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GLOBAL
ENERGY NETWORK INSTITUTE
a
solution to global problems
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28 January
1999
Dear GENI
Friend,
Last week
in Washington DC, we had the opportunity to share
The GENI Initiative to world leaders involved in international
development. I personally gave information to:
Enrique
Iglesias, President, The InterAmerican Development
Bank
Ismael
Serageldin, VP Special Projects, The World Bank
Inga
Kaul, Dir, Office of Development Studies,
UN Development Program
Andrew
Rice, Founder, Society for International Development
Jed
Davis, Planning, Environment and External Affairs,
Shell Int'l
James
Gustave Speth, Administrator, UN Development program
plus
many more students and experts from around the world.
These people
are respected leaders in the work of increasing living
standards globally.
The GENI
exhibit was ideally located between exhibits from
Habitat for Humanity and The UN Development Program.
We were invited to speak at the panel session:Technological
Innovation: Helping People Learn to Make the World
Work for Everyone. Medard
Gabel also spoke at this session and he hosted
two World
Game events for IDC participants.
Is it
feasible to pay for a world where everyones needs'
are met? In the World Game, we learn that only
28% of the annual world military expenditures could
pay to: end
hunger, stabilize
population growth, prevent
soil erosion, provide
clean energy, retire
developing nations debt, stop
ozone depletion, prevent
acid rain and climate
change, provide
safe water, eliminate
illiteracy, stop
deforestation, eliminate
nuclear weapons, provide
health care and AIDS control, remove
land mines and provide
refugee relief and shelter. (see chart)
I've enclosed
the report
on Ismael Serageldin's presentation (and some
of the disputes that occur at these conferences).
Your
support enables us to show up! The GENI
Initiative gets stronger with each new contact, each
endorsement, every conversation. You allow us to show
up and make this happen -- and I thank you.
In partnership
for the planet,
Peter Meisen
President
Keywords
: The GENI Initiative at the International Development
Conference,sustainable development, global energy
network institute, international electricity transmission,
grid, power, environmental educational programs, peace,
zero population growth, stabilization, life expectancy,
infant mortality.
GENI
is a U.S. Tax Exempt 501(c)(3) Corporation committed
to improving the quality of life for everyone without
damage to the planet.
GENI Affiliates in Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, New
Zealand, Singapore and United States.
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