Tuesday, September 28, 2010
dp 1 Marketing: Solar Renewable Energy Tour
dp 1 Marketing: Solar Renewable Energy Tour: "Solar Renewable Energy Tour-----NEW Posting!!!!!! "
Friday, September 24, 2010
Monday, September 20, 2010
North West Indiana Renewable Energy Tour
We have the national and local Renewable Energy Tour Oct 2. Saturday. We will have the tour from 10:00 am to about 3:00 in the afternoon. Join more than 150,000 people in 3,000 communities across the U.S. Attend open-house tours to see how your neighbors are using renewable energy and solar energy.
This is a fun event that is in your community so get involved and invite your friends to join the largest grassroots solar event in the world.
We will start at St. Patrick’s Parrish School in Chesterton, IN at 10:00 am. We will have maps and suggest tour routes to follow. There are many sites. You will be pressed to see them all. Lake Co., Porter Co, LaPorte Co., Wanatah and Winimac. We will show geothermal energy, photovoltaic panels, solar hot tubs, wind turbines, solar pool heaters, and other renewable energies.
Pictures of Chicago's Green Festival 2010kkenning@sbcglobal.net
Friday, September 17, 2010
Get the "Soft" in your business. Maybe go green?
Get the “soft” in your business. Maybe go green too.
Everyone has felt this downturn in our economy. Business a year ago was different, and we may need to change some ways we do business.
One way is to bring in a secondary business or service to supplement the main business.
- Government supported work is good in bad times.
- Find work that is similar to share with some of the duties.
- If you are an expert – train people – educate. Schools are great businesses.
- Find something that you can be passionate about and do it.
You can also
- Share office space, secretaries, advertising or change advertising, and share booth space at shows.
- Creative financing or services
- Creative hiring – share the business.
- Downsizing, reorganizing, and don’t forget networking
Construction businesses can bring in new technologies. There is the Weatherization of homes. While the lower income homes will get the government grants to fix up their houses. The higher end homes will go green construction and they would also pay a premium for this service. Heating and Air Conditioning companies can go into Geothermal, Evacuated Tubes, or PV installs. Electricians can expand into Photovoltaic Electric Panels. Roofers could do PV attic fans. All of these have tax reductions associated with them. States and local governments may also have incentives.
For Geothermal, there is a 2-day IGSHPA Driller Course costing under $1000., And a Geothermal Sales and Design course costing $150. This may be all you need to start a great business, and you may have more training than most in the field.
Some of the training cost is not expensive. Check the website link for training in your area http://www.regionenergyconnection.com/training/re_training.html You can find examples for just a few hundred dollars. Look at several.
To find out about Wind Turbines, Evacuated Tubes and PV panels, go to http://www.solar-enterprises.com/
Before you expand into any business, there are many things to consider. http://www.powerhomebiz.com/vol75/expand.htm may help you decide.
Thursday, September 9, 2010
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
Valparaiso, IN and the Popcorn Festival
On September 11th there will be the Popcorn Festival in downtown Valparaiso, IN. I included some pictures that show some of the businesses in downtown Valparaiso.
The downtown is old and has character, We try to encourage a community identity.
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Tuesday, September 7, 2010
This could solve all the US problems...
This could solve all the US economic problems....
I never liked the idea of taxing someone to give the money back. So…
What we need to do is to get people working. It is important that young people get a job and gravitate into getting a higher paying job. This would mean that the young be trained for a good paying job. Now, our kids are not trained to do anything once they are out of high school. In some parts of the country, the ones who do graduate are two or more years behind in reading and math scores of where they are supposed to be. How is anyone going to get a good job without any modest skills?
We could lower the minimum wage say to, $4.00 an hour. This would have to have some kind of on-the-job training program to qualify for this program. When the training is finished and the student tested for competencies, they would be certified and would get a stipend. This will ease the cost of hiring and get people working. This program would be directed towards the young. This would not be a tax / back program rather it would be an ease of hiring program without the red tape.
Extend the High School one more year. This program would be a combination of enrichment classes and vocational classes with an end result of certifications in intro to college, welding, electronics, foods, drafting, business, office, energy, cosmetology, nursing, government, construction, dental hygienist, and intro into apprenticeship programs. Not all of these learning areas need to be on campus. They don’t even need to be part of the school, just regulated by it. Standards are always needed. Classes taken could qualify for college credit.
The lower wage would be good for people who are just starting out, when a stipend is also used for completion. Employers could hire twice as many people at $4.00 an hour. The certifications would show that there is a level of competency achieved by the student. Most states have plans to extend high school already in anticipation of some kind of educational change. Indiana has a plan for a 14-year school program. This plan does not need to be invented. It’s ready to go.We would pay the student if they were certified in a vocational area. This would break the cycle of failure. We wouldn’t need to send our manufacturing jobs to China anymore. We would have a certified workforce ready to go here in the USA. If you have an opinion, post your name and/or pass it on
http://www.dp1marketing.com/
http://www.regionenergyconnection.com/training/re_training.html
I never liked the idea of taxing someone to give the money back. So…
What we need to do is to get people working. It is important that young people get a job and gravitate into getting a higher paying job. This would mean that the young be trained for a good paying job. Now, our kids are not trained to do anything once they are out of high school. In some parts of the country, the ones who do graduate are two or more years behind in reading and math scores of where they are supposed to be. How is anyone going to get a good job without any modest skills?
We could lower the minimum wage say to, $4.00 an hour. This would have to have some kind of on-the-job training program to qualify for this program. When the training is finished and the student tested for competencies, they would be certified and would get a stipend. This will ease the cost of hiring and get people working. This program would be directed towards the young. This would not be a tax / back program rather it would be an ease of hiring program without the red tape.
Extend the High School one more year. This program would be a combination of enrichment classes and vocational classes with an end result of certifications in intro to college, welding, electronics, foods, drafting, business, office, energy, cosmetology, nursing, government, construction, dental hygienist, and intro into apprenticeship programs. Not all of these learning areas need to be on campus. They don’t even need to be part of the school, just regulated by it. Standards are always needed. Classes taken could qualify for college credit.
The lower wage would be good for people who are just starting out, when a stipend is also used for completion. Employers could hire twice as many people at $4.00 an hour. The certifications would show that there is a level of competency achieved by the student. Most states have plans to extend high school already in anticipation of some kind of educational change. Indiana has a plan for a 14-year school program. This plan does not need to be invented. It’s ready to go.We would pay the student if they were certified in a vocational area. This would break the cycle of failure. We wouldn’t need to send our manufacturing jobs to China anymore. We would have a certified workforce ready to go here in the USA. If you have an opinion, post your name and/or pass it on
http://www.dp1marketing.com/
http://www.regionenergyconnection.com/training/re_training.html
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