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The Phoenix Project Foundation

Background and Mission
The Phoenix Project Foundation is a non-profit, scientific-educational organization that is focused on helping people to understand the implications of exponential growth; and how it relates the interrelated problems of energy, the economy, the environment, education, foreign policy, molecular biology, photobiology and nanotechnology. The primary emphasis, however, is to have the U.S. rise from the ashes of fossil and nuclear fuels to a Solar Hydrogen Economy with wartime-speed. The Phoenix Project Foundation's founder and chairman, Harry Braun, first proposed this transition in his congressional campaign against John McCain in 1984, and he has been refining this Phoenix Project plan ever since.

Given the serious nature of the recent financial collapse in the U.S., however, which has spread globally, the economic problems that have resulted from increasing levels of deficit spending, unregulated free markets, sub-prime mortgages and highly leveraged derivatives have now eclipsed all the other problems. In spite of this economic collapse, thus far the only actions have been to borrow -- or simply print -- over $8 trillion to bailout the financial institutions who created the problems in the first place, and to fund an array of make work programs that have no possibility of generating the millions of private sector jobs and trillions of dollars of wealth that is now needed to restore the U.S. economy.

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