GENI Newsletters

GENI Newsletters are published irregularly, and are often much more like policy / research papers than newsletters. Alternatively, they may promote a major GENI event, like the Bucky Centennial Celebration in 1995.

• Fall Quarter, 2004 Best Renewable Energy Policies from Around the World
  (still in print and available upon request from the GENI office).

  • New Interconnection Projects Link Nations on Every Continent.
  • Governments are the key to Renewable Energy Growth.
  • Enlightened Policies Accelerate Renewable Energy Commercialization.
  • Increase Public R&D Funds.
  • Implementing Standards to Promote R&D.
  • Creating a competitive energy market through fiscal incentives.
  • Increasing Renewables' Economies of Scale.
  • Local Policies.
  • Corporate Commitment.
  • Capacity Development.
  • Kyoto Protocol Insufficient.
  • GENI $60,000 Challenge Grant.
  • What you can do!
  • GENI Support and Products.

• Fourth Quarter, 2001 There Is No Energy Crisis
  (1.7MB pdf download here and still in print and available from the GENI office).

  • World's Energy Ministers Pledge To...
  • The Earth At Night - a Picture of All Humanity or One.
  • There is no energy shortage. There is no energy crisis. There is a crisis of ignorance.
  • Why stay on the path of pollution when the road to renewables is so clear?
  • What can you do? Contribute and Contact.
  • GENI Support and Products.

• Second Quarter, 1999 6 Questions towards peace and sustainable development
  (still in print and available upon request from the GENI office).

  • Global Endorsements for the GENI Initiative.
  • Linking Electricity for Peace: A Compelling Global Strategy.
  • India — Pakistan: from Nuclear Explosions to Trading Electricity.
  • What Can You Do?
  • GENI Support & Products: Your Financial Support is Critical to This Work.

• Second Quarter, 1997 Engineering Peace & Sustainable Development

  • The GRID Initiative: A Compelling Global Strategy.
  • International Attention.
  • Interlocking electrical grids could save Israelis and Arabs millions of dollars.
  • Why Now? What's the Urgency?
  • What Can You Do?

• Third Quarter, 1995 Buckminster Fuller: A Centennial Symposium & Celebration — Rediscovering the GENIus in Us All

  • The World Game: From Conflict to Cooperation.
  • Dynamic Seminar Leaders.
  • Bucky for Kids — Passing It On To The Next Generation.
  • Closing Ceremony: Commitment & Celebration.
  • The Global Energy Grid is the World Game's Highest Priority.
  • How Can You Participate?

• Second Quarter, 1995 A Centennial Symposium and Celebration— Rediscovering the GENIus in Us All

  • Buckminster Fuller on the Global Energy Grid.
  • GENI Support and Products.
    

• First Quarter, 1995 Why War? Why Not Big Projects?

  • Africa-Europe Electrical Interconnection and Prospects of Worldwide Interconnections.
  • Electricity Reduces Population Growth and Enables Sustainable Development.
  • A Buck-A-Day for Bucky.
  • Your Invitation To Be A GENI-us.

• First Quarter, 1994 Connecting the World's Electrical Grids.

  • True Economic Conversion — Buckminster Fuller's global strategy offers post Cold War job opportunities.
  • Interconnected Renewable Energy is the Future.
  • Transmission & Distribution International Expo.
  • The Society for Computer Simulation Endorses GENI.
  • My Pledge to Fund the Vision of GENI.

• First Quarter, 1993 Tapping Remote Renewables — an Opportunity for Transition.

  • World Population vs. Energy Demand.
  • Current Policies vs. Environmental Driven Scenario.
  • Alternative Energy futures.
  • Earth Summit and Climate Change Convention.
  • Industrial CO₂ Emissions.
  • Interconnection of Renewable Energy Resources.
  • Call for GENI Computer Simulation Model.
  • The Next Steps: From Possibility to Opportunity.
  • GENI Milestones.
  • GENI Funding Needs - a call for support.

• Winter-Spring, 1992 The Potential of an Electrical Interconnection Between Russia and North America.

  • The objecive of this workshop was to explore a proposal to provide low-cost electrical power to North America and Russia by linking the two continents with a high voltage power transmission line. Energy specialists from both countries came together in Anchorage, Alaska, USA, for a workshop to explore the potential for transmitting electricity between the continents.

• Fall-Winter, 1991 GENI's International Workshop in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

  • The Workshop's Objective was to appraise the technical, economic, environmental and sociopolitical feasibility of international electrical interchange and its implementation potential on a global basis, using a group of individuals with diverse backgrounds and geographical origins including professionals and concerned citizens.

Letters Written to World Leaders

• 1997 Letter to G7 World Leaders on a United Strategy for Peace and Sustainable Development
  
  
• 1995 Letter to Shimon Peres Offering Interconnections Between Israel and Syria as a Peace Initiative
  
  
• 1994 Letter Suggesting Alternative to North Korean Nuclear Power
  
  

Opinion Editorials

• 1997 Opinion Editorial, No Cure for a Sick World? or Asking the Right Question for Spaceship Earth.
  
  
• The Missing Link Opinion/Editorial in Sustain, Newsletter of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development April 1997
  
  
• 1993 Opinion Editorial, True Economic Conversion - Buckminster Fuller's Global Strategy Offers Post Cold War Job Opportunities.
  
  
• Transmission Lines: Unfounded Fear or Global Opportunity? Opinion/Editorial