So the next generation with this institution will go on. Last june we had a thousand students attend a fourday seminar offering 120 courses. They came from 80 countries with 60 teachers, mentors. And next year, we will have more than that because they recommend others. One of our Facebook Pages, poverty cure, has about 1. 5 million lakes on it. And why is this . This is because im the oldest person on our staff. They are pushing this forward. They understand the social media. We are not the whole thing here we are part of it. We try to bring the conversation together and enable other groups like the Steamboat Institute and other very good groups should do more is what we are doing to the foundations of the American Republic in things like that. So we are doing it. But our website act in. Org and see the scholarship in materials and curriculum or you can use in your churches then your study groups and organizations and i pray god when you go there, you will see its topquality staff. It
One of the first things you have to do in Scientific Evidence and whats happening in some of these crises is get the baseline data. That enabled to get the baseline data and also establish relationships between japan and International Scientists to pull together in a cooperative way to continue to trace whats happening with the Fukushima Ocean radioactivity. Also these scientists have worked very hard in getting information out to the japanese public. There was a workshop and public forum. The japanese came in droves and thanked the scientists for getting the unbiased, solid information out there. We worked very creatively through crowd sourcing to get, again, samples of water along the west coast and that has come in to be analyzed and shows that the level of threat s very, very low, well below a safety standard. We have a whole center devoted to it. I want to thank all of you for your interest this morning in this panel and please thank me in join me in thanking these distinguished s
When we were parol with these guys. But im talking about people that have helped come under that classification that now because of law we can find for themselves a safe product to live. Same thing with the gun situation. If you go to drop it off and then you end upped getting arrested for something. Sometimes we have to pull it back. D i will say they need to be questioned that you were not happy. You have something you wanted to add . Er yeah, i just wanted to say that at this stage kind of going back to what ambassador blackwell said with regard to crime. Because i worked the last seven years with the perfect dog las ound dation. Foundation. I think that we have a tremendous opportunity right now because many of theme candidates with regard to the second amendment. They have a second amendment. But yet they come from community where is they do have huge problems as it relates to guns and crime. The point im making is that we toe such a great opportunity really help to shape thought
Too, that were imagining a Massive Mission to effect this great transition. Massive missions always require a mastery of politics. There is simply no other way to marshal the requisite resources. We could more fully master politics, we could more fully ensure a certain transition if more of us showed up to serve in elected office. Now, you may agree that the world is run by those who show up, but youre not the least bit inclined to show up to serve in the irrational world of politics. Well, you know, i found that politics is not all that irrational. I served as a montana representative. Its a world defined by a bunch of knuckleheads, but theyre not irrational. [laughter] more importantly, i have come to believe that at its core, our political system favors folks like us. It favors people that believe that facts and knowledge and scholarship and determination matter. Why do i believe this in this age of hyperpartisanship . Because of the way in. Way in which our country was founded. Dur
Largescale farming. The American Renewable Energy summit was held in aspen colorado earlier this year. Up next here on cspan, two keynote speeches from the conference. Well hear from lester brown author of more than 50 books including the great transition shifting from fossil fuels to Renewable Energy. And mike phillips, of the turner endangered species fund. On animal and plant species that are going extinct. [applause] thank you chip. Thank you for organizing our day and thanks for the invitation to come back again. My topic, as i recall, is the great transition. The great transition is a shift from coal and oil to solar and wind. And most of us know about a Little Solar Energy and a little wind farm there. But things are happening very fast now. I think were going to see about a half century of change compressed into the next decade. And were going to see a complete restructuring after the world Energy Economy. A decade from now, the principal sources of energy in the world will be