Should the future of Solar Powered energy (Solar Tower Turbine Clusters™) be structured as a cooperative? or as a ruthless monopoly of the world’s greatest energy resource- the Sun?
by Anonymous
TOKYO- December 1, 2003 [Enviromission EarthNews Online (C) All Rights Reserved. According to CoBank, one of America’s original cooperative institutions with approximately $27 billion in assets, “One in every three people in the U.S. belongs to a cooperative” and “More than 47,000 different cooperatives provide 100 million Americans with a wide range of goods and services, from agricultural products and utility services (electricity, energy, fuel, gasoline, etc) to health care and housing.” (http://www.cobank.com/about/cooperatives.html)
The Cooperative Principles that were adapted for use by the “Solar Tower Cooperative Investment Alliance,” are also used globally to guide all of today’s cooperatives and were first established in Rochdale, England.
In the 1840’s, when a small group of workers formed a cooperative to buy household supplies in volume at discounted prices, The Rochdale Society of Equitable Pioneers was born. This group, condensed centuries of cooperative experiences, and formed a written set of cooperative principles. These principles were so carefully thought out that they are still in use today, some 160 years later!” (http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~laurel/cooproots/history.html)
“Today, perhaps one of the best examples of cooperative spirit in action is “Save the Planet Energy Corporation,”
(http://www.savetheplanetenergy.com/green_energy.asp)” says H.Alfred Goolsbee, founder of “Enviromission EarthNews Online” and the Solar Tower™ Renewable Energy Alliance of America LLC, “…In fact, Save the Planet Energy Corporation is a company that has combined the best of what America has to offer, with a marriage of capitalism and cooperative principles and, like us, is one of the first companies in history to offer nationwide revenue sharing to individuals, businesses & organizations interested in promoting Renewable Energy. I think everyone should join us in our efforts to “Save the Earth and Make some money while you’re at it!™”
Mr. Goolsbee goes on to say however, “All that being said; and although wind farms are an excellent temporary solution to our immediate energy problems, I don’t see our farmlands and countryside being littered with countless numbers of windmills as an elegant, efficient and aesthetically pleasing alternative! On the other hand, “Solar Tower Turbine Cluster Biospheres™” constructed in desert areas, with Buckminster Fuller style geodesic architecture, is a very effective way to arrest desertification, achieve rapid reforestation, and supply desperately needed water to an already overburdened agricultural community. There is no technology on Earth today that can be implemented as rapidly and as cost effectively as “Solar Tower Turbine Clusters™” There is nothing on Earth today that can produce, with zero emission, the vast quantities of hydrogen fuel that will be required to power all the hybrid vehicles such as fuel-cell cars, busses and trains envisioned for manufacture in the next century. No one seems to stop and think, ‘Where will all that hydrogen fuel come from!’ Well now we know the answer, ‘Solar Tower Turbine Clusters!’ More importantly, there is nothing on Earth today that can produce, with zero emission, the vast quantities of clean drinking water and water for irrigation that will be required to reverse the problems being caused by global warming.”
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As recently reported from MILAN in Italy by Reuters – “The world’s glaciers could melt within a century (as) global warming accelerates, leaving billions of people short of water and some islanders without a home, environmentalists said.”
“Unless governments take urgent action to prevent global warming, billions of people worldwide may face severe water shortages as a result of the alarming melting rate of glaciers,” the WWF group said in a report last Thursday.
WHAT IS THE “SOLAR TOWER™ COOPERATIVE INVESTMENT ALLIANCE (STCIA)?”
- To help you understand we include, below, a hyperlink of an article expounding an evolutionary view as to how coops should be governed and the need for removing certain legislation that encumbers agricultural cooperatives unnecessarily. Excellent reading for new~world evolutionary visonaries and DIY (do it yourselfers)
COOP’s for the NEW MILLENIUM
(http://www.ncfc.org/forum/2002-05-07-Heuer.shtm)
“COOPERATIVES AT CROSSROADS:
EXPANDING THE SEARCH FOR CAPITAL”
by Robert Heuer
May 07, 2002
“Today, the cooperative industry is entering a new “new generation.” Co-op boards and management move forward without a roadmap. Do they continue to work within the confines of a narrowly-defined cooperative structure that links local control and local capitalization? Or must they turn to outside sources to finance future growth?”
- Our cooperatives (STCIA and STREAM Coop) are global community-based businesses; conceived and founded, to be capitalized, operated, owned and shared by the people, fauna and flora we serve. Our Cooperatives (STCIA and STREAM) are established to allow groups of people, companies, and institutions who share similar Earth-Friendly interests, to provide education, produce energy, buy and sell alternative, appropriate and renewable energy products and services at better costs and terms, and to market our own products and services in a more conscientious, effective, efficient and sustainable manner.
- The profits of the Solar Tower Cooperatives are destined for distribution to the owner-members and to a large variety of Universities, Children’s Education Scholarship Funds and other affiliated NPO and NGO groups. This distribution, referred to as patronage, may be in cash or cash-plus, some form of capital or energy credits. The amount a member receives is based on his or her (their) financial and/or politically active participation in the cooperative during the respective operating year. Volunteer activities are accorded the same respect as a financial contribution and may be rewarded with the issuance of shares to the Sponsored NPO or NGO in certain instances.
- Each member (of the STCIA and STREAM), despite the level of participation, has at least one vote. Our Cooperative is governed by a Board of Directors elected by the member-owners in conjunction with Fiduciary Custodians, and an “Ethics and Scientific Steering Committee,” which is comprised of a number of the Permanent Council of Chartered Members of the Mystical Forest Foundation Inc. The Mystical Forest Foundation Inc. is a “Self-Sufficient, Not-For-Profit” private foundation registered in the United States of America.
WHAT DOES THE SOLAR TOWER COOPERATIVE DO?
Sociopolitical Implications:
Any technology so intimately connected to the survival of our species and the protection and preservation of sentient life, as well as the maintenance of an entire planetary biosphere must be protected from abuse at all costs.
Anti-Monopoly and Non- Exclusivity:
There should be no attempts made by any private entity, body corporate or national institution to monopolize this industry, nor should there be any attempts made to obtain exclusive rights to geopolitical areas where such technology may be constructed and put to use. It should be governed by cooperatively based, earth-friendly organizations, subject to democratic rule, who in turn work together, in a harmonious and profitable relationship, with the various globally based industry leaders who exhibit a working commitment to building a world based on sustainable lifestyles and earth-friendly technologies and who adhere to the The Global Compact as an initiative to safeguard sustainable growth within the context of globalization by promoting a core set of universal values which are fundamental to meeting the socio-economic needs of the world’s people.
The Solar Tower Cooperative Investment Alliance
supports the principles of the Global Compact;
http://www.unglobalcompact.org
(the UN website does not seem to work well with explorer, recommend you use netscape or another browser) and will continue to promote projects, events, and publications, which follow these principles;
As an example: It is estimated that more than 46,000 different cooperatives service approximately 100 million Americans with a broad variety of goods and services, ranging from agricultural products and utilitarian and ENERGY services to Health-Care and Housing. These cooperatives vary considerably in size from large national and international companies to small local and domestic cooperatives. Perhaps one of the most commonly known forms of cooperatives are the Agricultural co-ops, and Cooperative Banks, such as CoBank whose customers, own more than 1,000 brand names like Diamond Walnut, Florida’s Natural, Land O’Lakes, Musselman’s, Norbest, Ocean Spray, Sun-Maid, Sunkist, and Welch’s.
- Just imagine! One person out of every three people in the United States are members of a cooperative! For example, of the nation’s 12,000+ credit unions, approximately 76 million people belong to one of them. More than half a million farmers and their agricultural cooperatives belong to the Farm Credit System, which represents a $91-billion nationwide network of lending institutions. One of the nation’s premier news services, Associated Press, is a cooperative. Approximately one million Americans live in cooperative housing. Co-ops also exist to provide day care, health care, insurance, florist, telephone, and electric services and many other products and services.
Similarly the “Solar Tower™ Cooperative Investment Alliance (STCIA) stands for equality and egalitarian principals in the ethical distribution of energy that will be gathered and converted by the new breakthrough technology known as “Solar Tower Turbine Clusters™.”
“Although wind farms are an excellent temporary solution to our immediate energy problems, I don’t forsee our farmlands and countryside being littered with countless numbers of windmills as an elegant and aesthetically pleasing alternative. However, “Solar Tower Turbine Cluster Biospheres ™” constructed in desert areas with Buckminster Fuller style geodesic architecture is a very effective way to arrest desertification, achieve rapid reforestation, and supply desperately needed water to an already overburdened agricultural community.”
(http://www.solartower.com/solar_tower_page/about_pages/stcia.html#Anchor-Part-11481)
(http://www.solartower.com/solar_tower_page/about_pages/stcia.html)
ABOUT “MYSTICAL FOREST FOUNDATION INC.”
The “Mystical Forest Foundation Inc.” (MFFI) is a Self-Sufficient and Self~Financing Private Foundation and is the majority shareholder of the Ældwood Global Group of Companies and the Solar Tower Cooperative Investment Alliance (STCIA). It is a not-for-profit charitable institution but does not solicit donations from the general public; nor does it solicit donations from private sectors.
• We believe that this independent posture insures an uncompromising dedication to our moral and ethical earth-friendly business principles.
• We observe that a quantum leap towards sustainable lifestyles is an immediate imperative; and that the implementation of appropriate methods for sourcing energy is an indispensable prerequisite to achieving an expedient, humane metamorphosis.
• We are registered in accordance with the laws of the Sate of Delaware in the USA as a Private Foundation of limited liability and operate as a charitable institution with focus on providing relief and education to children and women, with particular attention to maternity, the fine art of mothering & parenting, preparation for childbirth, prenatal and postnatal care, midwives, obstetricians and related health-care practitioners, concerned adults, educators and institutions responsible for the care of pregnant women and children of all ages
“We at Mystical Forest Foundation Inc.”
…a not-for-profit educational and scholarship foundation, emphatically reiterate that major technology such as Solar Tower Turbine Clusters™, should not be owned exclusively by industrial giants and petroleum companies, particularly those, who might seek to transfer their present stranglehold on the world’s economies into SOLAR TOWER infrastructures around the world.”
There’s a lot of talk about “War” and “Peace” these days; and there’s a lot of corporate and institutional noise about “Save the Earth;” but not a lot being done, really.
If, however, we had an inexpensive source of clean, renewable energy, many of our environmental and sociopolitical problems would disappear.
Any intelligent economist knows that most of our problems are rooted in our insatiable hunger for more energy and the imperative to Earn More Money (often at the expense of Nature and her Children)
If we had an inexpensive source of clean, renewable energy:
There would be no need to build more nuclear power stations, no need for more hydroelectric dams displacing flora, fauna and human populations;
There would be no more oil-spills and the strip mining of coal would end;
Third world countries would stop cutting down trees for fuel (most trees in the third world are cut for fuel, not building materials);
The cost of living would go down, due to an overall reduction in manufacturing expenses and transportation costs; the costs of goods and services could go down, while enjoying higher profits;
And none need worry about the Middle East, except to improve the human and civil rights conditions and to improve the educational standards of the children (worldwide).
- Why aren’t things changing any faster?
In the past it simply wasn’t possible to change, because the world and it’s environmentalist population have been held hostage by a dependency on oil; Without the technology to replace the oil and nuclear power plants, change was impossible. - Today however, for the first time in modern history, there exists a cost-effective opportunity for very rapid, sustainable change.
- The SOLAR TOWER’S stability has been verified by many experts and according to local and National Governments of Australia (http://www.wentworth.nsw.gov.au/solartower/ ) (http://www.wentworth.nsw.gov.au/solartower/newfunding.asp ) the construction of a SOLAR TOWER is imminent in Australia. It is estimated that the construction of the first SOLAR TOWER will begin within the next 18 months in Australia.
- The by-products include oxygen, distilled water, watermelons, fruits and vegetables and jobs for thousands of people.
- But one, two or even five SOLAR TOWERS will not supply our needs globally. We need to build hundreds of SOLAR TOWERS within the next decade to have a sufficiently positive impact on our global environment.
- The Solar Tower Cooperative Investment Alliance (STCIA) is a cooperative organization devoted to the building of SOLAR TOWERS and any other emerging technology that will facilitate the immediate and graceful transition to a sustainable society.
- To reiterate: We believe that major technology such as the Solar Tower Turbine Clusters™, should not be owned exclusively by industrial giants and petroleum companies; particularly those, who might seek to transfer their present stranglehold on the world’s economies into the SOLAR TOWERS’ infrastructures around the world.
- It is important to note that, at present, SOLAR TOWERS are the only source of 100% clean renewable energy, available in quantities sufficient for the production of hydrogen fuel for all the fuelcell vehicles planned for the next few decades.
- This represents a trillion dollar per day industry and everyone who wants to invest in this industry should be given equal opportunity to own a part of the SOLAR TOWER infrastructure globally regardless of their individual income. We represent the opportunity to participate in one of the most important events in the post-modern world.
- We believe that, this new technology should be owned by the People of the World (not exclusively by the financial, media and industrial conglomerates).
- What do you think?
RELATED:
No exclusive license required for Solar Tower development
(http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2003/11/prweb90603.php)
Touchstone Cooperatives & Discovery Channel School
(http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2003/11/prweb91581.php)