22 August 1997

Dear GENI Friend,

This month, I want to introduce you to Bobbi Deporter and her book Quantum Business. Bobbi is the President of The Learning Forum which produces SuperCamp each year for thousands of students — and she is also a GENI Board member and tremendous advocate for our initiative.

In the past, Bobbi helped sponsor the World Game™ events and promote this project in their company newsletter. Now in her new book she gives special focus to Buckminster Fuller's ideas and GENI as well. In the chapter entitled Commitment Makes the Difference, Bobbi gives a brief history of my story and The GENI Initiative.

Being willing to do whatever it takes are essential words to live by if you truly want to change things on the planet. There's so much inertia in the status quo. A quote from George Bernard Shaw was sent to me, that epitomizes the challenge:

Reasonable men adapt themselves to their environment. Unreasonable men try to adapt their environment to themselves. Thus all progress is the result of the efforts of unreasonable men.

Our goal is to catalyze the shift to a sustainable energy path on the planet for the peace, health and prosperity of all. That's very unreasonable — yet critical for the planet and humanity. Maurice Strong, Chairman of the Earth Summit stated that industry would be the prime engine for change in developing environmental solutions into the next millennium — hence Quantum Business.

I've enclosed a few pages from Bobbi's book for your review. If you would like more, just use the enclosed order form to get your personal copy. We are honored with Bobbi's partnership, and her kind words and explanation of the Energy Grid will be educating people for years to come. In fact we just received a request from Hong Kong as a result of this book chapter.

This is but one example of leveraging this information globally. I invite you to come up with your own form of participation. Until war has ended and all children are fed we have much work to do. Thank you for supporting an unreasonable project to make the world work for everyone.

In partnership for the planet,

Peter Meisen
President

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