Mission and Purpose

Awakening to clean energy solutions

The New Energy Movement is a broad-based public movement dedicated to the study and promotion of peaceful and sustainable solutions for an imperiled planet.

We believe solutions exist and can be implemented if we adopt sensible public and private policies.

We seek public jurisdiction over questions of peace and sustainability.

We support a massive shift of federal priorities away from weapons programs to initiatives which would identify and implement sustainable solutions to our pressing environmental, socioeconomic and geopolitical problems.

We seek to work in concert with existing environmental, educational, business and governmental groups, other progressive movements, and individuals who agree with these goals, without prejudice or vested interest as to the best means of accomplishing them.

We recognize that the single most highly leveraged opportunity for advancement toward solving complex global problems lies in a transformation in the way human civilization generates and utilizes energy.

New Energy Movement is focused on facilitating this transformation.

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Programs

Non-sustainable practices and their negative effects are both physical and social problems demanding comprehensive physical and social solutions. Real and substantive corrective actions need to be implemented within realistic target timelines in order to avert catastrophe. We believe that toxic and greenhouse emissions could and should be reduced to zero by 2020 through use of clean and renewable energy of all kinds, and the conservation and recycling of energy, hydrocarbons, carbohydrates, water, soil, wood and minerals. In the short term, this would mean a shifting of federal subsidies and research programs from polluting fossil and nuclear fuels to clean and renewable energy.

It is particularly vital to research and educate about the potential of new energy sources such as zero-point energy, cold fusion, and advanced hydrogen technologies which could provide us with a quantum leap toward cheap and clean energy for all.

New Energy Movement's primary task is to encourage intelligent public debate and discussion as to which energy alternatives are both effective and safe, and accelerate the widespread conversion to the best energy options. The dominant fossil fuel and nuclear energy systems currently used by mankind are unsafe, yet the inertia of entrenched and protective vested interests discourages innovation. New Energy Movement objectively considers all viable clean and renewable energy options, free of vested interests. We wish to work with all new energy inventors whose concepts demonstrate promise.

We need to study and determine the steps and safeguards that are needed to make the necessary transition from a polluting energy economy to an emission-free energy economy with the least disruption and adverse effects. We believe that with a concerted effort, conversion can be complete by 2020 on a global level, if the policies of the major industrialized nations, particularly the United States, are changed to support it.

New Energy Movement is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. For more information on NEM, new energy technology, becoming a member, and how you can help, go to our website at www.newenergymovement.org . Please share this information with others. Thank you.

Strategy

New Energy Movement encourages public and private R & D support of selected new energy technologies and infrastructures, including both traditional (e.g. solar, hydrogen) and innovative (e.g. cold fusion, zero-point).

NEM will also study plans for a smooth transition to a new energy economy, identifying the proper mix of traditional and innovative sources as a function of time. This includes scenarios to retrofit and otherwise convert polluting technologies into clean ones in all relevant sectors (e.g. transportation, power generation, heating and cooling of buildings).

Each day, we spend billions of dollars consuming and searching for polluting energy sources. New Energy Movement will garner the needed public support to reallocate this spending to energy processes whose full life cycle environmental impact is minimal. The ultimate goal is to protect the biosphere, enhance public health, and remediate ecological damage.

To these ends, NEM will:

Perform technology assessments of research, development, and implementation of the most promising options:

(a) assemble a database to rank new energy alternatives according to state of development, cost of further development, potential scale of power delivery, ease of use, potential environmental issues, potential for destructive use and overuse, cost per unit of energy delivered, potential for decentralization, and public transparency of development (the database and rankings will be made as public as possible);

(b) formulate an R & D plan which best reflects the above rankings, including an assessment of R & D facilities and funding requirements;

(c) in alliance with other groups, fund and oversee the R & D; and

(d) develop implementation scenarios based on our best assessment of alternative technologies and ease of transition, and participate in the implementation itself.

Host international conferences to invite the public to meet with new energy researchers, funders, policy makers, media, and academics. The purpose is to discuss, debate, and demonstrate new energy options and to build public support for such solutions. The first international conference will be held in Portland, Oregon on September 25-26, 2004, with the theme “New Energy: The Courage to Change”. The conferences will uniquely address social issues rather than details about the technologies themselves.

Presentations to media, policymakers, and the public, and publications that promote the NEM mission, programs, and strategy. During 2003-04, founder Dr. Brian O'Leary has testified to the California Energy Commission, spoken to a variety of audiences internationally, met with leaders at the UN and other organizations, and appeared on a number of internationally broadcast television and radio shows, speaking to millions of listeners. We plan to expand these efforts to other NEM directors and advisors as the movement grows.

NEM is developing a website to present new energy policy issues, educate the public, and facilitate public dialogue. This will be a primary method for attracting motivated global citizens to become NEM members. The website address is www.newenergymovement.org