Jerret Goodale , one of the top Ecos in the company, received his Citizenre solar system yesterday in Redding California. Jerret has been a driving force in the company since 2007 as RSD of the Northern California/ Hawaii territories.  When asked about the system Jerret said “It went on with ease” , “I am glad to have it and start saving money ” , “It’s about time” and “Let’s get the ball rolling“.  In response to the companies growth in California, sales teams are getting together all over the state to ramp up sales production and get customers on the installation calendar. Jerret had a meeting with his team right after the installation on his  and reported that the team was ” Focused and ready to go sell some solar” and we believe him.

Good Job Jerret !!!

Tim Padden
House of Solar

Scaling Up Solar: The Global Implications of a New
Study that Says Solar Power Is Cost Competitive
with Nuclear Power

Two US researchers have declared that solar electricity in their home state is now cheaper
than next-generation nuclear power. Olivia Boyd looks at their study – and its global implications.

by Olivia Boyd

The sunshine of North Carolina, a state on America’s Atlantic seaboard, has long been a draw for tourists seeking a little southern warmth on the region’s beaches. But holiday companies are not the only ones trumpeting a good local deal. The price of the state’s solar-generated electricity has fallen so far that it is now cheaper than new nuclear power, according to a report published in July by researchers at the state’s Duke University. The authors say their figures indicate a “historic crossover” that significantly strengthens the case for investment in renewable energy – and weakens the arguments for large-scale, international nuclear development.

Solar power is usually branded as a clean but expensive energy source, incapable of competing on economic grounds with more established alternatives, such as nuclear. The outspoken pro-nuclear stance adopted by a raft of iconic environmental figures – James Lovelock, Stewart Brand, Patrick Moore – has helped to instill in policy making circles the sense that this is the only power source that can restructure our energy supply at the pace, scale and price required by the pressures of rapid climate change. This study, which was co-authored by former chair of Duke University’s economics department John Blackburn and commissioned by NC Warn, a clean-energy NGO with a firm anti-nuclear bent, challenges that view. “This report should end the argument for risking billions of public dollars on new nuclear projects,” says Jim Warren, NC Warn director.

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WorldChanging Team, 4 Aug 10

Tonight’s call was led by Erika Morgan who is in charge of company communication:

Erika went over a few things the first being that just in the last week Citizenre has made:

• 7 Site visits in LADWP ( the utility in LA)  last week with 10 to go this week.
• 22 site visits in Redding CA last week 12 more scheduled for this week.

The site visits and installations are picking up speed and new crews are quickly coming on board to visit customers and install systems.

There are two new areas under resources in the back office.

The first is information about the Door to Door sales program. This week there will be posts going up about how to be involved with the company training program to become a qualified Citizenre Door to Door sales Eco. Many of the sales that are being produced right now are through D2D sales for the fact that the areas we are installing in are defined within a specific area. This means that customers must be in the utility boundaries and the sales areas must be chosen to be effective.

Selling Door2Door, the  average Eco I have worked with so far, can sign up 3-6 customers a day. With a typical install rate, 2-4 of those sales should be installed earning the Eco $500 + Dollars a day. For those that live in California this is a fantastic chance to get out and not only start making money but building you team and residual income. To sign up for the certification  training class click this link

Sungevity

Erika then went over the new territory offer from Sungevity for Arizona and Colorado

Until August 18th  Sungevity will be offering a $200 bonus for all confirmed customers ( you can find the details in the back office under resources)

In completing the call Erika went over a Power Point slide show that went over the the company’s future and how to best be involved. This will be posted in the back office later this week.

That’s it in a a nutshell.

The company is really beginning to ramp up.

I just received another $1000 + check !!
It feels good to put solar on houses and get paid to do it.

Tim Padden
House of Solar

Robert Redford Actor, Director, and Environmental Activist      Posted: July 27, 2010 10:13 AM

A small minority of Senators robbed America of a cleaner, more prosperous future last week. In the middle of the biggest oil disaster in American history, the hottest summer on record, and a war with an oil-rich nation, this group of cynics blocked efforts to pass comprehensive energy and climate legislation. This was the moment brimming with potential for new jobs, a more robust economy and cleaner environment — this bill would have guided America down a profoundly safer and more productive path.

So therefore, the Senate is left to vote on an anemic energy bill of such remarkably limited scope that it could have been passed during the Bush era.

The elected officials who steered this turnaround have abdicated their responsibility to uphold our nation’s best interests, and have shown us, and the world, an America woefully deficient in both leadership and ingenuity.

This was our moment to create two million clean energy jobs here in the United States. This was our moment to outpace China in the clean energy market that will dominate the 21st century. This was our time to slash our oil imports in half. This was our time to confront the perils of climate change, which despite head-in-the sand-denial, is in fact happening.

The American people wanted a home run, not a bunt. A recent CNN poll found that nearly 80 percent of voters believe that reducing oil use and shifting to cleaner energy would make life better for Americans, while a Wall Street Journal poll in June found that an overwhelming majority of people specifically support passing legislation to limit global warming pollution.

Yet a handful of politicians decided they didn’t want to represent the will of the people. Given the chance to invest in American jobs and reduce dangerous pollution, they chose instead, to focus on their own interest and self-preservation.

The Republican Senate leadership has fought against every clean energy and climate measure simply because their political opponents were for it. This was the most shameful partisanship I have seen in my lifetime. We all know who really loses when GOP leaders block progress: American citizens. The economic recession and climate change don’t care which party you are in — they will make life harder for everyone until we put the right solutions in place.

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World temperature anomalies in June 2010 Photograph: NCDC/NESDIS/NOAA

Last month was the hottest June ever recorded worldwide and the fourth consecutive month that the combined global land and sea temperature records have been broken, according to the US government’s climate data centre.

The figures released last night by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) suggest that 2010 is now on course to be the warmest year since records began in 1880.

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Bill Moyers speaks his mind on Bush-brand environmental destruction and more
By Amanda Griscom

26 Aug 2003
Bill Moyers is best known as the broadcast journalist who, for more than 20 years, has brought the public frank, soul-searching, and sometimes frightening examinations of — well, of almost everything under the sun. On air, he’s equally comfortable discussing politics or poetry, scriptures or science.

Bill Moyers isn’t pulling punches.

Photo: PBS.

Born in Oklahoma in 1934 and raised in Texas, Moyers has had a highly celebrated and peripatetic career that has included stints as a Baptist minister, deputy director of the Peace Corps in the Kennedy administration, and press secretary to President Johnson. Moyers later became publisher of the New York daily Newsday, an analyst and commentator on CBS and NBC news, and a cofounder, with his wife Judith Davidson, of Public Affairs Television, where he produced series ranging from “God and Politics” to “Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth.”

Having racked up more than 30 Emmy Awards during his television career, Moyers is now the host and producer of the Friday night PBS series “NOW with Bill Moyers.” He is also one of the few TV news and culture journalists who believe that there are still plenty of viewers who want to think and learn. At “NOW,” Moyers has focused with increasing intensity on the Bush administration’s environmental record. Since his show launched in January 2002, Moyers has produced more than 20 reports on environmental subjects ranging from mountaintop-removal mining to the industry backgrounds of Bush’s key political appointees. This Friday at 9 p.m. EST, he’ll put the Bush record in a larger context, airing an interview with award-winning scientist David Suzuki, who believes the global environment is in its final moments of sustainability.

Grist tracked Moyers down at his office to discuss environmental policy rollbacks, the ecological concerns that he says “burn in his consciousness,” and the world he wants to leave for his grandchildren.

In the year and a half since the launch of your PBS program “NOW,” you have done extensive reporting on the Bush administration’s environmental record. At a time when most news outlets have focused on war and recession, you and your team have been among the few journalists who’ve consistently taken a hard look at these policy rollbacks. What has been motivating you?

The facts on the ground. I’m a journalist, reporting the evidence, not an environmentalist pressing an agenda. The Earth is sending us a message and you don’t have to be an environmentalist to read it. The Arctic ice is melting. The Arctic winds are balmy. The Arctic Ocean is rising. Scientists say that in the year 2002 — the second-hottest on record — they saw the Arctic ice coverage shrink more than at any time since they started measuring it. Every credible scientific study in the world says human activity is creating global warming. In the face of this evidence, the government in Washington has declared war on nature. They have placed religious and political dogma over the facts.

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 STATEMENT ON SENATE’S 8TH FAILURE TO EXTEND SOLAR TAX CREDITS 

 

Solar Energy Industries Association president Rhone Resch released the following statement after the Senate failed to pass a cloture motion on S. 3335, the Jobs, Energy, Families and Disaster Relief Act, which included provisions to extend the solar investment tax credit for eight years. The motion failed by a vote of 51 to 43, unable to gain the support of 60 senators needed for passage.

 

“For the eighth time since June 2007, the Senate was unable to reach a bipartisan compromise to extend solar tax credits which are vital to the solar industry and our economy. Time is running out to extend the solar tax credits and without passage in the immediate future, tens of thousands of jobs and billions of dollars will be lost in new solar investment. Already companies are putting projects on hold and preparing to send thousands of jobs overseas – real jobs that would otherwise be filled by American workers. Failure to extend the solar tax credits is a severe blow to an industry that has proven to be an economic engine for the U.S. at a time when we need it most.

 

The Senate now has little time left this year to extend these tax credits. I strongly urge the Senate to figure out a bipartisan compromise and immediately extend the solar tax credit when they return from their August recess.”   

 

Who represents you?

     How did they vote? LINK

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Background Materials:

Senate ITC Vote History in the 110^th Congress

http://seia.org/Score%20Sheet%20110%20Congress%207.30.08.pdf

 

94% of Americans Support Developing and Using More Solar Energy

Kelton Research Poll

http://seia.org/solarnews.php?id=184

 

Economic Impact of Expiring Renewable Energy Tax Credits

Navigant Consulting Study

http://seia.org/Navigant_Tax_Credit_Impact.pdf

 

Utility-Scale Solar Projects Affected by the ITC Lapse

http://seia.org/CSP%20projects%207.7.08.pdf

Specific Projects, Companies Affected by ITC Lapse
http://www.seia.org/ITC%20Fact%20Sheet%207.25.08.pdf

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