Webinar Reminder – Eco-Capitalism
Just a quick reminder about tomorrow’s webinar at 10:30 AM PDT (1 PM EDT).
Our September webinar, featuring my friend and colleague Andy Lower, Executive Director of The Eleos Foundation. Eleos is a dynamic non-profit, that, through its for-profit subsidiaries, invests in and partners with social entrepreneurs who effectively implement high impact, early stage, pioneering market based solutions in the fight to eradicate extreme poverty.
The relevance to 2Greenenergy’s participation in sustainability is obvious: creating jobs for the world’s poor is really the only way to make this huge segment of Earth’s population self-sufficient. The tie-in to renewable energy may be less apparent, but it’s nonetheless quite interesting. Eleos recognizes the importance of appropriate technology and its direct impact in dealing with poverty, and I’ve often pointed out the value of an investment in the manufacturing and deploying of clean energy products, e.g., solar panels, small wind turbines, electric vehicles, etc., that will:
• Dramatically reduce the carbon footprint of the area, by reducing the amount of hydrocarbons burned for light and heat.
• Help the developing world leapfrog over dirty 20th Century technology, just like it did with telephony (huge regions in Africa and Asia went directly to cell phones, and never had to incur the cost of the landline infrastructure). Here, entire sub-continents have the potential to leap over fossil fuel energy and go directly to renewables.
• Electrify parts of the developing world for the first time, bringing lighting and information technology to people who need it for education. We all understand the value of education in any culture, but here there is a decided additional benefit: since educated women tend to have significantly fewer offspring, we’re aggressively mitigating population and resource scarcity issues.
I hope you can join us.
If you’d like to invite others, please do. Here’s the sign-up form.
