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

       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 p...

    How may we fast-track the greening of Southeast Asia's denuded regions thru ASEAN Festival Malls?  Since climate change is humanity's problem, the world's governments, corporations and employee masses have to support the 3rd World tropics' green mega co-ops from planning stage to their world-scale production and marketing endeavors.  Doing so will help provide the funds (out of profits) that will protect and care for all mega co-op agro-forests for all eternity.  Fortunately, the ten-nation Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is already well-organized for development purposes.  Thru blogs and websites, environment-conscious employee masses and companies worldwide should now promote the vision of ASEAN peoples, governments and companies setting up and operating thousands of mega co-op joint venture groups that build agro-forests and green rural factories in Southeast Asia and the rest of the tropics.  However, mega co-op success even wit...

    Eighteen million hectares of Philippine uplands originally contained thousands of mountain streams that drained to 240 major rivers which flowed along 12 million hectares of plains towards the sea.  These days the uplands that rise at average 1,500 meters are so denuded of trees that most of their streams dry up during the country's six summer months.  Even in regions with nearly-balanced rain and dry days year-round, the absence of trees indicates near-total absence of mountain streams.  When the pouring rains come over the next six months, hardly any forest or greenery absorbs and stores upland waters, resulting to heavy topsoil erosion, flash floods of stream waters due to absence of water-storing plant roots, silting and shallowing of lowland rivers, rising frequency of landslides that at times bury entire villages, sudden collapse of upland road sections, and widespread floods in plains, towns and cities.  The combined scourges create terrible tra...

    Elementary and High School site spaces in Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Coastal China and South Korea are so limited and expensive that students make do with crowded environments, lack of sufficient sports grounds, and in certain places polluted air as well.  Food and service prices in such school sites are 3-5 times those of the Philippines.  Mega co-ops may address the issue at mutual profit for all involved by offering satellite school sites to such foreign schools on 50-year lease.  Such sites should have wide academic and sports grounds and be located near forest or beachfront resorts.  Mega co-ops should provide adjacent sites for condominiums, hotels and inns.  As with the previously described resorts (Post 28), all school buildings and facilities (single or clustered) should be surrounded by 'jacket cliff' buildings planted to flowers, salad greens, fruit-bearing plants and vegetables that serve as profitable 'vertical farms' while p...

    Ten  or so Philippine mega co-ops may pool capital and set up one resorts-operating company in joint venture with foreign CSR companies and 1st World companies engaged in tourism, hotels and inns.  The joint venture company may thence apply for low-interest loans from Climate Change and World Aid Funds to cover 75% of project cost.  Loan repayments and interest should augment said green funds' budgets. Capital sharing for the resort joint ventures may be 60-40% (locals more) as required by Philippine law.  The resorts should be constructed near sites where BOT companies have set up mini dam hydropower chains, biogas power facilities and geothermal power plants that together produce gigagawatt-level electricity and are able to install power lines to resort facilities.        Every mega co-op with its 3,000-hectare (or larger) agro-forest  may accommodate five or so joint venture forest resorts with waterfalls, swimming po...

    Upscale markets in Japan, Taiwan, Singapore, China, Korea and other countries prefer organically-grown and processed pork and chicken meats.  Reason: current commercially-grown chicken and pigs worldwide are fed with concentrates that are loaded with such chemicals as growth enhancers, disease preventives, synthetic vitamins, meat 'beautifiers', feeds preservatives, vaccines, anti-caking, anti-rancidity and anti-mold agents, etc.  Portions of such chemicals are now known to stay within the meats even after slaughter and cooking.  In due time they become causes of cancers, high blood pressure, obesity, diabetes, kidney and liver disease, etc.     Health-conscious consumers who are aware of such dangers prefer to consume organically grown and processed meats, despite such products' premium prices.  Organic pork and chicken meat come from livestock raised on the range, the animals free to move about within fenced feedlots that have roofed she...

    Ranchers and livestock raisers from Australia, New Zealand, Taiwan, Korea, Japan, India, Middle East and other countries may multiply their stocks of cattle, sheep, goats, buffaloes, antelopes, and deer, and even add horses and donkeys (for sale to resorts) thru feedlot-style contract breeding and grow-out with Philippine mega co-ops that operate agro-forests.  Restaurateurs from Coastal China, Japan, Singapore, Korea, Taiwan and other countries may also engage in Philippine mega co-ops' organic style contract growing of pigs, range chicken, ducks, turkey, ostrich and quail.  Target: supply portions of the 2.5 billion Chinese, Indian and Pacific Rim markets with refrigerated meat cuts, jerkies (semi-dried, flavored meat cuts) and barbecues, smoked duck, shawarma cuts, boiled quail eggs (for soups), sausages, milk, cheese, yogurt and food factory ingredients.  Organic meats with special qualities and flavors (contractors' secrets) are highly desired even at ...