Friday, August 31, 2012
Monday, August 27, 2012
Your Motivation
You need to throw away your demotivation.
Put in practice your motivation.
Motive + Action = Motivation.
Find the reasons for your life and put it into action.
Put in practice your motivation.
Motive + Action = Motivation.
Find the reasons for your life and put it into action.
Life Path
Try to discover your path in life.
No one is responsible for our fate to not be ourselves.
We need to find the road and follow it with our own feet.
Awaken to life, for the True Life.
And, if you want happiness, remember you are solely responsible for their fate.
Overcome difficulties, conquer obstacles and build your life.
The POWER in our union.
"Alone we are weak.
Together we are strong.
But all together we are invincible."
- Adhemar Ramos
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Wednesday, August 15, 2012
Living the fullness of your potential
"The impossible, generally is what not attempted."
- Jim Goodwin
What you have done is just a mere fraction of what you are.
- Daniel C. Luz
Many people today are asking what is life. La Bruyère says:
There are only three events in human life: birth, life and death, and he is not aware of having been born, dies in grief and forget to live.
Tuesday, August 14, 2012
The Secret to Solar Power
Stephen Lewis for The New York Times
By JEFF HIMMELMAN
Most mornings, Danny Kennedy hops on a bike with orange saddlebags and rides half an hour from his home to Oakland’s Jack London Square. He makes for quite a picture cruising down Telegraph Avenue, decked out as he often is in an orange helmet, orange jacket and orange leather Adidas shoes. When he arrives at his office, he often makes his rounds on an orange indoor bike. (He’s not joking around with the orange thing.) Though Kennedy was once a young environmental activist documenting the horrors of the oil and mining industries, he’s now a 41-year-old company man. The orange that he wears daily — which extends even to the checks on his shirts, and which drives his wife crazy — is the brand color for his rapidly growing residential solar company, Sungevity, whose revenues grew by a factor of eight in 2010 and doubled again in 2011, and whose employees have grown to 260 from 3 since the company’s inception five years ago.
Beth Yarnelle Edwards for The New York Times
The Sungevity founders (from left) Alec Guettel, Danny Kennedy and Andrew Birch at a home installation.
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Given that growth, it’s somewhat surprising to learn that Kennedy and Sungevity aren’t taken very seriously by their larger competitors. Kennedy’s activist past and his willingness to wear his commitment to the solar industry quite literally on his sleeve are viewed by some as a liability in an industry desperate to demonstrate its seriousness. Thanks to increased Chinese production of photovoltaic panels, innovative financing techniques, investment from large institutional investors and a patchwork of semi-effective public-policy efforts, residential solar power has never been more affordable. But even with pricing that requires no initial capital outlay from consumers and guarantees lifetime savings — and even occasional opportunities to make money, by selling power back to the grid — Americans still aren’t buying into solar in significant numbers.
Two factors have hurt the industry’s growth. The first is abstract and well ingrained in the American psyche: the negative association of “green” technologies with inefficiency and idealistic, hippie-fueled impracticality. The second is concrete and recent: the sleek, vacant headquarters of Solyndra, the infamous federally subsidized solar-panel manufacturer that went bankrupt in 2011. The glassy campus sits just off the Nimitz Freeway, visible to commuters between San Francisco and Silicon Valley as they battle rush-hour traffic each morning, surreptitiously checking their phones.
Though the failure of Solyndra has dominated the political and social discourse around solar power, the reality of the industry — as evidenced by the enormous investments that companies like Google and Bank of America are making in residential solar power — is that it has rapidly become a smart, practical and profitable investment. Despite a lack of widespread acceptance, the market is growing and the competition is getting tight.
Where Kennedy will ultimately fit into all of this remains to be seen. He told me: “We don’t need missionaries anymore. We need mercenaries.” As the industry grows, big investments don’t necessarily flow toward the people with the deepest environmentalist roots. No matter how much orange Kennedy wears or how dedicated to corporate branding he appears to be, his bleeding heart still shows through. Missionary, mercenary: can he — can anyone — be both?
Of the residential solar-power companies with national aspirations, Sungevity is among the smallest in terms of market share. Sunrun, one of the market leaders, is led by Lynn Jurich and Edward Fenster, two Stanford Business School graduates who got into the business, as Jurich told me, in part because “the numbers worked.” SolarCity, another market leader, was founded by the brothers Lyndon and Peter Rive; Lyndon had previously founded Everdream, a software company that was eventually bought by Dell. The venture is also backed by Elon Musk, the Rives’ cousin and more notably a founder of PayPal; Tesla, the electric-car manufacturer; and SpaceX, a private space-exploration company. In 2004, Lyndon Rive was in a car with Musk on the way to Burning Man in Black Rock Desert, Nev., when the idea of getting into the solar business first hit him. (SolarCity also has a commercial solar-power business and is planning an initial public offering later this year, which could value the company at $1.5 billion.) Another company, SunPower, which is also a solar-panel manufacturer, does a big business in the residential market in California, through its dealer network. Kennedy and Sungevity run, roughly, fourth in California — which, because it’s the biggest market, most of these companies view as a proxy for the rest of the nation. But because of Kennedy’s background with Greenpeace, his big Australian personality (he was born in the United States but identifies as, and sounds like, an Australian) and some of his high-profile connections, he and Sungevity have received a fair amount of media attention. The actress Cate Blanchett was an early investor, and the actor Mark Ruffalo recently began leasing a system from the company, which he discussed in an appearance on “The Colbert Report” in March.
Monday, August 13, 2012
Adapt and never give up!
Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.
- H. G. Wells
Wednesday, August 8, 2012
Jesus' love is for all creatures
The Jesus' love is not just for humanity, but also by so-called lower creatures of God. They share with us the same breath of life to us and follow the same path for what is higher.
Tuesday, August 7, 2012
TRUST
Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
-Steve Jobs
Monday, August 6, 2012
Thursday, August 2, 2012
For your sucess
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
- Abraham Lincoln
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