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Made for Foothill Collaborative for Sustainability ( FoCuS ) , to help show how getting a home energy audit can save energy and money. Visit www.foothillsustainability.org for more information on how you can live more sustainable. And visit http://www.myspace.com/valdarmitt for band info and music.

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http://www.citizen.org A film by R.J. Somerville, a student in the Digital Media Department of FIDM.

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If the first wind video is blocked in your area, try here

http://www.greenmanstudio.com/crocks.html

I couldn’t fit nearly enough into my first wind video, and many of the unused clips address questions that viewers have since asked.

Interconnecting wind farms

http://www.wind-works.org/articles/GridIntegrationofWindEnergy.html

Denmark number one

http://www.forbes.com/2008/06/26/denmark-ireland-finland-biz-cz_jg_bizcountries08_0626bizcountries_bestcountries_slide_2.html

http://www.forbes.com/2009/03/18/best-countries-for-business-bizcountries09-business-washington-best-countries_slide.html?thisspeed=25000

No impact on property values

http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/04/study-no-impact-on-property-values-from-wind-turbines/

http://eetd.lbl.gov/ea/ems/re-pubs.html

US DOE Wind 20% by 2030

http://www1.eere.energy.gov/windandhydro/wind_2030.html

Mitigating Bat impacts

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/05/shutting-down-wind-turbines-at-night-reduces-bat-deaths.php

Renewables in Colorado

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/17/AR2008081702193.html

http://climateprogress.org/2010/03/09/colorado-goes-all-in-on-renewable-energy/

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Proactive meaning that expensive energy is our future (wind and solar without dams, nuclear, hydrocarbons) or reactive about cheap energy with irrational fear and emotion over the pollution.

Thankfully he is not reaching for quick fixes like the last Bush did or is he?

Wind power has been tried in Europe. The result is unsightly wind farms full of turbines that broke down constantly and never really generated much power.

Like the wind farm in California the only serve to slaughter migratory birds.

Of course it would make a lot of money for GE, you know the company that owns MSNBC…Obama’s own propaganda channel.

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This video series needs your vote!
Go HERE

http://brighterplanet.com/project_fund_projects/138

register, vote 3 times, then come back.

That there is power in the wind is not a new discovery, man has been using it for thousands of years.
What most people don’t realize is how much experimentation has been going on in this century.

There is no shortage of energy…

20% wind by 2030

http://www1.eere.energy.gov/windandhydro/wind_2030.html

Shifting to Renewable by 2030

http://news.stanford.edu/news/2009/october19/jacobson-energy-study-102009.html

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=a-path-to-sustainable-energy-by-2030

China takes lead in Wind Development

Oil spill animation

http://blog.al.com/live/2010/05/animation_gulf_of_mexico_oil_s.html

Wind History part1

Wind History part 2

National Academy – Bird and Environmental impacts
http://books.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=11935&page=72Pumped storage plants in the US

http://www.industcards.com/ps-usa.htm

Wind lowers electricity prices in Europe

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=aGDZMpv5Y9Vo&pos=13#

reuters _ “Loss of Wind” event

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN2749522920080228

Why the Texas event raises no concern about wind

http://www.energypulse.net/centers/article/article_display.cfm?a_id=1701

ERCOT study of “loss of wind” event

http://interchange.puc.state.tx.us/WebApp/Interchange/Documents/27706_114_577769.PDF

Denmark: Best for Doing Business_2 years in a row

http://www.forbes.com/lists/2009/6/bizcountries09-best-countries-for-business_Denmark_CHI001.html

New York Times – a Sea of Untapped Energy

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/02/nyregion/02about.html

Nordpool implements negative price

http://www.nordpoolspot.com/Market_Information/Exchange-information/No162009-Nord-Pool-Spot-implements-negative-price-floor-in-Elspot-from-October-2009-/

Denmark: Happiest people in the world
http://www.visitdenmark.com/usa/en-us/menu/turist/nyheder/nyheder/danes-happiest-people-in-the-world.htm

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