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The "homeless" billionaire, Nicolas Berggruen "The NBI is an independent, non-partisan think tank and consultancy engaged in the comparative study and design of systems of governance suited to the new and complex challenges of the 21st    century."

VERY HOT BOOK BY RICHARD FLORIDA "We tend to view prolonged economic downturns, like the Great Depression of the 1930’s and the Long Depression of the late 19th century, in terms of the crisis and pain they cause, rather than as the opportunities they invariably represent."

Inspirations

• Proverbs (a great economics book on how to be rich without blowing karma)
• MOM – When told of Dillard University having “green” buildings, she voiced her concern because “all of the other buildings are white.”
• DAD – Who lived to create and dream, even of engines made of concrete. He did not know that fuel  cell motors would later to be made of a ceramic material.
• SCIENCE FICTION MOVIES – Where people of color were not seen in the future until Star Trek.
• WE MUST BE IN THE FUTURE, AND IT WILL BE GREEN
• We must not only be on the environmental bus, we must help design it, build it and drive it.
• It must travel on a resource responsible road to better self, family and planet.
• THECOLLARDPROJECT.COM is a “virus”, and you are the hosts.
• GRAB YOU FUTURE BY THE GREENS
• PLANT YOUR SEEDS
• Climate change and recent coal mine and oil platform accidents show that we all need to GRAB (Y)OUR FUTURE BY THE GREENS.
• THECOLLARDPROJECT.COM will plant valuable resources in our communities to better the self, the family and the planet.

On June 19, 1865, Union soldiers landed at Galveston, Texas with news that the Civil War had ended and that slaves were free. June 19, 2010 will mark the beginning of a new bridge on the path to sustainable progress, which will bring GREENS to the SOUL folks, SOULS to the GREEN folks.

We chose the collard plant as our symbol of strength, self reliance, nutrition, and GREEN SOUL. This symbol of our past inspires sure victory for the motivated and the prepared.

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