There may be several million 1st World companies with CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) programs. Such companies' CSR budgets vary depending on their managements' appreciation of what constitutes corporate social responsibility. Most are satisfied with caring for customers, conducting ethical business, saving energy and other local endeavors. Environmental and climate change issues are much talked about but action is scarce, for solving such issues requires global scale cooperation which is rare. Only climate change Funds usually managed by governments conduct global action in terms of reforestation and maintenance of the carbon credit market in which relatively few corporations participate.
Such lack of global action is what our mega co-op schemes aim to address. If we popularize the idea among the corporate world that green 'intrapreneurship' can create much profits, both CSR and non-CSR companies worldwide will likely adopt our schemes. A powerful initial attractor already exists: over $100 billion in low interest loans offered by climate change Funds to green corporate projects. 1st World companies generally have high credit-worthiness and their managerial capabilities are highly trusted worldwide. Such factors should create the trust that will persuade climate Fund managers to easily approve funding for Philippine joint venture proposals presented by such companies.
Once Funds-aided green joint ventures prove their profitability, the world's corporations will likely form bandwagons to create clones of the vanguard projects plus other green projects conjured by the unlimited imagination of the world's business skills. The combined companies may then sell the idea to their stock market contacts that manage trillions of dollars in stock and bond trades. Currently, stock market buy/sell activities hardly produce new goods and services, as they are mere transfers of titles from one owner to another. 1990s US studies reveal that only around six percent of stock market investments build new companies that produce goods and services. The rest of the quadrillion-level financial assets held by capital management companies are used in 'casino investments' which is really gambling with the use of sophisticated formulas that often fail because investors' buy/sell decisions are more often based on emotions and hunches rather than on economic logic.
Enter our mega co-op climate change campaigners. If such 'redeemers' become able to persuade all 1st World investment companies to raise 'solid' green investments to 10%+ of their total funds, the end of global warming should come in earnest. If more champions persuade all the world's governments to invest or lend just 10% of their budgets to mega co-op joint ventures in the 3rd World, the time for slaying the atmospheric CO2 monster will become even shorter.
These days many financial analysts preach world economic collapse within years because almost all governments are drowning in trillion-dollar debt, with interest payment requirements that exceed taxing capacity while regime expenses keep expanding. Given such views, persuading world governments to invest or lend to green joint ventures may appear to be an exercise in futility.
But there is a contrary and positive prospect: If 1st World governments invest and lend created money in green joint ventures in the 3rd World, new dividend, interest and tax income in trillions of dollars will flow into such governments' coffers on continuing basis. 1st World companies will be paying trillions of dollars in taxes due incident to their greatly expanded markets and consequent profits. Additionally, 1st World governments and companies investing and lending trillions of dollars in 3rd World green joint ventures will create good jobs for some five billion poor. The resultant expansion of 3rd World purchasing power will create quadrillion-dollar markets for all 1st World companies' industrial and consumer products. Tax proceeds in billions of dollars will flow to heavily indebted 1st World governments to pay for interest due on their loans, thereby alleviating fears of economic collapse due to interest due approaching said governments' entire operational budget needs.
What 3rd World joint venture projects qualify? Here are Philippine potentials that promise high profit margins: a) mini dam hydropower chains; b) geothermal power plants; c) ethanol distillation out of sweet sorghum; d) agro-forest products processing factories; e) mills for organic brown sugar and syrup production; f) manufacture of ethanol-fueled (E85) vehicles, boats and power generators; g) upland toll roads and cable transports; h) biogas power generation for agro-forests and forested ranches; i) all-electric mini steel and alloy mills; j) all-electric parts-making and assembly plants; k) all-electric light or heavy industries; l) elevated electric railways; m) other infrastructures and projects that facilitate the rise of agro-forests, agribusinesses and CO2 sequestering factories all sited in rural Philippines.
How may non-engineering CSR companies participate? They should form groups of 5 or more companies that partner with an engineering and/or construction company to form one company that will construct the needed projects on build-operate-transfer or joint venture basis. The group's combined banks plus climate change Funds may provide 80% financing at low interest. After construction stage, the BOT company operates the project for some 10-15 profit-making and loan repayment years. Thereafter, the company transfers title to mega co-ops thru creation of stock shares. The joint venture company should thereafter repeat the profit-making, CO2 sequestering process throughout the tropics.
How may 1st World employee masses earn? They should buy capital shares in the BOT and joint venture companies described. Their friendship nets may also set up 10 or so companies per group that will supply the joint ventures with equipment, materials and technologies. Another business line is the import of mega co-op products for sale by the groups' retailing nets. By accumulating stacks of shares of such companies, every participant will earn good 'sideline' income for life while helping in CO2 mitigation, all thru mere internet discussions. As in all businesses, the entrepreneurial groups may simply hire competent managers and personnel to handle day to day business operations.
Such lack of global action is what our mega co-op schemes aim to address. If we popularize the idea among the corporate world that green 'intrapreneurship' can create much profits, both CSR and non-CSR companies worldwide will likely adopt our schemes. A powerful initial attractor already exists: over $100 billion in low interest loans offered by climate change Funds to green corporate projects. 1st World companies generally have high credit-worthiness and their managerial capabilities are highly trusted worldwide. Such factors should create the trust that will persuade climate Fund managers to easily approve funding for Philippine joint venture proposals presented by such companies.
Once Funds-aided green joint ventures prove their profitability, the world's corporations will likely form bandwagons to create clones of the vanguard projects plus other green projects conjured by the unlimited imagination of the world's business skills. The combined companies may then sell the idea to their stock market contacts that manage trillions of dollars in stock and bond trades. Currently, stock market buy/sell activities hardly produce new goods and services, as they are mere transfers of titles from one owner to another. 1990s US studies reveal that only around six percent of stock market investments build new companies that produce goods and services. The rest of the quadrillion-level financial assets held by capital management companies are used in 'casino investments' which is really gambling with the use of sophisticated formulas that often fail because investors' buy/sell decisions are more often based on emotions and hunches rather than on economic logic.
Enter our mega co-op climate change campaigners. If such 'redeemers' become able to persuade all 1st World investment companies to raise 'solid' green investments to 10%+ of their total funds, the end of global warming should come in earnest. If more champions persuade all the world's governments to invest or lend just 10% of their budgets to mega co-op joint ventures in the 3rd World, the time for slaying the atmospheric CO2 monster will become even shorter.
These days many financial analysts preach world economic collapse within years because almost all governments are drowning in trillion-dollar debt, with interest payment requirements that exceed taxing capacity while regime expenses keep expanding. Given such views, persuading world governments to invest or lend to green joint ventures may appear to be an exercise in futility.
But there is a contrary and positive prospect: If 1st World governments invest and lend created money in green joint ventures in the 3rd World, new dividend, interest and tax income in trillions of dollars will flow into such governments' coffers on continuing basis. 1st World companies will be paying trillions of dollars in taxes due incident to their greatly expanded markets and consequent profits. Additionally, 1st World governments and companies investing and lending trillions of dollars in 3rd World green joint ventures will create good jobs for some five billion poor. The resultant expansion of 3rd World purchasing power will create quadrillion-dollar markets for all 1st World companies' industrial and consumer products. Tax proceeds in billions of dollars will flow to heavily indebted 1st World governments to pay for interest due on their loans, thereby alleviating fears of economic collapse due to interest due approaching said governments' entire operational budget needs.
What 3rd World joint venture projects qualify? Here are Philippine potentials that promise high profit margins: a) mini dam hydropower chains; b) geothermal power plants; c) ethanol distillation out of sweet sorghum; d) agro-forest products processing factories; e) mills for organic brown sugar and syrup production; f) manufacture of ethanol-fueled (E85) vehicles, boats and power generators; g) upland toll roads and cable transports; h) biogas power generation for agro-forests and forested ranches; i) all-electric mini steel and alloy mills; j) all-electric parts-making and assembly plants; k) all-electric light or heavy industries; l) elevated electric railways; m) other infrastructures and projects that facilitate the rise of agro-forests, agribusinesses and CO2 sequestering factories all sited in rural Philippines.
How may non-engineering CSR companies participate? They should form groups of 5 or more companies that partner with an engineering and/or construction company to form one company that will construct the needed projects on build-operate-transfer or joint venture basis. The group's combined banks plus climate change Funds may provide 80% financing at low interest. After construction stage, the BOT company operates the project for some 10-15 profit-making and loan repayment years. Thereafter, the company transfers title to mega co-ops thru creation of stock shares. The joint venture company should thereafter repeat the profit-making, CO2 sequestering process throughout the tropics.
How may 1st World employee masses earn? They should buy capital shares in the BOT and joint venture companies described. Their friendship nets may also set up 10 or so companies per group that will supply the joint ventures with equipment, materials and technologies. Another business line is the import of mega co-op products for sale by the groups' retailing nets. By accumulating stacks of shares of such companies, every participant will earn good 'sideline' income for life while helping in CO2 mitigation, all thru mere internet discussions. As in all businesses, the entrepreneurial groups may simply hire competent managers and personnel to handle day to day business operations.
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