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Sep 09
Watching this video really fired me up. From everything I have seen in my life , it takes a high level of intentionality and effort to be successful in any endeavour.
The idea that things “Fall from the sky” is one of daydreams not of real world reality.
Success is contagious, Focus is contagious, Working for results is contagious.
I am blessed to be working with a group of individuals that have a “Never say Die” attitude and it is one that has created a Company that will change the way people think of renewable energy.
Surround yourself with people who are making it happen in their lives.
Let it get your dreams, enthusiasm and adrenaline going. I then challenge you to sit down make a list and take some action in creating what you want in your life.
Enjoy the video.
Tim Padden
Sep 09
Join Allen Priest ( Our sales specialist) for his Saturday presentation on overcoming objections . This is a fundamental skill in selling and when done well, increases the chance of a close twofold. Allen will be giving examples of questions and responses to help you “Drive your sale home”. If you are serious about your business this is a call you don’t want to miss.
Saturday Training calls. 1-858-216-3245 Access Code: 9999# Starting 9:00 Am PST
Sep 07
AP A flyover in Delhi packed with a crowd of protesters. File photo
The billion-mark was reached only after 1800 AD. When Jesus was born, there are thought to have been around 300 million people on earth.
In the days ahead, a baby will be born who will take the global population above 7 billion for the first time, and in all probability that birth will take place in China or India, the two countries with more than a billion inhabitants.
No one is sure. There may already be 7 billion passengers on spaceship earth, as no statistician would be prepared to say exactly when this event of largely symbolic significance takes place.
The United Nations has fixed October 31 as the date of the fateful birth, but events have so often proved demographers wrong in the past that the expectation is that it will be sooner rather than later The rate of population growth has soared over the course of recorded history: When Jesus was born, there are thought to have been around 300 million people on earth.
The billion-mark was reached only after 1800. As many as a billion have been added in the eleven years of the 21st century alone, and predictions on future population growth are now treated with the same caution and scepticism as long-range weather forecasts.
David Bloom of the Harvard School of Public Health says that the multitude of unpredictable factors means that taking a global view is problematic.
“Among them are infectious diseases, war, scientific progress, political change and our capacity for global cooperation,” he says.
The general expectation is, however, that population growth will tail off, with U.N. predictions for 2050 ranging from 8.0 to 10.5 billion.
What is clear is that the proportions will shift between the continents, driven by high birth rates in Asia and Africa. Soon India, with 1.2 billion currently, will take the lead from China, with 1.3 billion, as the world’s most populous nation.
Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country today with 162 million, will see its population increase to almost 750 million by the middle of the century.
Another example: highly industrialised Germany and developing Ethiopia each have a little more than 80 million people. In another 40 years, there will probably be 174 million Ethiopians, while Germany’s population will decline to 72 million.
And the industrialised world is ageing rapidly.
This also means that relations of political power will change.
Countries like China, India and Brazil, with its 193 million people, are already growing in political influence.
This has led European leaders, like German Chancellor Angela Merkel, to warn that “in a world of 7 billion people, we 500 million Europeans will have to stick together,” or European prosperity and values will both go down the drain.
The sheer weight of numbers means increasing pressure on land, food and energy sources, and there are increasing fears of a struggle for resources. Many believe that there will be wars between neighbouring countries over water.
The environmental organisation WWF estimates that three planets will be needed by 2050 if we do not change our habits.
“In the next 40 years we will have to produce the same amount of food as over the last 8,000 years,” the WWF’s Jason Clay believes. He notes that far too much is still thrown away in the industrialised world.
The optimists note that there have been repeated apocalyptic warnings of impending doom resulting from population growth, although they have not yet been realised.
In fact, technical and medical achievements have often led to a more positive outcome than that feared – not only as a result of the Pill and condom, but also through agricultural improvements.
And even the current population mark being passed takes on a new perspective when compared with the number of people the earth has played host to over the course of human history.
It is estimated that since Homo sapiens first appeared, there have been more than 100 billion of our kind – against which the current 7 billion should be set.
Sep 06
Every time I post information on climate change I receive many emails back. Inevitably I get a few that tell me there is no evidence that the world is heating up or I am full of hot air or global warming is a CIA plot to turn attention from the microwave based reprogramming of our children that in the long run will one allow them to buy Nabisco products and become informants against their parents. What I do know is that when a climatologist tells me we are heading in the wrong direction and the guy down the street tells me it is not a problem. I will bet on the Climatologist.
I personally think the media missed the mark when they started using the term “Global Warming” instead of ” Climate Change” . I am not one to attribute cause and effect because it is a very complicated subject. We are however seeing changes in climate all over the world . I live in Austin Texas and we hit a new record yesterday of 112F with 72 consecutive days over 100f LINK. The drought here is so severe that they are asking people to put water out for the animals so the squirrels do not perish ( have you ever seen a squirrel limp across your front yard panting? I now have ). The bottom line is no matter the cause (Pollution, El Nino/Nina, Chinese coal plants, The industrial revolution or just bad timing ) it is time for all people to do what they can to avoid the projected consequences. As a company, Citizenre is committed to making that change. Our first objective is to put solar on rooftops. We are getting better at this every day and our numbers are climbing on a weekly basis. The second goal to show people how they can save money and become more environmentally friendly by managing their energy usage at home . This will be done through education and making home efficiency products available to all of your customers. These first steps are the first steps in a movement that will make a difference in our world. We have already begun the process and over the next couple of years we will move from being the small tug boat moving the ship to the ship itself moving in the right direction. This is a powerful idea and our day has come . I would like to acknowledge all of you that have been making this happen and welcome all that would like to join us in our efforts.
Look at the purple line below and ask yourself if you would rather take action or wait and see.
Tim Padden
National Sales Director
Citizenre
Aug 29
I was excited to see that they are remaking the Cosmos series. I remember being glued to the TV as a child watching Carl Sagan explain the world around us . I thought it was neat and new because I was so young. I realized later that Cosmos was an education for an entire generation. It created a context for the world and universe that was new to most. It was a starting point for a national curiosity about where we live and what lies beyond our small little world.
Here is a great clip that speaks to our problems and our solutions. It gives perspective to where we are in time and just how heavy the responsibilities of this generation really are. What we do here and now will change the course of human existence . We are all part of the problem. We are all part of the solution.
Tim Padden
National Sales Director
Citizenre
Jun 12
Climate warming since 1995 is now statistically significant, according to Phil Jones, the UK scientist targeted in the “ClimateGate” affair.
Last year, he told BBC News that post-1995 warming was not significant – a statement still seen on blogs critical of the idea of man-made climate change.
But another year of data has pushed the trend past the threshold usually used to assess whether trends are “real”.
Dr Jones says this shows the importance of using longer records for analysis.
“It just shows the difficulty of achieving significance with a short time series”-Phil Jones
By widespread convention, scientists use a minimum threshold of 95% to assess whether a trend is likely to be down to an underlying cause, rather than emerging by chance. If a trend meets the 95% threshold, it basically means that the odds of it being down to chance are less than one in 20. Last year’s analysis, which went to 2009, did not reach this threshold; but adding data for 2010 takes it over the line. “The trend over the period 1995-2009 was significant at the 90% level, but wasn’t significant at the standard 95% level that people use,” Professor Jones told BBC News.
“Basically what’s changed is one more year [of data]. That period 1995-2009 was just 15 years – and because of the uncertainty in estimating trends over short periods, an extra year has made that trend significant at the 95% level which is the traditional threshold that statisticians have used for many years.”It just shows the difficulty of achieving significance with a short time series, and that’s why longer series – 20 or 30 years – would be a much better way of estimating trends and getting significance on a consistent basis.” Professor Jones’ previous comment, from a BBC interview in Febuary 2010, is routinely quoted – erroneously – as demonstration that the Earth’s surface temperature is not rising.
Jun 10
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Jun 05
How to REALLY explain the value of a Citizenre System
by Scott Burton
Sometimes we all face a customer who dismisses your best Citizenre pitch with a waive of the hand and the statement, “I’d rather own the system myself so I could get the electricity for free.” At first you may be a bit concerned how you are going to quickly tackle the challenge of convincing this person that it’s better to pay the equivalent of, say, 10 cents a kilowatt hour for Citizenre’s fixed price plan than to pay ZERO for electricity that comes off panels that a homeowner owns outright. The good news is, like all things Citizenre, this is easy. I just say:
“That’s an interesting point, and I’ve talked to a lot of customers about the trade offs of owning a system vs. signing up for Citizenre’s solar service. But it turns out that you are financially better off signing up for Citizenre than buying a solar power system yourself. Here’s why: The average solar power system for a home costs at least $30,000 (1). But even people with $30,000 ready to invest rarely choose to buy solar panels with it because of the very low return on investment of traditional solar installations. Depending on the cost of electricity that you are comparing it to, residential solar installations will break even only after a number of years well into the teens, something like 14 years. That means it takes 14 years just to get you back to zero…it’s not until your 15th and 16th years that you actually start to get the RETURN part of the investment. This is why you don’t see solar panels on a lot of houses yet, because it’s got a high upfront cost with a very slow return on investment. What you could do instead is put that $30,000 into a mutual fund for 14 years and you’d expect to do a lot better than just break even. In fact, that is what you should do instead buying your own system: sign up for Citizenre solar power system and then put $30,000 in a mutual fund for the next 14 years. You’ll have solar power in you home and you’ll be much better off financially.”
There may be this follow up question: “We’ll how can you afford to offer this then?”
My answer is this: “Because Citizenre is taking all of the pieces of the solar power value chain in-house that are currently done by different suppliers…from the manufacturing, to the warehousing, distribution, wholesaling, retailing, installation, maintenance, and billing, even the sales that you and I are doing right now…all of those profit margins for all of those different players are brought under one roof, then with the volume and consolidation efficiency, Citizenre is going to be able to put a solar power system on your property for a fraction of the cost of what you could do if for. So in our earlier example if you’re not interested in investing in a solar power project for your home that has a 14 year break even, we can do the same thing for about a 7 year break even, and we’ve found investors that are willing to fund a 7 year break even contract if we lock your rate for 10-20 years, because they are still going to have years left on the contract after its paid for. But you don’t mind because you are happily enjoying a fixed price solar rental system we maintain to provide your energy at a “Locked in” price. The investors are happy because they get to make money on the back end of the contract. And the environment benefits because another house was taken away from polluting power to clean, renewable energy. It’s a true win, win, win.
Jun 02
(CNN) — Germany’s ruling coalition has agreed to shut down all of the nation’s nuclear power plants by 2022.Minister of Ecology Norbert Roettgen of the Christian Democratic Union party made the announcement early Monday after negotiations with coalition partner, the Liberal Party, which had been opposed to setting a date for decommissioning the nuclear facilities. Opposition parties have long supported shuttering nuclear energy in Germany”The decision looks like this,” Roettgen said. “Seven older nuclear power plants … and the nuclear plant Kruemmel will not go back online … a second group of six nuclear reactors will go offline at the end of 2021 at the latest, and … the three most modern, newest nuclear plants will go offline in 2022 at the latest.”
To make up for the loss of nuclear energy, the German government will begin to switch to renewable energy and increase investments in energy research, the government website says.
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