*****
Hello Folks,
I will be speaking at these upcoming events, which may interest many of you too. I hope to see you there.
Globally & warmly yours, David
David A. Palella
Carbon Manna Unlimited
San Diego, California
cell: 619-787-5767
email: dpalella@san.rr.com
http://www.carbonmanna.org
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2nd Kenya Diaspora International Conference & Investment Forum
20-22 August 2009, Kennesaw State University, Atlanta, GA
http://www.kenyaopen4business.com
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"Microfinance for Institutional Investors"
21-23 Sept. 2009, Washington, DC
http://www.hansonwade.com/events/microfinance-for-institutional-investors/index.shtml
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Green Business Africa Summit & Expo
June 2010, Nairobi, Kenya
http://www.greenbusinessafricaexpo.com
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Thursday, July 2, 2009
Thursday, June 25, 2009
"One Cell Phone per Child" Grand Challenge Announced by Carbon Manna(C) Unlimited
*****
Our latest press release...
SOURCE: Carbon Manna Unlimited
"One Cell Phone per Child" Grand Challenge Announced by Carbon Manna(C) Unlimited
Carbon Manna(C) Programs in Africa to Subsidize the Cost of One Handset per Child for Micro-Education and Micro-Healthcare Initiatives
SAN DIEGO, CA--(Marketwire - June 23, 2009) - Carbon Manna Unlimited, an international non-profit standards-setting organization, announced today a new Grand Challenge for Carbon Manna© project developers worldwide to provide one handset for every school-age child of families enrolled in cell-phone-based Carbon Manna© carbon-offset monetization programs. Starting with the oldest child, profits realized by each family from their produced carbon offsets should be used to buy low-cost handsets that include a built-in calculator, keyboard, LED flashlight, and FM radio (already a common feature in mobile phones sold in Africa today).
"In contrast to other announced programs featuring intractably expensive devices, a 'One Cell Phone per Child' goal is patently tenable, and an appropriately designed solar-powered handset serves many of the same educational functions in a much more portable and theft-proof package. Whether using push or pull technologies, micro-education initiatives based on the cell phone are the only currently actionable strategy for educating the Bottom Billion children intellectually shackled in the basement of pharaoh's pyramid," remarked David Palella, Founder of Carbon Manna Unlimited.
"The asymmetrically wealthy in the Developed World habitually underestimate not only African cell-phone penetration rates and cellular-signal coverage, but also the educational, public healthcare, and personal-safety functionality of a simple cell phone with built-in torch," said Geoffrey Kiringa, President of Carbon Manna Africa Ltd. in Nairobi, Kenya. He further observed: "In the case of newer handsets featuring FM radios, combined with the standard SMS (short message service) capability of all current phones, even simple handsets with low direct manufacturing costs of $15-20 offer children in Africa a hall pass to savannahs of knowledge, especially very poor children unable to attend schools."
Dr. Hong Ma, Executive Director of Carbon Manna Unlimited, also noted: "Our proprietary, cell-phone-based Carbon Micro-PROFIT-Sharing System provides a sustainable, carbon-markets-based financial engine for subsidizing or completely funding the purchase price of low-cost handsets in the Developing World, in stark contrast to all other Child empowerment programs that rely excessively on self-limiting charity and/or government subsidies to buy much more expensive and power-intensive electronic devices. Thus, the mobile money transfer-enabled handset in Africa is now not only an ATM and bank, but will also become the public library, the school and teacher, and an economic lucky charm of hope for poor children."
Dr. Sergey O. Sablin, a Board Member and major benefactor of the Carbon Manna© organization worldwide, encapsulated the announcement by saying: "Once again Carbon Manna's quantum innovation and revolutionary self-funding 'micro' paradigms offer the prospect of accelerating the emancipation of millions of poor families in Africa from pandemic poverty and ignorance. I am very honored to be affiliated with Carbon Manna© and to contribute materially to its success."
More details about the benefits of Carbon Manna's "One Cell Phone per Child" Grand Challenge may be found at this blog entry from November 2008:
"One Cell Phone per Child / The Cell Phone is the School"
http://carbonmanna.blogspot.com/2008/11/one-cell-phone-per-child-cell-phone-is.html
For corporate social responsibility (CSR), philanthropic, sponsorship or collaborative opportunities with Carbon Manna Unlimited and/or Carbon Manna Africa; or for speaker requests or celebrity inquiries; and to co-opt a sustainable and universally applicable micro-paradigm that can indeed quickly scale to benefit the "Next Billion" at the Base of the Pyramid, please contact:
David A. Palella
Founder
CARBON MANNA UNLIMITED
San Diego, California
tel: 858-793-0741
email: dpalella@san.rr.com
http://www.carbonmanna.org
http://www.linkedin.com/e/vgh/1794312/
Or:
Geoffrey Kiringa
President
CARBON MANNA AFRICA
Nairobi Kenya
cell: +254-721-922-135
email: geoffrey.kiringa
Skype: geoffrey.kiringa
http://www.eastandard.net/mag/InsidePage.php?id=1144016370&cid=457
*****
Our latest press release...
SOURCE: Carbon Manna Unlimited
"One Cell Phone per Child" Grand Challenge Announced by Carbon Manna(C) Unlimited
Carbon Manna(C) Programs in Africa to Subsidize the Cost of One Handset per Child for Micro-Education and Micro-Healthcare Initiatives
SAN DIEGO, CA--(Marketwire - June 23, 2009) - Carbon Manna Unlimited, an international non-profit standards-setting organization, announced today a new Grand Challenge for Carbon Manna© project developers worldwide to provide one handset for every school-age child of families enrolled in cell-phone-based Carbon Manna© carbon-offset monetization programs. Starting with the oldest child, profits realized by each family from their produced carbon offsets should be used to buy low-cost handsets that include a built-in calculator, keyboard, LED flashlight, and FM radio (already a common feature in mobile phones sold in Africa today).
"In contrast to other announced programs featuring intractably expensive devices, a 'One Cell Phone per Child' goal is patently tenable, and an appropriately designed solar-powered handset serves many of the same educational functions in a much more portable and theft-proof package. Whether using push or pull technologies, micro-education initiatives based on the cell phone are the only currently actionable strategy for educating the Bottom Billion children intellectually shackled in the basement of pharaoh's pyramid," remarked David Palella, Founder of Carbon Manna Unlimited.
"The asymmetrically wealthy in the Developed World habitually underestimate not only African cell-phone penetration rates and cellular-signal coverage, but also the educational, public healthcare, and personal-safety functionality of a simple cell phone with built-in torch," said Geoffrey Kiringa, President of Carbon Manna Africa Ltd. in Nairobi, Kenya. He further observed: "In the case of newer handsets featuring FM radios, combined with the standard SMS (short message service) capability of all current phones, even simple handsets with low direct manufacturing costs of $15-20 offer children in Africa a hall pass to savannahs of knowledge, especially very poor children unable to attend schools."
Dr. Hong Ma, Executive Director of Carbon Manna Unlimited, also noted: "Our proprietary, cell-phone-based Carbon Micro-PROFIT-Sharing System provides a sustainable, carbon-markets-based financial engine for subsidizing or completely funding the purchase price of low-cost handsets in the Developing World, in stark contrast to all other Child empowerment programs that rely excessively on self-limiting charity and/or government subsidies to buy much more expensive and power-intensive electronic devices. Thus, the mobile money transfer-enabled handset in Africa is now not only an ATM and bank, but will also become the public library, the school and teacher, and an economic lucky charm of hope for poor children."
Dr. Sergey O. Sablin, a Board Member and major benefactor of the Carbon Manna© organization worldwide, encapsulated the announcement by saying: "Once again Carbon Manna's quantum innovation and revolutionary self-funding 'micro' paradigms offer the prospect of accelerating the emancipation of millions of poor families in Africa from pandemic poverty and ignorance. I am very honored to be affiliated with Carbon Manna© and to contribute materially to its success."
More details about the benefits of Carbon Manna's "One Cell Phone per Child" Grand Challenge may be found at this blog entry from November 2008:
"One Cell Phone per Child / The Cell Phone is the School"
http://carbonmanna.blogspot.com/2008/11/one-cell-phone-per-child-cell-phone-is.html
For corporate social responsibility (CSR), philanthropic, sponsorship or collaborative opportunities with Carbon Manna Unlimited and/or Carbon Manna Africa; or for speaker requests or celebrity inquiries; and to co-opt a sustainable and universally applicable micro-paradigm that can indeed quickly scale to benefit the "Next Billion" at the Base of the Pyramid, please contact:
David A. Palella
Founder
CARBON MANNA UNLIMITED
San Diego, California
tel: 858-793-0741
email: dpalella@san.rr.com
http://www.carbonmanna.org
http://www.linkedin.com/e/vgh/1794312/
Or:
Geoffrey Kiringa
President
CARBON MANNA AFRICA
Nairobi Kenya
cell: +254-721-922-135
email: geoffrey.kiringa
Skype: geoffrey.kiringa
http://www.eastandard.net/mag/InsidePage.php?id=1144016370&cid=457
*****
Sunday, June 14, 2009
Papal Encyclical Divine Illumination on Carbon Manna ?
*****
The Pope's upcoming Encyclical due to be released on 29 June 2009 echoes many of the key themes detailed in this blog the past year, in particular:
-->> New micro-economic paradigms that benefit the Poor are needed
-->> New ways of thinking that eliminate the gap between Rich & Poor in today's unfavorable world economy are needed
-->> Micro-property rights of the Poor must be respected
-->> Environmental problems unduly affect the Poor compared to the Rich, and
-->> Just men with pure hearts are the prerequisite for economic justice for the Poor.
Carbon Manna is an apotheosis (perfect example) of these themes in action for the Benefit of Humanity.
Carbon Manna cook-stove projects in Africa, in particular, will vastly improve the standard of living of the rural Poor -- 5,000 - 20,000 families at a time. This is the scale needed for economic efficiencies. So only 100 projects over 5 years would comprise about 1 million families, or 6+ million people. Although our Carbon Manna Africa Ltd. team in Kenya is thinking even BIGGER than this.
And being open source, any other groups worldwide are welcome to implement Carbon Manna projects in their countries or territories. Within the next year we will publish on our web site all the documentation needed to undertake a cell-phone-based Carbon Manna project. Anyone will be welcome to download it and adapt it to their own projects.
Our goal ? -- within 5 - 7 years have at least 5 - 10 million families enrolled in cell-phone-based Carbon Micro-Profit-Sharing programs worldwide, which approximates about 30 - 60+ million people.
In sum, if he knew about Carbon Manna, we're sure the Pope would find it, well, like Manna from Heaven.
Very religiously yours,
David A. Palella
Chief Carbon Evangelist
CARBON MANNA UNLIMITED
San Diego, California
cell: 619-787-5767
email: dpalella@san.rr.com
http://www.carbonmanna.org
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Carbon-Manna-Unlimited-991442.html
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Carbon-Manna-Unlimited-953397.html
Join our Carbon Micro-Credits/Carbon Manna discussion groups:
-->> http://www.linkedin.com/e/vgh/1794312/
-->> http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=52270598714
---------------------------------
Main Reference -- begin quote from:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caritas_in_Veritate
"On February 26, 2009 Pope Benedict met with parish priests and clergy of the Diocese of Rome for a question-and-answer session. In response to a question concerning how the Catholic Church should respond to injustice and continue in its defence of vulnerable persons, he outlined key themes from the upcoming encyclical:
[...]
What is needed is the reasonable and reasoned denunciation of the errors, not with great moral statements, but rather with concrete reasons that prove to be understandable in today's economic world. [...]
To realize that these great objectives of macro-science are not realized in ***micro-science*** -- the macroeconomics in the microeconomics -- without the conversion of hearts. If there are no just men, there is no justice either [...]
Justice cannot be created in the world only with good economic models, even if these are necessary. Justice is only brought about if there are just men. And there are no just men without the humble, daily endeavor of converting hearts, and of creating justice in hearts.
On June 13, 2009, the AP reported:
Pope Benedict XVI said Saturday his new encyclical on the economy and labor issues will focus on ways to make globalization more careful to the needs of the poor amid the worldwide financial crisis. The document will outline the goals and values that the faithful must "tirelessly defend" to ensure "true freedom and solidarity" among humans, Benedict said in a speech. He said the global downturn shows the need to "rethink economic and financial paradigms that have been dominant in the last years."
[ End of quote ]
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Secondary Reference:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclical
*****
The Pope's upcoming Encyclical due to be released on 29 June 2009 echoes many of the key themes detailed in this blog the past year, in particular:
-->> New micro-economic paradigms that benefit the Poor are needed
-->> New ways of thinking that eliminate the gap between Rich & Poor in today's unfavorable world economy are needed
-->> Micro-property rights of the Poor must be respected
-->> Environmental problems unduly affect the Poor compared to the Rich, and
-->> Just men with pure hearts are the prerequisite for economic justice for the Poor.
Carbon Manna is an apotheosis (perfect example) of these themes in action for the Benefit of Humanity.
Carbon Manna cook-stove projects in Africa, in particular, will vastly improve the standard of living of the rural Poor -- 5,000 - 20,000 families at a time. This is the scale needed for economic efficiencies. So only 100 projects over 5 years would comprise about 1 million families, or 6+ million people. Although our Carbon Manna Africa Ltd. team in Kenya is thinking even BIGGER than this.
And being open source, any other groups worldwide are welcome to implement Carbon Manna projects in their countries or territories. Within the next year we will publish on our web site all the documentation needed to undertake a cell-phone-based Carbon Manna project. Anyone will be welcome to download it and adapt it to their own projects.
Our goal ? -- within 5 - 7 years have at least 5 - 10 million families enrolled in cell-phone-based Carbon Micro-Profit-Sharing programs worldwide, which approximates about 30 - 60+ million people.
In sum, if he knew about Carbon Manna, we're sure the Pope would find it, well, like Manna from Heaven.
Very religiously yours,
David A. Palella
Chief Carbon Evangelist
CARBON MANNA UNLIMITED
San Diego, California
cell: 619-787-5767
email: dpalella@san.rr.com
http://www.carbonmanna.org
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Carbon-Manna-Unlimited-991442.html
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Carbon-Manna-Unlimited-953397.html
Join our Carbon Micro-Credits/Carbon Manna discussion groups:
-->> http://www.linkedin.com/e/vgh/1794312/
-->> http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=52270598714
---------------------------------
Main Reference -- begin quote from:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caritas_in_Veritate
"On February 26, 2009 Pope Benedict met with parish priests and clergy of the Diocese of Rome for a question-and-answer session. In response to a question concerning how the Catholic Church should respond to injustice and continue in its defence of vulnerable persons, he outlined key themes from the upcoming encyclical:
[...]
What is needed is the reasonable and reasoned denunciation of the errors, not with great moral statements, but rather with concrete reasons that prove to be understandable in today's economic world. [...]
To realize that these great objectives of macro-science are not realized in ***micro-science*** -- the macroeconomics in the microeconomics -- without the conversion of hearts. If there are no just men, there is no justice either [...]
Justice cannot be created in the world only with good economic models, even if these are necessary. Justice is only brought about if there are just men. And there are no just men without the humble, daily endeavor of converting hearts, and of creating justice in hearts.
On June 13, 2009, the AP reported:
Pope Benedict XVI said Saturday his new encyclical on the economy and labor issues will focus on ways to make globalization more careful to the needs of the poor amid the worldwide financial crisis. The document will outline the goals and values that the faithful must "tirelessly defend" to ensure "true freedom and solidarity" among humans, Benedict said in a speech. He said the global downturn shows the need to "rethink economic and financial paradigms that have been dominant in the last years."
[ End of quote ]
-----------------
Secondary Reference:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclical
*****
Kenya press coverage of Carbon Manna
*****
Hello Folks,
Here are 2 articles about our cell-phone-based Carbon Manna™ Micro-Profit-Sharing System that appeared in "The Standard" last week (the largest- or 2nd-largest-circulation paper in Kenya):
http://www.eastandard.net/mag/InsidePage.php?id=1144016370&cid=457
http://www.eastandard.net/InsidePage.php?id=1144016369&catid=476&a=1
Questions? Comments? Please contact me in San Diego or Geoffrey Kiringa directly in Nairobi (his full contact info appears down below).
Globally & warmly yours, David
David A. Palella
Founder
Carbon Manna Unlimited
San Diego, California
cell: 619-787-5767
email: dpalella@san.rr.com
http://www.carbonmanna.org
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Carbon-Manna-Unlimited-991442.html
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Carbon-Manna-Unlimited-953397.html
Join our Carbon Micro-Credits/Carbon Manna discussion groups:
http://www.linkedin.com/e/vgh/1794312/
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=52270598714
CC:
Geoffrey Kiringa
President
CARBON MANNA AFRICA
Nairobi KENYA
cell: 011-254-721-922-135
email: gkiringa@gmail.com
Skype: geoffrey.kiringa
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/9/105/b7b
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1370029560
-------
Hello Folks,
Here are 2 articles about our cell-phone-based Carbon Manna™ Micro-Profit-Sharing System that appeared in "The Standard" last week (the largest- or 2nd-largest-circulation paper in Kenya):
http://www.eastandard.net/mag/InsidePage.php?id=1144016370&cid=457
http://www.eastandard.net/InsidePage.php?id=1144016369&catid=476&a=1
Questions? Comments? Please contact me in San Diego or Geoffrey Kiringa directly in Nairobi (his full contact info appears down below).
Globally & warmly yours, David
David A. Palella
Founder
Carbon Manna Unlimited
San Diego, California
cell: 619-787-5767
email: dpalella@san.rr.com
http://www.carbonmanna.org
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Carbon-Manna-Unlimited-991442.html
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Carbon-Manna-Unlimited-953397.html
Join our Carbon Micro-Credits/Carbon Manna discussion groups:
http://www.linkedin.com/e/vgh/1794312/
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=52270598714
CC:
Geoffrey Kiringa
President
CARBON MANNA AFRICA
Nairobi KENYA
cell: 011-254-721-922-135
email: gkiringa@gmail.com
Skype: geoffrey.kiringa
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/9/105/b7b
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1370029560
-------
Saturday, May 23, 2009
Carbon Manna(C) Unlimited Announces Solar Manna(C) & Forest Manna(C), and Filing of a U.S. Patent Application...
*****
Here is the Carbon Manna news release that came out on MarketWire on 19 May 2009:
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Carbon-Manna-Unlimited-991442.html
Carbon Manna(C) Unlimited Announces Solar Manna(C) & Forest Manna(C), and Filing of a U.S. Patent Application for the Cell Phone-Based Carbon Micro-Profit-Sharing System
Sustainability, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Reforestation, Micro-Entrepreneurialism, Women's Empowerment, Micro-Property Rights and Improved Family Health -- All Features of the Carbon Manna(C) System
SAN DIEGO, CA--(Marketwire - May 19, 2009) - Carbon Manna Unlimited, an international non-profit standards-setting organization, announced today new uniformity initiatives for solar-power projects in the Developing World -- Solar Manna©, as well as for reforestation projects -- Forest Manna©, which make use of the Carbon Manna© cell phone-based Micro-Profit-Sharing System.
Moreover, to exclude profiteers who would manipulate Carbon Manna projects for personal or corporate gain, a detailed provisional U.S. Patent application has been filed to provide a future legal framework for safeguarding the micro-property and micro-profit-sharing rights of poor families participating in Carbon Manna-certified programs.
The Carbon Manna system employs SMS (short message service) and unique identifiers that will allow millions of families in the Developing World to claim by mobile phone on a bi-weekly basis the carbon offsets they produce by converting to more efficient cooking methods such as a modern charcoal stove or solar cooker, instead of an inefficient 3-stone fire burning biomass. As a result, each family becomes a micro-profit center and is able to monetize directly its own contribution to mitigating global climate change, while also slowing regional deforestation and desertification, which are metastatic ecological scourges in Sub-Saharan Africa in particular.
Cell phone-based Carbon Manna projects may also include reforestation programs that sequester CO2 (Forest Manna©), as well as solar-powered lighting and village-level phone-recharging stations that reduce green house gas emissions (Solar Manna©), thus allowing entrepreneurial families to claim via cell phone two or three types of Carbon Micro Credits or Profits at the same time.
Most importantly, the Carbon Micro-Profit-Sharing System is NOT a form of self-limiting, debt-based microfinance; rather, courtesy of the US$100 billion global carbon-trading markets, it provides potentially unlimited and definitely immediate micro PROFITS to the Poor, and therefore is similar in concept to frequent-flyer miles, which are an asset, not a liability. Thus, Carbon Manna programs produce micro-assets (profits or savings) that may be used as micro-collateral in a traditional microfinance (loan) setting. In short, Carbon Manna provides a tenable basis for supersizing debt-based microfinance, which was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006.
Moreover, Carbon Micro Profits or Credits may be easily converted to cash, e-money, cell phone minutes/airtime, or any other non-inflatable store-of-value. And where mobile money transfer systems are available such as Safaricom's M-Pesa and Zain's ZAP systems in Kenya and Tanzania, every handset becomes an ATM, and cash may be withdrawn at thousands of stores and banks nationwide. Hence, Tanzania and Kenya, plus the other East African countries of Rwanda, Uganda, Malawi and Ethiopia, realistically offer a fertile ground for the rapid growth of Carbon Manna to the level of millions of families over the next five years.
"Because of the power and uniqueness of the Carbon Manna System and the potential for carbon-offset carpetbaggers to maliciously exploit it to violate the micro-property rights of the Poor, especially in Africa, on 24 April 2009 we filed a provisional U.S. Patent titled: Micro-Credit / Micro-Profit Sharing Method and System for Claiming and Monetizing Personal Emissions Reductions," remarked Tom Ichim, a board member of Carbon Manna Unlimited in San Diego.
For the same reason, Dr. Hong Ma, Executive Director of Carbon Manna Unlimited, stated: "To further ensure the fair treatment of poor families in the Developing World, in a white paper titled 'Carbon Manna Economic-Rewards Allocation Guidelines,' we have detailed economic and accounting ground rules for equitably sharing monetary gains from Carbon Manna programs. And because we directly and efficiently transfer payments wirelessly to participating families, we disintermediate all middlemen, minimize chances for graft, and maximize cash flows to the Poor."
Finally, David Palella, the Founder of Carbon Manna Unlimited, highlighted: "The cell phone-based Carbon Manna System represents an entirely novel form of microfinance, let us call it GigaFinance X.0, that uniquely utilizes markets-based mechanisms to address multiple topical themes including sustainability, corporate social responsibility (CSR), reforestation, micro-property rights, women's empowerment, micro-entrepreneurism and improved family health -- all in one elegantly scalable vehicle."
For corporate social responsibility (CSR), philanthropic, sponsorship or collaborative opportunities with Carbon Manna Unlimited and/or Carbon Manna Africa; or for speaker requests or celebrity inquiries; and to co-opt a sustainable and universally applicable micro-paradigm that can indeed quickly scale to benefit the "Next Billion" at the Base of the Pyramid, please contact:
David A. Palella
Founder
CARBON MANNA UNLIMITED
San Diego, California
tel: 858-793-0741
email: Email Contact
http://www.carbonmanna.org
Or:
Geoffrey Kiringa
President
CARBON MANNA AFRICA
Nairobi Kenya
cell: 011-254-721-922-135
email: Email Contact
Skype: geoffrey.kiringa
http://www.carbonmannaafrica.com
-------
Here is the Carbon Manna news release that came out on MarketWire on 19 May 2009:
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Carbon-Manna-Unlimited-991442.html
Carbon Manna(C) Unlimited Announces Solar Manna(C) & Forest Manna(C), and Filing of a U.S. Patent Application for the Cell Phone-Based Carbon Micro-Profit-Sharing System
Sustainability, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Reforestation, Micro-Entrepreneurialism, Women's Empowerment, Micro-Property Rights and Improved Family Health -- All Features of the Carbon Manna(C) System
SAN DIEGO, CA--(Marketwire - May 19, 2009) - Carbon Manna Unlimited, an international non-profit standards-setting organization, announced today new uniformity initiatives for solar-power projects in the Developing World -- Solar Manna©, as well as for reforestation projects -- Forest Manna©, which make use of the Carbon Manna© cell phone-based Micro-Profit-Sharing System.
Moreover, to exclude profiteers who would manipulate Carbon Manna projects for personal or corporate gain, a detailed provisional U.S. Patent application has been filed to provide a future legal framework for safeguarding the micro-property and micro-profit-sharing rights of poor families participating in Carbon Manna-certified programs.
The Carbon Manna system employs SMS (short message service) and unique identifiers that will allow millions of families in the Developing World to claim by mobile phone on a bi-weekly basis the carbon offsets they produce by converting to more efficient cooking methods such as a modern charcoal stove or solar cooker, instead of an inefficient 3-stone fire burning biomass. As a result, each family becomes a micro-profit center and is able to monetize directly its own contribution to mitigating global climate change, while also slowing regional deforestation and desertification, which are metastatic ecological scourges in Sub-Saharan Africa in particular.
Cell phone-based Carbon Manna projects may also include reforestation programs that sequester CO2 (Forest Manna©), as well as solar-powered lighting and village-level phone-recharging stations that reduce green house gas emissions (Solar Manna©), thus allowing entrepreneurial families to claim via cell phone two or three types of Carbon Micro Credits or Profits at the same time.
Most importantly, the Carbon Micro-Profit-Sharing System is NOT a form of self-limiting, debt-based microfinance; rather, courtesy of the US$100 billion global carbon-trading markets, it provides potentially unlimited and definitely immediate micro PROFITS to the Poor, and therefore is similar in concept to frequent-flyer miles, which are an asset, not a liability. Thus, Carbon Manna programs produce micro-assets (profits or savings) that may be used as micro-collateral in a traditional microfinance (loan) setting. In short, Carbon Manna provides a tenable basis for supersizing debt-based microfinance, which was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006.
Moreover, Carbon Micro Profits or Credits may be easily converted to cash, e-money, cell phone minutes/airtime, or any other non-inflatable store-of-value. And where mobile money transfer systems are available such as Safaricom's M-Pesa and Zain's ZAP systems in Kenya and Tanzania, every handset becomes an ATM, and cash may be withdrawn at thousands of stores and banks nationwide. Hence, Tanzania and Kenya, plus the other East African countries of Rwanda, Uganda, Malawi and Ethiopia, realistically offer a fertile ground for the rapid growth of Carbon Manna to the level of millions of families over the next five years.
"Because of the power and uniqueness of the Carbon Manna System and the potential for carbon-offset carpetbaggers to maliciously exploit it to violate the micro-property rights of the Poor, especially in Africa, on 24 April 2009 we filed a provisional U.S. Patent titled: Micro-Credit / Micro-Profit Sharing Method and System for Claiming and Monetizing Personal Emissions Reductions," remarked Tom Ichim, a board member of Carbon Manna Unlimited in San Diego.
For the same reason, Dr. Hong Ma, Executive Director of Carbon Manna Unlimited, stated: "To further ensure the fair treatment of poor families in the Developing World, in a white paper titled 'Carbon Manna Economic-Rewards Allocation Guidelines,' we have detailed economic and accounting ground rules for equitably sharing monetary gains from Carbon Manna programs. And because we directly and efficiently transfer payments wirelessly to participating families, we disintermediate all middlemen, minimize chances for graft, and maximize cash flows to the Poor."
Finally, David Palella, the Founder of Carbon Manna Unlimited, highlighted: "The cell phone-based Carbon Manna System represents an entirely novel form of microfinance, let us call it GigaFinance X.0, that uniquely utilizes markets-based mechanisms to address multiple topical themes including sustainability, corporate social responsibility (CSR), reforestation, micro-property rights, women's empowerment, micro-entrepreneurism and improved family health -- all in one elegantly scalable vehicle."
For corporate social responsibility (CSR), philanthropic, sponsorship or collaborative opportunities with Carbon Manna Unlimited and/or Carbon Manna Africa; or for speaker requests or celebrity inquiries; and to co-opt a sustainable and universally applicable micro-paradigm that can indeed quickly scale to benefit the "Next Billion" at the Base of the Pyramid, please contact:
David A. Palella
Founder
CARBON MANNA UNLIMITED
San Diego, California
tel: 858-793-0741
email: Email Contact
http://www.carbonmanna.org
Or:
Geoffrey Kiringa
President
CARBON MANNA AFRICA
Nairobi Kenya
cell: 011-254-721-922-135
email: Email Contact
Skype: geoffrey.kiringa
http://www.carbonmannaafrica.com
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Thursday, May 7, 2009
Carbon Manna creates Micro-Profits, Micro-Assets & Micro-Collateral to salvage Microfamineance [ sic ]
*****
NOTA BENE:
### This post has been edited & expurgated for political correctness.
### And names have been changed to protect micromoaners from a horrible self-discovery.
### Even so, "professional" micromoaners may not want to enter this site without parental guidance.
*********** FOR YOUR EYES ONLY ! ***********
Micro Assets & Micro Collateral -- courtesy of the Carbon Micro Profit Sharing System (CMPSS)
Now every Poor Family qualifies for a Microfinance Loan ! -- whether they need it or not.
Here ! -- take my micro-debt, please !
Micro-savings = no save for microfinance -- Yurrrrr out! -- of money!
MicroDebt & MicroSavings = rental Port-a-Potties in a construction famine?
The cell-phone-based Carbon Micro Profit Sharing System (CMPSS) described at length in this blog enables poor families in the Developing World to directly monetize their carbon offsets realized from more efficient cooking equipment without the intervention or intercession of any intermediaries, except for their local CMPSS Project Manager.
All other parties such as charities, NGOs (non-governmental organizations) and MFIs (micro-finance institutions) are disintermediated, and all profits therefore rightly and righteously fall to the bottom line of the "Bottom of the Pyramid".
All profits that is, save for a reasonable project management fee paid to the local CMPSS Project Manager. And this fee scales down over the life of each project (3 - 5 years), such that a larger percentage of the money is paid directly to the participating families each year.
As a result of this ultimate, cell-phone-enabled, micro-trickledown economic model, every family participating in a Carbon Manna project now has micro-ASSETS -- assets from two sources:
(1) profits realized from their sold Carbon Micro Offsets, and
(2) even greater "profits" realized from savings on fuel from using their more efficient cookstove, which creates the offsets (50 - 70 % more efficient versus an open-pit fire).
The sum of these 2 cash flows for a typical family amounts to approximately US$ 90 - 150 per year. For folks living on US$ 1/day, this money is a godsend. A godsend called Carbon Manna.
But as a bone for the now disintermediated microfinance professionals worried about their careers -- take heart ! -- now every family participating in a Carbon Manna / CMPSS project has ...... Micro-COLLATERAL!
Bingo ! Ka-ching ! Ka-ching ! -- Now you can indebt them with little fear of default ! .......... Heavenly !
In short, courtesy of MFIs (microfinance institutions) desperate to preserve their now-archaic business models, I foresee a future, booming, unregulated MFI market in:
-->> Carbon Manna equity loans
-->> Carbon Manna pay-day loans
-->> Carbon Manna pawn shops
-->> Carbon Manna loan collection agencies
-->> Carbon Manna-backed micro-credit cards
-->> Carbon Manna collateralized debt obligations, and
-->> Carbon Manna credit default swaps.
Forgetting for now the MFI loan sharks and their usurious debt instruments, and looking at MFI's much-trumpeted micro-SAVINGS concept, the cash flows from each family's participation in a CMPSS program will now allow them for the first time to actually fund their micro-savings account. Previous efforts to establish giga-scale micro-savings programs for the proverbial and hallucinated "Next Billion" were effete and flaccid -- how can people living on US$ 1-2 / day set aside savings ? Duh !
Or how can they, even if their accounts are initially seeded with a few dollars by The Gates Foundation? Double duh ! The poorest Poor must often eat their seed corn to survive another day or week. Seeds in a Time of Famine are called "Food", and they no longer lead to growth. Nor to savings.
But now, in sum, the fruit of Carbon Manna is the saving grace for both microfinance/micro-debt and micro-savings. Carbon Manna will repay the first (debt) and fund the second (savings). For a very real, not imaginary, "Next Billion" (just as approximately 1 billion frequent-flyer-mile accounts now exist in the Developed World). All this without charity or debt. Courtesy of the US$ 100 billion global carbon markets.
Will MFI "professionals" drinking vintage-1980s group-think Kool-Aid wake up anytime soon to the Miracle of Carbon Manna ? And will their crippled business models of MicroDebt and MicroSavings become rental Port-a-Potties in the coming economic famine? -- unwanted, unused, un-rented -- empty thrones for long-dead kings wearing no clothes?
I challenge them all to look in a mirror and reflect deeply.
Ahhhhh ! -- I love the smell of Carbon Manna in the morning !
Very frankly yours,
David A. Palella
Chief Carbon Manna Visionary
CARBON MANNA UNLIMITED
San Diego, CA
tel: 858-793-0741
email: dpalella@san.rr.com
http://www.carbonmanna.org
http://carbonmanna.blogspot.com
Join our Carbon Micro-Credits/Carbon Manna discussion groups:
-->> http://www.linkedin.com/e/vgh/1794312/
-->> http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=52270598714
*****
NOTA BENE:
### This post has been edited & expurgated for political correctness.
### And names have been changed to protect micromoaners from a horrible self-discovery.
### Even so, "professional" micromoaners may not want to enter this site without parental guidance.
*********** FOR YOUR EYES ONLY ! ***********
Micro Assets & Micro Collateral -- courtesy of the Carbon Micro Profit Sharing System (CMPSS)
Now every Poor Family qualifies for a Microfinance Loan ! -- whether they need it or not.
Here ! -- take my micro-debt, please !
Micro-savings = no save for microfinance -- Yurrrrr out! -- of money!
MicroDebt & MicroSavings = rental Port-a-Potties in a construction famine?
The cell-phone-based Carbon Micro Profit Sharing System (CMPSS) described at length in this blog enables poor families in the Developing World to directly monetize their carbon offsets realized from more efficient cooking equipment without the intervention or intercession of any intermediaries, except for their local CMPSS Project Manager.
All other parties such as charities, NGOs (non-governmental organizations) and MFIs (micro-finance institutions) are disintermediated, and all profits therefore rightly and righteously fall to the bottom line of the "Bottom of the Pyramid".
All profits that is, save for a reasonable project management fee paid to the local CMPSS Project Manager. And this fee scales down over the life of each project (3 - 5 years), such that a larger percentage of the money is paid directly to the participating families each year.
As a result of this ultimate, cell-phone-enabled, micro-trickledown economic model, every family participating in a Carbon Manna project now has micro-ASSETS -- assets from two sources:
(1) profits realized from their sold Carbon Micro Offsets, and
(2) even greater "profits" realized from savings on fuel from using their more efficient cookstove, which creates the offsets (50 - 70 % more efficient versus an open-pit fire).
The sum of these 2 cash flows for a typical family amounts to approximately US$ 90 - 150 per year. For folks living on US$ 1/day, this money is a godsend. A godsend called Carbon Manna.
But as a bone for the now disintermediated microfinance professionals worried about their careers -- take heart ! -- now every family participating in a Carbon Manna / CMPSS project has ...... Micro-COLLATERAL!
Bingo ! Ka-ching ! Ka-ching ! -- Now you can indebt them with little fear of default ! .......... Heavenly !
In short, courtesy of MFIs (microfinance institutions) desperate to preserve their now-archaic business models, I foresee a future, booming, unregulated MFI market in:
-->> Carbon Manna equity loans
-->> Carbon Manna pay-day loans
-->> Carbon Manna pawn shops
-->> Carbon Manna loan collection agencies
-->> Carbon Manna-backed micro-credit cards
-->> Carbon Manna collateralized debt obligations, and
-->> Carbon Manna credit default swaps.
Forgetting for now the MFI loan sharks and their usurious debt instruments, and looking at MFI's much-trumpeted micro-SAVINGS concept, the cash flows from each family's participation in a CMPSS program will now allow them for the first time to actually fund their micro-savings account. Previous efforts to establish giga-scale micro-savings programs for the proverbial and hallucinated "Next Billion" were effete and flaccid -- how can people living on US$ 1-2 / day set aside savings ? Duh !
Or how can they, even if their accounts are initially seeded with a few dollars by The Gates Foundation? Double duh ! The poorest Poor must often eat their seed corn to survive another day or week. Seeds in a Time of Famine are called "Food", and they no longer lead to growth. Nor to savings.
But now, in sum, the fruit of Carbon Manna is the saving grace for both microfinance/micro-debt and micro-savings. Carbon Manna will repay the first (debt) and fund the second (savings). For a very real, not imaginary, "Next Billion" (just as approximately 1 billion frequent-flyer-mile accounts now exist in the Developed World). All this without charity or debt. Courtesy of the US$ 100 billion global carbon markets.
Will MFI "professionals" drinking vintage-1980s group-think Kool-Aid wake up anytime soon to the Miracle of Carbon Manna ? And will their crippled business models of MicroDebt and MicroSavings become rental Port-a-Potties in the coming economic famine? -- unwanted, unused, un-rented -- empty thrones for long-dead kings wearing no clothes?
I challenge them all to look in a mirror and reflect deeply.
Ahhhhh ! -- I love the smell of Carbon Manna in the morning !
Very frankly yours,
David A. Palella
Chief Carbon Manna Visionary
CARBON MANNA UNLIMITED
San Diego, CA
tel: 858-793-0741
email: dpalella@san.rr.com
http://www.carbonmanna.org
http://carbonmanna.blogspot.com
Join our Carbon Micro-Credits/Carbon Manna discussion groups:
-->> http://www.linkedin.com/e/vgh/1794312/
-->> http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=52270598714
*****
Sunday, April 26, 2009
Carbon Manna Unlimited updates for April 2009
*****
Provisional U.S. Patent filed on the Carbon Manna System
"Carbon Manna Economic-Rewards Allocation Guidelines" finalized
The "CarbonManna" channel on Youtube.com -- now in studio production
(1) Provisional U.S. Patent filed on the Carbon Manna System:
On 24 April 2009 we filed an 18-page provisional U.S. Patent on the Carbon Manna / Carbon Micro Credit system entitled:
"Micro-Credit / Micro-Profit Sharing Method & System for Claiming and Monetizing Personal Emissions Reductions"
Our sole reason for filing the application is to exclude copy cats who might implement bogus “Carbon Manna” programs with the surreptitious aim of exploiting the Poor. Malicious copy cats will be prosecuted to the full extent of the Law.
On the other hand, we don’t mind if copy cats do indeed copy us faithfully. That’s welcome. We want Carbon Manna to be an “open source” solution to global poverty.
And don't ask us if we profit from Carbon Manna programs worldwide. Manna is God's gift; it cannot be sold or bought.
(2) Carbon Manna Economic-Rewards Allocation Guidelines finalized:
In a related vein, detailed economic and accounting ground rules for sharing economic rewards in a Carbon Manna program have been finalized in a white paper entitled:
"Carbon Manna Economic-Rewards Allocation Guidelines --
Fairness Standards for Carbon Micro-Profit-Sharing Projects".
For the time being, this paper will remain confidential, but it is available upon signature of a 5-year CDA / NDA (secrecy agreement). If you are deadly serious about imminently implementing a Carbon Manna program in your country and you are a knowledgeable accountant / economist or have access to such expertise, please contact us to receive our draft CDA / NDA.
No idle eco-Looky Lou's or drive-by microfinance gawkers with Carbon Manna venus envy need apply. Only serious and seriously-qualified inquiries will be entertained. Be prepared for an FBI background check and breathalyzer test. All microfinance "professionals" that cannot "get it" within 5 minutes due to previous non-profit group-think Kool-Aid will get the Neuralyzer.
(3) "CarbonManna" channel reserved on Youtube.com:
The "CarbonManna" channel has been reserved on Youtube.com, so watch for our upcoming video series on how Carbon Manna and Carbon Micro Profit Sharing will drive a 32-ounce marbled steak into the calcified and cholesterol-filled heart of microdysfinance [sic, sic]. And finally:
(4) Carbon Manna web site updated:
The web site has been updated extensively by Ms./Dr. Hong Ma, the Co-founder of Carbon Manna Unlimited, so please visit us again at:
-->> http://www.carbonmanna.org
Globally & warmly yours,
David A. Palella
Chief Carbon Manna Architect
CARBON MANNA UNLIMITED
San Diego, CA
tel: 858-793-0741
email: dpalella@san.rr.com
http://www.carbonmanna.org
http://carbonmanna.blogspot.com
Join our Carbon Micro-Credits/Carbon Manna discussion groups:
-->> http://www.linkedin.com/e/vgh/1794312/
-->> http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=52270598714
*****
Provisional U.S. Patent filed on the Carbon Manna System
"Carbon Manna Economic-Rewards Allocation Guidelines" finalized
The "CarbonManna" channel on Youtube.com -- now in studio production
(1) Provisional U.S. Patent filed on the Carbon Manna System:
On 24 April 2009 we filed an 18-page provisional U.S. Patent on the Carbon Manna / Carbon Micro Credit system entitled:
"Micro-Credit / Micro-Profit Sharing Method & System for Claiming and Monetizing Personal Emissions Reductions"
Our sole reason for filing the application is to exclude copy cats who might implement bogus “Carbon Manna” programs with the surreptitious aim of exploiting the Poor. Malicious copy cats will be prosecuted to the full extent of the Law.
On the other hand, we don’t mind if copy cats do indeed copy us faithfully. That’s welcome. We want Carbon Manna to be an “open source” solution to global poverty.
And don't ask us if we profit from Carbon Manna programs worldwide. Manna is God's gift; it cannot be sold or bought.
(2) Carbon Manna Economic-Rewards Allocation Guidelines finalized:
In a related vein, detailed economic and accounting ground rules for sharing economic rewards in a Carbon Manna program have been finalized in a white paper entitled:
"Carbon Manna Economic-Rewards Allocation Guidelines --
Fairness Standards for Carbon Micro-Profit-Sharing Projects".
For the time being, this paper will remain confidential, but it is available upon signature of a 5-year CDA / NDA (secrecy agreement). If you are deadly serious about imminently implementing a Carbon Manna program in your country and you are a knowledgeable accountant / economist or have access to such expertise, please contact us to receive our draft CDA / NDA.
No idle eco-Looky Lou's or drive-by microfinance gawkers with Carbon Manna venus envy need apply. Only serious and seriously-qualified inquiries will be entertained. Be prepared for an FBI background check and breathalyzer test. All microfinance "professionals" that cannot "get it" within 5 minutes due to previous non-profit group-think Kool-Aid will get the Neuralyzer.
(3) "CarbonManna" channel reserved on Youtube.com:
The "CarbonManna" channel has been reserved on Youtube.com, so watch for our upcoming video series on how Carbon Manna and Carbon Micro Profit Sharing will drive a 32-ounce marbled steak into the calcified and cholesterol-filled heart of microdysfinance [sic, sic]. And finally:
(4) Carbon Manna web site updated:
The web site has been updated extensively by Ms./Dr. Hong Ma, the Co-founder of Carbon Manna Unlimited, so please visit us again at:
-->> http://www.carbonmanna.org
Globally & warmly yours,
David A. Palella
Chief Carbon Manna Architect
CARBON MANNA UNLIMITED
San Diego, CA
tel: 858-793-0741
email: dpalella@san.rr.com
http://www.carbonmanna.org
http://carbonmanna.blogspot.com
Join our Carbon Micro-Credits/Carbon Manna discussion groups:
-->> http://www.linkedin.com/e/vgh/1794312/
-->> http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=52270598714
*****
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