Carbon Manna Unlimited Re-announces !! -- "The Micro Sustainability Prizes(SM)" for Innovations in Markets-based “Micro” Paradigms

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In spite of extensive worldwide promotion the past 2 months and over 10,000 hits on Google for the exact phrase we invented: "Micro Sustainability Prizes" -- still not a single credible entry has been received for this novel prize competition. And even though the application or entry hurdle is child's play -- merely a 1-page executive summary required !

The conclusion ? -->>

-- We at Carbon Manna Unlimited in San Diego have already ideated and reified the best NON-debt-based micro-economic paradigms in the world.

If you disagree, please enter your NON-debt-based micro models in the competition. The deadline, again, is 30 April 2010. And, again, we don't steal other folks' ideas, and we embrace "Creative micro Destruction". Viz., if your idea is better, we will embrace it and propagate it immediately with attribution for the Benefit of Womankind & Mankind !

And for everyone's handy reference, the text of the original news release appears below again.

May the best micro ideas win !

Alllll our best,

David A. Palellllla
Founder
CARBON MANNA UNLIMITED
San Diego, California

tel: 858-793-0741
email: dpalella@san.rr.com

http://www.carbonmanna.org
http://carbonmanna.blogspot.com
http://twitter.com/CarbonManna
http://www.linkedin.com/e/vgh/1794312/
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/david-palella/3/4b6/2b5


See the original news release on-line at:

http://tinyurl.com/y992auy

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2010/01/prweb3459274.htm

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Carbon Manna Unlimited announces "The Micro Sustainability Prizes©" for Innovations in Markets-based “Micro” Paradigms

Carbon Manna Unlimited announces "The Micro Sustainability Prizes©" for Innovations in Markets-based, Self-regenerating Micro-economic and Micro-ecological Paradigms for "The Next Billion" in the Developing World


San Diego, CA (PRweb) January 18, 2010 -- Carbon Manna Unlimited in San Diego, California, a non-profit think-tank and international "micro" standards-setting organization, announced today the Carbon Manna(SM) "Micro Sustainability Prizes©", the world's first awards designed to recognize innovation and creativity in the field of markets-based, self-sustaining, micro-economic or micro-ecological paradigms implementable in the Developing World.

The Micro Sustainability Prizes© will be awarded annually to the most novel open-source ideas in markets-based, sustainable "micro" paradigms, also known as "The Micro Revolutions©". If you have developed or even just conceptualized a self-funding, universally-applicable micro paradigm or wealth-creation system for the Base of the Pyramid (BOP) or "The Next Billion", we encourage you to apply today for this awards program.

"Richard Feynman, the late American physicist, said, 'There's plenty of room at the bottom!', and nowhere is this truer than in the areas of sustainable micro-entrepreneurism, micro-environmentalism and micro-economic initiatives for the Developing World that embrace naturally regenerative mechanisms or self-renewing funding sources, such as Bono's Product (Red)™ campaign," remarked David Palella, Founder of Carbon Manna Unlimited.

And because good ideas come from anywhere, these cash awards are open to all comers worldwide including school children, entrepreneurs, homemakers, refugee camp residents, corporations, professors, sanitation workers, government employees, the homeless and Nobel Prize winners. In particular, student teams from any country are strongly encouraged to apply.

The application process is simple -- submit a 1-page Executive Summary in English via email to Carbon Manna Unlimited by 30 April 2010. All ideas will remain the sole property of the inventors/creators, and Carbon Manna Unlimited will make no attempt to implement nor utilize any of the ideas submitted. On 31 May 2010 we will publish the 3 winning entries on our web site.

Nota bene that absolutely NO debt-based microfinance "solutions" will be considered for these awards as by definition micro debt or micro loans are self-limiting, economically regressive, and no longer an "innovation" in the realm of micro-economic paradigms. Similarly, any "solutions" that include direct governmental involvement are also verboten.

Rather, preference will be given to inventions or novel processes that stress:

(1) disintermediation or elimination of administrative layers and any NGO/NPO/MFI middlemen

(2) direct, documentable and incorruptible conveyance of material or monetary benefits to poor families, e.g., via mobile money transfer (MMT)

(3) technologies appropriate for a Developing-World context, e.g., 2G handsets and SMS (short message service); and

(4) free markets, protection of micro-property rights, open-source or freeware principles, self-governance and self-reliance.

For inspiration, applicants are encouraged to study the various novel and self-funding micro-economic, micro-ecological and micro-environmental paradigms described in detail here:

http://carbonmanna.blogspot.com/2009/12/carbon-manna-two-novel-cell-phone-based.html

http://carbonmanna.blogspot.com/2008/12/global-moral-lipodystrophy-micro.html

The Micro Sustainability Prizes© are partially funded by a generous donation from Dr. Sergey O. Sablin. Other benefactor inquiries are welcome.


About Carbon Manna Unlimited:

Carbon Manna Unlimited, a public charity, is a "micro" think-tank and international open-source standards-setting organization popularizing two universally-applicable, cell-phone-based, self-funding micro-economic paradigms: (1) the markets-based Carbon-Offset Micro-PROFIT-Sharing System; and (2) the Reduced-fuel-expense Micro-SAVINGS Program. Our pilot project is now in the advanced planning stage in Kogelo, Kenya, the ancestral hometown of U.S. President Barack Obama. Reference:

http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Carbon-Manna-Unlimited-1065919.html


For corporate social responsibility (CSR), philanthropic, sponsorship or collaborative opportunities with Carbon Manna Unlimited; 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://carbonmanna.blogspot.com
http://twitter.com/CarbonManna
http://www.linkedin.com/e/vgh/1794312/
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/david-palella/3/4b6/2b5


See the original news release on-line at:

http://tinyurl.com/y992auy

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2010/01/prweb3459274.htm


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