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Climate change is the greatest challenge of out time
The world has reached a critical turning point in the fight against climate change. Inaction has a price. The consequences we face are unacceptable and unthinkable.
Governments, businesses and industry all around the world need to step-up with ambitious action to make sure that the world reaches net-zero emissions as soon as possible.
We all have a role to play.
Increasing Awareness of Green Sustainability Solutions
Our objective is to increase awareness and promote already existing simple sustainable green solutions, ready to be implemented immediately, developed by SMEs (Small Medium Enterprises). Our focus is to have these environmental solutions implemented into the market place, at the same time speeding up the process of making our planet more sustainable and healthier.
Why Sustainable Green Solutions are not being Implemented Quicker
Many Sustainable Green Solutions developed by SMEs are simply not being implemented for various reasons such as: lack of capital and financing options, acceptance by governments, too many regulations implemented by bureaucracy, governments instead deciding to implement large expensive green projects being promoted by large companies due to lobbying. It is always easier to deal with one large entity who will create many jobs instantly rather than dealing with lots of SMEs.
Access to finance R&D (Research and Development) , Innovation and Market Studies are readily available, with a percentage of the financial participation being earmarked for the SME, keeping the innovative SME sector hopeful but barely alive. This is an inexpensive way for the governments to keep employment up in the SME sector. Naturally there are almost no implementation funds available for developed green technologies.
It is questionable whether large oil and chemical companies want to see many of these solutions implemented, because they would have to change their business models…. imagine if oil could really be replaced, or chemicals are not needed to clean cooling and heating systems of buildings
Existing Green Technologies being Implemented
Electric Vehicles, Solar Panels and Wind Turbines are excellent solutions and are playing a vital role, but require many natural resources which aren’t freely available because they require mining of the required raw materials. Even though we do not see any pollution being emitted from these devices when in use, we have to make sure the mines providing the necessary raw materials are operated safely and with minimal polluting emissions. Also, at the end-of-life cycle of these products it is imperative they are disposed of safely, not just thrown into landfills. Over the next few years with the electrification of the transport industry, many new mines will have to be opened to meet the demand for the required raw materials.
Lithium Ion battery requires:
Solar Panel requires (will fill this section)
Wind turbine requires
Green Sustainable Solutions must take advantage of regional resources
Sustainability means that green products should be manufactured regionally taking advantage of local resources and labour to avoid large transportation distances. Today’s outsourcing business model of manufacturing thousands of miles away and transporting them does not support sustainability and and contributes to excessive waste and pollution.
Some Examples of Existing Sustainable Green Technologies
The following examples are proven existing Green Sustainable Technologies that we believe should have been already implemented on a large scale world-wide. We have no affiliations with these companies but have decided these technologies are very promising and should be implemented to create a more sustainable and healthier world.
Mindset has to change
Implementing these types of solutions on a large scale will require a change to the world’s business model of consumption to a sustainable semi-consumption model, naturally the mindset of society will also have to change……. Outsourcing of components in geographically distant places should be reduced in order to minimise transportation distances and cost to support sustainability. Things to think about: Electric cars pay hardly any money to be charged, unlike a gasoline cars. How do you charge a building using sewage water to heat? How do you charge for the transformation of unrecyclable plastic to pyrolysis oil? Do you give the plastic for free or pay for it to be taken away?
How do we implement these viable, inexpensive Green Sustainable Solutions?
From experience we can see that governments worldwide are not really doing their job of creating a sustainable and healthier planet. Every country is arguing about how much they are willing to decrease their CO2 output by making hollow promises of how much CO2 will be decreased and by when. While these tiresome arguments are ongoing, simple solutions could be implemented.
It is through people power, green activists and associations, clusters, etc., working together in unity that we will be able to implement these concrete changes. Regarding financing we should take advantage of Crowd Funding and develop financial models to make these solutions viable. We need to work together. We can no longer wait for any government to implement these simple immediate solutions because governments are looking for megaproject solutions to create large pools of employment immediately seemingly for political reasons. This is unfortunately today’s business model of consumerism.
What we are looking for
We would like to develop closer relationships and alliances around the world with professionals, associations, activists whom have the experience and know how to develop a large non-profit organisation in order to develop a strategy of implementing existing solutions worldwide already developed by SMEs and being ignored by governments of the world who were the ones to help finance these innovations but never took the interest for their implementation.
Looking for: Crowd Funding Specialist, Marketing, Administrators