Comments - LEARN [3] Power Shift-Monitizing Carbon offsets - Urgent Evoke2024-03-29T09:26:12Zhttp://www.urgentevoke.com/profiles/comment/feed?attachedTo=4871302%3ABlogPost%3A58620&xn_auth=noSimply amazing, a good exampl…tag:www.urgentevoke.com,2010-04-22:4871302:Comment:1006262010-04-22T17:16:22.216ZMassive Attackhttp://www.urgentevoke.com/profile/zackstieber
Simply amazing, a good example how sustainability is win-win, personally, environmentally & economically
Simply amazing, a good example how sustainability is win-win, personally, environmentally & economically +1KS. Such good info. Had nev…tag:www.urgentevoke.com,2010-03-31:4871302:Comment:747012010-03-31T15:56:17.988ZShakwei Mbindyohttp://www.urgentevoke.com/profile/ShakweiMbindyo
+1KS. Such good info. Had never heard of them - thanks.
+1KS. Such good info. Had never heard of them - thanks. UPDATE!!! LEARN [3] Power Shi…tag:www.urgentevoke.com,2010-03-31:4871302:Comment:746452010-03-31T15:14:12.106ZLaura Dawsonhttp://www.urgentevoke.com/profile/LauraDawson
UPDATE!!! LEARN [3] Power Shift - Monitizing Carbon offsets.<br />
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We know that moving economic support out to the people we are serving with POWER SHIFT or any other project we suggest is primary. That is what David Palella is so good at creating.<br />
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David Palella, one of my contacts for African planning and development ideas and projects, sent me an email following my post of this Carbon Manna in response to the POWER SHIFT project. He has updated that blog post with the following comment to my…
UPDATE!!! LEARN [3] Power Shift - Monitizing Carbon offsets.<br />
<br />
We know that moving economic support out to the people we are serving with POWER SHIFT or any other project we suggest is primary. That is what David Palella is so good at creating.<br />
<br />
David Palella, one of my contacts for African planning and development ideas and projects, sent me an email following my post of this Carbon Manna in response to the POWER SHIFT project. He has updated that blog post with the following comment to my email. Let me share this with you now.<br />
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RE: Carbon Manna -- Two Novel Cell-phone-based Microfinance Mechanisms based<br />
on reduced use of non-renewable biomass fuel<br />
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Hello Laura,<br />
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Thanks for your note via LinkedIn and continuing interest in, and support of, the Carbon Manna(SM) System. Highly appreciated.<br />
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So please note that we don't use solar cookers in our contemplated projects, and we do not recommend that anyone try to, because that means changing culture usually (cooking habits), which means lots of training and monitoring to ensure compliance. Which means you cannot scale a program up to 1,000s or 10s of thousands of families.<br />
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Not to mention that no one has every produced standardized carbon markets documentation for a solar cooker, which will take 1 - 2 years and US$ 200 - 300 K -- at least.<br />
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In sum, solar cookers are a non-starter. So we don't try to change existing cooking habits. We simply help families cook more efficiently with the same biomass fuel they have traditionally used (usually wood or charcoal).<br />
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With that preamble, here below is our new standard intro email as an update:<br />
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We at Carbon Manna Unlimited in San Diego (a non-profit corporation) have developed two novel, universally-applicable, cell-phone- and NON-debt-based, highly-scalable forms of microfinance that we call the Carbon Manna(sm) System. They are:<br />
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(1) the Carbon Micro-PROFIT-Sharing System -- comprising monetization of 1,000s of aggregated carbon-micro-offsets via the European GS-VER market (Gold Standard - Voluntary Emission Reduction market); and<br />
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(2) the Reduced-fuel-expense Micro-SAVINGS Program -- an SMS-based behavior-modification program that teaches families to bank their daily cash savings on fuel of 15 - 40 U.S. cents/day.<br />
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Both mechanisms are based on reduced combustion of non-renewable biomass fuel and employ a highly efficient, low-cost cook-stove custom designed and produced by our colleagues in Nairobi, Kenya. Our stove reduces fuel use by 40 - 50 % and deforestation by a similar percentage.<br />
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The stoves are serialized and matched uniquely with each family's cell phone number.<br />
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Broadcast SMS messages (short message service) and customized content regarding public health, women & children's rights, nutrition, personal finance, etc., will be sent to all families.<br />
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Monetized carbon offsets and cash fuel savings may be banked and converted back to cash as needed using existing MMT (Mobile Money Transfer) systems such as Safaricom's M-Pesa or Zain's ZAP systems in the case of East Africa.<br />
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The two mechanisms can be implemented sequentially -- the Micro-Savings Program immediately, and the Carbon Micro-PROFIT-Sharing System later as paperwork is completed for the carbon-offset market.<br />
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Our pilot cook-stove project in Kenya, which includes the ancestral hometown of President Obama, is in late-stage planning. See the news release below and the attached picture of Grandma Sarah Obama receiving the first Carbon Manna(SM) cook stove engraved: "Yes, we can!"<br />
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-->> <a href="http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Carbon-Manna-Unlimited-1065919.html" target="_blank">http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Carbon-Manna-Unlimited-1065919.html</a><br />
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We plan to scale the Kenyan effort up to 100,000 - 250,000 families within 5 years.<br />
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Most notably, we believe these two novel microfinance mechanisms have a number of advantages over, and will scale much faster than, micro-debt, which was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006.<br />
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Finally, in the case of corporate sponsors in the wireless or consumer products industries, Carbon Manna(sm) offers an auditable "ROI on CSR" investments, a rare result in the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) field.<br />
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In the case of individuals, donations to Carbon Manna Unlimited in San Diego (a California-incorporated public charity) are 100% tax-deductible through our umbrella 501c3 status with The GlobalGiving Foundation in Washington, DC.<br />
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We hope you will support our efforts in Kenya and/or some other part of the Developing World of interest to you. Being cell-phone- and markets-based, Carbon Manna(sm) is universally applicable.<br />
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More background about Carbon Manna(sm) may be found by visiting the links below and scanning the attached PowerPoint file.<br />
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We look forward to hearing from you.<br />
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Globally & warmly yours, David Palella<br />
<br />
David A. Palella<br />
Founder<br />
CARBON MANNA UNLIMITED<br />
SAN DIEGO, California<br />
cell: 619-787-5767<br />
email: dpalella@san.rr.com<br />
email (backup): carbonmanna@gmail.com<br />
<a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidpalella" target="_blank">http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidpalella</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.carbonmanna.org" target="_blank">http://www.carbonmanna.org</a><br />
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<a href="http://carbonmanna.blogspot.com" target="_blank">http://carbonmanna.blogspot.com</a><br />
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<a href="http://twitter.com/CarbonManna" target="_blank">http://twitter.com/CarbonManna</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.linkedin.com/e/vgh/1794312/" target="_blank">http://www.linkedin.com/e/vgh/1794312/</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.prweb.com/releases/2010/01/prweb3459274.htm" target="_blank">http://www.prweb.com/releases/2010/01/prweb3459274.htm</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Carbon-Manna-Unlimited-1065919.html" target="_blank">http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Carbon-Manna-Unlimited-1065919.html</a><br />
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Carbon Manna Unlimited to Present at Kenyan Business Conference<br />
<a href="http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Carbon-Manna-Unlimited-1033328.html" target="_blank">http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Carbon-Manna-Unlimited-1033328.html</a><br />
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"One Cell Phone per Child" Grand Challenge Announced by CarbonManna(C) Unlimited<br />
<a href="http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Carbon-Manna-Unlimited-1007638.html" target="_blank">http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Carbon-Manna-Unlimited-1007638.html</a><br />
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Carbon Manna(C) Unlimited Announces Solar Manna(C) & Forest Manna(C),<br />
and Filing of a U.S. Patent Application for the Cell Phone-Based<br />
Carbon Micro-Profit-Sharing System<br />
<a href="http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Carbon-Manna-Unlimited-991442.html" target="_blank">http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Carbon-Manna-Unlimited-991442.html</a><br />
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World's First Cell-Phone-Based Carbon-Micro-Credits Implementation<br />
Progressing in Kenya<br />
<a href="http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Carbon-Manna-Unlimited-953397.html" target="_blank">http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Carbon-Manna-Unlimited-953397.html</a><br />
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Want an extra $250 a year? Adopt fuel-efficient stoves<br />
<a href="http://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/news/-/2558/629584/-/r1ooaez/-/index.html" target="_blank">http://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/news/-/2558/629584/-/r1ooaez/-/index.html</a><br />
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Kenyan farmers could reap from carbon trading<br />
<a href="http://www.eastandard.net/mag/InsidePage.php?id=1144016370&cid=457" target="_blank">http://www.eastandard.net/mag/InsidePage.php?id=1144016370&cid=457</a><br />
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Personal carbon trading<br />
<a href="http://www.eastandard.net/InsidePage.php?id=1144016369&catid=476&a=1" target="_blank">http://www.eastandard.net/InsidePage.php?id=1144016369&catid=476&a=1</a><br />
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I will be/was a speaker or keynote speaker at:<br />
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2nd Kenya Diaspora Int'l Conference & Investment Forum<br />
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20-22 August 2009, Atlanta, GA<br />
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<a href="http://www.kenyaopen4business.com" target="_blank">http://www.kenyaopen4business.com</a><br />
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"Microfinance for Institutional Investors"<br />
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21-23 Sept. 2009, Washington, DC<br />
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<a href="http://www.hansonwade.com/events/microfinance-for-institutional-investors/index.shtml" target="_blank">http://www.hansonwade.com/events/microfinance-for-institutional-investors/index.shtml</a><br />
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<br />
"Micro Financial Services World"<br />
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[ organized by Hanson Wade ]<br />
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10-12 May 2010, Amsterdam City Centre, The Netherlands<br />
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<a href="http://www.mfs-world.com" target="_blank">http://www.mfs-world.com</a><br />
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Green Business Africa Summit & Expo<br />
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02-04 June 2010, Nairobi, Kenya<br />
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<a href="http://www.greenbusinessafricaexpo.com" target="_blank">http://www.greenbusinessafricaexpo.com</a><br />
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CC: Humphrey Mulindi<br />
Advisor to:<br />
CARBON MANNA UNLIMITED (San Diego, CA)<br />
P.O Box 25759-00100<br />
Nairobi KENYA<br />
<br />
cell: +254 733 622 348<br />
Skype: humphrey.mulindi<br />
email: mulindihum@yahoo.com<br />
<a href="http://www.kogelocdfoundation.org" target="_blank">http://www.kogelocdfoundation.org</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/news/-/2558/629584/-/r1ooaez/-/index.html" target="_blank">http://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/news/-/2558/629584/-/r1ooaez/-/index.html</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.eastandard.net/mag/InsidePage.php?id=1144016370&cid=457" target="_blank">http://www.eastandard.net/mag/InsidePage.php?id=1144016370&cid=457</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.eastandard.net/InsidePage.php?id=1144016369&catid=476&a=1" target="_blank">http://www.eastandard.net/InsidePage.php?id=1144016369&catid=476&a=1</a><br />
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<br />
Ms. Hong Ma (Ph.D., M.D., MBA)<br />
Executive Director & Co-founder<br />
CARBON MANNA UNLIMITED<br />
San Diego, Calif.<br />
cell: 858-357-4349<br />
email: hongma2008@gmail.com<br />
Skype: hong.ma805<br />
<a href="http://www.carbonmanna.org" target="_blank">http://www.carbonmanna.org</a><br />
<a href="http://www.linkedin.com/pub/4/9b3/3b9" target="_blank">http://www.linkedin.com/pub/4/9b3/3b9</a><br />
<a href="http://twitter.com/ehealthbiomed" target="_blank">http://twitter.com/ehealthbiomed</a><br />
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------------------------------------------------------------- While many new ideas are wond…tag:www.urgentevoke.com,2010-03-23:4871302:Comment:586262010-03-23T14:50:13.392ZLaura Dawsonhttp://www.urgentevoke.com/profile/LauraDawson
While many new ideas are wonderful, the monetizing of these ideas is a powerful part of the sustainability of the project. You will see from my LEARN [3] Power Shift-Monitizing Carbon offsets, blog just how to PAY for the idea. Be In Good Health.
While many new ideas are wonderful, the monetizing of these ideas is a powerful part of the sustainability of the project. You will see from my LEARN [3] Power Shift-Monitizing Carbon offsets, blog just how to PAY for the idea. Be In Good Health.