This speech was transcribed at the CalCEF Angel Network Meeting March 10, 2009
Joe Desmond came into public service as a result of the 2001 energy crisis that ushered in Gov. Schwarzzeneger into office. Since the energy system is highly complex, dynamic and constantly evolving over time, the points of leverage were always changing over time. [...]

Last year, two of my friends in Miami decided to convert their backyard into a garden because they knew how bad “the depression” was about to become. One of them is a computer programmer, who often knows about everything long before it hits mainstream, so it wasn’t weird when he started ordering seeds by the [...]