This document provides information about renewable energy sources like solar and wind power. It discusses some of the challenges with harnessing energy from these intermittent sources, including the large land areas and infrastructure required. While solar and wind could help reduce carbon emissions, they do not directly address our dependence on liquid fuels. The document also includes summaries of available solar and wind power based on physical factors like sunlight and wind speed. It provides contact information for politicians and upcoming local sustainability events.
The Solar Tsunami is coming. If you have not been following recent progress, you may be astonished. The price of solar PV cells has fallen 1000-fold since 1977.
(This updates and replaces my older slide-show 'Our Solar Future.")
Stuart Licht, GW Professor of Chemistry, presented at the GW Solar Institute symposium on April 19, 2010. More information available at: solar.gwu.edu/Symposium.html
The Solar Tsunami is coming. If you have not been following recent progress, you may be astonished. The price of solar PV cells has fallen 1000-fold since 1977.
(This updates and replaces my older slide-show 'Our Solar Future.")
Stuart Licht, GW Professor of Chemistry, presented at the GW Solar Institute symposium on April 19, 2010. More information available at: solar.gwu.edu/Symposium.html
Nearly 2/3rd (2 billion) of the World's Population is faced with 2/3rd (16 hours) daily power outage. They have no access to clean and safe modern lighting.
These people rely on hazardous kerosene lamps.
NEST is here to provide these people with reliable, safe and affordable AISHWARYA(R) solar lamps
Lattice Energy LLC-Minuscule Cumulative Investment in LENRs vs Nuclear Weapon...Lewis Larsen
Factoid: Fareed Zakaria, CNN – journalist and host of GPS show that aired on August 11, 2013, he stated that, “Between 1945 and the 1990s, we produced more than 70,000 total warheads and spent at least $8 trillion in present-day terms on nuclear weapons development.”
Key take-aways from this presentation: perhaps more major corporations/governments should increase R&D spending on LENRs:
- R&D investments by governments and corporations have disproportionately favored nuclear fission and fusion technologies, especially weapons-related work, for 71 years
- Virtually everyone agrees that development of lower-risk, ecologically ‘clean’, low cost sources of energy is crucial to future world economic growth and overall quality of life, especially for people now living in rural areas without any electricity
- Over the past 63 years, enormous financial investments have been made in D-T fusion technology, yet today there are still no operating commercial power plants
- During last 24 years, tens of billions of dollars, euros, rubles, yuan, yen, and rupees were spent on fusion R&D; by contrast, less than ~US$200 million has gone into LENRs during that time; vast majority of that money came from the private sector
- Maybe it’s time for both corporations and governments to start making greater parallel R&D investments in LENRs in addition to fusion and fission technologies
- By pursuing multiple synergistic paths toward the same common goal we could, collectively all “hedge our bets” on the development of new, non-polluting, inexpensive energy sources that can ultimately supplant fossil fuels
Lattice Energy LLC - Compelling Economics of Transmutation vs Combustion of C...Lewis Larsen
Revolutionary LENR technology can potentially transform oil and coal into ‘green’ CO2-free LENR fuels that possess >5,000x the energy density (Watt*hours/kg) of unleaded gasoline.
In LENR fuels derived from extraction and processing of aromatic fractions found in oil and coal, generation of thermal heat energy occurs via clean radiation-free, neutron-catalyzed transmutation of Carbon into Nitrogen and Oxygen rather than chemical combustion with O2.
Herein we show how applied LENR technology can potentially increase the economic value of natural fossil Carbonaceous energy sources by at least 500x; much of this increase in energetic economic value comes from enormous energy densities and BTUs produced by nuclear processes as compared to purely chemical energy processes such as combustion.
In British Petroleum's 63rd annual Statistical Review of World Energy (2014) they estimated that oil will run-out in ~53 years and coal in ~113 years. Given at least 500x increase in the energetic economic value of LENR fuel, commercialization of LENRs on aromatic molecules would extend useful economic lifetime of fossil Carbon sources out to at least 25,000 years.
Commercialization of LENRs occurring on aromatic rings would eliminate the so-called “Carbon Bubble” and fossil fuel “stranded asset” problems that during the past few years have begun to concern certain financial players that even include the Bank of England.
Paul Norton of NREL spoke about the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, the Hawaii Clean Energy Initiative, and the challenges of renewable energy and conservation in Hawaii. Slides from the REIS seminar given at the University of Hawaii at Manoa on 2009-09-03.
Net neutrality: Perché è a rischio Internet come l'abbiamo sempre conosciutopatfeletig
La neutralità della rete è un tecnicismo che comporta notevoli implicazioni sulla governance del web e sulle nostre scelte. Non lasciamo che il più rivoluzionario strumento democratico mai esistito, possa essere trasformato. In peggio per noi internauti.
Nearly 2/3rd (2 billion) of the World's Population is faced with 2/3rd (16 hours) daily power outage. They have no access to clean and safe modern lighting.
These people rely on hazardous kerosene lamps.
NEST is here to provide these people with reliable, safe and affordable AISHWARYA(R) solar lamps
Lattice Energy LLC-Minuscule Cumulative Investment in LENRs vs Nuclear Weapon...Lewis Larsen
Factoid: Fareed Zakaria, CNN – journalist and host of GPS show that aired on August 11, 2013, he stated that, “Between 1945 and the 1990s, we produced more than 70,000 total warheads and spent at least $8 trillion in present-day terms on nuclear weapons development.”
Key take-aways from this presentation: perhaps more major corporations/governments should increase R&D spending on LENRs:
- R&D investments by governments and corporations have disproportionately favored nuclear fission and fusion technologies, especially weapons-related work, for 71 years
- Virtually everyone agrees that development of lower-risk, ecologically ‘clean’, low cost sources of energy is crucial to future world economic growth and overall quality of life, especially for people now living in rural areas without any electricity
- Over the past 63 years, enormous financial investments have been made in D-T fusion technology, yet today there are still no operating commercial power plants
- During last 24 years, tens of billions of dollars, euros, rubles, yuan, yen, and rupees were spent on fusion R&D; by contrast, less than ~US$200 million has gone into LENRs during that time; vast majority of that money came from the private sector
- Maybe it’s time for both corporations and governments to start making greater parallel R&D investments in LENRs in addition to fusion and fission technologies
- By pursuing multiple synergistic paths toward the same common goal we could, collectively all “hedge our bets” on the development of new, non-polluting, inexpensive energy sources that can ultimately supplant fossil fuels
Lattice Energy LLC - Compelling Economics of Transmutation vs Combustion of C...Lewis Larsen
Revolutionary LENR technology can potentially transform oil and coal into ‘green’ CO2-free LENR fuels that possess >5,000x the energy density (Watt*hours/kg) of unleaded gasoline.
In LENR fuels derived from extraction and processing of aromatic fractions found in oil and coal, generation of thermal heat energy occurs via clean radiation-free, neutron-catalyzed transmutation of Carbon into Nitrogen and Oxygen rather than chemical combustion with O2.
Herein we show how applied LENR technology can potentially increase the economic value of natural fossil Carbonaceous energy sources by at least 500x; much of this increase in energetic economic value comes from enormous energy densities and BTUs produced by nuclear processes as compared to purely chemical energy processes such as combustion.
In British Petroleum's 63rd annual Statistical Review of World Energy (2014) they estimated that oil will run-out in ~53 years and coal in ~113 years. Given at least 500x increase in the energetic economic value of LENR fuel, commercialization of LENRs on aromatic molecules would extend useful economic lifetime of fossil Carbon sources out to at least 25,000 years.
Commercialization of LENRs occurring on aromatic rings would eliminate the so-called “Carbon Bubble” and fossil fuel “stranded asset” problems that during the past few years have begun to concern certain financial players that even include the Bank of England.
Paul Norton of NREL spoke about the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, the Hawaii Clean Energy Initiative, and the challenges of renewable energy and conservation in Hawaii. Slides from the REIS seminar given at the University of Hawaii at Manoa on 2009-09-03.
Net neutrality: Perché è a rischio Internet come l'abbiamo sempre conosciutopatfeletig
La neutralità della rete è un tecnicismo che comporta notevoli implicazioni sulla governance del web e sulle nostre scelte. Non lasciamo che il più rivoluzionario strumento democratico mai esistito, possa essere trasformato. In peggio per noi internauti.
Very, VERY dry material, I'm afraid. We were asked to teach a chapter of the text book. I did this presentation, and found it difficult even using PowerPoint to keep in interesting and streamlined enough to keep people awake. But the pictures are pretty, and I made the design template myself using modified clipart. :o)
The Future of Alternate Energy in India: The World War-III Begins Manu Srinath
Mankind has already seen two World Wars. The Nations which emerged victorious in the last one are today the so-called Developed Nations and others are forced to have a 'subordinate' tag and they are called the Third World.
But now it's time for the next one and this is not a Tennis tournment to have seedings to save the Mighty Neck of the First World. No head-starts.
No Offence to Late PM Rajiv Gandhi of India when he said " Information Technology will be the base for the Third Word War". But we, a group of NLUO-ites believe that the fight is for the dominance in Alternate Energy and those who lag behind, will be behind others forever.
The Real Bloodshed is yet to begin.... and Ideas and War Strategies??!!.... dnt worry... we are there!
- A National Law University Orissa Presentation
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Generating a custom Ruby SDK for your web service or Rails API using Smithyg2nightmarescribd
Have you ever wanted a Ruby client API to communicate with your web service? Smithy is a protocol-agnostic language for defining services and SDKs. Smithy Ruby is an implementation of Smithy that generates a Ruby SDK using a Smithy model. In this talk, we will explore Smithy and Smithy Ruby to learn how to generate custom feature-rich SDKs that can communicate with any web service, such as a Rails JSON API.
Generating a custom Ruby SDK for your web service or Rails API using Smithy
Smc Newsletter October 06
1. Volume 1, Number 10, – October 2006
People you should con-
Renewables—Solar and Wind tact about peak oil:
There’s a vast amount of power input power varying randomly, is a •Senator Barbara Boxer
out there in the wind and the sun- problem that has not been solved http://boxer.senate.gov/con-
tact/email/policy.cfm
shine—certainly enough to cover yet. Further, the energy storage
•Senator Dianne Feinstein
our current rate of energy con- systems that would allow us to get
http://www.senate.gov/~fein-
sumption. However, we haven’t energy from these sources at one stein/email.html
done terribly well at harnessing it time and supply it to users at an- •Congressman Sam Farr
efficiently, it’s not as concentrat- other time haven’t been fully devel- 1221 Longworth House Of-
fice Building
ed as the sources of power we’re oped yet.
Washington, DC 20515
accustomed to using, and the What else? In some ways wind
(202) 225-2861
power comes intermittently and and sun are solutions to a different FAX (202) 225-6791
sometimes unpredictably. problem than the energy problem http://www.farr.house.gov/
Using these renewable sources we are facing most immediately. •Governor Arnold Schw…
http://www.govmail.ca.gov
poses a lot of challenges. Large- Even though we should be reduc-
•President George Bush
scale use of wind and/or solar ing the carbon dioxide output of our
http://www.whitehouse.gov/
power requires the conversion of electrical generating systems, and
large tracts of land—sometimes it these could do that, we really need
can be shared with other uses, to reduce our use of liquid fuels— Thanks to all those who have
sometimes not. Sometimes and we will, whether we want to or contributed help and funds to
SMC
wildlife suffers as a consequence not. But wind and solar don’t pro-
of sharing the environment with duce liquid fuels in any simple and
windmills. Covering vast areas natural way—so there’s a missing
with energy collectors amounts to link that needs to be supplied if
a huge infrastructure project— they’re going to be a substantial
one that might have to compete help with peak oil. So, if you like
with current uses for dwindling re- knotty problems, lets dig into the
sources. Keeping a power grid details in what follows.
stable, with a large fraction of the
UPCOMING EVENTS
October 3: “Kilowatt Ours” Tuesday 7 PM CA, Vet’s Mem. Bldg., Hollister, 9-4:30
at PG Natural History Museum October 19: “Power of Community” CV
October 5: SMC Discussion Wind & So- Community Chapel Fellowship Hall
lar with Tony Tersol at Monterey Youth November 9: Discussion: Don’t Want to
Center, 777 Pearl St., 6:45-8:30 PM Buy Gas Any More? David Blume & Ray
October 7: Solar Home Tour & Sustain- Newkirk, Mry Youth Ctr, 777 Pearl,
ability Fair , Carmel Middle School, 9-5 6:45-830 PM
October 10: “End of Suburbia” Congrega- December 7: Discussion TBA
tion Beth Israel, 5716 CV Rd., CV
October 19: Redefining Econ. Dev. in
Mission: To ensure an orderly transition through the fossil fuel decline by co-
operatively developing a sustainable economy for Monterey County.
2. SUSTAINABLE MONTEREY COUNTY
So, how much solar power is available?
The Earth continually intercepts about 166 billion
HOW
megawatts of sunlight. That’s about 25 megawatts per per-
CAN WE STORE
son-- something like the output of 85 400-horsepower hot-
ENERGY
rod engines per human. There’s just no way you can get it
FOR LATER all.
USE?
• On a sunny day with the sun directly overhead, about 1000
watts of sunshine falls on a square meter at sea level, or about
Lots of schemes have been pro- 4 megawatts per acre. If it’s cloudy, the power drops. If it’s
posed, and some actually used, night, the power drops a lot.
• The angle of the sun above the horizon affects the power avail-
to store electrical energy for later
use. Here are a few: able—the best you get is 1000 watts times the sine of the ele-
• Pump water uphill when vation angle—minus the extra atmospheric absorption. At
excess power is available noon on the first day of winter in Monterey, it’s less than 500
and let it fall back through watts. Then it continuously declines to zero at sunset.
• If you have an efficient solar thermal generating system that
your turbines when more
is needed. tracks the sun, you might get 40% of the solar power falling on
• Spin composite flywheels its collector. But it won’t work when it’s cloudy.
• Photovoltaic solar cells don’t have to be pointed at the sun,
suspended on magnetic
bearings in a vacuum. and they will still produce some electricity when the sky is
• Decompose water into hy- cloudy. However, the best solar cells are less than 20% effi-
drogen and oxygen, then cient, they’re quite expensive, and the energy it takes to make
burn the hydrogen when them takes a while to pay back.
• Of course, solar heating can be very cheap and efficient if
the energy is needed.
• Pump compressed air into done right. A well-insulated home designed to take maximum
underground caverns, salt advantage of sunlight can be heated for next to nothing almost
domes or depleted gas anywhere the sun shines.
• A breakthrough in solar panels that improves efficiency, re-
wells.
• Charge the batteries of duces cost and energy inputs would be a real boon to all of us.
plug-in hybrid, or all-elec- Let’s hope we all have them decorating our roofs in the com-
tric vehicles when avail- ing decade or two.
• And maybe, just maybe, we can find just the right plant—that
able power is high.
would capture the energy we need and release it to us without
our having to consume our fresh water and topsoil to use it.
MIT: A dangerous energy climate --by David Talbot
The world's exploding energy demand--coupled with the growing risk of catastrophic rises in
sea levels and climate change driven by greenhouse gases--create a singular challenge that
demands urgent policy action, energy experts said at an MIT conference yesterday.
quot;If we don't throw everything we have at energy efficiency right now, and start to do things we
know how to do right now [in fossil-fuel alternatives], we don't have a chancequot; of halting drastic
planetary changes, said Nathan Lewis, a chemist at Caltech whose research interests include
new solar-power materials. Lewis spoke yesterday as part of a panel on energy at the Emerging
Technologies Conference. …via The Energy Bulletin
3. SUSTAINABLE MONTEREY COUNTY
HOW MUCH POWER IS IN THE WIND?
Wind power is more complicated But then, efficiency rears its head again--
than solar power, in that it’s much A maximum of 16/27 or 59% of the kinetic energy in the wind
more variable and less predictable. can be extracted for our use—if we took it all, the air in the
The power that’s in the wind is windmill would be stopped, and would prevent new air from
entering. According to an article in Wikipedia, actual efficien-
P = ρ •A•V3/2 cy for propeller type turbines is between 10 and 20%, so the
real power you would get from a 100 meter (328 foot)diame-
where ter windmill in an 8 meter per second (17.9 mph) wind, would
be at best about 500 kilowatts. At double the windspeed, as-
ρ = density of air, in kilograms per suming the turbine stayed together, the power would be eight
cubic meter, for instance times as much, or 4000 kilowatts (4 MW). At half the wind-
A = area, perpendicular to wind, of speed, it would be an eighth as much, or 62.5 kilowatts. So,
the wind turbine, in square meters wind power can vary greatly at one location over very short
V = wind speed, in meters per sec- intervals as gusts of wind come and go.
ond.
Other consistent sets of units will
work as well. A tethered glider, or kite, might be made to ride in the
jet stream in 100+ mph winds, where power density
would be about 100 times higher.
Further Reading
Peaking of World Oil Production… www.projectcensored.org/newsflash/the_hirsch_report.pdf
Wind Power http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_power#Wind_energy
Energy Bulletin http://www.energybulletin.net/
Oil Addiction: The World in Peril, Pierre Chomat
Out of Gas: The End of the Age of Oil, David Goodstein
Hubbert’s Peak: The Impending World Oil Shortage, Kenneth Deffeyes
The Party’s Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies, Richard Heinberg
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September marks SMC’s one-year anniversary and the begin-
INFORMATION
ning of our fiscal calendar. Much to our delight we start this fiscal
year with a much-appreciated grant from the Wallace Global
MARK FOLSOM:
Foundation. But that is not all, oh…no, no, no… we also have a
Phone: 831 648 1543
new “County” division of SMC led by Linda Parker, Sustainable
Carmel Valley is in its first stages of formation (Thank you George
E-Mail: folsomman@red-
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couraged the City of PG to sign the Urban Environmental Ac-
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Steering Committee Members paper… the MC Weekly, we have two interns from MIIS helping
Deborah Lindsay, Director deb@sus- our projects, we have a new radio program, “Tomorrow Matters”
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worthwhile effort in our County!
Committee Chair and Budget Chair
All this comes with more work on our part, and more work
Virginia Chomat,
Secretary and Co-treasurer needs more people interested in taking on a venture or two. Cur-
Pierre Chomat, rently, I’m looking for a someone who might like to help put on a
Resident Expert
meeting once a month at the Monterey Youth Center so I can fo-
Mark Folsom,
cus on fundraising to support more projects! And of course, mak-
Newsletter Editor,
ing a donation to SMC is always welcome!! Wink-wink, there’s me
folsomman@redshift.net
doing my new job... (big smile).
George Wilson,
If this position looks interesting, please email me with a brief
831-372-0659
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Denyse Frischmuth, montereycounty.org.
831-643-0707
We roll into the fall with much hope for our second year. SMC
Volunteer Coordinator and Urban Envi-
will continue to make our communities more prepared for a time
ronmental Accords Coordinator
of economic and environmental transition. The biggest thanks we
Robert Frischmuth,
give is to our supporters--without you we would be a dream--with
Co-Treasurer
you we are a force creating the new paradigm we’ve all been
Program Heads,
Annette Chaplin, waiting for.
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Sustainable Pacific Grove
To us! -- Deborah
Linda Parker,
phone # 831-656-0664
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aa_nixon@comcast.net The promise of Proposition 87—
http://www.voterguide.ss.ca.gov/props/prop87/prop87.html
We’re on the Web!
An initiative will be on the California ballot in next month’s election, which
See us at:
would levy a tax on California crude oil production and spend the pro-
http://www.postcarbon.org/ ceeds on research and production incentives for alternative energy, alter-
groups/monterey native energy vehicles, energy efficient technologies, and for education
and training. We think this measure will help achieve some reductions in
fossil fuel use. We hope you will consider supporting it.