Rebates for grid connect residential solar power

As of June 10 2009, the Solar Credits Program is in effect. Energy Matters has a special arm of its operations that deals purely with community and residential solar power grid connect system rebates, removing the hassle out of you taking advantage of this incentive.

As with many government rebates there are some conditions attached. 

1. The Solar Credits multiplier will offer up to $7,200 in savings depending on the size and location of installation and apply to new installations of small-scale renewable energy generators eligible under the scheme. 
2. Solar credits will apply to the first 1.5 kilowatts (kW) of capacity installed.
3. Generation from capacity above 1.5 kW will still be eligible for the standard 1:1 rate of RECs creation.
4. The multiplier credits will only apply to the first small-scale generation system installed at an address.

However, these conditions still mean most Australians have access to the incentive!

REMEMBER: Mobile Phone Numbers Go Public next month.

REMINDER all mobile phone numbers are being released to telemarketing
companies and you will start to receive sale calls.

YOU WILL BE CHARGED FOR THESE CALLS

Below is a link where you can enter your phone numbers online to put an
end
to telemarketing calls.  Don’t just delete those calls otherwise you
will
find that you have been signed up for all sorts of extra services that
you
didn’t want or know about.  Like special chimes, music etc.

https://www.donotcall.gov.au/ <https://www.donotcall.gov.au/

Here’s the good news…

I’ve just interviewed a property expert who actually specialises in helping people with this specific challenge.

His name is Mark Rolton.

The interview runs for about 60 minutes and we go through his formula which enables you, with very little capital to create a windfall in real estate fast – if you know what you’re doing.

Go and listen to this interview right now.

It’s free and it’s extremely valuable if your goal is to make $100,000 in the next 6 months.

For many reading this, that replaces your income… So I think it’s important that you take this email extremely seriously.

In fact, Mark runs through a recent example where one of his clients made $200,000 in the last 4 months with a capital outlay of under $5,000.

Imagine if that person was you…

If you’re serious and willing to do the research and education, that person CAN be you in the next 6-12 months.

I know this will help.

Signed with Success,

Jon Giaan
Knowledge Source

P.S. If you’re serious about this unusual real estate investment strategy, you may want to take advantage of Mark’s full-day training events. Normally $495, however as part of the Knowledge Source family, we’re allowing 200 clients to come for free. Hurry, hurry, hurry! Secure your seat now at 

P.P.S. What’s unique about this strategy is that it solves a major problem and frustration in the current real estate boom… And you get paid handsomely in the process.

By Lance Spicer
6th July 2008
Well, as they say…..&%$# happens! The market has turned sour as it does every 5 to 7 years and we find ourselves in a Bear Market. This time, it’s over zealous US banks lending to people who can’t afford the repayments and oil speculators driving up the price of oil because they think supply will be a problem in the future. Coupled to this we have seen a rise in all commodities sparking fears of inflation. Put all this together, and you have a bear market. Last time, back in 2002, was due to “irrational exuberance” driving up stock prices of “tech” stocks to unsustainable levels. When investors realised the Internet was not going to provide instant wealth, everyone retreated and dumped all their speculative stocks, as well as dumping their good stocks…. Sounds a bit like what they are doing as I write this report. For example, commodity prices are holding steady or rising, but people are now panicking and dumping mining stocks…. Why? Because they are panicking…. They want their money out of the market and now!

In every bear market, the good stocks get dumped with the bad ones. But have you ever thought about things this way….. while you are panicking and dumping shares at a rate of knots, have you ever wondered who was buying and them, and why?

“What “nutcase” would be buying stocks now?” … “The stock market is collapsing!” Well, there are a whole bunch of investors out there who don’t have this opinion. They are the “sneaky” minority. These “optimistic nutjobs” go round buying stocks when everybody knows the market is collapsing further…. Or worse the world is coming to an end. Nevertheless these, clearly psychotic people continue to buy. Why do they do this?

Well, as one of these people I’m well qualified to tell you. It’s simply this, all this will very shortly be over and I will have invested at or close to the bottom of the market.

Ah, but is it really close to the bottom? What if the market continues to drop? What if oil continues up and things get worse?
Well, only an idiot would predict that these things couldn’t happen, but let’s look at the facts for a minute:

Oil Prices

Oil supply at the moment is fine. There is plenty of oil and the producers are saying so. No one has complained that there was no fuel when they tried to fill up, so what’s the problem? The simple truth is there are no supply – demand issues, yet. That’s the problem – the “speculators” or as they prefer to be called, Futures Traders, are betting this supply – demand situation won’t last and that supply will fall and demand will rise. They do have a point.

The way I see it is – this problem started in the 80’s when oil was cheap as chips and because of that no-one invested money in new exploration or new fields. Then in the “00’s”, along came eastern Europe, China and India with their growing middle class. This of course meant a requirement for more fuel, and we simply didn’t see it coming early enough. While the US still uses 25% of the world’s fuel, their consumption hasn’t caused a great increase in demand, but China and India are now increasing their use dramatically. This is where the problem lies. Couple that with problems in Nigeria, Iran, Venezuela, reducing outputs from Mexico, Indonesia and some middle east oilfields, and we have an expectation that there will be a “supply problem” down the track, as early as next year maybe? This where the futures traders come in and bid up the price.

Is the world running out of oil? No. The world is running out of cheap oil. Oil, will never return to $40 a barrel. Oil will be more expensive to produce because most of it lies offshore, which means drill rigs, lots of them will be needed. But it takes time to start new oil fields in the ocean – about 6-10 years. Companies in the oil industry are working as fast as they can to get this extra supply online, and will be successful, but it will take another year or two before we start to see the increase in supply come on line. So, I suspect we’ll see high oil prices for about two years before seeing them drop in 2010. Alternative fuels will become more viable the longer fuel remains high.

Is it inflationary? Yes, it is, and this has the markets worried. However, there will be a point when the price of fuel will actually cause people to do things differently and this will ease it’s upward movement. Once the price stops going up, the inflation effect will stop and the market will calm down. The new cost of oil will hurt for a while and then will simply be accepted as part of business and will be built into the cost of goods. As long as it doesn’t keep going up forever, we’ll be just fine, and so will the markets.

You see, the world is changing. We now have Brazil, Russia, China and India. We have 300 million more consumers in this commodity cycle than we had in the last one back in the 1970’s. Specifically, we have the industrialisation of China & India, which is why this commodity boom has legs. It will last longer than any other commodity boom in history, I suspect out to at least 2014.

Credit Crunch

The second problem ailing the markets is the “credit crunch”. This has been brought about by the banks in the US and elsewhere having to write down loans provided to less than credit worthy home buyers in the US. During a housing boom, everybody expects prices to just keep going up, even the banks thought “negative equity” just wouldn’t be a problem while everything was going along nicely on the housing front. However, all booms end and this one ended in 2006. The reality of a slump in housing prices in the US, caused “sub-prime” mortgage holders to start to default, leaving banks with huge debts as house holders simply walked away from houses with negative equity (which they can do in the US). This leaves the banks “holding the bag” and having to sell all these houses in a bad market. All the banks carrying these bad loans had to then start writing them off…. Billions lost off their balance sheets, and more to come.

The result will be banks will be in the doldrums until at least 2009. At some stage, the news won’t be able to get any worse on the financials, and they will be a great place to invest money.

As to the issues of the banks being “tight” with lending due to liquidity problems and this having the effect of stifling growth, it’s only a matter of time before the banks start lending again (albeit more prudently). This is the only way they will recoup their losses and start rebuilding their earnings. This is 100% inevitable. Time is the only variable, but as I write this report most banks are already making moves in this direction.

The Markets
Around the world, markets have been hammered and nearly all stocks within those markets have gone down with them. The US market has held up quite well, surprisingly, while the Australian market has been one of the worst affected and should not have been when you consider that much of the market is commodity based, which are still booming.

The average bear market lasts around 13 months, which means that we should be back in bull territory by October. However, I think this may end sooner. My reasoning for this, is based on the reasons we are in this bear market in the first place. Firstly, bear markets that are due to a tightening of credit tend to end sooner than others. So, it comes back to the price of oil being the issue that stands between the bulls and bears. The oil price is precarious to say the least. If it goes much higher demand will definitely start to wane, it’s already down 2% in the US and dropping. The greatest cure for high prices, are high prices. This is what is worrying oil producers at the moment, if oil becomes too expensive, all the alternatives become viable (and possibly permanently changes the way we do things). The price of oil may bring about demand destruction.

The oil market could turn ugly at any given moment, a drop in oil price of say, $10, could set off a 3%-4% rise in equities in one day. You can’t miss these rises! They may be regarded as bear market rallies, but they are usually very dramatic.
Believe it or not, bear markets provide the most dramatic one day rises in the markets. Two important things to note:

The best time to invest is when markets are low and in the doldrums.

The strategy that all great investors will tell you, is to make sure you are invested when the market hits bottom or close to it. The rise out of the doldrums can be spectacular.

Missing these opportunities, and sitting on the sidelines (as US$4 Trillion dollars is doing in money market funds that had formerly been to a large extent in equities), will affect your returns dramatically as the chart above shows.

When will it End?

Everyone wants to know when the bottom has been reached. The end of all the nastiness. When is it safe to get back in?

Well, I simply don’t know. I suspect soon. It could be 3 months, 3 weeks or 3 days….. No one knows.

So, to get some idea before I started putting excess funds into the market, I would consult two reasonably reliable sources. One is Bespoke Investment Group. They have a very reliable indicator that works every single time.

It examines and combines the 50 day moving average, the 10 day Advance Decline line, PE ratios both current and forward, dividend yields and net earnings revisions and they come up with a very good chart telling you where the stocks are at a point time. On the 3rd July 2008, this was the chart.

As I said, this is a very reliable indicator. Earnings guidance and revisions have been for the most part positive, which is very out of step for the middle of a bear market.

The second thing I look at is chart history. It’s amazing how often charts act the same way when reviewing market events, like Bear Markets.

Let’s look back at the last bear market in 2003. A very nasty one, often considered a “once in a lifetime” bear market due to how long it went for.

The following S&P 500 chart shows you the 2003 “bottom”.

The Bottom of The Market in 2003

You see in the chart the initial bottom, and then two more tests to the bottom. For some reason it always tests the bottom three times. It eventually shakes out all the weak investors (mostly individuals), then recovers.

The Bottom occurred in February 2003, then this happened……..

The 2003-2007 Bull Market

From March 2003 to October 2007, it went up from around 850 to 1550. A fabulous bull market. Is this spooky or what?

Below is 2007- 2008. This what we are currently experiencing. Look at the two charts (the Bottom 2003 & Bottom 2008?)…..

The Bottom? of the 2008 Bear Market?

Here is 2003 Bottom again so you can compare them closely….

Both charts are almost identical in their formation. Now, I’m not saying this is absolute proof of an imminent recovery in the market, but you have to admit it looks like it.

We have almost identical charts signaling a bottom, and a very reliable indicator telling us stocks are oversold.

So, we must ask ourselves, are all the weak investors out? And the ones that remain, have they decided to sit tight? Probably. The next move will come in late July and August. As US companies report their earnings we’ll know whether the markets are going to break with history and head lower, or maintain their record, and start upwards, perhaps slowly at first. The earnings will tell all.

The first quarter of 2008 was generally positive and we saw a rally in stocks in April and May as I predicted back in February. So, how will it turn out?

Well, I monitor earnings guidance and earnings revisions like a hawk, getting reports everyday on stocks that have realised some information. I’m please to say that 70% of guidance is in line with expectations, or up. Good news. If the actual earnings reflect this…. The next bull market just may start in August. I suspect it will. There is no evidence at this time to make me think it won’t.

The only problem will be the oil price going to over $160 per barrel. That will temper enthusiasm.

The 2008 Bear Market Strategy

Identify stocks that have been oversold and are in the industries that will continue to do well over the next couple of years or who always recover well from bear markets.

The latest Bear Market Strategy Report sent to Trident Confidential reveals my stock picks that have the greatest potential. For example:
Agriculture – Farm equipment, farm technology, fertilisers, seeds and chemicals.

Heavy Construction Equipment – building infrastructure – cities, roads, bridges, and hospitals need to be built.

Oil Service – Rigs, drill ships, welders, ship builders – there are huge backlogs in this business.
Industrial Metals – Iron ore, Aluminum, Copper and Zinc.

Energy – All alternative energy, wind, solar, nuclear and geothermal.

Biotech/Nanotech/Healthcare – Baby Boomers are getting older.

Technology – One of the first “recovery” sectors.

In the latest Trident Confidential we show you exactly where the growth continues as is proven by our 29% return this year while markets have collapsed. In the members only version of this report I tell subscribers of my 25 Core Holdings that are “must have” stocks for the next market “lift off”.

Accumulate these stocks using a third at a time buying strategy.

This way if the price moves slightly lower you take advantage of it.
Use a buying strategy that ensures you pay close to the daily low for that stock.

I use limit orders to ensure I pay a great price and maximise my profits. I explain how to do this The Trident Confidential Users Guide.
Use a stop loss strategy that ensure your profits and capital are protected.

How to set use these strategies are explained in The Trident Confidential Users Guide. These strategies have protected my profits and capital in all market conditions.

Take advantage of vicious short-covering rallies.

Remember that in the 2000-2002 bear market we had three big short-covering rallies of 20% or more. You need to use rallies like that to take profits if the stock runs up too far.
Conclusion

Bear markets will pass. But it’s in the darkest days of a bear market that the seeds are sown for the triple-digit percentage returns that come later in the business cycle.
I have been involved in the investment markets for 30 years now. I have pretty much seen it all and some days, it even gets to me – someone who knows that emotions are your worst enemy when it comes to making the right decisions. So, when I feel it’s all becoming really annoying I just leave it alone for an hour or two and come back with a freshened attitude. I always ask myself, what would Warren Buffett, Peter Lynch, Philip Fisher be doing in these circumstances? They would be doing what all the great investors do at a time like this. They would be buying top quality companies at bargain prices knowing full well, that this will soon pass and euphoria will return and bring inevitable profits with it.

At the start of this report I mentioned that when someone was panic selling, there was another “nutcase” buying…. Well, that may have been one of the world’s great investors building yet another fortune. The foundations of that fortune are being laid right now. It will be completed in the next two years.

I have realised finding and investing in great companies is only part of building wealth from stocks. The second and almost more important part, is knowing how to buy stocks and how to protect your profits and capital. Put these two parts together and you have everything you need to build lasting wealth from the stock market. I can show you exactly how this is done if you subscribe to The Ultimate Wealth Program which includes Trident Confidential, which has returned 29% for the 6 months to 30 June 2008, yes, even amid the chaos.
It doesn’t matter what happens in your life, once you have the skills, you’ll always be able to make money. It’s a re-assuring thought.

Kind Regards
Lance Spicer
July 2008

Dear Exponential Mindset Enthusiast,

This year started with a boom, quickly followed with a bust.

“They” won’t admit it, but it sure smells like we’re in a recession to me…

That’s FANTASTIC news… If you have an Exponential Mindset™.

If you don’t have this mindset, well it’s going to get a LOT tougher before it gets better.

A lot tougher.

So tough in fact that very few will be left standing.

THOSE who will be left standing will reap ALL the rewards.

Make sure that YOU are one of the survivors.

Make sure YOU RECESSION-PROOF your business, career or website.

Make sure YOU FUTURE-PROOF your wealth and income when everyone around you runs scared.

Make sure YOU take action – if you don’t it’ll cost you. It’ll cost you more than you want to know.

I have been in Australia for 8 years, I got here in 2000, just before the Olympics. There has not been anything close to this in the last 8 years. When it hits, it’s going to hit HARD.

I want you to be ready.

With an Exponential Mindset™, there is NOTHING you can’t handle – EVEN A RECESSION.

In fact, a RECESSION = OPPORTUNITY.

It’s when your competitors are going to PANIC, SCRAMBLE and BE TOTALLY CASH-STRAPPED.

That’s GREAT NEWS for you – terrible news for them.

You know that Exponential Marketing strategies are all about LEVERAGE.

LEVERAGE is all about doing MORE with LESS.

When is that more important than in a RECESSION?

Hmmm…. You hadn’t thought of it that way had you?….

That’s OK. That’s why I’m your coach, mentor, advisor and guide.

It’s what I do.

It’s what I want to teach you.

Not to SURVIVE, but to THRIVE in the midst of a RECESSION.

Have you noticed I am using a lot of CAPITALS in this e-mail?

This is where we’re at – it’s THAT IMPORTANT.

This is a CRITICAL time.

You either get ready to take the hit, or you get knocked out.

There is no easy or soft way to say it.

It’s going to get ugly.

Very ugly.

AND MASSIVELY PROFITABLE for some.

Some who ‘totally get the Exponential Mindset™ and TAKE ACTION.

So let me ask you a few questions since you’re been hearing about the Exponential Mindset™ and strategies for some time now…

• Are you implementing as many strategies as you thought you would?
• Have you dramatically increased your business revenues and profits while reducing your marketing costs?
• Have you developed a Parthenon of multiple Rivers Of Revenue™ within your business?
• Have you established Host-Beneficiary Partnerships to substantially increase the number and quality of your qualified prospects and/or clients?
• Have you written and communicated your Unique Selling Proposition to your clients and prospects?
• Have you used multiple headlines and calls to action in your communications to test, fine tune and achieve exponential returns that beat the industry response rates by orders of magnitude?
• Have you developed a system that liberates you from the day-to-day operations so you can spend more time growing, developing and strategically planning your business?

Are you making more money this year than you did last year?

If you answered ‘yes’ to some or most of these questions, we’d love to hear about it!

If you haven’t applied all or most of the Exponential business building strategies, you’re not alone-

It’s not uncommon for your initial excitement to subside, the boundless opportunity thinking mindset of the strategies to drift and wane or your motivation to come crashing down to reality like a ton of bricks. With everyday pressures, deadlines and juggling a personal life, it all gets too hard very quickly for many hard working entrepreneurs.

If you’ve had that nauseating, sinking feeling in your stomach and feel like you’ve hit the wall so-to-speak, don’t despair, we’ve been quite busy putting things into place to help you.

I want to make it absolutely irresistible for you to attend this year’s Exponential Internet & Business Building Bootcamp and get a refresher course on a privileged basis.

To make sure this is the right decision for you, I want you to attend a FREE 3-hour PREVIEW EVENT where I will give you a test drive of the 3-day event. I’ll show you why this is a MUST that is more important as we enter a recession.

I want the most committed, passionate and enthusiastic people in that room.

It’s called the ‘Power of the Room”.

The better the people, the more ‘power’ the room has. It’s like a MasterMind on steroids. If you’ve seen ‘The Secret’ DVD, then you know how influential the law of attraction is. We want to maximise that psychic positive energy with the very best entrepreneurial leaders in Australia.

We know that just ‘being around’ like-minded Exponential Mindset advocates ‘osmosis’ will do its magic. You’ll meet and greet up 100, 200 or more business entrepreneurs over the 3 days and could meet that one person who can make all the difference – a new employee, partner, supplier, host-beneficiary partner. The most valuable aspect of this event is that these are people who are learning the SAME strategies you’re implementing in your business.

They speak your language.

They are fluent in exponential.

They are conversationally capable of engaging in boundless thinking!

This year’s Bootcamp is fully updated and revised with NEW content – ESPECIALLY BRAND NEW Exponential Internet CONTENT!!!

The format has been expanded to 3 full days of 12 hours, from 9 AM to 9 PM, non-stop so that you get the FULL immersion effect of being focused ON your business for 36 hours with NO room for any distractions!

There will be NEW content never-before covered in Australia, including the Strategy of Pre-eminence, Unique Selling Propositions and the most powerful strategy of all – Host-Beneficiary Partnerships and Joint Ventures!!!

I will also perform a full-scale no-holds-barred Exponential HotSeat™, usually reserved only for the $49,995 Platinum Program!

PLUS there will be new and expanded content and focus on Internet strategies!

In this RECESSION, you’re going to need all the help you can get.

I want to INCREASE your personal leverage. I know that the more people that surround you who have the exponential mindset, the better your results will be. It’s a self-fulfilling prophecy.

In a RECESSION, you’re going to need a LIKE-MINDED sounding board to overcome the FEAR, PANIC and SHEAR NEGATIVITY that is going to surround you like a black storm cloud.

Without it, you’ll succumb to the panic of the masses and suffer the same fate.

The Bootcamp is the only chance you have to spend time with this level of people. I relish the one-on-one interaction with the most capable, competent and enthusiastic protégés. I will push you to reach new heights of understanding, clarity and competence.

There simply is no substitute.

I should know – I attended 3 Bootcamps. Each time, I sat there, for the full 3 days taking notes non-stop.

That’s right, I consider myself Australia’s #1 Jay Abraham Marketing Growth Strategist and even I needed to attend MULTIPLE times.

The first time I took 125 pages of notes, the second time 116 pages.

That’s right more than 100 PAGES of NOTES EACH TIME!

Click here to download them!

NEW AND EXPANDED FORMAT FOR THE 2008 BOOTCAMP – 12 EXTRA HOURS!!!

The group workshop sessions have been expanded to include MasterMind principles, to be facilitated by hand-picked Platinum Members who will guide and assist you through every step of every exercise.

With three 12-hour long days, you will be able to complete ALL exercises on-site with revolving group members enhancing what you have acknowledged is one of the most valuable aspects of the Bootcamp – exchanging ideas with other participants.

We’re allocating more time for Q&A Rapid Fire Sessions with me on the microphones. This means at the end of each session, YOU can get on the microphone and ask any question you have, a problem you’re grappling with and get it solved right then and there!

I will perform an Exponential HotSeat™ full-on, not just as a demonstration. If you don’t know what a HotSeat™ is, click here to download a blow-by-blow account of what it’s like.

This new, expanded, re-designed format is another world-first enhancement of the legendary Bootcamp.

Wonder what kind of results have Bootcamp graduates been up to?

• The jeweler who pulled $55,000 out of thin air using just one technique
• The software company that generated $150,000 in sales 6 months faster, beating their old conversion rate by 200% – with no discounting!
• The specialised health care provider that booked more than $150,000 in treatments in less than 3 hours with less than $1,000 in marketing costs!
• The training company that tapped into another company’s database to generate $5,000 in windfall revenue in less than 30 days. Total cost: $300!
• The consultant who made $6,000 in one hour. Yes, one hour. And then made an additional $2,000 without even lifting a finger!
• The personal coach who created $6,000 in 6 days from one distinction e-mail!
• How about the consultant/trainer who increased his prospect-to-paying client conversion by a WHOPPING 10 times – not 10% or even 100%, but 1,000%!!!

I’m not just committed to helping you grow your business, I am committed to make sure you don’t become a victim of the RECESSION.

Onward and upward!

P.S.
The number one reason you should attend is BECAUSE this year’s Bootcamp will include Internet strategies that will blow your socks off – literally.

• Imagine spending $300 on Google Adwords and generating $17,000 of CASH within 60 days…
• Imagine spending HALF as much as you are now on Google Adwords and getting TWICE the number of leads that are even BETTER qualified?!?!
• Imagine getting people to find out about you for FREE 24 hours/day, 7 days/week… and deciding on their own to do business with you… Willingly, happily and with NO hesitation… How cool would that be?
• Imagine automating your sales process to reduce your sales cycle by as much as half – would that tickle your fancy?
• Would reducing your work week by 3 or 4 hours/week while INCREASING SALES be of interest?
• How about spending less than half on marketing than you are now AND increasing your PROFITS by 50% to 100%?

These are all possible with the Exponential Internet Strategies we will be discussing at the Bootcamp…

Now it’s your turn to do something -

Whatever you do, don’t outright dismiss this opportunity without really considering it. You owe yourself, your family, your employees more than that.

I know first-hand how success can elude even the most committed person.

MAKE SURE YOU BRING YOUR PARTNER OR SPOUSE WITH YOU TO THE PREVIEW – they need to see, hear and feel what you are going through, otherwise it will be an uphill battle.

The SAME uphill battle your competitors will be fighting – and LOSING.

At the 3- hour PREVIEW EVENT, I will cover distinctions, ideas and insights THAT YOU CAN mold, modify and apply in your business the next day.

SIMPLIFICATIONS that make it EASIER to get BETTER results.

Not complexity that increases the barriers, but disarmingly simple things that WORK.

You’re 90% of the way there – now get the last ‘missing’ 10% where all the rewards are.

The 10% that most people leave behind.

The 10% that sets the winners apart from the losers.

The 10% that makes the rich richer and the poor poorer.

The 10% that makes you financially independent rather than a slave to the daily operations of the business.

The 10% that gets you home in time for dinner every night or on the squash court EVERY SINGLE DAY.

The 10% that pays back the investment in the 90% you’ve already spent.

The 10% that you know has been just outside your reach it’s so close you can almost taste it.

The 10% that acknowledges you for the 90% effort that took blood sweat and tears to accomplish with mediocre results.

The 10% that no one can ever take from you.

The 10% that will keep paying you for a lifetime.

The 10% that will put your kids in private school.

The 10% that will buy you the nice car you’ve always wanted.

The 10% that will get you in the better, safer, more prestigious neighbourhood.

The 10% that will put you at the top of your industry where people will look up to your with respect.

The 10% that will keep your marriage and family together.

The 10% that will keep you healthy, fit and vibrant well into an extended retirement so you can enjoy your grand and even great-grand children.

The 10% that makes you a RECESSION survivor and victor.

REGISTER NOW to attend a FREE 3-HOUR session where
I will show you HOW TO RECESSION-PROOF your business, career and/or website.

June 25, 2008 04:09pm

Article from: AAP

QUEENSLAND has more to lose from climate change than any other Australian state, with the twin threats of severe drought and intense cyclones, a new report shows.

The state government has responded by launching a $3 million campaign to get householders to shrink their carbon footprints.

Queensland Climate Change Minister Andrew McNamara today released the report from the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Office of Climate Change showing the state’s average temperature could rise by five degrees celsius by 2070.

The report, entitled Climate Change in Queensland – What the science is telling us, said the annual temperature had risen faster than the national average since 1950.

Under the current high emissions scenario, Queensland’s temperature would rise by 2.8 degrees by 2050 and five degrees by 2070.

The report identified the Great Barrier Reef and wet tropics rainforest as especially vulnerable.

Most of the population, which lives on the coast, could face severe flooding from sea levels expected to rise by up two metres by the end of the century.

“Queensland has key challenges because of our widely distributed population,” Mr McNamara told reporters today.

“We have four million people living across a much broader area than Victoria, for example.

“So our transport challenge is significantly more difficult because we simply have to transport people and goods over greater distances.

“We have a highly distributed economy and it’s an energy intensive economy.

“We have a very strong mining sector, but of course, that entails the significant production of greenhouse gases.

“So Queensland, because of the structure of our economy and the distribution of our people, has more at risk because of climate change than any other state in Australia.”

Energy generation, which includes coal-fired power stations, makes up 40 per cent of the state’s greenhouse gas emissions.

The National Greenhouse Gas Inventory for 2006 showed that Queensland accounted for 170 million tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions or 29.7 per cent of the national total, ahead of the next highest greenhouse gas emitter NSW, which produced 27.8 per cent of the national total.

Queensland Resources Council (QRC) chief executive Michael Roche said today the state’s mining and energy companies were working to reduce their emissions.

“If we want the lights to continue to come on, definitely there is a place for coal,” Mr Roche said.

“But the future for coal is a different sort of future – it’s a future with coal being burnt far more efficiently, where the CO2 is being captured, transported and being stored safely, permanently underground.”

Mr McNamara today initiated the program encouraging householders to reduce their carbon footprint.

Based on a model developed in the United States, the “low carbon diet” is a program that provides information and resources to help households cut their greenhouse gas emissions by two tonnes a month or up to 20 per cent within the first year.

Measures include running dishwashers less frequently, using cold water to wash clothes and buying energy-efficient appliances.

But environmental group WWF said the state government must do more to tackle climate change.

“Queensland has the highest emissions per capita due to its reliance on coal power and road transport,” WWF spokeswoman Kellie Caught said.

“The state needs to diversify its energy portfolio by shifting freight to rail and focusing on renewable energy rather than relying too heavily on the coal industry.”