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Sunday, March 22, 2009

in searching social business competition winners bordering on renewable energy I quickly get out of my depth technically

-this is one example http://www.wilsonturbopower.com/wtp_pdfs/WTP_PR092208gt.pdf earlier in the decade it was one of the leading social entrepreneur competition winners across universities and it is still MIT linked a space several of us our keep an eye on mainly because of microcredit education and new career/job-creation interests - I am wondering whether its the sort of case our extended collaborations ought to be tracking

its also the case that the Yunus challenge at MIT this year at is on renewable energy so there may be some // cases, or opportunities to make connections in MIT if we can find a way to link in a technical person; in // peter ryan has been mentioning search for most relevant biofuel for malawi -not sure where that project has reached

I notice that cousteau's grandson Phillippe (in paul roses' bbc tv oceans team) is featured in a current article on wind turbine experiments up and down the east coast with new york mayor bloomberg apparently cheering on other east coast mayors (see attached)- incidentally peter B attended the last refilt of the boat that cousteau used to film from

another dc based person is neville williams who was originally hoping to be part of carter's ! solar challenge but as that evaporated applied solar in india etc and is author of chasing the sun

thanks to continuously superb conferences that heather is events mamanger at www.cgdev.org it became clear to me this week that one has become accidntally the bipartisan action network oc choice connecting community usa - it spent the 21 months of the election campaign teasing candiadates on both sides on those green and other issues that will not be communally sustained until the parties come together - it probably has more reach on main street for replicating than any american movement (though I keep looking as to whether anyone is helping to connect univesrity students rather than keep them boxed into local professorial circuits)

also does ashden have a network agent in usa east coast

there seems to be a gap between developing world solar and what could be 5 million green community jobs obama has been talking about; working out whether bangladesh wants to be a player in this will be useful; peter burgess is checking whether we can re-establish contact with amy wilson who used to agent for grameen energy in new york but this was part of vidar jorgensen's grameen america division which seemed to have been restructured (vidar is boston based but we havent quite found a way to collaborate with him as number 1 partner search person between bangladesh and usa which he does primarily in healthcare areas ); I dont know if marriah and tara's 250 people brainstorm or reinvent your career will have a green subnetwork but I would be intersted in helping sponsor such a track sometime if we could get 250 people in new york revisiting their own careers in green banking- a gap i believe there is a market for staging if we connected our actions -perhaps the 92Y would be the place to convene that unless www.solar1.org is large enough

MICROENERGYSUMMIT -what BHAG collaboration goal do we set for 2015?
probably the most exciting live connection between bangladesh, usa and developing world solar is the seattle-based deveopment of market for 250 million clean energy households- this gives moble gadgets to microcredits to audit bottom billion households converting off carbon (eg to biogas and solar) so that aggregate results can be traded on carbon offset markets http://microenergycredits.com the lady at centre of this is one of dipal barua's founding solar team of bangladesh from origin of their work in 1996

a lot of links start to map round green future capitalism celebrates yes we can- but if we dont start bridging them, not certain who will -interested to hear other views on that! dont want to reinvent any wheels if these connections are already being made- if april 14 new york cafe is an opportunity to issue any optimistic invites to potentially green networks around new york please tell me who I should cheekily mail-
eg anyone at ted.com, or acumen , or buckminster fuller or ...

in the ten or years since my dc neighbour harrison owen has influenced me on networks concerned with system transformation http://openspaceworld.com - the invitation process of open space has become the one I revel in

chris
http://clubofnewyork.blogspot.com

1 Comments:

At 9:29 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

to jkm
hi we are trying to arrange a day after 69th birthday party in dhaka with muhammad yunus and youth - any ideas on who should be there?

http://yunusforum.net/

chris macrae

 

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Worldwide, club of city supports collaboration and networkers: to pose serious questions, notably on future curves that seem to be trending down in many places and communities. How do all peoples and media 1 2 3 turnround such examples as:
  • Healthcare – ever increasing costs
  • Children – increased family strain, lost safety of community
  • Professionals- loss of Hippocratic oath, ever more bureaucratic
  • Water – Clean water is getting scarcer
  • Transport – getting slower
  • National Government – Increasingly powering over instead of facilitating what people need next Mass media – dumbing down, loss of social space and transparent debates
  • Food chain – cost of good for you food going up
  • Nations Cultures- love of each other’s diversity going down
  • Pensions (investment in sustainable growth) – going down
  • Adult confidence in making a difference with lifelong learning potentials – seems to be going down
  • Insurance – cost going up, learnings across biggest tragedies seem increasingly blocked
  • Underclass – compounding underclass- their loss of hope in life and mutual risks to all of us in a hi-connected world
  • NGOs/Charity – Global*Local infrastructure further removed from depth of grassroots needs in crisis or sustainability turnround challenges
    We are interested in any city network that either recognises any of these as a problem which it wants to question or has some answers they are happy to share with the world
    Chris Macrae, wcbn007@easynet.co.uk, London & DC, 30 years at origin of Entrepreneurial Revolution, 21 years @ Death of Distance transparency networking, valuetrue mapmaking 1