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The NNEACC endorses the Pickens Plan and salutes T. Boone Pickens for stepping forward to encourage the US government to take firm steps to wean the nation from its reliance on foreign oil to reduce global warming and in the interest of our economic welfare and national security. Wind and natural gas, the key focuses of the Pickens Plan, are important parts of the matrix of energy alternatives our nation needs to move toward.
The NNEACC respects your privacy. It will neither inundate you with email nor release your information to third parties. It will host monthly meetings with speakers across the full scope of energy alternatives, encourage committee participation to educate the public and mold public policy, and maintain a website to provide a knowledge base and intra-communication regarding energy conservation and emerging energy technologies.
There is much to be learned and much to be done. Working together will strengthen our voice and multiply the effectiveness of our efforts. Please join us at the link above and plan to attend the kick-off meeting on December 10 at UNR. See further details on the meeting and program at the bottom of this message.
Thank you,
NNEACC Planning Committee
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Information About the First Meeting and Program
What: the first meeting of the Northern Nevada Energy Alternatives & Conservation Coalition (NNEACC) will include an organizational discussion of its objectives, immediate innitiatives and preliminary committee structure, and a presentation by the Director of the Great Basin Center for Geothermal Energy followed by questions.
Where: the Mathewson IGT Knowledge Center, Room 107, on the University of Nevada Reno campus, Building 085 on the NNEACC map at http://push.pickensplan.com/group/northernnevadaalternativeenergyandconservationcons . Note the correct parking lot is 083.
When: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 at 6:00pm.
Who: Dr. Lisa Shevenell is a Hot Rocker. As a hydrogeologist and research scientist at the Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology in the UNR and director of the University's Great Basin Center for Geothermal Energy, she both stresses and studies the importance of America developing geothermal power and other renewable sources of energy. Dr. Shevenell will be discussing Nevada's geothermal potential: where it is located, its environmental impacts and benefits, and how that potential can be used directly as well as for producing clean, baseload, indigenous, renewable power for Nevada.
Transportation and parking: the NNEACC has special arrangements with UNR Parking Services. There will be signs posted at the indoor parking lot (083 on the NNEACC map) directing meeting attendees to the correct section for parking. Please DO NOT pay your parking at the garage as NNEACC has been asked to collect and pay the $3/car parking contribution directly to the UNR Parking Office. Remember, also, the free Sierra Spirit bus service available downtown that passes directly in front of the Mathewson Building, http://rtcwashoe.com/Schedules/map_files/map_SIERRASPIRIT.pdf . Meters in the open parking lot adjacent to the indoor lot are $1.50/hour, free after 8 PM.
Ben Berg, http://push.pickensplan.com/profile/BenBerg59
Jenn, http://push.pickensplan.com/profile/Jenn34
Matt, http://push.pickensplan.com/profile/Matt1239245688
Mona Bucher, http://push.pickensplan.com/profile/MonaBucher
Sheri Elpern, http://push.pickensplan.com/profile/SheriElpern
Steve Metcalf, http://push.pickensplan.com/profile/SteveMetcalf
We seem to be the only five members of the Northern Nevada Alternative Energy (NNAE) from Reno, who have left a comment on its Comment Wall. Many of the 55 members who joined NNAE seem to be from other locations. There has been a very weak effort to get NNAE mobilized so I would like to propose the five of us meet to discuss our energy interests.
As an initial suggestion, I would like to propose meeting a the Se7en Tea House at 100 N. Arlington Avenue at 5:30 PM on Monday, October 20. If that conflicts, please suggest an alternate time and a couple dates so we can find a time that accomodates all five of us.
Please RSVP on my Comment Wall at http://push.pickensplan.com/profile/SteveMetcalf .
Hope to meet you.
Steve
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Thank You For Your Time
Thanks for your comments. Clean air has been the norm lately and life is getting back to normal. I am sending you a copy of the letter I sent Senator Feinstein and Senator Boxer requesting their support of the Picken's Plan. Please feel free to pass it to your friends who seek Congressional support for a National Energy Policy. You may Google your representatives in Nevada and usually you will find a link to their email. In closing, hope your house hunting efforts in Santa Rosa are going well.
Dear Senator Boxer:
I sincerely appreciate the hard work of you and your staff this year as we have been faced with many complex issues. My previous correspondence addressed the fading American Dream of home ownership, affording college education for our children, and our over indulgence of consumerism. Thanks to your efforts, policies are addressing the housing foreclosure crisis and impending student loan crisis, but as individuals we must reject marketing that encourages consuming as a means of achieving self-fulfillment.
Unfortunately, if all these challenges were not enough, we as Americans must adopt a “National Energy Policy.” Our dependency on foreign oil is probably at the root of our involvement in Iraq. At this time, I request you and your staff to consider the validity of the PickenPlan.com. I am a bit leery of an oil tycoon professing a National Energy Policy, but his plan has a great deal of merit. The transfer of American wealth to the tune of $700 billion annually for foreign oil will bankrupt our country and my fears of the fading American Dream will be realized. Needless to say, I do not support opening up the pristine California Coast for crude oil exploration. It is time to change the paradigm and develop a plan that rids our country of our dependency on crude oil. I hope you support the full utilization of solar and wind power to reduce our dependency on foreign oil as these are very abundant clean and green resources in California.
Your support of a National Energy Policy is greatly appreciated! I am counting on you once again to lead the way in congress to address meaningful legislature that prudently addresses our energy requirements while improving the air quality in California while eliminating our dependency on foreign crude oil.
Sincerely,
Hunter Johnson
Rocklin, CA
Vacant Buildings - Holyoke
Download the pdf (4 MB) and get a sense of where we have to start.
Then watch us grow and implement a plan to install grid tied solar pv systems on all rooftops, and most importantly, bring an entire City back to life as Carbon Free as possible.
Good to hear from you. I am glad you have seen the light and are coming back from sin city to sunny California. Just joking, I used to work in Reno and loved it.
I would be glad to get together to see what can be done. Thanks for the note.
Preston