Let's End Poverty & Global Warming for Good 'Sideline' Income!

    Philippine upland summers are the worst times for mountain dwellers' kids who have to trek for hours over mountains to get mere jerry cans of drinking water at the nearest spring.  The tragedy is prevalent among isolated settlements in the Philippines' 18 million hectares of uplands where mega co-ops should build their agro-forests.  Where will the thousand-hectare agro-forests get their water?  Here's the modeling scheme:      A group of five mega co-ops managing 15,000 hectares of agro-forest sets up a company that will partner with several 1st World corporations (including one water equipment manufacturing company) in order to provide irrigation and potable water supply systems for the entire area, its processing factories, its employees' villages, and small farms and towns adjacent to the area.  Capital is 60% co-op and 40% foreign partners to comply with Philippine law.   Green Funds and 1st World Aid agencies provide 75...

    At full operations stage, each mega co-op's agro-forest farm should be expected to produce thousand-ton stacks of farm wastes (stalks, leaves, straws) out of some 3,000 hectares of agro-forests that perpetually grow trees, vines, grains, vegetables, grasses, root crops and other greenery.  Each co-op may also operate feedlots for thousands of sheep, cattle, pigs, deer, antelope, ostrich, range chicken, ducks and goats under forest trees largely on contract production terms with foreign ranchers and restaurateurs.  The animals will be expected to yield enormous quantities of fecal waste.  As environmentalists know, crop and livestock wastes when combined in sealed digester tanks can generate methane gas which may be used to fuel power generators.     Methane is 25 times worse than CO2 as greenhouse gas, and it stays within the atmosphere for around 12 years before transforming into CO2 and water vapor.  Sequestering methane from generatio...

    South American production of ethanol from sugarcane is said to garner a 50% gross profit margin.  Mega co-ops may raise the margin to 70% or so by replacing sugar cane with sweet sorghum as feedstock.  Sugarcane is harvested once a year versus sweet sorghum at 2.5 times a year.  Furthermore, irrigation and cultivation costs for sweet sorghum are just a third that of sugarcane, and sweet sorghum juice is sweeter than sugarcane juice.  Sweet sorghum juice may also be converted into bottled syrup or vinegar for sale to retail stores, homes and food factories.  Sweet sorghum grains may be used for production of stevia-sweetened fruity cookies sprinkled with herbal anti-oxidant powders as preventives versus diabetes, hypertension and ageing.  Sweet sorghum leaves and stalks are tasty fodder for cattle, goats and sheep. Thru strip cropping and alternate planting and harvest of farm plots, sorghum harvests can be perpetual (the Philippines has yea...

      Once mega co-op proponents have obtained pledges at say P100 million (with 50% ready cash) from the mass of involved employees, State agencies, corporate and institutional investors local and foreign, all involved should conduct elections via website to appoint management teams composed of members who are management level retirees. During organization and feasibility study activities, retiree management teams should be budgeted with mere allowances at corporate supervisor rates because all of them already enjoy large pensions and most are expected to be earning out of their 'retiree businesses'.  Their full compensation should be  a percentage of profits to assure their exertion of utmost skills for all investors' benefit.       Said retiree management teams should embark upon the following activities: a) conduct website elections for a ministerial Board, register the co-op and deposit the investors' initial 50% cash in bank.  ...

    Since end-1980s, the Philippines' Dept. of Environment and Natural Resources had been offering 25-year (renewable once) forest land development joint ventures at thousand-hectare levels to local co-ops and associations.  Per DENR terms, 90% of joint venture area is to be reforested and 10% converted to farms and ranches for daily income.  20% of timber harvests go to State.       As of 1990s, several thousand rural multi-purpose co-ops and associations mostly led by NGOs had availed of the scheme. In many cases, foreign NGOs took care of funding for operations.  Land areas granted came up to a thousand to 10,000 hectares per joint venture, the total occupying over ten million out of 18 million hectares of mostly uplands.   Unfortunately, most of the co-ops floundered or tanked due to lack of sufficient funding, ultra low production for 'daily bread', expensive distances to markets, zero exports, rebel/army clashes and intrigu...

    Despite increasingly popular 'urgent action' recommendations by scientists in the 1980s, it took 16 years (1992-2008) for 154 world governments to design and operate a carbon credit market scheme, and another seven years for almost all the world's governments to agree on the funding and implementation of such scheme and other carbon mitigation projects.  As for the private sector, only a few hundred thousand corporations engaged with governments in world-scale climate change action, and much of their efforts comprised mere statements of support, power saving, recycling of paper, some purchases of carbon credits, and planting of a few trees which are thereafter left to fate.  Why?  The obvious reason is the nature of the carbon credit scheme as a cost with no hope of monetary returns, especially as viewed by billion-dollar coal companies, power and steel industries fed by coal, oil companies and vehicle manufacturing companies, all of which possess large lob...

    How do we motivate potential investors to create mega co-op corporate groups from scratch?  Fundamentally, what investors and lenders look for in a potential investment-grade enterprise is the character of its leaders and the track record of the company in terms of long-term dividend and interest-issuing capabilities.  Another determinant is the past and probable future market value of the target company's stock shares.  Since our mega co-ops shall start from zero, their proponents have to ride aboard the 'names' of highly respected individuals, companies, Funds, governments and institutions local and foreign which already possess confidence-building investment attractors.     How?  For the Philippines, investment trust may build up out of  the following: a) management level retirees of top local companies as organization and management teams for the co-ops.  Most large Philippine companies are joint ventures with 1st World compa...