"Global Moral Lipodystrophy & the Micro Revolutions" -- Revisited again, sadly -- on Christmas Day 2011

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Since my first post on this topic -- Christmas Day three years ago -- not much has changed -- the Developed World is still fat [ sic ] -- not "flat" -- and the Undeveloped or Developing World is still skinny and asymmetrically calorie-deprived versus the 10s of millions of Europeans & Americans who should be more grossly concerned about their ethical cellulite, intellectual stretch marks, and moral lives liposuctioned of essential Meaning.

So have you personally made a difference yet in rectifying the maldistribution of calories and economic opportunities across the space-time continuum or fabric of Planet Earth ?

If not, spend less time on Christmas Day eating and watching football -- and more time Thinking about and doing something concrete to nourish the Future of Humankind.


"Then pealed the bells more loud and deep:
God is not dead; nor doth he sleep!
The Wrong shall fail,
The Right prevail,
With peace on earth, good-will to men!"

[ From: "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day" -- by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- written December 25th, 1864 in Cambridge, Massachusetts during the later days of the American Civil War ]

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Merry Christmas ! -- December 25th, 2011

Peace on Earth & good will to Thinking Women & Men.

Written 25 December 2011 by:

David A. Palella
Founder [ Emeritus, Retired ]
CARBON MANNA UNLIMITED

San Diego, California
cell: 619-787-5767
email: dpalella@gmail.com

Web site: http://www.carbonmanna.org
Blog: http://carbonmanna.blogspot.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/CarbonManna
LinkedIn group: http://www.linkedin.com/e/vgh/1794312/

Wall Street Journal article profiling Carbon Manna(sm): "Power out of Africa"

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204346104576638553875004940.html


The "Micro" Revolutions Institute(SM) Established by Carbon Manna
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2010/04/prweb3908584.htm

Carbon Manna announces The Micro Sustainability Prizes(SM)
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2010/01/prweb3459274.htm

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And here are the historical Christmas references:


December 25, 2008

Global Moral Lipodystrophy & the Micro Revolutions

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

The World is Fat [ sic ] -- some parts anyway

Would you like flies with that? [ sic ]

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December 25, 2009

Global Moral Lipodystrophy & the Micro Revolutions -- Volume II

http://carbonmanna.blogspot.com/2009/12/global-moral-lipodystrophy-micro.html

Population expands to eat the food available

By 2050, another 2 billion astronauts on Spaceship Earth ?

Norman Borlaug -- Father of the "Green Revolution" dies at 95

Monkeys with shotguns awarded laureate for marksmanship.

New Nobel Prizes ? -- for Meteorology, Agronomy, Ecology, Oceanography, Atmospheric Sciences, Forestry, Astronomy, Family Planning, Micro Economic Paradigms and ...... Gastronomy ?

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When will an "African Carbon Spring" erupt to break the dominance of the White Man in the African carbon-offsets market ?

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Who will be the Martin Luther King of the African carbon-projects standards-setting and auditing industries ?


Here I re-post my seminal and still-resonate post and tweets from 18 - 25 months ago:

http://carbonmanna.blogspot.com/2010/05/when-will-africa-establish-its-own.html


"When will Africa establish its own carbon-projects Standards-Setting Organization and break the dominance of the Carbon White Man?"

24 May 2010

"A good name for it ? -- the Uhuru Green Standards Foundation!"

"Uhuru" can mean "freedom from dependence on white men" -- Bravo!


"I tweeted about this topic back in November 2009, and some web site indexed my ideas and preferred name for this proposed non-profit organization without attribution (see down at the bottom here). So to set the record straight, just below here I re-post my tweets from November 2009 about the Uhuru Green Standards Foundation.

"Ideally some university in Africa will establish an independent non-profit institute or entity on their campus to write carbon-project standards custom tailored for African offset projects.

"All non-profit and for-profit carbon-project standards-setting organizations in the U.S., Europe and Australia are just self-appointed self-anointed "experts" with no legal authorization for their existence. They merely said: "Hey ! -- we're experts, and we make the rules!" -- and everyone kisses their carbon-fiber rings.

"But why ? Can only whities write carbon standards ? Patently no. Africans have the capacity now to write world-class carbon-project standards. They're experts too."

Globally & warmly yours,

David A. Palella
Founder
CARBON MANNA UNLIMITED

San Diego, California
cell: 619-787-5767
skype: dpalella17
email: dpalella@san.rr.com
email (backup): dpalella@gmail.com
http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidpalella


http://www.carbonmanna.org
http://carbonmanna.blogspot.com
http://twitter.com/CarbonManna
http://www.linkedin.com/e/vgh/1794312/

The "Micro" Revolutions Institute(SM) Established by Carbon Manna
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2010/04/prweb3908584.htm

Carbon Manna announces The Micro Sustainability Prizes(SM)
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2010/01/prweb3459274.htm

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REFERENCES -- My 3 Tweets themselves from November 2009:

Can only whities in Europe & America write carbon standards? Duh ! Carbon Manna Unlimited will break the WASP monopoly on GHG standards !

Nov 13th, 2009

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The Uhuru Green Standards Foundation in Nairobi will write its own open-source standards for carbon-offsets production -- nyah nyah !

Nov 13th, 2009

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"Uhuru" can mean "freedom from dependence on white men" -- Africans can also write VER carbon standards! Hey ! -- They're experts too !

Nov 13th, 2009

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May 2010 Google search results [finding my own earlier ideas] for:

"Uhuru Green Standards Foundation"


1. The Uhuru Green Standards Foundation in Nairobi will write its own ...

2. Nov 13, 2009 ... The Uhuru Green Standards Foundation in Nairobi will write its own open-source standards for carbon-offsets production -- nyah nyah !


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http://carbonmanna.blogspot.com/2010/05/when-will-africa-establish-its-own.html


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Update on Ethiopia and Carbon Manna(sm) projects in planning stages

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The three Ethiopian friends of mine listed below are in the process of implementing 2 large-scale carbon-offset projects in Ethiopia that will include aspects of my Carbon Manna(sm) System.

If you can make a substantive contribution to these projects in terms of expertise, time and/or funding, please do contact them. But do not contact them if your main aim is to bill their projects for 10s of thousands of dollars of your time. That doesn't help.

Drop my name with them and mention this post:


Mr. Moges GORFE
Executive Director
The RATSON HOME
Women, Youth & Children Development Program
Debrezite Town
ETHIOPIA
cell: +251-091 140 0384
office +251-0114 33 9029
email: mgorfe@yahoo.com
http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=74104384


Mr. Kebede GASHAW
CEO
EthAmCo & Organics Ethiopia LLC
[ EthAmCo = Ethiopian American Company ]
Sacramento, California area
USA
tel: 916.509.7207
email: kdgashaw@ethamco.com
http://www.ethamco.com
web site #2: http://www.OrganicsEthiopia.com
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/kebede-gashaw/1a/630/6ab


Ms. Marta Tewodros
San Diego, Calif.
USA
cell: 619.723.5805
email: marta.tewodros@gmail.com
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/marta-tewodros/1/b83/738


Finally, allllll the folks listed above will be in Ethiopia for the Christmas/New Year's holidays, so you can meet them there if you too will be passing thru the Cradle of Humankind.

Globally & warmly yours,

David A. Palella
Founder [ Emeritus, Retired ]
CARBON MANNA(sm) UNLIMITED

San Diego, California
cell: 619-787-5767
email: dpalella@gmail.com
http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidpalella

web site: http://www.carbonmanna.org
blog: http://carbonmanna.blogspot.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/CarbonManna
LinkedIn group: http://www.linkedin.com/e/vgh/1794312/

Wall Street Journal article: "Power out of Africa"
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204346104576638553875004940.html

The "Micro" Revolutions Institute(SM) Established by Carbon Manna(SM)
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2010/04/prweb3908584.htm

Carbon Manna(SM) announces The Micro Sustainability Prizes(SM)
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2010/01/prweb3459274.htm


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Carbon Manna(sm) System featured in The Wall Street Journal (WSJ)

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The Carbon Manna(sm) System invented by David Palella is profiled in The Wall Street Journal in this article below coinciding with the COP 17 Copenhagen "Climate Change Conference" taking place in Durban, South Africa, 28 Nov - 09 Dec 2011:


"Power out of Africa"

The Wall Street Journal -- 06 Dec 2011

By Ms. Andrea CHIPMAN -- Reporter / Journalist
The Wall Street Journal
email: andreachipman1@btinternet.com

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"Incentives -- The pinnacle of sustainable development is a system that rewards changes of behavior on an individual level and at the same time allows families to raise themselves out of poverty.

"This is easier said than done, particularly in Africa where few individuals have bank accounts and most people still eke out a subsistence living far from the reach of established financial institutions.

"San Diego businessman David Palella, however, thinks he has found a way to overcome these difficulties. His not-for-profit organization, Carbon Manna Unlimited, has developed a system of direct micro-payments to rural people who offset their carbon production through the use of high-efficiency stoves.

"The project aims to establish cell-phone based carbon micro-credit systems, using a simple message service (SMS) to allow families to monetize the carbon offsets they produce. Its key advantage is that it's based on existing infrastructure. While few rural Africans have landlines, mobile telephone ownership is rapidly increasing, and companies such as Kenyan telecom provider, Safaricom, have already introduced systems that allow subscribers to transfer money via cell-phones.

"Africa has the most advanced cell-phone-based payment systems using simple text," Mr. Palella says. "You can establish a sustainable carbon reduction project almost anywhere in Africa and share the money through these systems."

"Mr. Palella acknowledges that most voluntary emissions reduction (VER) trading systems require those that benefit from them to go through a series of time-consuming steps, as well as wade through the necessary paperwork. This can be difficult to prepare and costly, especially when it is contracted out to carbon project consultants. Still, he notes that the voluntary emissions reduction market in Europe is worth over $50 billion a year, and that Carbon Manna(sm) is a sustainable, open-source, micro-profit-sharing system in which the paperwork can be standardized and streamlined.

"Realizing a first demonstration project has been tricky for Mr. Palella. A Kenyan offshoot strayed from the guidelines of the original concept, he says, while an Ethiopian project is looking to build its system on the structure of an existing charity for poor farmers.

"However, some industry experts say the expiration of the Kyoto Treaty in 2012, by disbanding the separate United Nations emissions trading framework, could potentially create more impetus for innovative approaches such as Mr. Palella's Carbon Manna(sm)."

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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204346104576638553875004940.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

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See also:

web site: http://www.carbonmanna.org

blog: http://carbonmanna.blogspot.com

conference site: http://www.cop17-cmp7durban.com/

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Globally & warmly yours,

David A. Palella
Founder [ Emeritus, Retired ]
CARBON MANNA(sm) UNLIMITED

San Diego, California
cell: 619-787-5767
email: dpalella@gmail.com
http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidpalella

web site: http://www.carbonmanna.org
blog: http://carbonmanna.blogspot.com
LinkedIn group: http://www.linkedin.com/e/vgh/1794312/

The "Micro" Revolutions Institute(SM) Established by Carbon Manna(SM)
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2010/04/prweb3908584.htm

Carbon Manna(SM) announces The Micro Sustainability Prizes(SM)
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2010/01/prweb3459274.htm


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