A grass roots invitation for Texans and others

The DFW Metroplex Alternative Energy Caucus has officially been Googled and can now be found by its key words. The web log is located at http://dfw-alt-e-caucus.blogspot.com/ You are invited to click on the link and find links and information for the beginner through advanced student of Alternative Energy Issues and Information. This web log is aimed primarily at grass roots metroplex citizens and proactive elected or appointed officials and any others wanting to learn about the subject.
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Any news or informational contributions you may care to send which would further the goals of the mission statement on the home page, will be greatly appreciated, as well. The good news is that no matter how small your contribution, the grass-roots accumulative effect becomes very large, indeed.
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While you may not live in the DFW Metroplex, there are abundant resources that you, too can use to start proactive activities in your own city and there may be instances whereby you may actually benefit by NOT being in the Metroplex; such as an opportunity to participate in the establishment of a solar photo voltaic farm cooperative utility, outside the cityplex, for DFW Metroplex Dwellers that have code issues with their city that do not allow or for the most part hinder or at the least have little support for some form of alternative energy usage in their building codes, city facilities and vehicle fleets and city master planning.
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As such it is fair to warn you that the moderator of this web log has determined that Metroplex City Councils and County Boards have been somewhat slow to create initiatives or the creation of broad changes to city and county planning that would accelerate the implementation of the fast paced changes that are currently in demand. The reasons are simple, they have received no signal from their constituency (You and I) for a need to change.
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This web log's purpose is to change you and me (the constituency) such that we are knowledgeable and conversant on this subject. For example, after extensive study of wind and solar maps and reams of scientific data, the moderator determined that wind turbines are not cost effective in the Metroplex but Photo Voltaic Arrays are abundantly so.
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Current events and predictions by economic experts and climate engineers make our need to use alternatives to reduce our carbon emissions and to reduce the economic impacts coming, in the wings, an imperative activity. These cascading changes are caused by the world's emergent economy's use of fossil fuels in competition with America, in ever spiraling billions of barrels and metric tons. That accelerating competition for fossil fuel is already impacting our economy. It will never get better so long as fossil energy is the fuel of choice for individuals and nations. In concert with these changes, our city's and states legislatures are currently far behind the curve as to the impending need to liberalize their governmental use of alternative energy for their services and facilities and likewise their need for revamping of codes and policies that encourage the citizens that they minister to to phase over into alternative energy in their daily lives.
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In a nutshell:
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As things stand, we are tasked with the chore of awakening ourselves first and then our elected representative to the problems that are building up by our use of the current economic energy models. The goals of this web log are three fold:
1) Fast Flow education on the topics of Alternative Energy.
2) Fast Flow education on the problems of Carbon Emissions and Fossil Fuel Dependency and current or new methods to change over to Alternatives.
3) Fast track two way communication with our elected officials as to practical solutions to the first two items above to affect changes to our city's energy usage for both the city and its constituency and for county boards and state legislators, as well.
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The world may very well be taking away our opportunity to have made changes to our energy usage especially the conversion to alternatives methods of energy production and the control of carbon emissions, to the point that changing will no longer be cost effective and anything less than a disaster for citizens living in the metroplex within the next decade or two if we do not change first.
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We need first of all to get educated and then you and I need to become voices for alternative solutions that are needed to change our energy model in the near future. Your participation is vital, please do. This is an alternative grass roots activity so I have enclosed a grass roots picture.
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Welcome, y'all! http://dfw-alt-e-caucus.blogspot.com/
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Please, forward this invitation to your email list, especially proactive contacts and State Legislators, County Board Members and the city council members and City Planners of your city. You may also send those addresses here by making a CC to us of your E-mails to them.