Next Event:

"The Critical Path to Corporate Renewable Energy Success -
GENI has the Solution!"

 

Date: Sunday 3rd June 2012

Time: 2pm – 5pm

Venue: Mulgrave Country Club, cnr Wellington Rd and Jells Rd, Wheelers Hill

Fee: $25 per person

Enquiries & Bookings - info@genifoundation or call Ruanna on 0418 388 712

(Food and drink available for purchase)

 

Key Speakers including :

 

Joseph O'Brien

 

 

Joseph has worked in the energy industry for over 15 years.
He has experience working with major network users,
particularly in Queensland to assist managing their energy trading,
connection strategy and National Electricity Market (NEM) participation
as well as power station and transmission infrastructure development.
Joseph is a director of a number of private companies including
Hill Michael Association Consulting Pty Ltd (Hill Michael),
VisIR Pty Ltd, CopperString Pty Ltd,
and the Mater Hospital Foundation in Brisbane.

 

Peter Ho

(B Arch, Uni Melb 1996 (Hons) BPD (Arch), Uni Melb 1992 ARBV (since 2000) 5542)

 

 

Peter Ho is a Director of PHOOEY Architects,
a multi-disciplinary architecture, design production team who develop & deliver dreams!
PHOOEY Architects listen to their clients, whose values are as diverse as the furniture,
houses, buildings & towers created for them.
Their work accommodates zero waste strategies and is internationally acclaimed,
accomplished and awarded.

 

Charles Kovess

 

Australiasia's Passion Provocateur, Author of best-selling
books "Passionate People Produce", and "Passionate Performance".
Motivational speaker and Trustee of the GENI Foundation.
Charles will bring us up to date with the GENI Foundation Initiatives and
with the world of Buckminster Fuller's ideas and what one man can do.

 

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GENI Foundation Mission Statement

"To build awareness and powerful support, in the shortest possible time, for the integration of electrical energy grids around the world into a single interconnected grid that spans the globe*, generating and distributing power from the Earth's naturally abundant renewable resources - an initiative that will improve the quality of life for everyone without damage to the planet"

*Walter Cronkite uses the analogy of  "a world wide web of electricity using green energy resources".

Our Inspiration

GENI was founded upon the visionary work of Dr. R. Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983), often referred to as 'the DaVinci of our time', and known to his supporters throughout the world as 'Bucky'. A brilliant thinker and inventor, Bucky created the concept of 'Spaceship Earth', likening the predicament of our fragile planet and its inhabitants to that of a spaceship and its crew. This unique view of our world clearly shows us how dependent we are upon the Earth's constantly-recycling ecology, and we very quickly recognise how unlikely we are to survive if the crew continues to fight amongst itself and neglect the maintenance of our life support systems. Bucky also developed The World Game™, a challenging interactive process which simulates world concentrations of population and resources and sets out to explore: "How can we make the world work for 100% of humanity in the shortest possible time through spontaneous co-operation without ecological damage or disadvantage to anyone?" Unanimous endorsement of the global energy grid is the highest priority of the World Game™, but time and again consensus is blocked by politics and powerful vested interests, even when it becomes apparent that it is the quickest, simplest and most obvious strategy to achieve the game's objective. Buckminster Fuller proposed, three decades ago, that the linking of renewable energy resources around the world is our planet's highest priority for a sustainable future.

"Something hit me very hard once, thinking about what one little man could do. - Think of the Queen Mary, the whole ship goes by and then comes the rudder. And there's a tiny thing at the edge of the rudder called a trimtab. It's a miniature rudder. Just moving the little trim tab builds a low pressure that pulls the rudder around. Takes almost no effort at all. So I said that the little individual can be a trimtab. Society thinks it's going right by you, that it's left you altogether. But if you're doing dynamic things mentally, the fact is that you can just put your foot out like that and the whole big ship of state is going to go. So I said, call me Trimtab."  - R. Buckminster Fuller    (Click here for more great information about Bucky)

What we are and what we do

GENI - is an international non government, non profit organisation accredited with the United Nations and affiliated throughout the world. Predominantly serviced by enthusiastic and committed volunteers, GENI researches and disseminates information on the relationships between population development, the environment and energy issues, and promotes a practicable solution to the world's most pressing problems through the global interconnection of renewable resource energy. Recent rapid advances in technology have made a global grid achievable and affordable right now, and GENI seeks to educate and inform the citizens of the world about the potential for peace and prosperity in a clean and sustainable environment, so that those with the power to make it happen will acknowledge the need to act decisively and do it, quickly!

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." - Margaret Mead

"Example isn't the main thing in influencing people, it's the only thing." - Albert Schweitzer