(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Did you see any story on the migration from fossil fuels (FF) to clean energy (CE) today? This Week? [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.'] Date: 2023-06-24 You didn't see any. You can help change that. We need a plan to dramatically accelerate our migration away from fossil fuels to renewable/sustainable energy that is global. This is THE PLAN. Your next door neighbor is on television talking about raising money to convert your grade school from fossil fuels to clean energy. If they can raise 25% of the 10 million dollar cost your grade school needs to raise to receive the funds needed for your grade school to have carbon free footprint within 6 months. The other 75% will come from federal and state grants, long term low-interest loans and a very large migration assistance grant made possible by a 5 billion dollar migration fund assembled by a consortium of the "Big Boy" foundations. See the end of this e-Mail for a partial list of foundation "Big Boys." The special purpose foundation will leverage a 5 billion dollar migration assistance fund into at least 20 billion dollar investment in clean energy in the next year. How many home and business owners after seeing how clean energy migration process can and is being done will begin their personal clean energy migration. Could that 5 billion dollar migration fund be leveraged to a 40 or even 50 billion dollar investment in carbon free US in the next year in the US? NOW, think that this replicable process is repeated in many countries and entire continents across the globe starting this year. We will create an inflection point in clean energy migration …to stay on the 1.5°C pathway. By 2030, cumulative investments must amount to USD 44 trillion, with transition technologies representing 80 per cent of the total, or USD 35 trillion, prioritizing efficiency, electrification, grid expansion and flexibility... 2030 is the date by which the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals must be achieved Image seeing similar stories about your local YMCA, senior or recreation center, municipal building, performing arts center, museum, etc. Stories about local nonprofit facilities migrating to clean energy featuring vignettes of people of all ages telling how global warming has impacted their lives and how they are harvesting empowerment and hope for the future from the seeds planted during the migration process. CO2 at the Mauna Loa Atmospheric Baseline Observatory reached 424 parts per million in May, up 3 ppm from the previous year... Yet BP's Statistical Review of World Energy 2022 showed that 82 percent of global energy still comes from fossil fuels. Almost a quarter into the 21st Century, we are pumping more carbon dioxide into Earth's atmosphere than ever before. The US and the entire planet is not migrating from FF to CE at anywhere near the migration rate needed to enable Earth to continue supporting human life on the current scale. The goal of a carbon free by 2030 has been set. Below, I will briefly outline a plan that is replicable in any country or continent on Earth. That's clearly what's needed. I'm either crazy or prescient or both to believe that we can realize our goal of a fossil free Earth by 2030. Yes, it is June 2023. Let's get it done. The sooner we accomplish this, the quicker we can tackle global hunger, illiteracy, discrimination and plethora of other global ills that make our planet such a dangerous place to live. Create a US foundation called, Making America Green Is Cool (MAGiKool) or whatever. Once the foundation is created and the startup budget and the first two year's operating costs are funded the domains MAGiKool.com and MAGiKool.org will be donated to the foundation., if needed. The foundation has startup costs and first 2 years' operating expenses of a little more than 23 million USD with a 1.1 million USD reserves for cost overruns and items not covered by the startup budget and first two years' operating expenses. We can just recruit people off the street, define the goal and send them into the field to assistance nonprofits in the clean energy migration process. And what will happen? We must select the most appropriate people for the task, provide the education needed, create an opportunities to develop the skills needed to be successful, and backup our people in the field with all the supporting services required for each nonprofit facility to successfully complete their clean energy migration. Hence, a 16 week training program. After successfully completing the 16 week training program our recruits are now called Energy Migration Mentors. See the end of this e-Mail for a partial list courses of instruction. Our Energy Migration Mentors will assist the selected nonprofit facilities in choosing the most appropriate migration path(s), discuss the availability of various state and federal grants, low-interest loans and when appropriate refer a nonprofit to one of our government grants helpers or one of our fundraising specialists or other staff specialists as needed. How many people will be available to support the Energy Migration Mentors? See the end of this e-Mail for a complete list of the supporting services and administrative staff. Energy Migration Mentors will have special events fundraising assistance, media & public relations assistance, etc. If you send people to do a job, they must have a strong support staff. During the first 6 months or 2 assistance cycles our 10 teams of Energy Migration Monitors (EMMs) will be in 5 states that have generous grant and loan programs to assist their residents in the migration process. (NOTE: A state must have generous energy migration grant and loan assistance programs for any nonprofit within the state to be eligible for MAGiKool assistance.) Once, we have selected trainees for our EMM Training Program, several key support positions will be filled from the people we have been interviewing. Within the next month our website will be functional. Once, the website is able to accept applications from nonprofit facilities. Appropriate press releases will be sent to local radio, television and cable news and local newspapers. Only local electronic and print media appearances within the 5 states where our EMMs will assist nonprofit facilities will be scheduled for the first month after our website is able to accept nonprofit applications for assistance. When our EMM trainees enter the next month in their training program the senior staff assigned to make electronic or print interviews will begin making appearances on all but the largest electronic and print media outlets. For the next 2 months media appearances will limited to these outlets The Golf and Tennis channels as well as other special audience channels are in this category, After three months of answering questions from all media with small or medium sized audiences it is time for appearances before the largest media audiences. Who the hell are those folks? ABC's Good Morning America, NBC's Today Show, CBS's Mornings, the Sunday morning talk shows, the network evening news programs, MSNBC's & CNN's, etc. primetime evening lineups. Fox This a planned schedule to put our most able and experienced media communicators before the largest audiences shortly before our Energy Migration Mentors will begin assisting the selected nonprofits in migrating from fossil fuels to renewable/sustainable energy sources. While nonprofits are completing the assistance applications the administrative staff will be creating eligibility guidelines and assistance requirements. (NOTE: There is a huge pool of nonprofits who accept individuals without considering race, religion, sexual orientation, etc.) I don't believe in rewarding discrimination and prejudice.. Do you? In the final months several senior staff members will assemble the 5 billion USD assistance fund from a consortium of the foundation world's "Big Boys." Message me for an Excel workbook that sets forth the Startup Costs & First Two Years' Operating Expenses AND a Word document that is an in depth Startup & First Two Years' Operating Plan [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/6/24/2177464/-Did-you-see-any-story-on-the-migration-from-fossil-fuels-FF-to-clean-energy-CE-today-This-Week Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/