Windspire will be featured on a special episode of ABC's "20/20" on June 19th at 10/9C. The episode highlights the impact the new Windspire manufacturing facility is having in Michigan by putting ex-autoworkers back to work.
Happy New Year Alethea,
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 Alethea, 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.
Alethia,
TX-26 district has been organizing our group through the month of Dec. I see you have not been attached to a congressional district. We invite you to join district-26.
We have members from Denton, Tarrant, Dallas and Collin counties.
Regards, Joey Horn
P.S. You have a wonderful webpage.
MAKE MONEY, HELP SOMEONE YOU KNOW GET A GREEN JOB NOW!
Have you noticed the Referral Rewards up to $1,000 listed on Green Jobs Now! group page? Join the Group! http://push.pickensplan.com/group/greenjobsnowcom
Hello from germany Alethea,
I am glad Mr. Pickens started the contest.
You did some really Great one I hope you win
EdwardAt 4:21am on August 1st, 2008, Edward said…
Hello Ron A.Rhoades!
Thank you for all the information you have been posted on this site for the benefit of all members.
I just sent this idea to Mr. Pickens.
What do you think of it?
Edward
www.PickensPlanet.com
Dear Mr. Pickens,
What a journey! You have so many people behind you and you deserve it. Your ability to mobilize Americans for one purpose - stopping the addiction to foreign oil - is remarkable.
The internet site, the TV appearances, the Washington trips, the Town Meetings, Ask Boone etc.. I don't know how you do it.
You are an inspiration to all Americans, and now, even overseas to the citizens of the planet.
I had the idea - since America is the land of movies, TV shows, and advertising in general, and since we have most of the Steven Spielbergs of the creative world right here - that maybe you should think to start a contest. Once a month you could select the best produced commercial to use in your campaign.
Among all the hundreds of homemade and professional videos, audio spots, print ads, and cartoons you would receive, you could reward the authors with a photo opportunity with you every three months and a "Yes, I Can" Award (an Oscar Hollywood style Webcast, of course). If you give the people the chance to tell everyone what they like best about you, the Plan, why we should have alternative energy now and how one person can make a difference, their testimonies will move the world.
So, before you know it - at home, at work, at school, in retirement homes, in youth centers, on military bases, even overseas - thousands of citizens of all ages will start to compete for the "PickensPlanet I CAN" Award. In doing so, they will involve everyone around them. It will be contagious. For example, teachers will start competition projects in class on how to best communicate the need for alternative energy and will send you the class winner's ideas, thereby creating even more awareness.
If you watch the video below from Enduron in Germany that obtained the "Oscar" at the Cannes Film Festival last year, you may consider that perhaps this year Texas will host in Dallas the International "I CAN" Festival. I posted this idea on your site in my group, " The International Group from PickensPlanet."
Thank you from all of us who believe in you.
God bless you,
Edward
At 10:37am on September 17, 2008, Geoff Bailey said…
Alethea,
My name is Geoff Bailey and I am the Pickens Plan regional campaign director for Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisiana. I know how involved you've been on the site for the past two months and I just wanted to thank you for all of your hard work!
I am actually looking for folks who would like to blog about the plan in different states. If you would like to be one of our bloggers in the great state of Texas, please let me know.
I just wanted to personally introduce myself. And I hope you are having a great day!
am helping Ken get the word out to the folks on his list.
Have you seen T. boones AUTO MATIC system to send
e-mail to your rep. You type in a few key strokes and
it auto adresses the e-mail to all your reps and the GOV.
of your state based on zip code. Has a sugested draft of a letter to send. NEVER EASYER. Spread the word to click on the ACTION CENTER at the main web site.
There is another issue... How do we even give people the power to CHOOSE green energy, generated by wind to begin with? Monopolies do not let go of their unlimited power to control where you buy their energy from willingly, and most states are controlled by oil, nuclear and coal supplied monopoly utility companies.
Part of the answer to this whole problem is to make all states energy deregulated as Texas and New York are. Give people a choice of switching to green energy through their energy provider. Deregulation leads to choices, incentives and lower prices, as these two states show, and the website illustrates specifically, with real world prices you can check on from many providers.
In regulated states, there is no choice and utilities have a monopoly hold on everything. They will not change, or if they do, it will take another fifty years. They have a strangle hold on everyone and will not let them go..it feels kind of like being in Egypt back in the Old Testament days. Consumers are powerless and helpless for the most part, and are dictated to by oil companies and utilities who buy their carbon fuels.
By contrast, if customers have a choice, as they do for long distance service, then they can switch FAST. Consumers can easily switch to a green energy company that supplies all of their power from wind for example.
Consumer demand will drive the green market as well as investors who will supply it to the demand, rather than utilities freezing everyone out of choice and forcing everyone into extinction due to burning carbon based fuels and 10,000 years of buildup of toxic radioactive fuels.
The only thing left is education, which means that green energy providers hire sales people who will educate first, and then sell green energy to consumers who are truly AWARE and making an INFORMED choice.
We cannot wait another thirty years for the government or anyone else to save us. We have the power NOW to change things, today.
Especially for those living in Texas or New York it is possible to switch to green energy today, without building anything and without buying expensive panels, towers, etc., using links below.
Eric S. Green Sustainability Consultant
http://www.aaagreenenergy.com (Green wind energy sign up)
http://www.electricityratescompared.info (Compare rates for free)
http://www.care2.com/c2c/group/ambit (Discussion group)
http://www.energyconsultantcareer.info (Career Information)
Key Policy Recommendations for a Cleaner, Greener Energy Future
* 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.
Hi Edward from PickensPlanet suggested I get in touch. I would be glad to broadcast your PSAs on the local Public Access TV station in my town in MA. Let me know if you would be willing to do that.
I'm 61 and do so wish I could find more people like you that would get involved in something as vital as energy, helping poor Mother Earth, and would spread the message.
Hello Alethea,
I love your photos and videos. You have talent.
I just put one of your video on my site www.PickensPlanet.com with a link to your page. I hope it's OK with you.
Thanks for this great work.
Edward
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Happy New Year Alethea,
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 Alethea, 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.
TX-26 district has been organizing our group through the month of Dec. I see you have not been attached to a congressional district. We invite you to join district-26.
We have members from Denton, Tarrant, Dallas and Collin counties.
Regards, Joey Horn
P.S. You have a wonderful webpage.
Have you noticed the Referral Rewards up to $1,000 listed on Green Jobs Now! group page? Join the Group!
http://push.pickensplan.com/group/greenjobsnowcom
I am glad Mr. Pickens started the contest.
You did some really Great one I hope you win
EdwardAt 4:21am on August 1st, 2008, Edward said…
Hello Ron A.Rhoades!
Thank you for all the information you have been posted on this site for the benefit of all members.
I just sent this idea to Mr. Pickens.
What do you think of it?
Edward
www.PickensPlanet.com
Dear Mr. Pickens,
What a journey! You have so many people behind you and you deserve it. Your ability to mobilize Americans for one purpose - stopping the addiction to foreign oil - is remarkable.
The internet site, the TV appearances, the Washington trips, the Town Meetings, Ask Boone etc.. I don't know how you do it.
You are an inspiration to all Americans, and now, even overseas to the citizens of the planet.
I had the idea - since America is the land of movies, TV shows, and advertising in general, and since we have most of the Steven Spielbergs of the creative world right here - that maybe you should think to start a contest. Once a month you could select the best produced commercial to use in your campaign.
Among all the hundreds of homemade and professional videos, audio spots, print ads, and cartoons you would receive, you could reward the authors with a photo opportunity with you every three months and a "Yes, I Can" Award (an Oscar Hollywood style Webcast, of course). If you give the people the chance to tell everyone what they like best about you, the Plan, why we should have alternative energy now and how one person can make a difference, their testimonies will move the world.
So, before you know it - at home, at work, at school, in retirement homes, in youth centers, on military bases, even overseas - thousands of citizens of all ages will start to compete for the "PickensPlanet I CAN" Award. In doing so, they will involve everyone around them. It will be contagious. For example, teachers will start competition projects in class on how to best communicate the need for alternative energy and will send you the class winner's ideas, thereby creating even more awareness.
If you watch the video below from Enduron in Germany that obtained the "Oscar" at the Cannes Film Festival last year, you may consider that perhaps this year Texas will host in Dallas the International "I CAN" Festival. I posted this idea on your site in my group, " The International Group from PickensPlanet."
Thank you from all of us who believe in you.
God bless you,
Edward
My name is Geoff Bailey and I am the Pickens Plan regional campaign director for Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisiana. I know how involved you've been on the site for the past two months and I just wanted to thank you for all of your hard work!
I am actually looking for folks who would like to blog about the plan in different states. If you would like to be one of our bloggers in the great state of Texas, please let me know.
I just wanted to personally introduce myself. And I hope you are having a great day!
Geoff
Have you seen T. boones AUTO MATIC system to send
e-mail to your rep. You type in a few key strokes and
it auto adresses the e-mail to all your reps and the GOV.
of your state based on zip code. Has a sugested draft of a letter to send. NEVER EASYER. Spread the word to click on the ACTION CENTER at the main web site.
Kim
Texans unite!
Mike Cutler
Cutler Real Estate Services
Part of the answer to this whole problem is to make all states energy deregulated as Texas and New York are. Give people a choice of switching to green energy through their energy provider. Deregulation leads to choices, incentives and lower prices, as these two states show, and the website illustrates specifically, with real world prices you can check on from many providers.
In regulated states, there is no choice and utilities have a monopoly hold on everything. They will not change, or if they do, it will take another fifty years. They have a strangle hold on everyone and will not let them go..it feels kind of like being in Egypt back in the Old Testament days. Consumers are powerless and helpless for the most part, and are dictated to by oil companies and utilities who buy their carbon fuels.
By contrast, if customers have a choice, as they do for long distance service, then they can switch FAST. Consumers can easily switch to a green energy company that supplies all of their power from wind for example.
Consumer demand will drive the green market as well as investors who will supply it to the demand, rather than utilities freezing everyone out of choice and forcing everyone into extinction due to burning carbon based fuels and 10,000 years of buildup of toxic radioactive fuels.
The only thing left is education, which means that green energy providers hire sales people who will educate first, and then sell green energy to consumers who are truly AWARE and making an INFORMED choice.
We cannot wait another thirty years for the government or anyone else to save us. We have the power NOW to change things, today.
Especially for those living in Texas or New York it is possible to switch to green energy today, without building anything and without buying expensive panels, towers, etc., using links below.
Eric S. Green Sustainability Consultant
http://www.aaagreenenergy.com (Green wind energy sign up)
http://www.electricityratescompared.info (Compare rates for free)
http://www.care2.com/c2c/group/ambit (Discussion group)
http://www.energyconsultantcareer.info (Career Information)
* 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
do you know Lawrence and his group. You would fit in. Check it out. Good luck.
http://push.pickensplan.com/group/artresorucegroup
dan
I'm 61 and do so wish I could find more people like you that would get involved in something as vital as energy, helping poor Mother Earth, and would spread the message.
I love your photos and videos. You have talent.
I just put one of your video on my site www.PickensPlanet.com with a link to your page. I hope it's OK with you.
Thanks for this great work.
Edward
Peace out,
gwp
It took me a few days to look through info. before I started
to grow with what to add to others. Hank
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