NABCEP [RE-wrenches]

[matthew tritt]

In Nature, only organisms which are able to change and adapt survive; those
too fixed and rigid in their patterns to adapt to new situations don't. A
Lott can be learned from nature, oui?

Matt-T
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joel Davidson" <joeldavidson at earthlink.net>
To: <RE-wrenches at topica.com>
Sent: Sunday, December 22, 2002 6:20 PM
Subject: Re: NABCEP [RE-wrenches]


> I don't think PV is a Republican vs. Democrat thing or a liberal vs.
> conservative thing. At least I hope it isn't.
>
> In 1941 Franklin D. Roosevelt said, "There are usually two general schools
of
> political belief, liberal and conservative." He went on to say that
liberals
> understand that "as new conditions and problems arise beyond the power of
men
> and women to meet as individuals, it becomes the duty of the government
itself
> to find new remedies with which to meet them." He said conservatives
believed
> "that there is no necessity for the government to step in." Before the
Great
> Depression, "liberal" and "conservative" were rarely used to describe
political
> ideology. "Individualists" pitted themselves against "paternalists" or
> "radicals" against "progressives."
>
> What does this have to do with NABCEP? Times and issues change but the
political
> hot-buttons that NABCEP hits are deep within us. I think the hot-buttons
are
> biologically hardwired, but even if they are not genetic, our hot-buttons
are
> formed and re-formed and punched and pushed from infancy at home, in
school, in
> our social interactions, in the workplace and in the media.
>
> Whether you are liberal or conservative, a little introspection now and
then is
> a good thing. Ask yourself two questions. Is NABCEP good for me? Is NABCEP
good
> for the people around me?
>
> Best of success to you all in 2003.
> Joel Davidson
>
> matthew tritt wrote:
>
> > Joel & Jeff,
> >
> > When my Alt. Energy shop was in Santa Ynez Valley, from 82 through 84,
one
> > of Ronnie's aids called to see about putting a wind turbine up at Rancho
> > Cielo, the "Western Whitehouse". Pretty funny, considering how hard they
> > were working to eliminate our tax credits! I told him that we'd be happy
to
> > do a site analysis (including a wind study) for X dollars and 12 months
wind
> > monitoring, at which point he must have figured I was a spy for the Evil
> > Empire. Or, my mentioning that I had done a 15 kW turbine for Jane and
Tom
> > Hayden might have had something to do with it. Do you suppose? :-)
> >
> > You would be amazed, however, at how many Republicans there were
scrambling
> > to sign-up for wind turbine ownership during that period. They wanted
those
> > turbines up every bit as much as us wacko enviro-Nazis did, just for a
> > different reason.
> >
> > Matt
>
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