell us about your experience with alternative energy:
- 1980, President, Colorado Energy Retrofit
Solar water heating company.
2006, CoFounder, Kesco Energy
Cooperative Energy Farms and Virtual Net Metering
- What excites you about this campaign?
- This is a grass roots movement that has the potential to "Crow-Bar" alternative energy through the traditional legislative hurdles, by-passing the special interest lobby.
- What do you want to do to help?
- I would like to help create and organize Cooperative Energy Farms of Solar, Wind or Geo-Thermal energy. This is a business model that is patent pending.
See www.kescoenergy.com
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I just wanted to take a second of your time to invite you to view, A Solar Solution!
www.powur.com/homeenergy1 - click View Our Mission and if interested click the back arrow to Become an Ecopreneur.
Also you can see what we offer home owners - www.glenburniesolar.com
Thank You For Your Time
(Please feel free to add me as a friend)
William
419 756 9707
I am working on several new solar projects in N California
With a good energy plan, we drill now so in 7 or so years we can be a net exporting nation again - HaveFun
I have not had the time to compose my suggestion for you but I just came across a person that you might want to pay a visit to when you have the time. His name is Keith Sanderson. Here is his url:
http://push.pickensplan.com/profile/KeithSanderson
I'll holler at you later. I have a very full week this week and my computer time is going to be mostly hit and miss. But I will get back to you.
Monte
This is premature but in a week or so you may want to utilize it.
On Aug 27th I started a plus point minus point evaluation project (an ongoing project) in the forum. It is located in the primary category, Using the Site. The title of the discussion is, This is a Project not a Discussion. Here is the url:
http://push.pickensplan.com/forum/topic/show?id=2187034%3ATopic%3A841663
As you become more familiar with pickensplan.com you will observe and/or experience both good and bad in regards to the operation of this site. The purpose of the +/- eval project I started
was to establish one location on this site where people could come and log in their evaluations (both the good and the bad).
Like I said, this is premature but when the time comes and you want to log in your observations you now know where to go to do so.
May the sun burn bright and the wind blow hard and long.
Monte
p.s. you will most definitely find other folks to collaborate with on this site in creating what you want to create.
Thank you for joining with us. You are appreciated.
I agree. This does have the potential to be a "crow-bar" in getting alternative energy through labyrinth of the special interests lobby.
You can expect to receive more than a few welcomes from various members within the next 48 hours. Thankfully, each welcome will be different from the others. Of course, these welcomes, as is mine, are cookie-cutter type welcomes. They have to be. Because of the daily volume of new members joining the Pickens Plan campaign/army there is no other way, at present, to say hello to so many people so quickly and let you all know that we very much appreciate that you have joined with us.
The way I have approached composing my welcome to you is to think back to the time when I joined (the 11th of August member # 109,109) and ask myself. "What information could someone have given me that would of been of immediate service and value?" And the answers I came up with are what I am passing on to you. This is my welcome.
Note: If you are a veteran at social networking online then much of what I have to say can be skipped. If you are not, then it may be worth your while to read the whole message. Also, keep in mind that these points I have listed are only suggestions.
1. If you have expectations of what you will find here and how things will operate then I encourage you to immediately rip those preconceived expectations off of your clipboard. Put a blank page on and start completely fresh.
2. Do not get into a hurry. There's lots to learn and get acquainted with. It takes a while to "groove" yourself into this.
2. Take some time to thoroughly familiarize yourself with everything that is on your page. Click on everything that you can click on and see what it does. Make notes about the things that you don't understand or don't know how to use.
3. Anything that you don't understand or are uncertain about how to use, don't hesitate to ask anyone who has welcomed you. If we don't know the answer we have all, by this time, built up networks of friends and someone in one of those networks will have the answer(s) you need. And if you happen to think that your question is too dumb or too silly to bother anyone about....well, forget that. There is absolutely NO question that you could ask that would ever be considered either too dumb or too silly.
4. Take some time and check out each of the featured members. On your page they are on the right side. Just click the photo and you will be taken to their page. Once on their page read their profiles, their blogs, their comments, look at their videos, look at their photos, look to see what groups they belong too. Basically, spend some time and look over everything! I guarantee you it will be a big help.
5. After checking out all of the featured members go up to the different tabs at the top of your page and take up one after another and see what happens.
6. When you come to Groups and click on that tab and find yourself on the group page there will be four groups at the top of the page. I suggest that you first check out Guides and Materials for New Members by the Communication Support Group. The members of this group have worked very hard to assemble and provide an extensive resource for the members.
7. There is a search function on the group page. Type in your state and click search. See what group or groups have been started in your state.
Well...that's what I have to offer you. I hope it helps. If you have any questions about anything. DO NOT HESITATE TO ASK.
Now you had better buckle up because you are in for one wild ride.
Good Luck,
Monte
I was like you - unsure how to help organize then I had a realization: the BEST way to help organize is to spread the word. I discuss these issues everyday with my teenage stepchildren, with my stepmother, with friends, family, even just strangers in line at the grocery store. It's surprising how most people are concerned about these issues but rarely begin the conversation themselves. If everyone invites just 5 of their friends to join us here it will help T. Boone Pickens to get our unified message in front of Congress and get our concerns addressed.
$700 BILLION PER YEAR
Big oil profits are unconscionable and oil futures speculators have pushed oil prices into territory that is disastrous for the long term health of the US economy. We are transferring $700 billion each year to unstable and antagonistic regimes. Americans are angry and ready as never before, to take dramatic steps to reduce our dependence on foreign oil. A plan for ending our dependence on foreign oil has appeared on the horizon and surprisingly it comes from an oil man but he happens to be a patriotic American.
PLEASE SHARE THIS PLAN
with your circle of friends, family and associates. Urge them to JOIN. From your own experience you know it is very much like simply signing a petition. The larger our membership the more likely we will be successful in getting Congress to provide effective incentives for alternative and renewable energies and in insuring that our future president will treat energy independence as a matter of the greatest urgency, applying the same kind of leadership as JFK exercised when he led us with his stirring challenge to put a man on the moon in 10 years.
THERE IS NO TIME TO DELAY
…to wait and see…or to see if someone else will step up to the plate. It is time for US to roll up our sleeves and go to work. Right now momentum is working in our favor, but if gas prices retreat, the public will forget the pain, and our moment may be lost. How frightening to think that we could be looking back and apologizing to our children that we chose not to get this done when we had the chance.
FOR MORE INFORMATION
Check out Pickens "August Call to Action"- for a course of action!
Here is an informative video "Topeka, Kansas Town Hall Meeting": http://www.pickensplan.com/news/2008/08/04/video-of-the-topeka-town-hall
Here is Boone's appearrance on Larry King Live: http://www.pickensplan.com/news/2008/08/05/last-nights-larry-king-live-appearance/
I will surely accept if you invite me to be your “friend”.
PERSONAL ACTION OPTIONS
We need to do more than “preach to the choir”. Sharing ideas with each other is encouraging but that will not 1) increase our membership nor 2) influence public policy. If you know someone in the press or someone who blogs - get them to cover this. Write to your Congressman/woman. Ask those in the public eye to support this plan. Print downloadable flyers and put them in your car and/or business window.
I am reminded of an ancient admonition,
“Work while it is day for the night is coming when no man can work.”
YOU MAY FEEL INSIGNIFICANT
Individually, we each feel the same way, but together we will lay the foundation for a stronger, more prosperous and more secure America. Thanks again for joining us.
A GROUP FOR EVERYONE
Check out the Legislation Tracking and Write Congress groups as well as the various groups for Solar, Wind, Hydrogen, etc. Connect, learn and share. We grow stronger with your input. If you don't see a group that speaks to your interest, then start a group of your own.