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better world and, in the words of Allen Toussaint’s Yes Malia And Sasha’s DC School: Where
We Can!: Will They Go?
Make this land a better land
Than the world in which we live More on President Obama
And help each man be a better man
With the kindness that you give.
I’m white. I know what this election means to me,
but I was listening to national African-American talk Paige Donner: Greening Hollywood:
radio this morning and one-after-another, callers were Staples Goes Solar
agreeing to a remarkable concept...maybe white folks
weren’t so bad after all. California’s Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger trekked
Funny concept to some. Serious as death to others. up to the rooftop of the STAPLES Center to commem-
Serious as lynching. orate the final solar panel installation of the total 1,727
We’re all looking at each other, and I mean every- photovoltaic solar panels that now grace the roof of the
body, in a new way today. Here in the People’s Repub- Laker’s home court venue.
lic of Portland Oregon, there’s a quiet sense of relief, Lee Zeidman, STAPLES Center General Manager;
although last night, on my block there were a lot fire- Timothy J. Leiweke, AEG President and CEO; Gov-
works exploded and much banging on pots. I know that ernor Schwarzenegger; Steve Kircher, CEO of Solar
these feelings are shared by people of good will all over Power, Inc.
the world. ”Everyone these days talks about some states that
How long will that last? Stay tuned. are red, other states that are blue, we here in California
But it’s still fresh. And if feels good. And I’m are more interested in building a green state. That is
beginning to be able to talk. what this is all about here today,” he said, and joked,
I can say this........WE WON! ”The outcome of the Celtics and Lakers would have
Read more reaction from HuffPost bloggers to Barack been different if we had these solar panels two years
Obama’s victory in the 2008 presidential election ago!”
More on Obama Election Day AEG and Solar Power Inc. worked together to in-
stall the photovoltaic panels on the Staples Center rooftop
which will provide significant environmental benefits
and is part of AEG’s overall sustainability initiative.
Despite ”Oprah Effect,” Kindle Sales The 345.6 kilowatt system will provide environmental
Won’t Meet Expectations, Analyst Says offsets over the next 25 years which include the elimina-
tion of over 10,000 tons of CO2, 27-plus tons of sulfur
Citigroup analyst Mark Mahaney downgraded Ama- dioxide and over 33 tons of nitrous oxide, a principal
zon’s stock to ”Hold” from ”Buy” in his latest report, greenhouse gas. The net clean energy benefits of the
despite a surge in shares since Q3 earnings report which system equates to the environmental benefits of 170
he says is partially due to Oprah’s recent endorsement acres of mature trees.
of the Kindle. A view of some of the over 1,700 Solar Panels re-
He cites poor sales data from other online vendors cently installed atop STAPLES Center’s roof.
and doesn’t seem to think the O-Factor is enough to AEG is the world’s largest presenter of live sports
raise Kindle sales above his previous estimates this hol- and entertainment events; They own and/or control
iday season. twelve sports franchises. They are also currently de-
Oprah’s 10/24 public endorsement (’It’s absolutely veloping entertainment districts such as L.A. Live, Lon-
my new favorite thing in the world’) served as a mate- don’s O2 and adjacent to The O2 World Arena in Berlin.
rial stock catalyst,” he writes. ”We stand steadfastly by LADWP, Mayor Villaraigosa’s office and LA City
our ’08 380K Kindle unit forecast. But also by our con- Council are working closely together and also with large
clusion that it won’t be material to AMZN ’til 2010.” stakeholders such as AEG to facilitate this implemen-
Read the full story here tation of solar generated power for our city. The Green
-or- Energy-Good Jobs Initiative was recently introduced
::MediaBytes with Shelly Palmer: Oprah Endorses which, when fully implemented, would produce 400 megawatts
Amazon’s Kindle ::How Much Will The Oprah Bump of solar power, roughly 3 percent of the total power
Do For Kindle? generated by the Los Angeles Department of Water
More on Oprah and Power (LADWP). That’s the equivalent of remov-
ing 400,000 tons of greenhouse gas emissions from L.A.
air and would provide power to more than 100,000
LADWP customers.
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”Los Angeles has long been envied for our sunny I’m proud of California. I’m proud of the model we
weather, and now we are taking the first step toward have created for the rest of the world. Go STAPLES
an aggressive plan to put that sun to work for us cre- Center and Go Lakers!” concluded Governor Schwarzeneg-
ating clean energy and good jobs,” said Eric Garcetti, ger.
LA City Council President. Sponsored by Working Cal- ”Today’s installation is another example of AEG’s
ifornians, the Green Energy-Good Jobs Initiative is one commitment to investing in energy saving technologies
component of LADWP’s effort to reduce its dependence and measures for all of our venues worldwide,” said
on coal-based power. L.A.’s goal as a city is to create Timothy J. Leiweke, President and CEO of AEG.
20 percent of our power from renewable energy sources. Timothy J. Leiweke, AEG President and CEO; Gov-
The new investment tax credit (ITC) signed into ernor Schwarzenegger.
federal law on October 3rd, has everyone in the indus- ”We’re going to continue to be in the forefront of
try excited. The new ITC eliminates a 2,000 cap on the this industry and we’re going to continue to look for
residential incentive which comes into effect in January. ways to make our facilities green not only in this city
So homeowners who wait until January can save 9,000 but the rest of the state and all the other AEG facil-
instead of 2,000 on a 30,000 system. The 18 billion ities we’re involved with,” said Lee Zeidman, General
tax incentives package extends the 30-percent solar tax Manager of STAPLES Center and Nokia Theater L.A.
credit for eight years for residential and commercial in- Live.
stallations and allows power companies to benefit from Eric Hafter, President of Solar Power, Inc. says that
the credit for the first time. solar is open to everyone now.
”I can’t tell you how exciting it is to be part of one of ”The savings off of your energy bill will be greater
the most important global movements that impacts so- than the cost of the system with full financing. It’s
ciety in our lifetime,” said Steve Kircher, CEO of Solar open to everyone now. If you have good exposure for
Power Inc. and added, ”Homeowners are now able to your rooftop, then you could have a solar system in and
finance their solar systems directly through their prop- literally lower your costs from day one and never put
erty tax.” Solar Power Inc. supplies the pv solar panels money out. So the perception of solar as super expen-
and offers easy installation with their proprietary Sky- sive, we’re well past that. The system is completely eco-
Mount (TM) mounting system. Indeed, the Governor nomic. This system is absolutely an economic choice,”
simply snapped the last panel into place atop the Sta- he said.
ples Center rooftop. SolarCity, the largest U.S. residential installer claims
Solar Is Affordable that their installed costs for their photovoltaic solar
The perception of solar energy as an expensive form systems are between 14 cents and 25 cents per kilo-
of renewable energy is no longer valid. The Governor watt hour, including government subsidies. Their solar
had the following to say on the topic of affordability: modules are supplied by First Solar. For Southern Cal-
”With our Million Solar Roofs Plan, people, home- ifornians especially, a system that turns sunlight into
owners, get a tax incentive which is around 5000 which electricity makes perfect solar sense.
is really helpful. And people will find out very quickly According to an economic study released last week
that by installing solar you will bring down the costs by the University of California at Berkeley and Next
of energy and this will pay back the investment very 10, California’s green policies will create as many as
quickly. So you will actually get your energy much 403,000 jobs in the next 12 years and household incomes
more cheaply. will increase by 48 billion.
The question really is how do we produce solar pan- More on Green Energy
els and solar technology cheaper? And that’s the same
thing as it was with cell phones. That the more you
produce, the cheaper they will get, and the more they
will be affordable. We see already the costs coming Newt Gingrich: Kill Sarbanes-Oxley
down, and this is why it was important to me to chal-
lenge businesses like for instance, here, the STAPLES
Center, or the State University system, the prisons, the
hospitals, also SoCal Edison, to make deals with land-
lords of the various different warehouses and big build- Dial2Do is Jott for Free [Mobile Apps]
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