Richard Lukens's Comments

Thanks, Rick! John Denver was a man ahead of his time, as these videos clearly demonstrate. I wish the one w/ the boys choir had the entire song; that's why I uploaded the second one. They give me goosebumps.

Blessings,
Amara

You are Mister Amazo!
yo bettah get readah
cuz there's lots coming down that pike Pancho!
doo wack ah doo, do you follow my tune?

Rick
Its a rainy Sunday, I'm inside, warm, updating my email list to send out lots of invites to Architects, do you have an mass template to welcome folks as this will be many over the next few hours? don't want to wear out those fingers of yours
Sorry Jim didn't get more water in his system, glad you're on a water binge
it takes awhile to get re-hydrated
I forgot my camera again, will send Chun for that mission
D Mc the Wong

thanks for the warm welcome. much love!

Are you drinking the water?
this is big sister checking in

found another cool group to check out for that amazing venue of yours:

http://www.capacitor.org/

thanks richard, i will look into your suggestions/try again soon. have an exciting weekend.

namaste

hi richard ..... good to be amongst like minds ..... i am working on similar concepts and ideas to create multiple opportunities for light to expand here on earth. i tried to upload some demo songs from my forthcoming album onto the site but was having difficulties. have you noticed any problems?
namaste to you,
simon

Thank you Richard,

I'll be exploring the site later as my morning meditation calls. I look forward to learning and sharing and it's good to see such a positive use of technology - uniting people around the Globe!
Namaste

It is a pleasure to be here sharing in and adding to the collective wisdom. May we all grow exponentially!

Warm regards,
Linda Lawson

Hi Richard... Glad to be here. I got an e-mail from Cynthia Faye Segal.

HI RICHARD 'HOPE YOUR DAY IS GOING WELL, THAT THIS FINDS YOU SMILING ?
I WAS DRAWN TO THE 'LOVE IS THE ANSWER' LOGO, & HOPE YOU CAN HEAR 'MY' VERSION ON MY PROFILE PAGE,...I ONCE SUNG IT 'LIVE' TO MICHEAL (RIOS) AT HIS BARRIO HOUSE .
FEEL FREE TO READ MY BLOGG WHICH POINTS TO OTHER SONGS, & PHOTOS ETC .
I'M TRYING TO BUILD A PICTURE OF WHAT THE SONGS ETC DO TO 'YOU', & OTHERS, & WILL VERY MUCH VALUE YOUR COMMENTS, & FEEDBACK RICHARD .
THANKS FROM ' BONNY SCOTLAND ' .
LLOYD.

Hi Richard, I am glad to have joined this community. I've always been a big fan of Santana and feel now is the time this kind of work needs to be done to heal the planet.

Our event will be held on November 11, 2009 (11/11). We are just getting started in planning and brainstorming ideas, but we also have a very strong vision of what we want to have happen. I will keep you updated on the movement we make on this event.

You may use This as a totally copyright free offering...I saw some mention of a "Forgiveness Group" that may want to use this an e-card or whatever...I am off on the Ursa Freedom Project Creative Teams and am not around AOAND as much as I'd like to be...these days...The image is also in my Photo Gallery...if you need a better copy contact me via message...Kam

go gah,
mama dada ghee ghoo la la.....and then there is always "grown up" language. The pic is the reason that i am on this site....love. Thanks for the welcome...dan

Wow how great! You have good taste! JInAn & I both work today till 4, he will be driving from Eastbay to pick Chun & I up. We will then head off to join you, the Commander & all the E.T's for dindin--we will be regulated by traffic flow but will be ready for takeoff
I'm bringing wine
D the McW

hi richard how are you i have only just started to get in to the architects site been pretty busy i am pretty good mates with juan salvador in byron bay australia he is a lovely guy look forward to meeting you i am a very big carlos fan he is like a second father to me from shane hitchens catch up soon

tip for the day, from my sustainable class
do you know about this investor for your project(s) ?
very impressive track record, looking forward to spaceship
looking more like 5:30 D
The King of Green Investing
By: Richard Shaffer Fast Times Jun 23, 2008
Vinod Khosla is pouring his own millions into science experiments to counter global warming -- and to prove he's the smartest guy in the Valley.

Making cement without also making carbon dioxide seems impossible; the basic chemistry of the process releases the gas. But maybe that's not really true, Stanford University scientist Brent Contstantz began thinking last year. Of course, it was only a theory, he told himself, but the market for cement is so large -- about $13 billion annually in the United States alone -- and the pressure to reduce its effect on the environment so strong that he sent a 12- line email to venture capitalist Vinod Khosla.

"I have an idea for a new sustainable cement," Contstantz wrote. "I'm sure you are already aware that for every ton of [standard] Portland cement produced, approximately one ton of carbon dioxide is released into the atmosphere. My cement wouldn't do that; in fact, it would remove a ton of carbon dioxide from the environment for every ton of cement produced."

Khosla, who knew Contstantz only casually -- the two hadn't been in touch for 20 years -- was on vacation. But after a discussion that lasted only an hour, he told the scientist, "I don't care about the rest of the business plan. You don't need to estimate costs. You don't need to do a cash flow. You don't need to do a presentation. Just hire five people, set up a lab, and go."

Contstantz was astonished. "What we're up to," he warned, "takes balls."

"Well, you've got the money now," was the response. "Get busy."

It was a classic performance from Khosla, a man who "enters any chamber believing he's the smartest man in the room," in the words of one longtime VC. "In 30 seconds, in one paragraph, I knew this was worth doing," Khosla says now, adding that the cement startup, called Calera, "may be our biggest win ever."

Over the past four years, Khosla has become the world's foremost investor in environmental startups. He has committed an estimated $450 million of his personal fortune to financing 45 ethanol factories, solar-power parks, and makers of environmentally friendly lightbulbs, batteries, and automotive components. These investments have made him the most prominent of an increasingly rare breed, the so-called angel investors who put their own funds into the youngest of companies -- including outfits that are pursuing the most innovative, but not yet commercially viable, approaches to serious problems such as global warming. It's a kind of seed-stage investing that traditional venture funds have largely abandoned. And rightly so, Khosla says. "If somebody comes to you with a cold-fusion idea, you should not be funding it as an investor with other people's money. Funding it, if they're credible people, as a science experiment, as a hobby, is perfectly okay -- as long as it's your own money."

Khosla's green investing has made him something of a celebrity, mentioned in the media with the likes of mogul Richard Branson, former President Bill Clinton, Hollywood producer Stephen Bing, and General Motors chairman and CEO Richard Wagoner. I've known Khosla since his days as a recent immigrant from India more than two decades ago but hadn't seen him in years until we met in his office in Menlo Park, California, earlier this year. Khosla Ventures is tucked away in an unprepossessing corner of a redwood complex of small offices. The decor is rental-furniture bland. The only reading set out for visitors is a four-month-old issue of National Geographic with a cover story on biofuels. Khosla's own office is spare, with 15 large black-and-white photographs of his four children on the walls. For others in the firm, office dress is Silicon Valley casual -- jeans, fleece vests, and running shoes -- but Khosla arrives more elegantly attired, in taupe slacks; a chocolate long-sleeve, zip-neck knit shirt; and slip-ons in luggage tan with leather bows and kilties. He's 53, a slender 5-foot-10, genial and looking relaxed despite the prominent dark circles under his eyes.

Although he lives near his office, this morning he has already driven one of his daughters to school in San Francisco, a 90-minute round-trip that he makes every weekday in order to spend time alone with her. Later, he'll review several business proposals, prepare to announce three new investments and the hiring of an operational manager for his firm, and polish his remarks for an appearance at the United Nations. To meet with me, he has taken a break from writing a position paper on where the world will get the biomass it needs for oil independence. He writes two or three such papers a month, averaging more than 100 pages a year. "Nobody wastes less of the time in his life than Vinod," says venture capitalist Roger McNamee, whose office at Integral Capital Partners was for a decade just down the hall from Khosla's, at the storied Silicon Valley partnership of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.

Hi Mr. Lukens
My computer has crashed so that is the reason I have not been on here that much lately. I am at my local collage today and I am at the college to day but only for a few. I hope to be back online sometime next week!
PEACE
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