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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:
- Right now I am an intern for Greg Wortham in Sweetwater, Texas. I am very interested in a new source of energy. I have learned more in the last three weeks working here than the life Iv'e had living in Sweetwater. It's really took me by surprise. I had always noticed the wind turbines, but I had never really taken in the magnitude of the project. Change is all around me. It happened yesterday, it's happening now, and it will happen tomorrow.
- What excites you about this campaign?
- I am so excited about the new campaign. It is so great that we are spreading this knowledge around the world. The West Texas Wind Energy Consortium, the company that Im an intern in, is really gettting busy with this whole thing. Its facinating! We have a new Pickens Plan office here and we pretty much live on the site all day long. I have met T. Boone Pickens before and had the honor to go on a short tour of a GE office. We also went to look at a wind turbine. He has the passion for this and he's a great guy. I hope to see him again.
- What do you want to do to help?
- I want to keep doing what I am doing right now with the Consortium and Pickens Plan. We are doing a lot, but other than that I love spreading the word! I want to get the youth really interested in this, because the adults may be doing it right now, but we will have to step up later. I also want to get people interested in saving the world in general.
Im am very excited to announce that the office where i work, West Texas Wind Energy Consortium, has opened two new offices. These offices are Pickens Plan offices. So, now im working for both WTWEC and Pickens Plan Sweetwater. Its very cool. ...workin for the big man himself... :)
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Happy New Year ShelbyScott,
Last year I helped so many members of Pickens Plan learn about personal home energy plans. It's all about conservation of power, and home power generation, things I have been doing at my residence to lower my electricity costs. Send me a friend request a to add me ShelbyScott, I'd be honored to have you as a friend here.
BTW, Texas: I just posted an article link on my pickens page about Home Wind Systems in Texas. Your state's representatives, governor, and public utility commission officials are not in your corner with this "weak policy" on Net Metering. Instead they have the tables turned against green power for businesses and homeowners. Texas has created multiple sets of rules for loopholes and you have less rights than people in other states. You should read that article, important.
Just wanted to take a second of your time to invite you to view the solar solution equivalent of the PickensPlan.
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
I believe this is a very good idea, in that it is: (a) proactive; (b) results in tangible evidence (boxes and boxes of signed petitions) that might influence Congress; (c) could lead to a surge of members of the PickensPlan (imagine the handout containing instructions for signing up as a member); and (d) provides a real sense of accomplishment to the members who are participating.
Will the PickensPlan support this idea, if not immediately then by scheduling it for a later "Call to Action"? Thank you for your consideration.
* Provide multiyear tax incentives for renewable-energy production and energy-efficiency projects.
* Set national mandates that would require utilities to get at least 20 percent of their electricity from wind, solar and geothermal energy by 2020.
* Add and updating the building code to require energy-efficiency measures in the construction of new buildings and the renovation of existing buildings, and setting a goal to reduce buildings' energy use 50 percent by 2030.
* Set prices for carbon-dioxide emissions and creating a program that caps emissions from different industries and allowing companies to trade emissions allowances.
* Upgrade and expanding the nation's electric grid to enable it to support electric cars and the transport and storage of renewable energy.
* Provide incentives for utilities to invest in energy-efficiency technologies.
* Increase the fuel efficiency of cars and trucks and investing more money in private-public partnerships that would develop transportation systems that rely on little or no oil, such as electric cars.
* Provide incentives to consumers and small businesses to buy plug-in hybrid cars and alternative fuels, including natural-gas-powered cars.
* Invest more federal dollars in cleantech research and development, including ways to capture and store carbon-dioxide emissions from coal-fired power plants.
* Speed up the process of setting aside public lands and improving the permitting process for renewable-electricity projects on public lands.
* Shift from ethanol made from corn to ethanol made from wood chips, agricultural waste and other nonfood feedstock, and encouraging a joint U.S.-Brazil partnership to turn sugar cane into ethanol in the Caribbean.
Please join our group:
http://push.pickensplan.com/group/greenjobsnow
I have a sugestion cut and paste the mesage below and send it to folks you know who suport the pickens plan.
At the web site below please type in your zip code get the e-mail of ALL of your TWO senators and all your house represenitves and Govenors
and ask them simple question.
Are you for the Pikens plan? Lets find our freinds and reward them and put our efforts on the those that need a litte more education.
Click here to find your senators and rerpresentives e-mail.
http://capwiz.com/windenergy/home/
"litte and offen fills the purse"
"the mightest serpant may be over come by a swarm of ants:"
I also want to get the youth like us really interested in this, because the adults may be doing it right now, but we will have to step up later. I also want to get people interested in saving the world in general like you said. This energy situation will not go away unless we ALL do something about it.
I hope to have the chance one day to also meet T Boone Pickens and visit Sweetwater. Please Join the international group via www.PlanetPickens.com and lets start a discussion: Young people > New solutions. (Forget climate change)
Edward
edward@pickckensplanet.com
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