Jimmy Carter - the Solar Panels on the Whitehouse - What Happened?

[ThirdChoice]

Run time: 09:55 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gQSAlO277o   Posted on YouTube: July 10, 2008 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: July 10, 2008 By DU Member: ThirdChoice Views on DU: 2492

 
PREVIEW: "A Road Not Taken"

In 1979, Jimmy Carter, in a forward-looking move, installed solar panels in the roof of the White House. This symbolic installation was taken down in 1986 during the Reagan presidency. In 1991, Unity College, an environmentally centered college here in Maine acquired the panels and later installed them in their cafeteria. In A Road Not Taken, directors Christina Hemauer and Roman Keller travel back in time and, following the route the panels took, interview those involved in the solar panel decisions, in the oil crisis of the time, and in the way that that moment in time presaged our own era.

See our great post on Jimmy Carter's forward looking vision on renewable energy on our website: http://www.jtmp.org

This movie is making its debut at the Maine International Film Festival: http://www.miff.org

Also see: http://moralequivalent.info

This movie needs national distribution! Please contact Shannon Haines at [email protected] if you can help with this.

[Ian David]

1. "Mister Carter... Tear down these panels!"

[ThirdChoice]

2. That was hilarious!

ROFL!

[Quixote1818]

3. Thanks for posting. K & R

[trthnd4jstc]

4. We still have the means to make a better world!!!!!!!!!!

It is true that 70% are too busy, or whatever, and cannot, or will not do anything, and it is true that nearly 25% will fight us tooth and nail, which leaves 5%. Whether or not the world improves is up to 5% of the Population. Help us. It will never improve unless we do it. Us few. Most will not, most cannot. Some would willingly kill us. But, us few can do something. They cannot kill, and lock all of us up. Help us Almighty G-d.

[Historic NY]

5. Could you even imagine how better off we would have been...

Republicans seem to consistly screwup America and leave nothing behind but death & destruction.

[The Wielding Truth]

6. Oh my, another sad glimpse of how good our country could have

been. How we've been conned by this bunch of treasonous crooks and how we have so little time to get on the right track to regain, if we can,a balanced environment to exist on this "our only" planet.

[Jade Fox]

7. Reagan happened.

During the Carter years people took seriously the development of alternative energy. If that had continued, think how different things would be today.

But Reagan put an end to that.

[speedoo]

15. Shit happens. So Reagan, Poppy and * happened. K&R. nt

[rusty quoin]

8. Thank you for this. K&R

[David Zephyr]

9. K&R.

Magnificient.

[Quixote1818]

10. This deserves 1,000 recomends. Shows how smart Carter was and how dumb Reagan was

Lets put this at the top of the greatest page. Good for those who are putting this movie together. I hope the first thing Obama does when he gets in the WH is to put those solar panels back on the fucking roof and says "Thanks for nothing Reagan".

[Jim Lane]

12. One other thing Obama should do....

I agree that Obama should restore the solar panels.

The other thing he should do is invite Carter to be guest of honor at the re-installation ceremony.

[DianaForRussFeingold]

11. President Carter is our greatest president....

:hug: It's heartwarming to finally see him receive some recognition... :patriot:

President Carter is a visionary and foresaw the seriousness of the energy crisis thirty years ago ...

above- President Carter inspecting a solar heating panel installed on the roof of the White House.
photo below- President Carter inspecting solar panels (30 years later) at Habitat for Humanity.

July 10th--Nikola Tesla Day.
Like President Carter;
"Nikola Tesla symbolizes a unifying force and inspiration for all nations in the name of peace
and science.
He was a true visionary far ahead of his contemporaries in the field of scientific development." more... http://www.teslasociety.com/biography.htm

"I have harnessed the cosmic rays and caused them to operate a motive device."
Nikola Tesla; Brooklyn Eagle, July 10, 1931.
He also had to deal with the rich and greedy oil Barons of his day...
Bio- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla
:kick:

[ThirdChoice]

14. Here is another pic....

...of a panel at the Carter Library and Museum, where it ended up. For more pictures and a complete telling of the journey of the panels from the White House roof to the Carter Museum, read our post here:

http:www.jtmp.org

[craz3z]

13. K&R

Too bad that 30 years later we might make the same mistake.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=115&topic_id=160564&mesg_id=160564

[CrispyQ]

16. I wish it wasn't too late to give this another rec.

So here's a kick instead.

Thanks for this post.

[HughBeaumont]

17. Someone does something visionary and worthwhile . . .

. . . . aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand an oligarchy-and-wealth-favoring Republican comes along and puts the kibosh on it.

Par for the course for the past 45 years, no?

Nothing can EVER be about helping the earth or it's people anymore.

It's all about "How is this going to MAKE ME RICH?"