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Happy Thanksgiving and Merry …

This is the time of the year where “lists” start showing up. The most, the least, the largest, the smallest, the best, the worst … you know them and, if you’re like us, you like having friendly arguments over whether Beyonce or David Cook should be ranked higher on the music lists. Or how Beyonce and Enya can be on the same list.

Two lists we’d like to bring to your attention one has Boone among the largest charitable givers in the nation. According to “http://images.businessweek.com/ss/08/11/1124_biggest_givers/17.htm”> Business Week Magazine T. Boone Pickens ranks 16th in the nation who has donated move than $700 million over the past four years to various academic, social, and health-related charities.

When someone tells you “Boone is in this for the money,” you can point out that “the money” he’s in it for are the many charities he and his wife, Madeleine, support.

The second list which came to our attention was one from the editors of the website sikantisearth.com who write: “From our writings of the past year, we compiled our own list of people who already started to make their green life reality.”

The list ranges from a high school teacher in Sante Fe, New Mexico to a twelve-year-old who has developed a new solar cell to T. Boone Pickens for his work on wind energy.

Speaking of donating, as we all begin to think about what to get our friends and colleagues for Christmas, we would like to suggest buying and giving copies of Boone’s book, “The First Billion is the Hardest” published by Random House.

As Boone reminds folks at every book signing, all proceeds from sales of the book go to the Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas and to the Fisher House which “provides a home away from home that enables family members to be close to a loved one at the most stressful time — during hospitalization for an illness, disease or injury.”

If you want a great gift of a great book which will help two great causes, then you might think about giving copies of “The First Billion is the Hardest” for Christmas.

– The Pickens Team

This entry was posted on Friday, November 28th, 2008 at 7:18 am by Rich in In the News, Pickens Plan.
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Comments2 Responses to “Happy Thanksgiving and Merry …”

November 30th, 2008 at 10:11 am

Pat Jack


All that money just blowing around so fiercley at 80 meters above the ground in the United States wind corridor. Who's going to go and get that money? When are they going to go get Joe some US Wind Power domestic energy dollars that he can take to the bank? Pat

December 6th, 2008 at 5:00 pm

Lois Frantz


WE NEED A PLAN. CALL ON OUR NATION's MOST IMPORTANT RESOURCES. My family came to the colonies in the 1740's and fought in all the wars. They were PA Germans. One of my great great grandfather was born in the same town as Roebling and came here same time in the 1850's....he was a Corporal in the Civil war and a blacksmith and wire rope splicer. Many of my relatives in PA and IL were inventors. During the 1890's the nation was looking for an automatic coupler for raillroad cars. Another great great grandfather from the Lehigh Valley has a patent for his coupler entered into the competition. Birdseye won a competition for safe canning process during the war so we could safely feed the troops. A National competition was used for creating syththetic rubber. My mother's generation saved pennies to build the base of the Statue of Liberty. Call us and we will serve. Don't give money to auto industry...the writing was on the wall when first VW came ashore. Create a Detroit Project. Take those factories away from the big 3. Fill them with the unemployed auto workers or any American workers. School children's science fairs have better ideas than the fossil fuel burning "fossils". Do not bail them out. Use the govt. resources to house the unemployed Electrical and Mechanial engineers where the factories are. Create a national competition. The first car invented from my family was in 1902 it ran on steam and was manufactured in Cherryville PA. My Uncle an electrical and mechanical engineer developed a car battery during our first oil crisis in the late 1960's and 1970's. He is not alone. I am sick and tired of the oil people and auto makers the pooh poohing alternative energys. We are not a stupid people. Tell Obama we need a plan. We are a community of hard working people. The American people can do this if they cooperate with a plan. Lois Frantz from Bethlehem PA.

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