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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Hi Rick,
i really like dis site and i definitely have interest dats why i joined da site..actually em a student so dnt get mch tym to visit da site so often. i will definitely try to put some more info asap.
Hope you are well. Great site. Well done. I support the objective and Carlos' vision.
Let me know if and when you would like to extend your presence in Second Life.
Take care. Peace.
tired fingers woke up feisty this a.m.?
jazzing so early! you are the m.a.n.
Chun & JinAn would do the sal.m.o.n.
for moi salads & green is just f.i.n.e.
The “Universal Solvent” is Water. The “Universal Language” is music. The “Universal Healer” is LOVE. Put them together to create life anew.
LIVE H2O explains and celebrates "The Living Water" inside you. The lessons assure personal health and longevity; and encourages remedial action against geopolitical corruption and environmental degradation.
The Concert for the Living Water shall present the most important revelations in history, including what Water really is and how it offers a solution to every problem facing humanity--from free energy generation to infectious disease elimination.
If you perceive an unfolding Spiritual Renaissance for the forthcoming Age of Peace, the "LOVE Water Experiment" on Sunday, June 21, 2009, will warm your heart to receive the greatest spiritual blessing.
LIVE H2O focuses on the power of the liquid crystal super conductive "Creative Juice"--The Living Water--inside each of us. The music will vibrate your "temple" with 528Hz frequency--the "music of the light"--the sound of LOVE.
This Concert for the Living Water is how we shall take back our planet for the LOVE of God.
Rick,
made a contact today at a friend's birthday party, thought you might have a good connect with him, Richard Felix, Earth Investor Group
http://www.earthinvestorbuildingandsupply.com/CMP_team.html
very involved in raising finances for good projects--I have contact info if you want
also very surreal eve at a bistro cafe jazz spot in El Cerrito,JinAn had a meeting there, good rich jazz ensemble, had a chair massage while listening to jazz, the guest guitarist had played with Miles Davis--the name of the place is '33 Revolutions" 10086 San Pablo, El Cerrito
http://www.33revolutions.com/index.php/component/option,com_events/Itemid,1/agid,6/day,08/month,03/task,view_detail/year,2009/
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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.
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
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
I'm bringing wine
D the McW
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.
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
→ç╚îπ╬
i really like dis site and i definitely have interest dats why i joined da site..actually em a student so dnt get mch tym to visit da site so often. i will definitely try to put some more info asap.
Aloha,
Len
Hope you are well. Great site. Well done. I support the objective and Carlos' vision.
Let me know if and when you would like to extend your presence in Second Life.
Take care. Peace.
-Lou-
jazzing so early! you are the m.a.n.
Chun & JinAn would do the sal.m.o.n.
for moi salads & green is just f.i.n.e.
Karen
The “Universal Solvent” is Water. The “Universal Language” is music. The “Universal Healer” is LOVE. Put them together to create life anew.
LIVE H2O explains and celebrates "The Living Water" inside you. The lessons assure personal health and longevity; and encourages remedial action against geopolitical corruption and environmental degradation.
The Concert for the Living Water shall present the most important revelations in history, including what Water really is and how it offers a solution to every problem facing humanity--from free energy generation to infectious disease elimination.
If you perceive an unfolding Spiritual Renaissance for the forthcoming Age of Peace, the "LOVE Water Experiment" on Sunday, June 21, 2009, will warm your heart to receive the greatest spiritual blessing.
LIVE H2O focuses on the power of the liquid crystal super conductive "Creative Juice"--The Living Water--inside each of us. The music will vibrate your "temple" with 528Hz frequency--the "music of the light"--the sound of LOVE.
This Concert for the Living Water is how we shall take back our planet for the LOVE of God.
made a contact today at a friend's birthday party, thought you might have a good connect with him, Richard Felix, Earth Investor Group
http://www.earthinvestorbuildingandsupply.com/CMP_team.html
very involved in raising finances for good projects--I have contact info if you want
also very surreal eve at a bistro cafe jazz spot in El Cerrito,JinAn had a meeting there, good rich jazz ensemble, had a chair massage while listening to jazz, the guest guitarist had played with Miles Davis--the name of the place is '33 Revolutions" 10086 San Pablo, El Cerrito
http://www.33revolutions.com/index.php/component/option,com_events/Itemid,1/agid,6/day,08/month,03/task,view_detail/year,2009/
love to you,
sirah
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