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Forwarded from their email to me - Hopefully a member can attend this forum and Represent The Pickens Plan If anyone does attend, please take pics and post an article about this fantastic idea. amy Friends, The Breakthrough Institute and Third Way have prepared a new report detailing how the United States can jumpstart a clean energy revolution through investing in research and development and creating a National Institutes of Energy (akin to the NIH) to spur the development of innovative c… Continue

http://energycommerce.house.gov/Press_111/20090515/hr2454.pdf Here is the link for HR 2454 ‘‘American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009’’ It probably is not perfect but it is a start and it is more than what we had in this country one year ago !!! Continue

Dear Friends, Later this month, Breakthrough Institute is holding a special lecture series on energy policy and environmental politics at UC Berkeley, as part of our student fellowship program. For those of you in the area, we'd love for you to come and join the discussion: Lecture I: Dr. Marty Hoffert, June 17th, 5:30-7:00PM "The Scientific Case for Breakthroughs: Why Efficiency, Conservation, and Incremental Technology Improvement Won't Be Enough to Avert Climate Disaster" Lecture II: Dr. W… Continue