Friday, February 27, 2009

"Only believe, and the Carbon Manna shall be made well"

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Hello Everyone,

Just to set some ground rules, BEFORE putting up any comments on this blog, first read allll 100 ++ pages of it.

Then you have earned the right to ask an INFORMED question that is NOT repetitive.

Also, I do not want to hear from "skeptical" people. As I have written in this blog a few times, "skepticism is the luxury of a full stomach". I want all skeptical people to read, in particular, this post below:

http://carbonmanna.blogspot.com/2008/12/all-you-can-eat-micro-carbon-buffet.html

If you lived on a calorie-restricted diet for a few weeks or months, then your "willing suspension of disbelief" about Carbon Manna would increase dramatically, and "skeptical" would not be a word you even know.

Also, no one at Carbon Manna Unlimited makes any profit on the backs of The Poor, nor do we take any food from the mouths of The Hungry in Africa and elsewhere. So, please, no more questions about any business arrangements behind this Noble & Nobel-caliber Effort.

Finally, again for the "skeptical" Doubting Thomases out there, let me echo Christ when he healed the supplicant's dying daughter at a distance: "Only believe, and the Carbon Micro Credits shall be made well."

"But when Jesus heard this, He answered him, 'Do not be afraid any longer; only believe, and she will be made well'." -- Luke 8:50

Globally & Warmly yours,

David Palella
Chief Carbon Evangelist
CARBON MANNA UNLIMITED
San Diego, California

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Tuesday, February 24, 2009

First Carbon Manna news release sent out over MarketWire

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Hello Everyone,

As earlier disclosed to you below, the first Carbon Manna news release was sent out today (24 Feb 2009) over MarketWire. Here is the link:

http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Carbon-Manna-Unlimited-953397.html

It was also picked up by MSNBC and Yahoo Business, etc.

Globally & warmly yours,

David Palella
Chief Carbon Credit Micronizer
CARBON MANNA UNLIMITED
San Diego, CA
cell: 619-787-5767
email: dpalella@san.rr.com

http://carbonmanna.blogspot.com

http://community.keithferrazzi.com/profile/DavidPalella


Join the Carbon Micro-Credits / Carbon Manna groups on:

--->> http://www.linkedin.com/e/vgh/1794312/

--->> http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=52270598714

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Sunday, February 22, 2009

World's first Cell-Phone-Based Carbon-Micro-Credits implementation progressing in Kenya

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Our first news release below will go out over MarketWire on 24 February 2009:

-- Carbon Manna Unlimited Initiates Strategic Partnering Campaign

-- Novel Micro-Profit-Sharing plan enfranchises the "Bottom of the Pyramid"

February 24, 2009 -- San Diego, California


Carbon Manna Unlimited announced today the initiation of a worldwide strategic-partnering campaign to support the world's first roll-out of its cell-phone-based Carbon Micro Credit system in Kenya, to include the town of Kogelo, Kenya, U.S. President Barack Obama's ancestral home town.

The cell-phone-based Carbon Micro Credit system employs SMS (simple message service) and unique identifiers to allow millions of families in the Developing World to claim on a bi-weekly or monthly basis the carbon offsets they produce by using more efficient cooking methods such as a modern charcoal stove or solar cooker, instead of an inefficient open-pit fire burning biomass. As a result, each family is able to monetize directly its own contribution to mitigating global warming, while also reducing nationwide rates of deforestation and desertification.

Each family that cooks more efficiently may claim approximately 3 tons of CO2 offsets/year, which is worth about US$ 20 - 35 when sold in Europe on a regulated or voluntary carbon-offset market. The family also saves far more on fuel -- from US$ 70 - 150/year. For individuals living on less than US$ 1 - 2/day, these earnings and savings are very significant.

Pre-selling 10s or 100s of thousands of tons of bundled Carbon Micro Credits provides the start-up capital needed to buy stoves and cell phones for the participating families, thus making the system self-funding and markets-based. Later the offsets are crowd-sourced by the tens of thousand of families participating in the program. Lastly, validation and auditing protocols will ensure that the offsets were actually produced.

Carbon Micro Credits are NOT a form of debt-based microfinance; rather, they provide immediate micro profits to the poor and are therefore similar in concept to frequent flyer miles. They are an asset, not a liability. And like frequent flyer miles, they are a fungible, universal currency and non-inflatable store-of-value.

Companies with a strategic interest in expanding their business in Kenya, East Africa, and later in South & West Africa, are invited to contact Carbon Manna Unlimited's headquarters in San Diego for further details. Such companies would include:

-- cell-phone handset manufacturers

-- wireless carriers doing business in Africa

-- manufacturers of wireless transmission equipment

-- cell-phone accessory suppliers

-- providers of cell-phone-based information services or software

-- consumer product companies interested in co-promotion campaigns; and

-- companies from any industry interested in expanding their presence in Kenya via this highly-visible nationwide effort to reduce deforestation and carbon emissions.

Later this year and in 2010, the Carbon Micro Credits system will be rolled out in other East African countries, and subsequently in multiple West and Southern African countries. For major philanthropies that wish to extend their reach in Africa, or companies with Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) or Triple Bottom Line (TBL) programs, the Carbon Micro Credits system provides a novel, rapidly-scalable paradigm for enriching the livelihoods of tens of millions of poor families anywhere in the Developing World.

For more information, please contact:

David A. Palella
Founder
CARBON MANNA UNLIMITED
San Diego, California
tel: 858-793-0741
email: dpalella@san.rr.com

http://carbonmanna.blogspot.com

Join our Carbon Manna discussions on-line at:

--->> http://www.linkedin.com/e/vgh/1794312/

--->> http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=52270598714

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Saturday, February 21, 2009

Carbon Micro-Credits / Carbon Manna Group debuts on Facebook

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Today we established a discussion group on Facebook at:

--->> http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=52270598714


And, again, for those of you who prefer LinkedIn.com:

--->> http://www.linkedin.com/e/vgh/1794312/


Please join the party.

Globally & warmly yours,

David Palella
Chief Carbon Networker
CARBON MANNA UNLIMITED
San Diego, CA
cell: 619-787-5767
email: dpalella@san.rr.com

http://carbonmanna.blogspot.com

http://community.keithferrazzi.com/profile/DavidPalella


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Saturday, February 14, 2009

The Great Carbon-Offset Gravy Train Robbery of 2009 -- The $150 Billion-Dollar Heist?

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OCOEC = The Organization of Carbon-Offset Exporting Countries?

= the CDM scamchiks, methanemeisters, hydro-hijackers & laughing-gas gamesters --> South Korea, India & China

A New Deal for Africa, a Berlin Air Lift for Africa alla carbonara?

Palella's Equation a la Drake's Equation = How Many Intelligent Carbon-Offset Projects exist in the known Universe? --->> Zero ?


In my post of 26 November 2008 entitled:

"Means Testing for Carbon Offset Originators?"

Or: "Carbon Trading -- a USD/US$ 100 billion market by 2010"

http://carbonmanna.blogspot.com/2008/11/means-testing-for-carbon-credit.html

I proposed that reimbursement or payment for carbon offsets be prioritized by the level of exigency or poverty of the offsets' producer, rather than by grand-father clauses or guidelines in the current U.N. CDM (Clean Development Mechanism) rules, which often favor offset projects originated by larger companies and more economically-advantaged populations in South Korea, China and India -- Yes ! -- economically-advantaged compared to The Very Poor in Africa living on US$ 1 - 2 per day.

That post also noted the oft-stated nice-round-number projection that the carbon trading market would become a USD/US$ 100 billion market by 2010. However: "Consider this: despite the looming recession, the global carbon market grew 84% in 2008 to reach $118 billion. It's forecast to reach $150 billion this year [2009]." Cited from:

http://www.energyandcapital.com/articles/carbon-cap-trade/817#rate

In short, the rush to monetize green-house-gas offsets is gaining momentum much faster than forecast.

And into whose pockets will the US$ 150 billion flow in 2009? -- into the Hugo Boss and Brooks Brothers pockets of investment bankers on Wall Street and to the 3 Louseketeers -- the CDM scamchiks, methanemeisters and hydro-project hijackers --> South Korea, India & China ? Lamentably, yes.

But considering all this carbon cash sloshing around, is it possible somehow to provide a New Carbon Deal, a Berlin Carbon Air Lift, a Tennessee Valley Carbon Authority for Africa, by implementing a universal markets-based, self-funding wealth-transfer mechanism called cell-phone-based Carbon Micro Credits ?

As the 100+ previous pages of this blog adumbrate or foreshadow -- yes indeed !

So what is the theoretical value on the ECX (European Climate Exchange) of allll the carbon offsets of allll families in Africa if every family converted to more efficient charcoal stoves and could monetize their carbon offsets directly via cell-phone-based Carbon Micro Credits ?

------ Palella's Equation a la Drake's Equation -----

The population of Africa = 935 million people.

Assume 6 people per family.

935 million / 6 = approximately 150 million families.

Assume 20 % are "richer" urbanites and don't cook with biomass =

120 million families still cooking with biomass.

Assume all families converted to efficient Uganda charcoal stoves =

3 tons of CO2/family/year offset X 120 million families =

360 million tons of CO2 offset/annually X US$ 10-15/ton sold on ECX =

US$ 3.6 - 5.4 billion = Total Available African-Family Carbon-Offset Market.

Which = approximately the annual foreign aid budget of the U.K. or the U.S. to Africa (depending on the source you can find)

= only 2 - 4 % of the worldwide carbon-trading market for 2009.


----- On the Family Level -----

US$ 3.6 - 5.4 billion = TAM = Total Available African-Family Carbon-Offset Market

= US$ 30 - 45 worth of carbon offsets/family/year.

+ their annual fuel savings = US$ 70 - 150+/year =

Net annual benefit to each family = US$ 100 - 195

= a 20 - 50+ % increase in their Standard of Living the first year

= Ka-ching !! Ka-ching !!


Moreover, throw in a few million individual families monetizing a few billion planted trees and a few million 2-stroke motorcycles converted to more efficient direct-injection engines and -- voila ! -- the Standard of Living of the average African family could rise 25 - 60 % in just a few years. And this large-scale wealth transfer equal approximately to the annual foreign aid budget of the U.K. or the U.S. to Africa would still represent just a single-digit percentage of the global carbon-trade market.

And most importantly, these savings/earnings/micro profit-sharings would be beamed photonically directly to the Poor Families' cell-phone-based savings/credit accounts with no middlemen trying to skim/scam/score their share of the financial benefit.

Cut out the middlemen -- that is the essence of cell-phone-based Carbon Micro Credits and Carbon Manna. Empower and enrich The Poor Directly. Respect their Property Rights. Reduce transaction costs to Zero via SMS messages sent via cell phone (only 4 cents/message in Kenya today, for example).

Send the middlemen-tals and middlemidgets to the unemployment line. Disintermediate the intermediators. Zero out the micro-moaning zero-summers. Convert debt to equity, and micro-loans to micro-profits. The Next Generation of Microfinance is here, and it is called Carbon Micro Credits and Micro Profit-Sharing. Intelligent Life can indeed been found in the carbon markets, and it will revolutionize the standard of living of The Very Poor.

So can Carbon Robin Hood steal a single-digit portion of the worldwide carbon markets for the benefit of The Poor?

Can Carbon Samurai Tailor slice off a prosciutto serving of fatty green-house-gas wealth for the Developing World ?

Can Human Compassion combined with the rational microtome of Common Sense vibrate off a négligée-thin serving of U.N. CDM spam for Africa?

To find out -- stay tuned for the next week's episode of Carbon Samurai Tailor !

Very calculatingly yours,

David Palella
Karbon Kagemusha
CARBON MANNA UNLIMITED
San Diego, CA
cell: 619-787-5767
email: dpalella@san.rr.com

http://carbonmanna.blogspot.com

http://community.keithferrazzi.com/profile/DavidPalella

Join us on LinkedIn.com:

--->> Carbon Micro-Credits / Carbon Manna Group

--->> http://www.linkedin.com/e/vgh/1794312/


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Friday, February 6, 2009

The Carbon Manna Corps

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An Amway-style Hierarchy to Validate Carbon Micro Credits?

Nationwide Universal Eco Public Service

Ding dong! -- Avon calling! Did you use your Uganda stove today?

Getting the Religion of Carbon Manna


Many folks ask me about the mechanics of validating the Micro Carbon Offsets produced by millions of families taking part in a countrywide cell-phone-based Carbon Micro Credits (CMC) program. The answer ? -- Generating and claiming Carbon Micro Credits or Carbon Micro Offsets will become a nationwide social movement in many countries in the Developing World. Or, an Amway-style monitoring hierarchy will form to make sure that:

"Larger fleas have smaller fleas

Upon their backs to bite 'em

And these in turn have lesser fleas --

And so ad infinitum!"

In short, all families in the country will participate and all families will watch their neighbors to make sure they are not gaming the system.

But if you read this blog in its grand totality, you will see that no family in their right mind would try to cheat. If they were foolish enough to cook the old way, they would spend much more money on fuel (25 - 60% more), or spend much more time gathering biomass-based fuel from the surrounding countryside. Even the roundly uneducated can do this math.

Moreover, in our under-construction Carbon Micro Credit implementation in Kenya, we are planning to co-opt 1,000s of high school and university students in a nationwide "Carbon Manna Corps" to go into the field, into every town and village, to verify that families are indeed using their efficient Uganda-style charcoal stoves daily and properly. It will be a nationwide program to teach all Kenyan children the importance of religiously producing carbon offsets, and the need to reduce the rate of desertification of their Homeland.

There may be cultural reasons why this kind of nationwide civil service or public service program -- or Universal Eco Public Service -- will not work in some countries, but that's OK, their populations will be poorer as a result. Thus, I think eventually every country will overcome public lethargy and/or government inaction and implement a cell-phone-based Carbon Micro Credits Program. Otherwise, they are ceding the carbon offset markets to other more organized countries in the Developing World, and to the investment bankers on Wall Street (NY City) and in "The City" (London).

In sum, human creativity can overcome any challenges that may arise when implementing a cell-phone-based Carbon Micro Credits program, and when validating its output, even if millions of families are involved. Moreover, if your stomach is usually empty and you live on US$ 1 - 2 / day, you would be surprised how quickly you would religiously, methodically and scrupulously embrace production of Carbon Micro Offsets.

So instead of being skeptical all of you Doubting Thomases with full stomachs, why don't you get the religion of Carbon Micro Credits today? Think of solutions, instead of asking me questions about validation.

Children are full of questions because they are so easy to make. But only Women and Men of Great Mind ideate solutions. Only Heroines and Heroes then take Action. Believe in the eco-religion of Carbon Manna -- Carbon Micro Credits that directly enrich and empower the 2 billion Poor at the "Bottom of the Pyramid". They -- and Heaven -- will smile on you.

Civilly & publicly yours,

David Palella
Founder
Carbon Manna Unlimited
San Diego, CA
cell: 619-787-5767
email: dpalella@san.rr.com

http://carbonmanna.blogspot.com

http://community.keithferrazzi.com/profile/DavidPalella

Carbon Micro-Credits / Carbon Manna group on LinkedIn:

http://www.linkedin.com/e/vgh/1794312/


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Thursday, February 5, 2009

Updates re Carbon Micro-Credits & Carbon Manna Unlimited

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Hello Everyone,

A discussion group to serve as a more open forum for Carbon Micro Credits debate and information exchange has been established today on LinkedIn.com. Anyone may join -- no approval needed:

--->> Carbon Micro-Credits / Carbon Manna Group

--->> http://www.linkedin.com/e/vgh/1794312/


And starting March 17, 2009, don't forget to vote for the Carbon Micro Credits entry in:

--->> Google’s Project 10 to the 100th power Contest

--->> http://www.project10tothe100.com/index.html


Globally & warmly yours,

David A. Palella
Chief Carbon Dreamer
CARBON MANNA UNLIMITED

San Diego, CA
tel: 858-793-0741
email: dpalella@san.rr.com

http://community.keithferrazzi.com/profile/DavidPalella

http://carbonmanna.blogspot.com

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