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Leonardo DiCaprio's "The 11th Hour" is a documentary concerning the environmental crises caused by human actions and calls for restorative action through a reshaping of human activity.

The mission of our community is to inspire action at every level: from individual action, up through our communities, to the state, national and international level. The actions are all shifting our civilization to a sustainable future. Let's work and take action together. The time is now. The hope is you. Let's begin.

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Minister Stephen Gregory Fantl

Male, 42 years old

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Website: http://www.peaceportal.mobi

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Truth, balance, physics, love, family, Inter-Faith, Information Age SERVICE.

My passion is designing a global economic model reflecting the Information Age conditions in which we live, and addresses our need to balance ecology with economy; the economic model is most important because all other sectors of society are driven by the economic model, it can either create great wealth for a few and poverty for many - or general prosperity for all - why isn't there prosperity for all?

The Industrial Age economic model creates money out of thin air and requires the living people and the Earth pay the bill in labor and natures resources. When peoples labor pays the bill a debt crisis is eventually created with poverty the inevitable result; when nature pays the bill the environment is damaged. Only a few hundred years old, this economic model based on competition and conflict has left our children a legacy of debt and a withering planetary environment.

Information Age tools can relieve pressure on people and the environment. Achieving this goal will require a common global community where even the poor can create digital wealth using a free peer to peer Information Age economic system where value is created from human elements of creativity (music, words, art) rather than natural resources.

A environmental system where one can shoot an animal video instead of an animal, and provide wealth for their family earned by digital sales to a global audience.

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PlayPumps that bring water to people of need through kids playing;

Rocket Stoves that decrease wood fuel use needs by up to 90%;

Paulownia Trees, fastest growing hardwood and a global Warming Solution;

My Family and Friends;

Applying LAW to human socio-economic, bio-spiritual, and mega-political conditions in order to devise a holistic practical plan to solve the problems we currently face.

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Mar 16 14:18

Launch a Sustainable Information Age Economic Model

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In Progress

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Our collective Project is called Peace Portal, we are currently in Phase One, identifying solutions.

Our action this year is to launch Phase Two, the charity fund raising portion of Peace Portal, called Free Digital Universe.

Free Digital Universe (FDU) non-violent Virtual Fair serving as an equal human rights forum, social community, charitable fund raiser, and personal wealth tool for thriving in the Information Age. Each user is provided an account called a Digital Soule, using their "Avatar" the Soule is rewarded for co-creating the Free Digital Universe.

The holistic design produces an Information Age commerce system allowing greater wealth and freedom for everyone, while also responding to ever-growing pressures on our natural environment.

Prosperity Program, a cooperative plan of Peace Portal, Free Digital Universe, and Worldwide Developers Foundation designed as a virtual fair and charity fund raiser is one plan to accomplish this goal.

"If the Internet is going to become the engine of global commerce it's cracked up to be, it needs a currency it can call its own - a currency as non proprietary and international as the Internet itself." ~ Wired

Once a Information Age economic system is in place, the rest of the infrastructure can be addressed by leveraging those tools. Compliments to a digital economy include local sustainable development of trees, clean water solutions, health care, food security, education, and social justice systems. This is accomplished locally through installation of Access Points.

Access Point Project connects partners on the ground (such as One Laptop per Child, Inveneo or Room to Read) with the FDU Games private global commerce platform for empowering the poor to improve their lives by accessing Information Age opportunities such as equal compensation for their labor using Life Force Points as a unencumbered virtual currency.

We utilize the increasing availability of Information Age technologies with Internet based market opportunities designed specifically to meet the needs of people who are economically dis-enfranchised and whom are regularly excluded from mainstream consideration.

Providing Internet Access is achieved by supporting installation of clean energy (solar, wind, water) powered ICT Systems , donated computers, and additional technology by integrating our efforts with those established charities already providing Access, such as: ECHO, Doctors Without Borders, and efforts of missionaries.

“Information technology will create equivalent opportunities for competitive choice in domiciling economic activities, but with important differences. One is that unlike the medieval frontier societies, cyberspace is likely to be in due course the richest of economic realms. It will therefore tend to be a growing rather than a receding frontier.”

With the tools of the Information Age we can achieve our goals. With the help of the independent peer partners whom have chosen to implement the Free Digital Universe concept, perhaps we can relieve pressure on individuals, communities, and governments.

“If you don’t like the way to the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time. ~ Marian Wright Edelman

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Mar 26 07:55

POVERTY - Addressing the Causes

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Poverty is an effect, to solve a problem one must address the "cause."

To truly address poverty we need to recognize that it is the result of all the other inter-dependent sectors of life, from education to health care, access to technology and natural resources, most importantly what Human Rights you have.

There are many kinds of poverty, the causes of which vary depending on where you're looking, a rich country or a poor county.

As we enter the Information Age, humanity has real potential to address the "causes of poverty" in both rich and poor countries alike. The technological fixes available are the easy part, the hard part is having a cooperative spirit with greater respect for the Human Rights of a diverse humanity, if we can achieve that we will succeed in all that follows.
In poorer countries practical coordinated action needs to be taken to;

Improve supplies of clean water, to reduce time spent gathering often foul water and reduce illness caused by foul water supplies.
Improve the supply of accessible, affordable health care information and services, to reduce the vulnerability to disease of children and the elderly especially.
Improve training and equipment of farmers in poor countries related to agriculture and natural resource management, include help with seeds and expertise from groups like ECHO.
Increase access to education in combination with Information Age technology such as computers, ICT Systems, and cell phones via communty Access Points.
Relieve countries of the "Interest" charged on their debt, and reduce debt.
Help governments to outside help sustainable development help for non-governmental organizations, non-profits, and health missionaries.

In richer countries coordinated action should be taken to;

Improve the quality of educational opportunities and incentives with emphasis on the poor.
Increase diplomacy, international cooperation, and sustainable trade options to decrease necessity of future growing military expenditure. Make friends of foes, now the world is so interdependent we must cooperate; as individuals we do it all the time, now our governments acting as our collective voice needs to pursue options that lead to greater Peace.
Improve work training and apprenticeship incentives for the poor to focus on new Information Age opportunities. Using the Internet an individual can now get a job with someone else or work for themselves by offering their knowledge, art, music, and time. The industrial age is coming to a close, we need to educate for the new world because the factory jobs in places like Detroit are not coming back; we need to train for the present and future.
Increase the use of local exchange systems in communities to increase recycling, keep more wealth in the local economy for it's development, and stregthen community ties between the living people creating or growing available goods.

Watch "Make Poverty History" a response for an action plan here.

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