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after action debrief 69th birthday dialogue with muhammad yunus - for leaders
action debriefs from 69th birthday dialogue with muhammad yunus - for youth
Yunus 2006
Winning the nobel prize in 2006 also changed the man who changes the world
Suddenly with the nobel prize, being the only global awareness hero stage for serious stuff only, he was the only worldwide gravity for sustainability – the only one with a global stage who could argue for collaboration as the great new innovation as well as micro up- the 3 main collaboration dynamics he started with- all his micro experience cp1 , the world stage of nobel, and he had just been through the greater experience of global grameen branding and danone
2007 was mainly a year of preparation he got his book written on social business 1.0; headhunted kazi and got grameen solutions started; talked to every internet firm on the west coast; perhaps made less impression than he hoped but became ever more certain tech could change the world -making open collaboration the new innovation advantage, which incidentally was the main theme of my father's biography of john von Neumann -if only it was used for the poor alongside being used for the rich; he also found that royals like Charles were even happier with micro green than microbanking – so if need be we can light up cp4 and cp11; he got ready for a 40 city tour across all contents in 2008
Dreams are made out of impossible. We cannot reach the
impossible by using the analytical minds which are trained to deal with hard information which is currently available. These
minds are fitted with flashing red lights to warn us about obstacles that we may face. We’ll have to put our minds
in a different mode when we think about our future. We’ll have to dare to make bold leaps to make the impossibless
possible. As soon as one impossible becomes possible, it shakes up the structure and creates a domino effect, preparing
the ground for making many other impossibles possible. |
in the first half of 2008 he made 2 more corporate French partnerships, and sarkozi and hec joined in out for France; he made his grameen intel partnership; he stared making quite a lot of earth partners in us via Vidal
in 2008 part 2 ; nobel extended their co-brand to the museum in grameen and cheering on 1000 bangladeshi youth (yellow leaflet); he made his Glasgow university partnership, he made his Monaco fund partnership; and he met the germans; he was talking about need to trillion dollar reform banks ; and obama was talking about that for other areas including energy , education, healthcare
in 2009 part 1 he made the basf and hans a partnership with hans living with him in dhaka for 4 months where they plotted the first global social business summit, and formed the foundation partnership with nike foundation’s global grand of girl power which became the boardgame of grameen nurse or end nurseless village lining Glasgow university, Saudi german hospital construction, grameen kalyan etc
in 2009 part 2 he was in effect connecting all round the gameboard (new partners otto (number 2 to amazon), adidas and Volkswagen confirmed) when he launched global grameen festival coinciding with 20th fall of wall celebrations week at Wolfsburg and eg collaborative advantage of nations was one of his big themes in speech to India parliament as well as a reality now that Bangladesh, france and Germany all look like having at least 10 social business corporate partners before end of 2010; he also partnered with jack ceo of ali baba (china’s ebay) who has issued a collaboration race with yunus he jack will create 1000 million jobs in china in 2010s how many will yunus do
which nations will join them and which will continue to collapse ; very much his weakest boxes are 11 and 12 and he doesn’t have the analysis to make huge revenues out of trillion dollar audit- which means that in 11,12 and 6 we either have the perfect fit either his missing pieces or we will get wholly ignored as he either doesn’t use these last 3 collaborative partnering multipliers or finds partners who misuse theme; he’s also launching g global grameen sb 2.0 book with english photocopies available end march so we have 3 months to get in the game and the 3 months =advantage over European language;
and of course –friends of sofia could say: we have the 64 trillion dollar question on which the whole of sustainability now depends we are privileged to know the lady with deepest job creation proves but will she link up with being anchor woman for the social business modeling gamehumanity's most inspiring talk of may - british council http://www.britishcouncil.org/new/about-us/75th-Anniversary/lecture-series/Muhammad-Yunus/ rsvp if you are a student and have a recomendation more revolutionary than these being prepared for dr yunus 69th birthday dialogue june 29 & launch of youth ambassador5000 Recommendations : Leaders & Youth
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A tale of 2 world economies -which of 2 normalcies wiil you tell your grandaughter you helped humanity's first netwiorking generation choose? On 29 June 2009 people from around the planet came to Dhaka to question & answer with dr yunus on the best news seen on youtube, and yunus 10000 dvd and to offer support in the wish he made last summer to see 5000 Youth Ambassadors link in the magic moments of their lives including experiences of Bangladesh's micro-up economics and social business designs for Future Capitalism so that Yes We Can networking multiplies through freshers classes of 09/10 and beyond -and to thank him on behalf of entrepreneurial revolutionaries and people who wish to sustain future generations for leading the most amazing 69 year action learning curve of our generation .help MY.tv & youth ambassador list/vote 10 most important questions of 09/10 -rsvp info@worldcitizen.tv
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Wednesday, July 15, 2009 mindset crisis , and stop asking students to pay for everythingI think the question is which courses should be fee-paying and which shouild be free it is becoming blatantly
obvious to me that students should compile their own peer to peer free course that some of us can help them edit
or co-mentor; this doesnt need to go to stages of depth such as how to operate a microcredit but does enable them to check
when a microcredit is designed to end poverty and how it seeds social business cases, and where and how to connect with microcreditsummit
as the most human networking emergence that internet and worldwide meetings have yet been used for - of course peter ryan's
microloanfoundation case of how to do this at boston MIT with over 300 students and opinion leaders is a world's
leading paradigm as far as I can see, and it even takes this back to high school system which is where banking as a communal
and human right should surely first be taught if we want sustainable nations in rich countries let alone poor ones the
single biggest focus of yunus 69th birthday dialogue was playing back what student needs are not minimally being supported
by microcredit's true system designers, let alone on the year of humanmity's biggest crisis and opportunity to choose what
is designed beyond wall street, and whether any youth believes yes we can is a reality movement- its absurd to say that students
in big cities should pay yet more money for training and in effect be penalised for it as it will get negative grades
compared with the conventional examination curricula; youth ambassador 5000 is for students who think this is absurd,
and to hunt out which professors and other opinion leaders are now prepared to help students instead of rhe mini-professors
who trap them MY BIGGEST CHALLENGE BY YUNUS http://www.pbs.org/nbr/site/onair/transcripts/061013f/ Yunus: My greatest challenge has been to change the mindset of people. Mindsets play
strange tricks on us. We see things the way our minds have instructed our eyes to see. We think the way our minds have instructed
our minds to think. We are familiar with one way of thinking. Most of it comes during our academic years, during our student
years. The teachers we had, the books we read -- they made up our mindset, and ever since we are stuck with that. We cannot
break through this. If you are a successful student in a university, actually you become the 'mini' of the professor whom
you liked and admired most ... So that's what mindset does. When you bring in a new thought, you are in conflict with those
old thoughts. You struggle, but the old thoughts still prevail because the mindset is so strong. It would be good if we could
have an educational system, a learning process, where we could retain our originality and at the same time accumulate insight
and never become a mini professor, but remain ourselves and still absorb different views. Yet institutions have their own
mindsets, and it's very difficult to penetrate and change them. So changing has to be done faster. It's a faster world --
particularly in the 21st century -- but human minds, our academic system, make change slow. So this has been the hardest challenge
that I have faced along the way. clearly there are hidden agenda; why are "universities" charging
students huge amounnts for courses in non-sustainability and not paying for using your course; in the last
sentence you could change universities as subject of wrong-way round conditioning of young people to all sorts of other
groups including NGOs, global professions, utterly wrong maths of goodwill, transparency and sustsinability investment etc
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| Bangladesh schedule: Paul Rose BBC Broadcaster (from UK) and Nina Ness (Norway) whose father pioneered glow metrics of sustainably high performamce explorers come to interview micro world's most inspiring green stories with more solar energy units being installled gy Grameen than the whole of the USA, and that was before this year's announcement of a collaboration of 15 Bangladeshi companies who are starting production of solar cells 3 How do we help Bangladesh share its good news that millions of community jobs can be created with solar in ways that make carbon-negative economies thrive? | Bangladesh schedule: Sunita Gandhi comes to share news from Lucknow 1 2 3 the world's most popular school and education's nu,mber 1 social business from which nearly 250000 world citizens have grown | Bangladesh schedule arrive am June21, depart pm July1:
Sofia Bustamante
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Estelle and Charlotte come from paris to start development of YunusMovie - the blockbuster expected from thye highest grossing female film dircetopr and produced out of Paris by Vivian de Montaigu and oput of Uk by former head of BBC films |
Bangladesh schedule: | Bangladesh
schedule: Peter Griffiths Operational Director of Microloanfoundation 1 - Malawi's leading microcredit with supporters in London and MIT (boston) including Bono and Sports TV Anchor Gabby Logan -coming soon the first Productiva designed around youth's dedicated social buisness experiments firect with a national leader of microcredit | . Bangladesh schedule: | Chris Macrae Bangladesh schedule arrive am June 22 leave am July1 : |
Yes We Can
Bangladesh's MicroGuide to 5 collaborations to end poverty and sustain humanity
We hope you enjoy our MicroGuide to 5 Collaboration Games that Dr Muhammad Yunus, his alumni including the extraordinary mother of President Barrack Obama, and Bangladeshi networkers have been helping people communally practise for a third of a century.
1 What is The most exciting entrepreneurial game people play ... | 2 What is MICROCREDIT? Designing the safest banking system so that the poorest are also included in developing the world | 3 What is MICROSUMMIT? Designing human processes around opportunity to gravitate collaborative networking to the most urgent sustainability goals of our worldwide generation | 4 What is FUTURE CAPITALISM? Designing partnerships to innovate the most vital human services that integration of global and local free markets can sustain |
5 What is Trillion Dollar Industry Sector Sustainability? Joyfully mediating markets to be free: - engage transparency of leadership in severe contests between intelligence, which presses forward, and an unworthy, timid ignorance obstructing our progress. | |||
Dr Muhammad Yunus The leadership story of the life critical innovation of microcredit (now celebrating its 33rd year of compound growth as an open source method), and the poverty museum race for collaboratively linking in to human networking competences worldwide is simply chronicled in The Great Advocacy (volume 3 in the review series of the first 60 Grameen dialogues) As global brands, both Yunus & microcredit were also seeded with goodwill multipliers connected by world leaders or the prizes they conferred on Dr Yunus. The museum opened in 2008 in Mirpur provides a living replay of this. Beyond brand seeding: a higher level of exponential multiplication took place over the decade starting in 1997. This is when microcreditsummit started uniting millions of microcredit service agents - whom The Economist in 1982 foresaw as “we’re all intrapreneurial now”. Service economics and networking knowledge franchises call for revolutionarily more transparent and open organisational systems. That is for all of us Yes We Can 7 billion people to thrive in a post-industrial age. Heroically, Yunus and other microcreditsummit founders determined to gravitate around the world class goal of reaching out to 100 million families of the poorest with community-owned microcredit in under a decade. The achievement of this goal and recognition by the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to one man and 7 million female microentrepreneurs took Yunus onto sharing world stages with the highest exponential multipliers of superstardom and global branding. What Dr Yunus did next was in branding terms the most daring relaunch ever identified. Even Coca-Cola’s (with The New Seekers’) relaunch of Americana after the Vietnam war with I would like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony looks like a trivial pursuit in comparison. Instead of using the platform of the Nobel speech to confirm his own recognition as banker for the poor, the 66 year-old Yunus announced that his friends had a second choice of co-creating the stage of the world’s favorite economist and free marketer. System failing globalisation needed to be turned round by a micro system that 7 billion people could design wherever life critical solutions needed co-creating, replicating and sustaining. This system was “branded” social business –watch this space, or rather all change now: to the middle column. | Social Business In Creating a World Without Poverty, Social Business, Future Capitalism by DR Y ( which this reports calls The Book) we are invited to get to know how to play with social business as the missing system intervention that can turn round all global failing systems into successes sustaining humanity. It may be worth taking a branding timeout and asking yourself about some meanings to you –and any peer you socially network with - that social business could brand (help you “peer to peer” action learn) if you decide to design or create with its system and replication flows. For examples, do you see Social Business as:
The “mistake” is the Aladdin’s Lamp one of describing social business as a new idea. It is in fact the core cultural and intellectual property which since birth has made Bangaldesh –over a third of a century - a different developing economy and epicentre of world citizenship (see the head of the Nobel peace committee 2008 speech to youth on this topic). Let us rejoice in the first nation of our network generation to take economics and world trade way above zero sum – see also the Dr Yunus booklet growing up with 2 giants to understand the most innovative brand nation strategy ever rehearsed. Who ever said that economics had to be a dismal science? Come and dance to a different 21st century reality –the one which you & us will need to lead micro-up’s opposite system round so humanity maps how to integrate every community into a higher order system with people free to multiply virtual productivities beyond borders, as well as respectfully teamwork with the girl next door. | Grameen There are communally energising stories of Grameen - and its 150000 village-centre hubs - worthwhile living and learning: · worldwide and locally · branded outside and branded inside (eg see yunus youth dvd10000) · across parallel micro-up networks of hundreds of partners of which:- ***** microcreditsummit is coming up to its 15th year of exponentially celebrating 09 latin america summit at Cartegena, 10 african and middle east summit at Jamii Bora, Kenya, 11 worldwide microcreditsummit in spain (arguably the most royal of supporters of the magic of micro) ***** Future Capitalism is becoming the world’s number 1 leadership benchmarking network for responsibility and sustainability with the likelihood that over 30 global CEOs will be co-celebrating before the 20th anniversary of the fall of The Wall (Berlin November 09) The greatest celebrations on the planet can now be linked around co-practicing living scripts (for health and green energy, for education and smart media, for SMBAs and empowering .gov) – stimulated by Grameen and its innovative confederates worldwide including the micro-network-economics nominations of grassroots networks BRAC and Jamii Bora made by 93 congressmen. Over to you and yours: to search; leadership quest; and communally map. |
5 We recommend testing the magic of triangular debriefing interviews
Like Dr Yunus’ social action maps, journalists of entrepreneurial revolution have always sought a minimum traingularisation not just an individual guru in exploring how any movement that changed history was seeded and sustained. What would happen if youth ambassador5000, entrepreneurial revolutionary journalists for humanity and dr yunus’ secretariat conducted some shared debriefing interviews round people who have hosted a prestigious event with dr yunus but where it is unclear whether any forward action networks are emerging. The diagram illustrates a timely case in point – the future networks of oxford vice chancellor John Hood who quits his position in October 2009 and may well return to his native New Zealand
1.0 Local Guide to Future History around 1800 when entrepreneurial revolution was coined The word entrepreneur (between take – literally referring to have guillotined royalty who were monopolising resources will our next society sustain more productive liberte egalite and fraternite) was coined late 1700s by a French-Scottish axis of alumni of Adam Smith concerned with freeing markets and sustaining human economic models of the opposite system proud to England’s colonisation of the world. For about 140 years the number journalistic gravity of this movement was The Economist founded in 1843 by a Scot as a means to boot out of parliament 90% of MPS whose main vested interest was the corn laws (keeping corn prices artificially high even as such greed exacerbated famine in Ireland and so terrorism troubles for 140 years. Scot’s ER hero James Wilson died before his time 10 months into relocation to Calcutta where he was trying to reform Raj economics of a disease that BRAC now cures at 10 cents a dose. 2.0 Local Guide to Future History when worldwide ER was reformed just in time to save 21st C As The Economist’s interest in ER took an exponential slump, it was reborn in Bangladesh. Far Away “small nations” where youth were also up for sustainability economics included Kenya where the productivity of slum youth was reborn by the redoubtable Swedish female entrepreneurial revolutionary Ingrid Munro and New Zealand, the only country where 25 years of internet revolution has been taken to 5th grade schools across the land coordinated by today’s remarkable 78 year old revolutionary Gordon Dryden |
| . know its an old interview but interesting sarah mentions special ashden award for africa- *sam is live in colombia most of this week then he turns to the greatest micro conference ever to be staged in africa being set up in march - good if we can get yunus and sarah and someone form obama on a solart panel with ingrid munro - the greatest youth microcedit *paul bbc broadcaster is seeing prince charles and sarah this week (i think) *april mobile partners microcredits so they get full market value for every clean household
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BBC energy videos | . | Finding the examples Interview - Sarah Butler-Sloss http://www.alliancemagazine.org/en/content/interview-sarah-butler-sloss1 February 2007 www.alliancemagazine.org  Sarah Butler-Sloss Sarah Butler-Sloss is Executive Chair of the Ashden Trust, one of the Sainsbury Family Charitable Trusts, which she founded in the late 1980s. In 2001, she established the Ashden Awards for Sustainable Energy. What did she feel she could achieve with the awards that she wasn’t achieving with the Trust, Alliance asked her? And what more can foundations do as a sector to bring climate change to the centre of public debate and onto the political agenda? I understand that you were a committed environmentalist before being a philanthropist? How did you come to philanthropy? I became a philanthropist due to being a member of the Sainsbury family, having some money, and following in the family tradition. All the Sainsbury family charitable trusts were being administered from one office, with one team of people giving advice about appropriate areas to give, so it was a very easy set-up to slot into. Obviously I had a slightly different agenda to a lot of the Sainsbury family trusts. Although one trust had done some work on the environment, it was an area that was central to the Ashden Trust from the very beginning in 1989/90. I read zoology at university and I was very aware of both the wonders and the fragility of nature. When you started the Ashden Awards in 2001, you gave small grants on a similar scale through the Trust. What did you feel you could achieve with the awards that you weren’t achieving with the Trust? From the very beginning with the Trust, we were interested in dealing with environmental issues both in the UK and in the developing world. The area we decided to focus on in the developing world was renewable energy. We saw it not only as an environmental issue but also as a way of easing poverty and improving health and education, and all the other benefits that energy can bring to communities. Through the Sainsbury Family Charitable Trusts we had a lot of connections in Africa so we focused mainly on East Africa and supported small renewable energy projects there. Time and again, they were extremely successful projects that seemed to be delivering fantastic social and economic benefits to the communities that they were implemented in. They were clean and sustainable and, as I saw it, an important avenue to go down for the developing world. But no one else was really replicating them because no one was really interested in renewable energy, and although we tried to raise awareness with other larger NGOs, it was like hitting your head against a brick wall. And the projects never got any further. The Ashden Trust was very, very small in the early days. We were giving out grants for £5,000 or £10,000, which didn’t go beyond supporting one or two projects. Then, around 2000, I happened to meet Edward Whitley, who was running the Whitley Awards for Conservation, and he suggested that we join the Whitley Awards with an award for renewable energy schemes in the developing world. We tried it out and overnight we discovered the impact of having an award scheme. Though it’s more time-consuming and much more costly than giving grants, it suddenly catapults the projects that you select into the public eye. In the first year we made an award for sustainable energy through the Whitley Awards, the winner of that prize was a local hero when he returned home: he was front page in the national press, he was greeted off the aeroplane by the president of his country, and his institute started receiving far more grants. So, with this award we had achieved what we’d wanted to achieve in ten years of grants. The second year we repeated the exercise and gave another award through the Whitley Awards. This was so successful that we decided we wanted to have more awards because of the kudos, the media coverage, and the political clout the winners got in their country, and the ability it gave them to raise far more funds than they ever could have in the past. In the past we had found that renewable energy was frowned upon, pooh-poohed, by the local politicians, by other NGOs or by the influential world, and suddenly this was giving the technologies kudos, and the projects were becoming front page news in the national papers. It also helped having the award winners pictured shaking hands with Princess Anne and now our patron Prince Charles. In 2003 we started a separate awards scheme, the Ashden Awards for Sustainable Energy, with rewards for projects in the developing world and the UK. But you’re still making small grants through the Ashden Trust? Yes, we make significant grants across a range of fields from urban regeneration and homelessness projects to community arts – and of course we continue to support environmental and sustainability projects. The Ashden Trust still give some grants to renewable energy projects in the developing world and the UK, but to projects that are at an earlier stage than the projects that we award in our awards scheme, projects that have done a pilot and need to expand. They vary from £1,000 to £20,000 over a few years. It wouldn’t make sense if we gave larger sums to people that hadn’t gone through the awards process. We’ve got a great process for finding the best players in the field through the awards. So what’s different about the award is that winners receive a substantial amount of money all at once, and the publicity? Above all it’s the publicity and the kudos. We bring our award winners over to the UK and we arrange several seminars for them to be involved in. We have a seminar where they make presentations to people who work in the renewable energy field in the UK, and to students. We’ve also done a seminar for DfID [the Department for International Development], so the award winners are talking to people at DfID about their projects and hopefully inspiring them to replicate them in some shape or form. So we’re raising awareness through the media, we’re raising awareness through influential circles, and we’re giving them the award money. We don’t give it all in one fell swoop, by the way, it’s divided into two portions. The winners of the first prize get £15,000 and after completing a successful feedback report they get a further £15,000. We are also beginning to look at further ways of helping our winners through business support and advice and networking opportunities. Why do you have a special African award? The reason for that is that we see Africa as a continent that could be one of the greatest victims of climate change. We want to ensure that we have a first and a second prize winner from Africa to highlight the issue and the possible solutions. I gather that you do raise some money for the Ashden Awards from other contributors. Has being also a fundraiser changed your attitude as a grantmaker at all? Yes, it’s definitely changed my attitude. I think it’s a fantastic exercise for grantmakers to be on both sides of the fence occasionally. I like the idea of intelligent giving and intelligent receiving. When we have a funder, we really engage them in what we’re doing. For instance, we make sure that they turn up to one of the judging sessions. They don’t actually get involved in the judging, but they see the presentations from the judges who have visited the projects and they make their comments, and they often make recommendations about how we could move forward. They not only give us financial support but they also give us a lot of their experience of giving in the field to help us improve our act. So whichever side of the fence I’m on, I am greatly in favour of funders and recipients talking to each other. Obviously, we don’t want too much categorical advice – ‘you’ve got to go down X, Y and Z avenue otherwise we won’t fund you’. It’s the exchange of views that I think is crucial and I really respect those on both sides of the fence. Do you have close relationships with your Ashden Trust grantees? Yes. There are several organizations that we regularly fund and we’ll be involved in a dialogue with them, sometimes setting up projects together, or encouraging them to address a certain issue. Or they come to us and tell us their proposal, and we get into some form of dialogue. In the environmental field especially, I love engaging with the organizations that we’re helping fund, to really understand the rationale behind their work and how and why they’re doing it. So both as a funder and as a fundraiser I enjoy that exchange of opinions and I think it enhances both organizations. So the insight you gained from being on the fundraising side was to see how valuable that can be from the other side as well? Yes, absolutely. I think it’s a balancing act. You don’t want to be too forceful with your views as a funder, you want to keep it as advice and sharing of ideas. On the other hand, you don’t want to be so reticent that you don’t offer what you have to offer. Because you’re seeing so many different organizations, often approaching the same sort of situation in different ways, you sometimes see more effective ways of doing it. So there is plenty of advice that we can offer as funders, and it is very nice when people respect those views. And similarly as a fundraiser it’s very interesting hearing their views. All the views we’ve had from our funders have been very useful. In an article on philanthropy in The Economist last February, Matthew Bishop coined the word ‘philanthrocapitalist’. What he meant was donors wanting to see philanthropy as social investment, being very results orientated, very hands-on, wanting to apply business skills to philanthropy. Do you identify with that? I do, I think it is a really interesting way that philanthropy is evolving. It’s a form of social investment – venture philanthropy is another term I’ve heard – and I think that the Awards do that to an extent. I would say about 50 per cent of the projects we award are small businesses, because at the end of the day businesses have a way of meeting demand and providing customers with what they want. So time and again, our winners have been small businesses that really understand how to put good ideas into practice. Also, from the Ashden Trust point of view, we’ve been involved in social investment, either giving loans or buying some form of equity from charities or social enterprises. That’s another exciting new area of giving too. And I guess you’re pretty hands-on yourself as a philanthropist? You are described as the Executive Chair of the Ashden Trust, you’re on the judging panel for the UK and the international awards – it’s obviously not something that somebody else does for you. No, I’m very hands-on, it’s my baby. It’s something I’m passionate about and it was my vision. I never thought it would go this far, I have to say, and never thought it would be as successful as I think it is. I’m the sort of person that if I don’t have to do something, I might not do it, so being on the judging panels means that I read about all those projects, I understand them, and I’m really engaged with them. And I think you’ve got to understand the projects that you’re awarding in order to run the scheme well. So yes, I’m very hands-on, pretty full time, I would say. The Ashden Awards are doing a lot to bring renewable energy and particular organizations that are pioneering schemes into the public eye. Going a step further, do you think that there’s anything that foundations can do as a sector to bring climate change to the centre of public debate, and right onto the political agenda where it needs to be? If you’d asked me this question a year ago, I would have said yes, there is a really important role that foundations could play in the sector in raising climate change up the political agenda and raising it in the public eye as an important issue to address. I feel that today – which wasn’t true a year ago – it actually is at the top of the agenda. It’s hugely covered in the media and talked about in politics. I think where foundations can play a role is in helping to find the right solutions. I don’t want to get into politics, but very often the political world likes to find an answer that fits all, and with climate change there isn’t one. There are a huge number. Politicians also like ‘big fits all’ as well, because it’s much easier to do big scale projects. That’s where the awards have played a role – in raising awareness of the need for multi-pronged attempts to find answers, within the field of renewable energy, that are also relevant to the cultures and the places in which they are being implemented. All the projects that we’ve awarded in the developing world are grassroots projects that have evolved from a need and from the local environment. They are not top-down projects. And that’s where the danger is, that we end up with climate change at the top of the political agenda finding easy top-down answers that don’t work on the ground. Politicians need to be shown examples of some of the more thoughtful and appropriate approaches that can actually work on the ground, whether this is in the UK context or the international. To an extent, what we’re trying to do with the awards is to raise awareness of these examples of how to do local generation of energy. When they are successful, they can also be rolled out to meet the needs of hundreds of thousands of people. We have several examples of past award winners that are reaching more than a million people. Local energy generation has to work in the local environment and culture. I think that’s where foundations have a key role to play, in finding the right solutions rather than the quick fixes. Don’t you fear, though, that when it comes to voting, and the choice is between the environment and the next tax cut, people will vote for the tax cut, and that the environment is not really a big enough issue in the popular mind? It’s very difficult to say. Raising the concerns of people to the right level is very difficult. I don’t think the current government is doing enough, and it’s easy for the opposition to say lots of good and well-meaning things but who knows what would happen if and when they came to power. I feel there is a groundswell going on, and maybe it’s because I’ve just watched the David Attenborough programme and I see various stories being covered in the newspapers at the moment. And I’m generally an optimist rather than a pessimist, which is why I look for the solutions. But I think there is a groundswell of opinion going on. Whether the politicians can meet it and turn it into votes, I don’t know. Is there anything more you’d like to say? One thing I’d just like to emphasize is that finding the examples of the innovators, the people out there who are really achieving things, is such a powerful tool. No matter how much you talk about problems or their potential solutions, until you see them on the ground working, it’s very difficult to imagine what the solutions really are. The projects we award, these appropriate clean technologies, bring so many win-win solutions. Seeing those in practice in the field and the social, economic and environmental benefits they bring is fantastically rewarding, and I think a powerful tool to encourage more people into the field of appropriate solutions and clean technologies. For more information |
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I am sure I will make a few not-so-deliberate mistakes- always like to learn whose most interactively yunus
or bangladesh who on what- with dr yunus celebrating at least 40 speeches to young people a year its a big network to
collaborate around if we could decide we are at that once in a generation moment when system change will need collaboartion
like none any professor other than dr y will ever tell you about... Chris temple - do you have an update on when
the green children empowerment album may come out http://www.thegreenchildren.org/tgcf/about_us/honorary.php ; incidentally while not a student the person I have been working with longer than anyone regarding research of dr yunus
networks is sofia comes from bolivia-however both her and my knowledge was completely transformed by mostofa from bangaldesh
when we met 2.5 years ago - he has spent many months directly working with Lamiya Morshed ceo of yunus secretariat on youth
and citizen forums around the world - and for example one byproduct is yunus dvd10000 -say if you wnat any free dvds ; in the event that anyone still has time to come http://yunusforum.net we are retreating to dhaka for week june 22 to june 29 (yunus birthday +1 dialogue) to inter alia try and review the
first year of planning of youth ambassador 5000 as well as connect the biggest media stories we can on micro green movements
with the BBC's main nature broadcaster and with part of the team that aims to turn yunusmovie into a blockbuster directed
by the highest grossing feamle film director of all; unless dr yunus feels there are big mistakes in my report on the first
4 years of mapping everything I value most that connects around him; I will send that report out in mid july - so people can
edit it and make their onw version; I have to say i am interested in 1000 social business aplications http://socialbusiness.tv and tracking every future capitalism partnership http://www.futurecapitalism.tv and never expect to have much bankoing knowledge tp share directly http://futurecapitalism.ning.com/profiles/members/ ; its very exciting that spanish speaking microcredit is centre stage with queen sofia (see footnote) sponsoring
2011 world microcredisummit in spain and also meeting ingrid munro last month in madrid promising as much interchange between
kenya microcredit and spanish speaking microcredit as possible; Nazrul is an experienced Grameen banker working in spain
-which other royals across europe can we get to connect http://www.saintjames.tv I keep my own notes on what sam daley harris 93 congressmen http://www.results.org/website/article.asp?id=3709 see as the world's deepest microcredits http://grameen.tv http://brac.tv http://jamiibora.net -if you can make sure your uni club is never taken over by those who claim that mfis can be owned by international
sharehodlers instead of the community poorest then that will be jotous Colin Sloland (lehigh) I know you were graduating
this year - do you have news of the lehigh 7 clubs - I notice you are also at MFI Connect Emily I forget are you
at boston for another year - can you put us in touch with someone who will be pivital to the 200+ club of http://microloanfoundation.org Haley St Andrews - if you are ever passing through glasgow please tell me ahead of time as that is a major epicentre
of yunus activities -berlin also has a very hot model but I am not sure about its student wing http://grameencl.com Alexis New York - your kindness in telling dr yunus and me what uni clubs dont help with vis a vis next stage
careed=r decisions etc is truly appreciated Noor - does st johns at new york have a student contact if so please
introduce Alex -since buying 50 students tickets to yunus at GWU you havent really told me if there are any DC clubs
or just informal groups around you princeton has one of my favourite student club models of all except they dont
use email much; http://princetonmicrofinance.wordpress.com/ there were about 10 mother us uni clubs of microcredit that I was in email touch with some time last 12 months
but it will take me a disproportionate amount of time to dig their detials out unless there is student volunteering to use
souch details for the collaboration feedback of us all (do get in touch if you are) FINCA unites a huge
student community but as far as I know its not uni by uni based though I need to research better; I am not sure that
I like kiva university's flows but understand why i am in a minority; they have dispropoportionate media pull among us youth
compared with 33 years of work on the ground in bangladesh-it depends I suppose whose model drives the partnership ; you are
certainly not going to get kiva help you resolve the battle not to go back to wall street normalcy around which the biggest
sustainability crisis of all time depends -at last friday's meeting as well as zombie banks , we got as far as coining zombie
democracry -seems like a fair description -until we can rempower obama-maybe microcreditsummit kenya can start that chris
macrae washington dc 301 881 1655 year 25 of how to or not to sustain a networked planet http://www.normanmacrae.com/netfuture.html viva espagna! Madrid 21 may (EFE).- Valladolid acogerá en 2011 la Cumbre Global del Microcrédito, para buscar fórmulas
y llegar a los más pobres y en especial a las mujeres, ha dicho hoy la Reina en la presentación del encuentro.
 ampliar foto (EFE) La reina Sofía ha presidido hoy la firma de un memorando con Microcredit Summit Campaign (MSC) por el que se acuerda la celebración en Valladolid de la campaña de la Cumbre Global del Microcrédito de 2011. La
secretaria de Estado de Cooperación Internacional, la vallisoletana Soraya Rodríguez, ha anunciado esta mañana
que la capital vallisoletana será la anfitriona de los más de 2.000 delegados de más de 100 países. La
reunión se centrará en cómo llegar a las poblaciones más pobres, favorecer el poder de toma de
decisiones por parte de las mujeres y crear instituciones financieramente sostenibles, entre otros objetivos. Doña
Sofía, copresidenta honorífica de la campaña, ha presidido la firma del convenio para la celebración
de la Cumbre, suscrito por la Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID) y la
Fundación para la Educación "Results". Han asistido al acto el consejero de Interior y Justicia
de la Junta de Castilla y León, Alfonso Fernández Mañueco, y el alcalde de Valladolid, Francisco Javier
León de la Riva. Doña Sofía ha expresado su seguridad de "que España apoyará
con intensidad, generosidad y entusiasta hospitalidad esta importante cita, que espero constituya un hito imprescindible en
la lucha contra la pobreza y el fortalecimiento del desarrollo económico y social de los más desfavorecidos". La
Reina, como ha recordado Rodríguez, ha sido una de las principales impulsoras a nivel mundial de esos préstamos
que han sacado de la pobreza a millones de personas de todo el mundo desde que los ideara hace más de 32 años
el economista bangladeshí Mohamed Yunus, que también estará en Valladolid. La Cumbre del Milenio
de la ONU del año 2000 en Nueva York propuso reducir a la mitad para 2015 la pobreza extrema y el número de
personas que sufrían hambre respecto a los niveles de 1990. El director de campaña y segundo impulsor
de ese tipo de préstamos después de Yunus, el estadounidense Sam Daley-Harris, ha explicado que en Valladolid
estarán esos "visionarios" que, como Yunus, han logrado que más de 7,6 millones de bangladeshíes
hayan salido de la pobreza. Rodríguez ha recordado que la cooperación pública española,
que trabaja en este campo con el Fondo para la Concesión de Microcréditos, desde su creación en 1998
ha concedido créditos por valor de más de 600 millones en África, Asia, Europa y América del Sur,
materializados en dos millones de préstamos directos, de los que el 60 por ciento de los beneficiarios son mujeres. Según
el Grupo Consultivo para la Ayuda a los Pobres del Banco Mundial, España es la segunda donante bilateral, por detrás
de Alemania. Desde que en 1997 se celebró la primera Cumbre en Washington, Doña Sofía ha respaldado
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