The need for climate change action by all humanity to stave off the 'end of times' requires a mass-based 'green' vision: a) Once mega co-op joint venture groups get set up ASEAN-wide, 1st World partner companies and support organizations persuade their governments (for the sake of CSR ideals), to identify for lease, strategically located, under-utilized State lands where ASEAN Festival Malls (AFMs) may be located. Terms may be 50 years renewable or ideally on rent-to-own basis to ensure climate change action getting funded by the malls over centuries; b) Said advocates persuade their governments' 1st World Aid agencies, climate change Funds and CSR companies to buy stocks and bonds issued by the AFMs to help finance construction. Such investors may thus earn dividends or interest income as well as profits incident to rises in market value of their AFM shares; c) Where no State sites exist, an AFM may purchase a large private vacant land plot in a city suburb, build the mall thereon, and set up free transport services from city centers and residential areas to the mall. Transport costs may be minimized by using battery-powered vehicles, or coasters that use ethanol (E85) as fuel, which may also popularize such transport types to be offered by AFM sales outlets to local consumers and businesses.
How may a typical AFM building be designed? a) 20+ floors may be built to accommodate product displays, offices and storage facilities for ten nations; b) All AFM floors should be equipped with escalators and freight elevators; c) An atrium at the building's center may take space from three top floors. An atrium stage should provide space for free ASEAN-style entertainment shows, largely financed by advertisers. A permanent video screen must be provided to show ASEAN tourist spots during entertainment 'breaks'; d) Layers of ASEAN 'street booths' may surround the atrium. Gourmet restaurants may occupy space in several floors, for AFMs should principally be gourmet centers. Exotic ASEAN gourmet foods are rarities in world cities, so they should sell very well in ASEAN malls; e) Multi-level parking should be provided, and an adjacent building may serve as warehouse; f) All retailing floors should be without dividers and arranged in sections based on product lines, with booths and displays for each ASEAN country's participant mega co-ops and private businesses; g) Dedicated floors may house service shops for fashion design, beauty salons, clinics, spas, gyms, etc., and two floors may serve as supermarket; h) Two floors may be dedicated to offices that handle wholesaling, industrial sales to local companies, transport and handling of imports, an entrepreneurial center for arranging mega co-op joint ventures, ASEAN employees' bank branches that also sell mega co-op capital shares, and an ASEAN mega co-ops dealership office for creating retail store marketing nets and franchising deals countrywide.
What will the AFMs sell? Since mega co-op corporate groups will mostly be joint ventures between 1st World companies and local co-ops, almost all types of products and services to be found in world markets plus new introductions may be on offer. To keep buyers coming, the malls may provide AFM-hopping entertainment troupes from ASEAN countries to perform traditional and modern dances, 'silent' comedy skits, singing talents, musical bands, choirs, acrobatics, magic, etc. Fees for troupes may come from advertisers and a small percentage taken out of all products' prices. Other atrium services may include ballroom dancing lessons and night discos, art displays for sale, ASEAN tourism services, occasional manufacturers' trade fairs and new technology introductions, etc. Other mall sections may offer electronic games and kiddie play facilities, bank services, ASEAN Insurance Co. branch offices, money exchange, pawnshops and jewelry shops, etc.
For institutional services, each AFM should set up a Center for green joint venture promotions and organizational help, industrial sales of ASEAN products to local factories, packaging, freight and warehousing services, trade shows promotion offices, distance study schools for mall employees, Employees Bank branches that also sell mega co-op shares certificates, etc. Cinema sections may show ASEAN movie productions with local dubbing. Several ASEAN studios may broadcast songs and dubbed TV shows (with occasional ads) from the region to familiarize local populations with ASEAN peoples, cultures, and AFM products.
What may we expect out of AFMs when operational worldwide? a) Part of combined trillion-dollar AFM profits will help finance guarding, protection and care of ASEAN mega co-op agro-forests for all eternity; b) ASEAN agro-forests and green industries heavily advertised at the atrium stage's 'electronic cinema' will help popularize effective climate change action thru mega co-op joint ventures ASEAN-wide, and create more CSR advocates worldwide; c) Profits from AFM sales will go largely to ASEAN masses who own mega co-ops, not to the region's few elites as is usual with traditional joint ventures; d) Mega co-ops spreading throughout ASEAN due to AFMs' marketing successes will create regular and good-paying jobs for the region's 480 million or so bottom poor; e) ASEAN mega co-ops and festival malls will become models for climate change and anti-poverty action by regional country groupings in Africa, South America, Central and South Asia and the Middle East; f) Said regions' copycat green industries will greatly help towards reduction of our planet's 70+ billion tons CO2 blanket back to pre-industrial levels while helping end mass poverty in the 3rd World.
How may a typical AFM building be designed? a) 20+ floors may be built to accommodate product displays, offices and storage facilities for ten nations; b) All AFM floors should be equipped with escalators and freight elevators; c) An atrium at the building's center may take space from three top floors. An atrium stage should provide space for free ASEAN-style entertainment shows, largely financed by advertisers. A permanent video screen must be provided to show ASEAN tourist spots during entertainment 'breaks'; d) Layers of ASEAN 'street booths' may surround the atrium. Gourmet restaurants may occupy space in several floors, for AFMs should principally be gourmet centers. Exotic ASEAN gourmet foods are rarities in world cities, so they should sell very well in ASEAN malls; e) Multi-level parking should be provided, and an adjacent building may serve as warehouse; f) All retailing floors should be without dividers and arranged in sections based on product lines, with booths and displays for each ASEAN country's participant mega co-ops and private businesses; g) Dedicated floors may house service shops for fashion design, beauty salons, clinics, spas, gyms, etc., and two floors may serve as supermarket; h) Two floors may be dedicated to offices that handle wholesaling, industrial sales to local companies, transport and handling of imports, an entrepreneurial center for arranging mega co-op joint ventures, ASEAN employees' bank branches that also sell mega co-op capital shares, and an ASEAN mega co-ops dealership office for creating retail store marketing nets and franchising deals countrywide.
What will the AFMs sell? Since mega co-op corporate groups will mostly be joint ventures between 1st World companies and local co-ops, almost all types of products and services to be found in world markets plus new introductions may be on offer. To keep buyers coming, the malls may provide AFM-hopping entertainment troupes from ASEAN countries to perform traditional and modern dances, 'silent' comedy skits, singing talents, musical bands, choirs, acrobatics, magic, etc. Fees for troupes may come from advertisers and a small percentage taken out of all products' prices. Other atrium services may include ballroom dancing lessons and night discos, art displays for sale, ASEAN tourism services, occasional manufacturers' trade fairs and new technology introductions, etc. Other mall sections may offer electronic games and kiddie play facilities, bank services, ASEAN Insurance Co. branch offices, money exchange, pawnshops and jewelry shops, etc.
For institutional services, each AFM should set up a Center for green joint venture promotions and organizational help, industrial sales of ASEAN products to local factories, packaging, freight and warehousing services, trade shows promotion offices, distance study schools for mall employees, Employees Bank branches that also sell mega co-op shares certificates, etc. Cinema sections may show ASEAN movie productions with local dubbing. Several ASEAN studios may broadcast songs and dubbed TV shows (with occasional ads) from the region to familiarize local populations with ASEAN peoples, cultures, and AFM products.
What may we expect out of AFMs when operational worldwide? a) Part of combined trillion-dollar AFM profits will help finance guarding, protection and care of ASEAN mega co-op agro-forests for all eternity; b) ASEAN agro-forests and green industries heavily advertised at the atrium stage's 'electronic cinema' will help popularize effective climate change action thru mega co-op joint ventures ASEAN-wide, and create more CSR advocates worldwide; c) Profits from AFM sales will go largely to ASEAN masses who own mega co-ops, not to the region's few elites as is usual with traditional joint ventures; d) Mega co-ops spreading throughout ASEAN due to AFMs' marketing successes will create regular and good-paying jobs for the region's 480 million or so bottom poor; e) ASEAN mega co-ops and festival malls will become models for climate change and anti-poverty action by regional country groupings in Africa, South America, Central and South Asia and the Middle East; f) Said regions' copycat green industries will greatly help towards reduction of our planet's 70+ billion tons CO2 blanket back to pre-industrial levels while helping end mass poverty in the 3rd World.
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