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

    Most Philippine mines for extracting iron, nickel, copper, gold, silver and other ores are popularly known to operate with scandalous disregard for the environment.  Their poisonous wastes and tailings get washed off into rivers and sea coasts, killing all life that come into contact with the poisons, including marine creatures within square kilometers of seas.  The mines' land-surface scouring methods carve out thousands of hectares of forested mountains and plains which are never reforested after depletion of their mineral ores.  The mines' local and foreign owners are so powerful and bribe-savvy, many say, that no laws can be passed and implemented that are able to curb the ecology-killing processes.  Mining companies (almost all capitalized by foreigners) have ensured that their representatives, some of them heads of mining clans, are permanently ensconced in Congress to make sure all bills and bureaucratic appointments that endanger mining interest...

    The Philippines has over a hundred geothermal wells, volcanic fumaroles, geothermal vents and hot springs with kilowatt or megawatt potential each.  Technologies for generating electricity out of low-temperature (300 deg.C or so) hot springs and fumaroles already exist in the 1st World.  Groups of twenty or so 1st World CSR companies may thus partner with a geothermal construction company to raise capital and acquire million-dollar loans or investments from the World Bank, Asian Development Bank, climate change Funds, State Aid agencies, CSR companies, etc., towards set up of scores of Philippine geothermal plants all at the same time.      Philippine geothermal plant loans should be charged ultra-low interest and be payable on long-term (15-20 years) for the sake of greenhouse gas reduction. Additionally, geothermal power plants enjoy sure markets and high profitability as they spend next to nothing on fuel, which is the top expense for coal a...

    Over $25 billion repatriated by expatriate Filipinos each year the past decades indicates one thing: they will never tire of trying to help folks back home.  The amount however appears to be a small percentage of total Filipino expats' and migrants' incomes, indicating a huge capital potential for mega co-ops if such overseas Filipinos get persuaded to  buy mega co-op shares thru relatives or thru mega co-op websites.  Mega co-ops have to find ways by which overseas investors may directly buy capital shares instead of passing thru brokers.  Overseas Filipinos may also capitalize small businesses that engage in production contracting or supply of materials to mega co-ops as a way of providing income for loved ones back home.  Capable and trusted relatives may manage the businesses to acquire specialist skills for further expansion of operations once the expat financier retires and returns to the Philippines with a big 'nest egg'.  The speciali...

    How may ASEAN mega co-ops create enormous volumes of products for ASEAN Festival Malls worldwide?  Here's the vision: a) Mega co-ops use political power to acquire land use rights to thousand-hectare denuded plots from State.  Terms: perpetual basis so long as mega co-ops convert the lands into agro-forests for all eternity; b) Mega co-ops build an ASEAN-wide ethanol production industry with sweet sorghum as feedstock; c) Mega co-ops partner with 1st World CSR companies and flex-fuel vehicle manufacturers to set up ASEAN flex fuel vehicles industries; d) Concurrent with the three previous activities, j oint ventures or build-operate-transfer agreements between ASEAN mega co-op consortia and 1st World corporate consortia construct mini hydropower nets, geothermal plants, biogas digesters, solar cell, and wind powered electricity generators in increasing numbers to gradually end the region's dependence on petrochemical-based fuels for industrial and transport ...

       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...