Inviting you and yours to participate in the 20 most exciting projects ever networked - 260SmithWatt 70Neumann 50F.Abed , AI20s.com Fei-Fei Li, Zbee2024-03-29T15:26:22Zhttp://normanmacrae.ning.com/forum/topics/inviting-you-and-yours-to?commentId=6339278%3AComment%3A1106&feed=yes&xn_auth=noD1 back in 1984 a parental su…tag:normanmacrae.ning.com,2011-06-09:6339278:Comment:15032011-06-09T10:19:12.272Zchris macraehttp://normanmacrae.ning.com/profile/s0neqm9lsoui
<p>D1 back in 1984 a parental subgroup of Norman Macrae's <a href="http://erworld.tv" target="_blank">Entrepreneurial Revolutionaries</a> started to connect together - how would education need to change in a world where 90% of jobs would completely change in under one generation. <a href="http://www.worldcitizen.tv/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/jsbpaper11.docx" target="_blank">Here is a paper</a> from a new Zealander who has been helping children and parents ask this question every day…</p>
<p>D1 back in 1984 a parental subgroup of Norman Macrae's <a target="_blank" href="http://erworld.tv">Entrepreneurial Revolutionaries</a> started to connect together - how would education need to change in a world where 90% of jobs would completely change in under one generation. <a target="_blank" href="http://www.worldcitizen.tv/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/jsbpaper11.docx">Here is a paper</a> from a new Zealander who has been helping children and parents ask this question every day for the last 27 years. His website <a href="http://www.thelearningweb.net">http://www.thelearningweb.net</a> introduces you to many more links as well as his book that became a nest seller among 10 million chinese parents</p>
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<p>Here are a couple of videos (<a target="_blank" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wdOs-g12fw">1 free university</a> where richard branson shares his mentoring on entrepreneurship; <a target="_blank" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDZFcDGpL4U">2 problems with examinations</a> focused on knowledge 90% of which makes 90% of children redundant) that can show you what's at it stake. Ask <a href="mailto:chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk">chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk</a> if you are interested in an informal guide to more links that inspire us on how job creatinmg education could be. Truth to tell, as parents we in history's more developed nations are far behind the curious state where we wanted to empower our children to be enjoying by now when our dialogues on the future of the net generation began in 1984 - ideas on how to map which netwiorks of people get this mother of all challenges always welcome </p> A1
great stuff on why aggricu…tag:normanmacrae.ning.com,2011-06-04:6339278:Comment:13012011-06-04T21:51:05.173Zchris macraehttp://normanmacrae.ning.com/profile/s0neqm9lsoui
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<p>great stuff on why aggricultue markets are not free to value green or human sustianbility <a href="http://atai-research.org/our-approach">http://atai-research.org/our-approach</a></p>
<h2>Constraints on Adoption <a class="print" href="http://atai-research.org/our-approach#"> </a></h2>
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<p>great stuff on why aggricultue markets are not free to value green or human sustianbility <a href="http://atai-research.org/our-approach">http://atai-research.org/our-approach</a></p>
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<div class="clear-block content-blocks"><div class="node" id="node-1902"><div class="content clear-block"><p><em>ATAI's research focuses on approaches to helping farmers overcome constraints on the adoption of agricultural technologies. Click on a constraint below to see a literature review on how market inefficiencies hinder adoption, and learn about related ATAI funded research currently underway. This conceptual framework will continue to evolve as our understanding of adoption constraints and successful strategies improves.<br/></em></p>
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<li class="views-row views-row-1 views-row-odd views-row-first"><div class="views"><span class="field"><a href="http://atai-research.org/our-approach/externalities">Externalities.</a> Some technologies create spillovers that affect others. If farmer decisions ignore these spillovers then technologies that create benefits for others may not be adopted, while technologies that impose costs on others may be adopted too widely.</span></div>
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<li class="views-row views-row-5 views-row-odd"><div class="views"><span class="field"><a href="http://atai-research.org/our-approach/credit-market-inefficiencies">Credit Market Inefficiencies.</a> Many farmers have difficulty accessing credit and face high interest rates, which prevents investment in profitable technologies. Financial decisions may be difficult for farmers without high levels of financial literacy.</span></div>
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<li class="views-row views-row-6 views-row-even"><div class="views"><span class="field"><a href="http://atai-research.org/our-approach/risk-and-uncertainty-0">Risk Market Inefficiencies.</a> Technologies that carry a small risk of a loss may not be worth large expected gains if risks cannot be offset. Psychological issues around risky decisions further lower levels of adoption.</span></div>
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<p class="views">see also MIT's <a href="http://www.povertyactionlab.org/">http://www.povertyactionlab.org/</a></p>
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Emergency ‘Call to Action…tag:normanmacrae.ning.com,2011-06-04:6339278:Comment:10072011-06-04T21:45:41.611Zchris macraehttp://normanmacrae.ning.com/profile/s0neqm9lsoui
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<h1>Emergency ‘Call to Action to Protect Earth’ by UN, Pope, Scientists and Indigenous</h1>
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<div style="font-size: 10px;"><em><a href="http://enewschannels.com/staff">by Suzy Chaffee</a></em></div>
<div id="mainArticle"><p><img height="250" width="350" src="http://enewschannels.com/META/ENC0611-SC-dreamstime.jpg" title="Courtesy (c) Katrina Brown - Dreamstime" class="alignright size-full wp-image-13217"/><a href="http://enewschannels.com/">eNewsChannels COLUMN:</a><strong>Following Bolivia’s passage of their domestic law “Recognizing Mother Earth as a living entity and giving Her the Same Rights as Humans,” the United Nations held a dialogue via an interactive webcast on its “Harmony with Nature” Day, April 20, and it is now working on adopting these rights worldwide.</strong></p>
<p>Thanks to this surprising mindshift by UN leaders and participants, the day also ended in an emergency call to action where the Indigenous, kids, renewable energy, and teamwork play key roles to veer us off our current path toward extinction. Fortunately the UN is not alone. (<a target="_blank" href="http://www.unmultimedia.org/tv/webcast/2011/04/general-assembly-interactive-dialogue-on-harmony-with-nature-english.html">www.unmultimedia.org/tv/webcast/2011/04/general-assembly-interactive-dialogue-on-harmony-with-nature-english.html</a>).</p>
<p>Khor called ‘Harmony with Nature’ an extremely important phrase that resonates with most of us, and the “Secretary-General’s report on it as quite remarkable and unusual and I encourage the public to read it.” REF: <a target="_blank" href="http://daccess-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/N10/489/57/PDF/N1048957.pdf?OpenElement">daccess-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/N10/489/57/PDF/N1048957.pdf?OpenElement</a></p>
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<p>A COOPERATIVE PARTNERSHIP MODELED AFTER NATURES LAWS</p>
<p>Brown and Eisler explained why our current Neo Classical economics model of dominance at any cost to humanity and Nature is falling apart. Brown said, “Today’s financial paradigm is not scientifically based since the economic indicators are not connected to Earth’s “natural capital,” defined as goods and services from Nature essential for life, which U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Barnaki even admits!”</p>
<p>Eisler explained that politicians worldwide keep this medieval model going because it benefits a few at the expense of the many…virtual slaves. “‘Trickle Down Economics’ comes from peasants getting the crumbs falling off the king’s table. Mainstream economics is unsustainable because it fails to include the critical life-giving, healthy home environment and care giving contributions of women and Mother Earth, which is sacred.” UK researchers estimated that “Housewives should be paid £30,000″ (about $45,000). Malaysian Moderator Martin Khor added, “A maid’s salary is listed on government balance sheets, but when she marries it disappears, though contributing the same work” – why women’s value is discounted. The participants agreed “we need to make a cultural shift to a cooperative partnership system, an Earth Democracy, modeled after Nature’s laws to survive as a species.”</p>
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<p>Ecuador’s Constitution of 2008 states that nature’s rights should be taken into account in all planning activities, including the maintenance, regeneration, and restoration of its cycles, structures, functions and evolutionary processes. REF: <a target="_blank" href="http://daccess-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/N10/489/57/PDF/N1048957.pdf?OpenElement">daccess-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/N10/489/57/PDF/N1048957.pdf?OpenElement</a></p>
<p>Nobel Laureates Eric Chivian, Muhammad Yunus, and Joseph Stiglitz agree that “Human beings are an inseparable part of Mother Earth, and life depends on uninterrupted functioning of Her cycles.”</p>
<p>Together the UN participants painted a holistic picture of a “new world resplendent with life” and urged a shift from an economic system that regards nature as a commodity that we have the right to exploit, to a paradigm that respects Mother Earth’s rights and intrinsic value. Instead of the GNP as the measure of progress, they proposed measuring the “quality of life, well being, and the Gross National Happiness,” pioneered by Ecuador, France and Bhutan.</p>
<p>Humanity is at a crossroads: Why should we only respect the laws of human beings and not those of nature? Why do we call the person who kills his neighbor a criminal, but not he who extinguishes a species or contaminates a river or a system as a whole, if all of us, absolutely all of us, rely on the life of the Earth System? asked Pablo Solon, Bolivia’s Ambassador to the UN.</p>
<p>Hail to the participants who included some of Earth’s deepest thinkers from the member states and renowned authors on the panel: Vandana Shiva (India), Peter Brown (Canada), Cormac Cullinan (South Africa), Riane Eisler (United States), Paul-Bertrand Barets (France), Gilberto Gallopin (Argentina), Ivo Havinga (UN) Mathis Wackernagel (Switzerland). Besides the Bolivians, there was a representative of the UN’s Indigenous Peoples Partnership, as a preview of Native Elders further helping light the way for humanity at RIO-20 next June, which was part of the 2012 prophesy.</p>
<p>“WE NEED TO PROTECT THE HABITAT THAT SUSTAINS US” – Pope Benedict XV1</p>
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<p>more at <a href="http://enewschannels.com/2011/06/03/enc13216_164921.php">http://enewschannels.com/2011/06/03/enc13216_164921.php</a></p>
</div> A2 royal familes across europ…tag:normanmacrae.ning.com,2011-06-03:6339278:Comment:11102011-06-03T14:52:04.301Zchris macraehttp://normanmacrae.ning.com/profile/s0neqm9lsoui
<p>A2 royal familes across europe , and the world celebrating fortnight before london olympics as magic moments for youth, sustainability and commowealth raises the question - what process can we rehearse so that at any country's most joyful celebration of the 2010s, the <a href="http://joyofeconomics" target="_blank">joy of job creating economics</a> can also be celebrated - <em>so to speak: softlandings of all of sustainability world's most joyful economists and media people coming to town…</em></p>
<p>A2 royal familes across europe , and the world celebrating fortnight before london olympics as magic moments for youth, sustainability and commowealth raises the question - what process can we rehearse so that at any country's most joyful celebration of the 2010s, the <a target="_blank" href="http://joyofeconomics">joy of job creating economics</a> can also be celebrated - <em>so to speak: softlandings of all of sustainability world's most joyful economists and media people coming to town and inviting youth to do heroic projects with them</em></p>
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<p>we dont know how to do this yet but aim to make the first process rehearsal in Dc when fall 2011 Yunus comes to town invited by congress to tesfily as <a target="_blank" href="http://grameeneconomics.com">worldwide youths most joyful economist</a></p>
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<p>some emerging clues may be:</p>
<p>open spaces to free discussion of how diverse do <a target="_blank" href="http://businessmodels.tv">business models</a> need to be to solve the most life critical problems any <a target="_blank" href="http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Journal-Social-Business-3333892?trk=myg_ugrp_ovr">linkedin</a> community wishes to raise</p> A1 Yunus & Green 5- which…tag:normanmacrae.ning.com,2011-06-02:6339278:Comment:11072011-06-02T17:38:14.536Zchris macraehttp://normanmacrae.ning.com/profile/s0neqm9lsoui
A1 Yunus & Green 5- which 5 countries (50 mn +) leaders are taking green energy most seriously - editors of journal social busienss and I are particularly interested in these 5 which yunus seems uniquely well connected with : Brazil, Bangladesh, Japan (greatest victim of nuclear) , Germany (end nuclear by 2022), China
A1 Yunus & Green 5- which 5 countries (50 mn +) leaders are taking green energy most seriously - editors of journal social busienss and I are particularly interested in these 5 which yunus seems uniquely well connected with : Brazil, Bangladesh, Japan (greatest victim of nuclear) , Germany (end nuclear by 2022), China E2
2010s Youth's Most Trust…tag:normanmacrae.ning.com,2011-06-02:6339278:Comment:11062011-06-02T17:32:42.586Zchris macraehttp://normanmacrae.ning.com/profile/s0neqm9lsoui
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<td><p><font size="1">2010s Youth's Most Trusted Brands : Grameen & Danone <a href="http://danonecommunities.com/" target="_blank"><font color="#B10613">1</font></a> <a href="http://www.trustbydanone.com/" target="_blank"><font color="#B10613">2</font></a></font></p>
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<td><p><font size="1">2010s Youth's Most Trusted Brands : Grameen & Danone <a target="_blank" href="http://danonecommunities.com/"><font color="#B10613">1</font></a> <a target="_blank" href="http://www.trustbydanone.com/"><font color="#B10613">2</font></a></font></p>
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<li><a href="http://normanmacrae.ning.com/forum/topics/norman-macrae-books-surveys"><font size="2" color="#B10613">The Economist's 40 years of microE</font></a></li>
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<div>here's a call which could help search out the professors and media leaders you most need to contribute to special issue of journal of social business fall 2011</div>
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<p class="yiv1690314479MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Up until world war 2 a literature search of economics shows that most discourse concerned evolutionary or entrepreneurial economics. Both of these adjectives stand for economics whose primary purpose is pro-youth – how do we develop a place so our children and their children have opportunities to be productive that we parents never had?</font></p>
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<p class="yiv1690314479MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Ironically this changed just as Keynes was teaching his last students in Cambridge about the Hippocratic oath of economists – <b>please compound no exponential harm given that increasing only economics rules the world.</b> Through the third quarter of a century searches of western economics show models that increasingly disinvest in youth.</font></p>
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<p class="yiv1690314479MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">The Economist’s Norman Macrae known by journalists as The Unacknowledged Giant (also known to me as dad) was one of the first to spot this scary trend. His 1963 book “Sunshades in October” concluded that the greatest threat to youth was the elderly macroeconomist.</font></p>
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<p class="yiv1690314479MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">To celebrate what Norman hoped was the most rotten economics quarter of the world, he launched a trilogy of entrepreneurial revolution surveys that began in The Economist 25 Dec 1976. They clarified transparency challenges that needed to be sorted if the world’s financial system was not to collapse by the 2010s – a decade that Norman ’s 1984 book on the internet offered a joyous alternative scenario. Let us make IT the most exciting for youth. This social action is quite simple provided elders help empower the net generation to connect to the most heroic goals they could vote for ten years on.</font></p>
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<p class="yiv1690314479MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">If we are to turn round peak economics, there is reason for hoping the USA ’s change leadership will flow for fall 2011 on. This is the time that two thirds of 2010 US congress made an appointment to hear a testimony from youth’s number 1 economist and entrepreneurial revolutionary Muhammad Yunus. <span> </span>Watch the videos of why Congressmen from all sides of the house are looking forward to returning to an economics that sustains communities</font> <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://grameeneconomics.com/"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">http://grameeneconomics.com</font></a></p>
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<p class="yiv1690314479MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">As far as we can see, The Journal of Social Business is the only English-language journal left whose referees value Adam Smith's original pro-youth criteria. If your work is pro-youth, please do contribute with us.</font></p> A1 we co-create events linkin…tag:normanmacrae.ning.com,2011-06-02:6339278:Comment:11052011-06-02T14:29:53.786Zchris macraehttp://normanmacrae.ning.com/profile/s0neqm9lsoui
<p>A1 we co-create events linking major capital and green broadasters from and to BBC- some emerging links -please share yours</p>
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<p>BBC paul rose - co-staged 3 events in dhaka, new york and DC ; his friend grandson of cousteau; his colleagues at royal; geographical society and St james;</p>
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<hr></hr><p>I went to school with son of david attenborough</p>
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<p>the main family co-sponsoring glasgow yunus events in the bbc magnusson family</p>
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<p>OUR MAIN…</p>
<p>A1 we co-create events linking major capital and green broadasters from and to BBC- some emerging links -please share yours</p>
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<p>BBC paul rose - co-staged 3 events in dhaka, new york and DC ; his friend grandson of cousteau; his colleagues at royal; geographical society and St james;</p>
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<hr/><p>I went to school with son of david attenborough</p>
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<p>the main family co-sponsoring glasgow yunus events in the bbc magnusson family</p>
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<p>OUR MAIN DEADLINE</p>
<p>we wish to host some extraordinary events among broadcasters of green and youth's good news during fortnight before london olympics</p>
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<p>Gunter Pauli Blue Economy network claims to be ready to help you co-create 100 million green jobs - its moved on from releasing the blue economy book in 52 parts to video competition - the first of these on water and waste is at <a href="http://www.community.blueeconomy.de/m/videocontest/entries/Blue-Moves-Video-Competition-Water-Waste">http://www.community.blueeconomy.de/m/videocontest/entries/Blue-Mov...</a></p>
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<p>brilliant? batty?</p>
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<p>extyract from sustainability report of French comapny Schneider Electric who are a co-sponsor with Danone of the Yunus Social Business Chair at <a target="_blank" href="http://www.google.com/search?q=yunus+OR+%22social+business%22+site%3Ahec.edu&hl=en&num=10&lr=&ft=i&cr=&safe=images&tbs=">HEC</a><font face="SEOptimist" size="6" color="#00A750"><font face="SEOptimist" size="6" color="#00A750"><font face="SEOptimist" size="6" color="#00A750"> </font></font></font></p>
<p align="left"><font face="SEOptimistLight" size="5" color="#4D555B"><font face="SEOptimistLight" size="5" color="#4D555B"><font face="SEOptimistLight" size="5" color="#4D555B">Muhammad Yunus, Economist and Entrepreneur</font></font></font></p>
<p align="left"><font face="SEOptimistLight" size="5" color="#4D555B"><font face="SEOptimistLight" size="5" color="#4D555B"><font face="SEOptimistLight" size="5" color="#4D555B">Founder of Grameen Bank <a href="http://www2.schneider-electric.com/documents/presentation/en/local/2011/04/strategy-and-sustainable-development-report-2010-2011-en.pdf"><font size="2">p39 Schneider Report</font></a></font></font></font></p>
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</font></font></font><p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="1" color="#4D555B"><font face="Arial" size="1" color="#4D555B"><font face="Arial" size="1" color="#4D555B">'I had a meeting with Schneider Electric’s top</font></font></font></p>
<p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="1" color="#4D555B"><font face="Arial" size="1" color="#4D555B"><font face="Arial" size="1" color="#4D555B">management and I was explaining that the future will</font></font></font></p>
<p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="1" color="#4D555B"><font face="Arial" size="1" color="#4D555B"><font face="Arial" size="1" color="#4D555B">be decided by two key things that we have right now.</font></font></font></p>
<p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="1" color="#4D555B"><font face="Arial" size="1" color="#4D555B"><font face="Arial" size="1" color="#4D555B">One is energy – how we bring our energy out to</font></font></font></p>
<p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="1" color="#4D555B"><font face="Arial" size="1" color="#4D555B"><font face="Arial" size="1" color="#4D555B">people’s lives – and the other is information</font></font></font></p>
<p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="1" color="#4D555B"><font face="Arial" size="1" color="#4D555B"><font face="Arial" size="1" color="#4D555B">technology. If these two things combined together,</font></font></font></p>
<p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="1" color="#4D555B"><font face="Arial" size="1" color="#4D555B"><font face="Arial" size="1" color="#4D555B">the world would be a completely different place.</font></font></font></p>
<p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="1" color="#4D555B"><font face="Arial" size="1" color="#4D555B"><font face="Arial" size="1" color="#4D555B">'I give the example of Bangladesh. We have 160</font></font></font></p>
<p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="1" color="#4D555B"><font face="Arial" size="1" color="#4D555B"><font face="Arial" size="1" color="#4D555B">million Bangladeshi people, and 60 per cent of them</font></font></font></p>
<p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="1" color="#4D555B"><font face="Arial" size="1" color="#4D555B"><font face="Arial" size="1" color="#4D555B">have no access to electricity. None. So, literally we</font></font></font></p>
<p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="1" color="#4D555B"><font face="Arial" size="1" color="#4D555B"><font face="Arial" size="1" color="#4D555B">are in the Dark Age. But when you bring one electric</font></font></font></p>
<p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="1" color="#4D555B"><font face="Arial" size="1" color="#4D555B"><font face="Arial" size="1" color="#4D555B">bulb, even with a little bit of wattage in it, you can see</font></font></font></p>
<p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="1" color="#4D555B"><font face="Arial" size="1" color="#4D555B"><font face="Arial" size="1" color="#4D555B">for miles.</font></font></font></p>
<p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="1" color="#4D555B"><font face="Arial" size="1" color="#4D555B"><font face="Arial" size="1" color="#4D555B">'There is a light and it fi lls everybody around it with</font></font></font></p>
<p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="1" color="#4D555B"><font face="Arial" size="1" color="#4D555B"><font face="Arial" size="1" color="#4D555B">hope. One light bulb, just one. Imagine what it does</font></font></font></p>
<p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="1" color="#4D555B"><font face="Arial" size="1" color="#4D555B"><font face="Arial" size="1" color="#4D555B">for the family that has its own light bulb. So, in that</font></font></font></p>
<p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="1" color="#4D555B"><font face="Arial" size="1" color="#4D555B"><font face="Arial" size="1" color="#4D555B">kind of society with that kind of economy, imagine if</font></font></font></p>
<p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="1" color="#4D555B"><font face="Arial" size="1" color="#4D555B"><font face="Arial" size="1" color="#4D555B">you could bring one bulb to every man, just one bulb.</font></font></font></p>
<p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="1" color="#4D555B"><font face="Arial" size="1" color="#4D555B"><font face="Arial" size="1" color="#4D555B">What does it mean to them? It’s possible! It’s not</font></font></font></p>
<p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="1" color="#4D555B"><font face="Arial" size="1" color="#4D555B"><font face="Arial" size="1" color="#4D555B">something impossible. But we can’t see it from the top</font></font></font></p>
<p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="1" color="#4D555B"><font face="Arial" size="1" color="#4D555B"><font face="Arial" size="1" color="#4D555B">of the business, that huge big business of energy. We</font></font></font></p>
<p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="1" color="#4D555B"><font face="Arial" size="1" color="#4D555B"><font face="Arial" size="1" color="#4D555B">don’t know what to start from.</font></font></font></p>
<p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="1" color="#4D555B"><font face="Arial" size="1" color="#4D555B"><font face="Arial" size="1" color="#4D555B">'The Chair of Social Business at HEC Paris brings that</font></font></font></p>
<p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="1" color="#4D555B"><font face="Arial" size="1" color="#4D555B"><font face="Arial" size="1" color="#4D555B">link. We have the ability and the technology to make it</font></font></font></p>
<p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="1" color="#4D555B"><font face="Arial" size="1" color="#4D555B"><font face="Arial" size="1" color="#4D555B">easy to link all the considerations – the profi ts, the</font></font></font></p>
<p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="1" color="#4D555B"><font face="Arial" size="1" color="#4D555B"><font face="Arial" size="1" color="#4D555B">return, the investment, all things concerned, so that is</font></font></font></p>
<p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="1" color="#4D555B"><font face="Arial" size="1" color="#4D555B"><font face="Arial" size="1" color="#4D555B">the challenge presented to this Chair and I am very</font></font></font></p>
<p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="1" color="#4D555B"><font face="Arial" size="1" color="#4D555B"><font face="Arial" size="1" color="#4D555B">happy to get together and provide ethical leadership.</font></font></font></p>
<p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="1" color="#4D555B"><font face="Arial" size="1" color="#4D555B"><font face="Arial" size="1" color="#4D555B">I am happy that we are doing things on the ground,</font></font></font></p>
<p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="1" color="#4D555B"><font face="Arial" size="1" color="#4D555B"><font face="Arial" size="1" color="#4D555B">not just writing books and publishing journal articles</font></font></font></p>
<p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="1" color="#4D555B"><font face="Arial" size="1" color="#4D555B"><font face="Arial" size="1" color="#4D555B">and saying, 'I’m a great professor, I’ve had fifty articles</font></font></font></p>
<p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="1" color="#4D555B"><font face="Arial" size="1" color="#4D555B"><font face="Arial" size="1" color="#4D555B">published in the last ten years'. So what. Did they</font></font></font></p>
<p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="1" color="#4D555B"><font face="Arial" size="1" color="#4D555B"><font face="Arial" size="1" color="#4D555B">mean anything to anybody? That's the important</font></font></font></p>
<p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="1" color="#4D555B"><font face="Arial" size="1" color="#4D555B"><font face="Arial" size="1" color="#4D555B">question to ask. So this is the challenge, and the</font></font></font></p>
<p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="1" color="#4D555B"><font face="Arial" size="1" color="#4D555B"><font face="Arial" size="1" color="#4D555B">challenge I want to come to today'.</font></font></font></p>
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<p align="left">A Nobel laureate’s thoughts</p>
<p align="left">on energy access</p> A1 - who should be linkedin …tag:normanmacrae.ning.com,2011-06-02:6339278:Comment:11042011-06-02T12:51:11.832Zchris macraehttp://normanmacrae.ning.com/profile/s0neqm9lsoui
<p>A1 - who should be <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Journal-Social-Business-3333892?trk=myg_ugrp_ovr" target="_blank">linkedin</a> --- eg 1 liam black uk</p>
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<p>dear liam</p>
<p>would you like to help us clarify one or more projects for this yearbook being co-sponsored by my father's estate; dad "norman macrae" was The Economist's journalist of entrepreneurial revolution and in 1984 the internet; in his last 3 years dad rated yunus as number 1 youth economist of 2010s; we…</p>
<p>A1 - who should be <a target="_blank" href="http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Journal-Social-Business-3333892?trk=myg_ugrp_ovr">linkedin</a> --- eg 1 liam black uk</p>
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<p>dear liam</p>
<p>would you like to help us clarify one or more projects for this yearbook being co-sponsored by my father's estate; dad "norman macrae" was The Economist's journalist of entrepreneurial revolution and in 1984 the internet; in his last 3 years dad rated yunus as number 1 youth economist of 2010s; we work to connect collaboration projects around yunus; you may first have come across one of our sponsorships when we gave away 500 yunus social business books jan 2008 at rebecca's world entrepreneur gathering; this year I have been visiting yunus monthly and am working with his infotech divisions which seem to be the simplest to keep out of hasina's reach</p>
<p>one stream of projects involves cleaning up world food- if my maps are cotrrect, the two biggest yunus partners in this are john mackey of whole foods and his friends in paris linked in round danone and reforming EU- I realise this may also be a favourite project of friends of Jamie whose battles with LA education authority are making for great reality tv over here</p>
<p>chris macrae washington dc<br/> <a href="http://www.youthandyunus.com">www.youthandyunus.com</a> authorised yunus infotech leaders web <a href="http://www.journalofsocialbusiness.com">www.journalofsocialbusiness.com</a> authorised yunus journal </p> A1 at 20 project level - gree…tag:normanmacrae.ning.com,2011-06-02:6339278:Comment:10052011-06-02T12:49:55.647Zchris macraehttp://normanmacrae.ning.com/profile/s0neqm9lsoui
<p>A1 at 20 project level - green social business stockmarket includes projects for cleaning up worldwide foodchains where non-carbon fertilised foods are both the new quality diet richer nations families can be demanding and the beyond fair trade design of microfinanced markets owned in trust of the poorest producers</p>
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<p>see w<a href="http://wholeplanetfoundation.org" target="_blank">holeplanetfoundation</a> anmd…</p>
<p>A1 at 20 project level - green social business stockmarket includes projects for cleaning up worldwide foodchains where non-carbon fertilised foods are both the new quality diet richer nations families can be demanding and the beyond fair trade design of microfinanced markets owned in trust of the poorest producers</p>
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<p>see w<a target="_blank" href="http://wholeplanetfoundation.org">holeplanetfoundation</a> anmd <a target="_blank" href="http://danonecommunities/com">danonecommunities</a> for fast tracks into green sb stockmarket</p>
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<p>assuming the core purpose of development economiscs is to invesnt in childrens futures, we need to do something about6 the non-trational pricing mechanisms which let carbon intensive agriculture pump waste everywhere with no cost to the originator and with such huge future costs as the extinction of fish; if a world leader in industrial carpets <a href="http://www.interfacesustainability.com">www.interfacesustainability.com</a> can map a 15 year profitable plan twoards a zero carbon footprint, agricultures around the world surely could too</p>
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<p>see wholeplanet foundation and danonecommunity model</p>
<p>for lastest evidence of need see cucumber wars across euroepan summer of 2011 </p>
<p>for education - see jamie oliver's reality tv competition with the la education authoruity in the cae to end school foods that cause child obesity</p>
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<p>for parental infomrmation search list of dirty fruit and vegetables - those which when you were a child were definitely nutritious but which today are a mixed blessing</p>
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<p>A2</p>
<p>Exciting Decade Exercise</p>
<p>– ask what sporting or other event is being planned as your nation’s most newsworthy moment in 2010s and who is you country’s leader with the longest viewpoint (eg royals often have more interest in country’s sustainability and youth than politicians elected in short term contests)</p>
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<p>then ask how can your country’s greatest youth leader and its most newsworthy moment mix sporting stars and heroes helping with the decades most exciting goals (end poverty; renew clean energy climate water food; give every chance a chance at a productive happy and healthy life etc)</p>
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<p>a transparent map of linking into this has been mapped since 2003 as <a target="_blank" href="http://www.google.com/search?q=university+stars+site%3Aknowledgeboard.com&hl=en&num=10&lr=&ft=i&cr=&safe=images&tbs=">universityofstars</a> </p>
<p>rsvp info@worldcitizen.tv were do practical cases of this exist –eg <a href="http://www.singforhope.org/">www.singforhope.org</a></p>
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<p>opportunity wherever a sports top stars or administrators get into a scandal – <a target="_blank" href="http://www.google.com/search?q=university+stars+site%3Aknowledgeboard.com&hl=en&num=10&lr=&ft=i&cr=&safe=images&tbs=">universityofstars</a> and your nations greatest moment and truest youth leader need to be put in touch ; we aim to trial this before London Olympics 2012</p>