Our path for World Team Now is to create change, show it through the journey of teams of people, as they take on environmental and social projects.
Our pilot World Team project is the Malibu Solar Roof on “The Sunset Restaurant,” in 2009. Team World Corps'(“World Team Now’s”) first gala dinner event was held in December 2, 2007 at The Sunset. To learn more about the event and the Sunset Restaurant, click here:
http://worldteamnow.org/events/twcgala.html
Policy & Politics: Shining the Light on Solar Energy
A good for beginning real change in politics is to know that Congress passed an 8-Year Extension of Solar Investment Tax Credit
This historic legislation extends the 30-percent federal investment tax credit for both residential and commercial solar installations for 8 more years.
This legislation will:
- Extend for 8 years the 30-percent tax credit for both residential and commercial solar installations;
- Eliminate the $2,000 monetary cap for residential solar electric installations, creating a true 30-percent credit;
- Eliminate the prohibition on utilities from benefiting from the credit;
- Allow Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT) filers, both businesses and families, to take the credit; and
- Authorize $800 million for clean energy bonds for renewable energy generating facilities, including solar.
The energy presented with the Inauguration of President Obama is historical and represents the best of what can be united within us: unity within the possibility of freedom, and change for ALL.
Now property owners in Lake Placid, New York, will have an opportunity to start saving money from their homes and businesses, with renewable energies. On Saturday, October 18, the Mayor of Lake Placid, the municipal electric department, the region’s energy efficiency program (IEEP), and World Team Now, (aka World Team Now), along with Lake Placid icon Betty Eldridge, will launch an initiative to showcase renewable energy options. Through this local team initiative, owners with renewable energy system(s), such as solar, will be gifted a “Net Meter”. The Net Meter can measure, not only the use of electricity but also the electricity produced on site by the home or business, which will be “bought back” from Lake Placid Village Electric. There will be lead-up events taking place at Mrs. Eldridge’s residence in Lake Placid on Sunday, September 28th, and Saturday, Oct. 4th. Mrs. Eldridge will host a tour of her environmental model home, as well as lead an outdoor cleanup. See http://worldteamnow.org. The initiative is a joint effort between local/regional bodies, World Team and World Team Now, a 501(c)(3) whose mission is to activate a global forum to implement sustainable solutions for environmental and social issues. The program will give local customers an incentive to invest in renewable energy options through the use of this single device – the net meter.
“Betty is the perfect role model for this net metering initiative,” says Suzanne Maxx, founder and president of World Team Now, and a former student of the North Country School. “She is a pioneer, like Eleanor Roosevelt.”
