I would like to share a poignant story with you about how a people from a very small and humble village benefited from upgrading to solar power. And how the delays in getting their solar panels were met with patience, grace and wonder.
This story can give another perspective upon our own feelings about our delays in funding and launching of what I feel is the most important opportunity for the solar industry. And through our broader vision of the world, impact millions of lives.
This is “where the radiant light of the universe meets the inner light of wisdom, compassion and tolerance”.
The video is in two parts, so I put the second part first, just in case you don’t have time for both.
Part 2
Part 1
Less than one per cent of what the world spent every year on weapons was needed to put every child into school by the year 2000 and yet it didn’t happen.
85% of our world is without electricity. Nearly a billion people entered the 21st century unable to read a book or sign their names. And even if they had a book to study, they had no light to read by at night, or in their homes.
We are about to shift the world with our solutions!
Now, two years after our launch our vision is clear. Bring affordable decentralized renewable energy solutions to the masses. Our cooperative mission is stronger than ever and the bonds we have created through perseverance, patience and passion have forged a ship that will sail far into the future and weather many a storm. Sure, their are some folks waiting and cheering from the dock, but they will soon be on board too… and the nay sayers will delight in a gourmet chapeau diet.
And now, with the passage of the renewable energy package in congress, the doors are even wider open. The green economy will thrive and bolster a weakened national economy through hundreds of thousands of new green jobs. Moving us away from our dependence on foreign oil… and hopefully seeing energy independence within 10 years. Let’s get to work… we can and WILL do this, especially with a game changing company like Citizenre.
Never underestimate how a small group of committed people can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has. -Margaret Mead.
Below is a favorite song that I wanted to share with you. I am sure you and many are probably already aware of this wonderful song. However it is worth inserting back into our consciousness because of such a loving parallel to our vision and the course we have all been on.
In-joy,
Bruce
Here is George Donaldson of Celtic Thunder singing “The Voyage”.
I am a sailor and you’re my first mate
We signed on together, we coupled our fate
We hauled up our anchor determined not to fail
For the heart’s treasure together we set sail
With no maps to guide us we steered our own course
We rode out the storms when the winds were gale force
We sat out the doldrums in patience and hope
Working together we learned how to cope
Life is an ocean, love is a boat
In troubled waters it keeps us afloat
When we started the voyage
There was just me and you
Now gathered around us we have our own crew
Together we’re in this relationship
We’ve built it with care to last the whole trip
Our true destination is not marked on any chart
We’re navigating for the shores of the heart
Life is an ocean, love is a boat
In troubled waters it keeps us afloat
When we started the voyage
There was just me and you
Now gathered around us we have our own crew
Life is an ocean, love is a boat
In troubled waters it keeps us afloat
When we started the voyage
There was just me and you
Now gathered around us we have our own crew
Why are you here and what attracted you to Citizenre?
What makes Citizenre different and yet universal?
Fun?… Shared values?… Profit?… Purpose?
This is a preview of the video “Naturally Successful” featuring internationally recognized business experts touting green entrepreneurship as a sustainable version of the dot com phenomenon.
When it comes to Citizenre and the Ecopreneur program one of the most important things to incorporate is to just be yourself. We a have a mission that is not about sales. It is about providing information on the most exciting energy shift of our generation. We are giving power back to the people. Speak with your own voice, and your passion and you will find the sky will open up and the SUN will shine in… pun intended. This inspirational speaker lends a real and professonal approch to understanding the dynamics of working with people. I hope you find value in Keith’s words and style.
In-Joy,
Bruce
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Keith Ferrazzi: How to Avoid Becoming a Networking Jerk
Success is rarely a solo accomplishment. The author of “Never Eat Alone: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time” shows you how to eliminate artificial boundaries between personal and professional relationships. Building on a foundation of intimacy and generosity, you can strengthen all your relationships and build a community that can help you reach your most ambitious goals. Keith Ferrazzi, one of the world’s most “connected” individuals, talks about: How to have real relationships in your professional life; How to warm a cold call; Finding time to build relationships;Opening yourself to others’ generosity.
Keith Ferrazzi is one of the rare individuals to discover the essential formula for making his way to the top through a powerful, balanced combination of marketing acumen and relationship building. He was the youngest chief marketing officer of a Fortune 500 company and is recognized as a top business leader by Crain’s Business and the World Economic Forum. Keith holds degrees from Yale University and Harvard Business School.
Bruce Marshall-Jones being interviewed on The Jamie Ranney Show, TV 17, talking about Earth Day Nantucket 2008 and the shift in the solar energy industry with The Citizenre Corporation. A new company offering a solar rental program to give power back to the home owner, save money and green the planet all at the same time… all for no upfront cost.
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Part Two
Here is a sampling of some of the organizations presenting at Earth Day Nantucket 2008. Many thanks to all those wonderful folks who helped make this community celebration, fun, memorable and educational.
It is critical that we as a nation upgrade to solar power now! Imagine our country moving toward energy independence with benefits so deep it will change the environmental, economic and political landscape. It crucial that we as humans evolve into the stewardship of this planet and to look after the quality of all life and species… we are the only species who can.
-Special Thanks to Geno Geng of GenoTV.com for the filming!
In this video I am talking about the Earth Day Nantucket 2008 Celebration with Energy Independence Today and the paradigm shift The Citizenre Corporation is making in the solar energy industry. With all the news of increasing electricity prices and dramatic world wide increase in demand, many have been looking for a better, greener solution. Now a better solution is available!
It is critical that we as a nation upgrade to solar power now!
Imagine our country moving toward energy independence with benefits so deep it will change the environmental, economic and political landscape. It is crucial that we as humans evolve into the stewards of this planet and look after the quality of all life and species… we are the only species who can.
It is important to focus on solutions and get away from the “gloom and doom” of global warming. Our generation has the potential of providing the heroes of our time. The climate crisis at hand will bring out the best in all of us!
Let’s rise to the occasion, find ways to be inclusive of each others beliefs, and have a good time doing it!
As an added bonus, below is the interview on the local television station about Earth Day and Citizenre:
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. - Eleanor Roosevelt
In-joy,
Bruce….
Have you ever stared into the rain
Thought the clouds would never disappear
Have you ever screamed out into the dark
Thinking no one else could hear
I was leaving footprints tainted by my past
On this winding road to you
I’d lost my faith in love
Tonight i believe again
My Heart was a broken place
Now i feel whole again
You bring my honesty
And that’s worth believing in
and i believe
I believe again
Have you ever spun out of control
Like you never saw the road ahead
Have you ever just kept looking back
Ever closer to the edge
I was praying for the light i see in your eyes
I had all but given up
I’d lost my faith in love
Tonight i believe again
My Heart was a broken place
Now i feel whole again
You bring my honesty
And that’s worth believing in
and i believe
I believe again
I believe the impossible is possible to overcome
I believe in miricles
Born from love in everyone
I’d lost my faith in love
Tonight i believe again
My Heart was a broken place
Now i feel whole again
You bring my honesty
And that’s worth believing in
and i believe
I believe again
THE Australian State Government announced this week that Victoria would join Queensland and South Australia in offering an incentive for people to install solar power panels. Under the “feed-in” tariff for solar power, home owners will be paid more than three times the retail price for each kilowatt-hour of electricity fed into the grid from a rooftop solar power system.
In addition to increased adoption of renewable energy, feed-in tariffs can help build a local renewable energy industry. Germany now employs nearly 250,000 people in renewable energy, with 23,500 people involved in making solar panels.
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This kind of political will is an example of what we need here in the US. Go Ausi’s! GO Citizenre!
With solar on our roofs we will not only save money, but make a HUGE contribution toward enhansing our economy and environment.
I would like to draw your attention to a term called “Open-source.” Most of you that are familiar with the term think of the collaboration and cooperation that is part of software development. It has been a MAJOR player in the development of our current software and hardware computer technologies. It has now evolved into much, much more than that. We have shifted into a time where “people” (collective masses) now have more power than the giant corporations… through collaboration and synergies.
What I would like to submit to you, is that an amazing new company has utilized this concept of “Open-source” to bring about a paradigm SHIFT in the energy industry through decentralized cooperation and collaboration. We are talking about a group of passionate and caring individuals that are dedicated to a mission much greater than themselves. Why? Is it the money? Is it the fame? ……… or is it to be part of something that has the POTENTIAL to SHIFT our experience of business as usual on it’s head. Could it be a worth the risk of time and personal energy to contribute toward part of the solution for the biggest challenge of our time? Both economically and environmentally?
We are on an adventure… if it were easy, it would not be called an adventure. If there were no challenges there would be no learning. We are breaking ground with not only a business that has not been done before… but even more importantly, with a collective energy of people that will rival the likes of Google, Wikipedia, and SETI. Citizenre will become not only a household name… it will become “THE” company to emulate in the new “green” age. Life is not an accident. Everything has it’s ultimate purpose and each and everyone of us has a part to play.
I am very happy to be part of this process and find the process a joy. Sure results are what counts in the end… but the end is not all it is cracked up to be…. Smelling the roses along the way, while not being to worried about a few thorns, makes for a happy solar traveler…
I would like to share three videos with you to illustrate these points… hope you enjoy them and find inspiration in them.
Even though our government has chosen to subsidize the Ethanol from Corn technology there are some major questions as to why this was passed. Turns out the net energy to create the Corn based ethanol is no more than what you yield from it…. no net energy.
There are a couple of attractive alternatives that are not getting the support they should.
The first alternative bio-fuel is Switchgrass Ethanol…
Here is a report by Scientific American on a 5 year study…
“switchgrass ethanol delivers 540 percent of the energy used to produce it, compared with just roughly 25 percent more energy returned by corn-based ethanol according to the most optimistic studies.”-USDA plant scientist Ken Vogel
“”Cellulosic ethanol contains more net energy and emits significantly fewer greenhouse gases than ethanol made from corn.”-DOE Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman.
But even a native prairie grass needs a helping hand from scientists and farmers to deliver the yields necessary to help ethanol become a viable alternative to petroleum-derived gasoline, Vogel argues. “To really maximize their yield potential, you need to provide nitrogen fertilization,” he says, as well as improved breeding techniques and genetic strains. “Low input systems are just not going to be able to get the energy per acre needed to provide feed, fuel and fiber.”
“That’s a key concern with using corn for ethanol because some of the genes being engineered into corn to make it a better source of ethanol aren’t genes we want in the food chain. And without confinement, such as plant sterility, those genes could find their way into the corn that we eat.”
“It won’t entirely solve the problem, but it sure will help,” said Kausch. “And the reduced CO2 that comes from your tailpipe is then absorbed by the plants that are then turned into ethanol again, so it becomes a natural cycle.”
– Albert Kausch, University of Rhode Island, plant geneticist
Second alternative bio-fuel is Ethanol from Hemp…
Hemp: the New Soy The THC in this food is so minuscule it is like comparing poppy seeds with heroin.
The Declaration of Independence was printed on Hemp!
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Jack Cashin on hemp -Libertarian candidate for Georgia Agriculture Commissioner advocates Hemp as the billion dollar cash crop that will save Georgia’s farmers.
Could this all be about the control of the oil industries… or the fear of ???
Why are we kept in the dark about this particular plant? Who has the most to loose if we start to utilize this fiber the way our ancestors did? Good questions to answer.
The old stigmatism about Hemp needs to change, or at least soften. The “medicinal” pot is a distant relative of the other varieties of Hemp. You could eat a life time of the new “healthy” hemp seeds and never get high… instead you would just suffer from better health…. darn.
Is ‘Hemp’ The Right Thing to Do?
Are there better options for fiber? super foods? better sources of ethanol? Maybe. There are better ways to harvest energy. How about Solar Energy? One onethousandth of one percent of the solar energy reaching the earths surface can satisfy all of the earths energy needs. In fact, in just one hour the Sun provides enough energy to supply all our needs for an entire year… There is a better way… like the solar rental REnU from Citizenre! We could even use this energy to make methanol out of carbon dioxide and not only do we have a superior fuel but we stop and possibly reverse global warming.
Our site is powered completely by solar, wind and renewable energy to the tune of 130% of the data center power consumption, so we're not only neutralizing our carbon footprint, but also pumping an extra 30% of green energy back into the power grid! A light footprint.
Random Quote
The Senate is now considering increasing government subsidies for corn growers to produce more ethanol. If we produce enough ethanol we can postpone our next invasion of a Middle Eastern country for two to three years. — Jay Leno
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Smelling the roses along the way, while not being to worried about a few thorns, makes for a happy solar traveler… 
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