Hi Martin et al.<div>Good thinking on seizing the moment.</div><div><br></div><div>Further thoughts:</div><div>1) all is done without money. All is done with due credit, so as you say, this way people can get more customers. Even also the webmaster. I think we can find a good one for free/for promotion.</div>
<div>2) we set up the <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Arial; ">Ministry of Environmentally Happy Housing on an independent website as soon as possible</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">3) the website contains the things you suggest. Including a user-created database of good existing examples on how to live better/lighter/whatever you call it...</span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">4) the website is set up in a way so it can multiply into parallel similar but translated language-pages: they contain exactly the same as the main page, and they can grow every time someone translates (<a href="http://translate.google.com/">translate.google.com/</a> or <a href="http://babelfish.yahoo.com/">babelfish.yahoo.com/</a> or....) a piece of the mother-page and pastes it on to the language-page.</span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">5) this means we can work on this on 4 levels at the same time: the website can be developed, content can be put up, content can be translated, work directed at getting officials to use the mother-page can start.</span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">Love, Lars</span></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">2008/12/14 martin oehlmann <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:moehlmann@wanadoo.fr">moehlmann@wanadoo.fr</a>></span><br>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Dear GSBN networkers, (hopefully this new version
is coming through...)</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">we see rapid changes all around and there is a
potential they can implement "green options" soon.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">We do expierence a global economy which
is loosing step by step comercially hypes with products which we
are expected to buy but which do not necessarily serve our needs and we now do
have an excellent chance to implement a new value system which serves our
personal as well as our global needs.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">So I believe its the best time ever since to offer
green building (and other) solutions to those in charge of structural
decision making.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Goverments are deciding on large support packages
to get the economies going right now. Someone needs to pay for that, guess who?
It can be even more interesting if the governements themselves
face a sort of bancrupt of the intire system, if their ad hoc decisions
on investments are not returning as intented. So best choices here
seem to be consequent environmentally and socially sound investments for example
in the building industry in passive houses or green refits of
existing buildings as expanses for housing and heating are consuming a
considerable part in economies. People can be much more involved
in these opportunities and profits.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">So we need a New Lobby here, a different one which
we know of the past, no power games on expenses of others, just the easy clever
open way similar like internet is evolving, open structures for fast changes. So
imagine in every country a reborn Ministry of Environmentally Happy Housing,
which really shares fun of being able to offer and stimulate
solutions...</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">In GSBN there are many members who do have the
experience and competence with lobbying. What about putting a package of
proposals together, available on a website, there are many people who already do
have brilliantt presentations, documentations and this I would say GSBN package
will be offered for proposals for different administrations. This can be
great publicity for those who share there expertise. The only thing wihch is
needed is a thoroughful webmaster/coach, .... does he has time???</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">One of the proposals could be for example if each
administration would have an internet portal, where everybody could offer
thoroughly calculated proposals, they could benefit from a free and fast flow of
innovation entries and at the same time, their role need to be offering
a non-burocratic expertise that moulds benefitial ideas in
"impact-projects" without loosing time and money in inefficiency. I mean the EU
definitly deserves one like that; but I am sure other Unions
too ;-)))</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Those of you who concerned for the EU, its no
better time than now to be clear and if necessary bold. Let us mail
directly for further reflections.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">This global network has a lot of<font face="Arial" size="2"> new enthousiasm and experience to share. </font>I would be
very interested to hear how you perceive the chances of naturally
ecological implementation right now and what do you think of that for me a
bit long email during my wintersleep?</font></div></font></div></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Just whish you a wonderful Christmas time and an
abundant creativity in the New Year,</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Martin Oehlmann</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><a>www.ecovacancesbretagne.com</a></font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">PS: our small personal contribution: the house in
Plozévet will be branched with solarheating in spring, we expect no need of
external heating anymore, the mill will receive a small generator for
electricity, so we are almost independent. Maybe a later step will be to produce
H2 to use it in a hydrogencell-engine, might be more efficient than
electricity... dangerous? its been the paint on the skin of the Zeppelin which
burned first ...</font></div>
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<br>Home +45 8668 0505<br>Lars +45 2024 0505 (mobile/handy)<br>Jo +45 2390 0924 (mobile/handy)<br><br>Jo Morandin, Jamilla, Asger & Lars Keller<br>Friland 12 B<br>8410 Rřnde<br>Danmark<br>--<br><br>"President-elect Obama and I sat on a board together; we lived in the same diverse and yet close-knit community; we sometimes passed in the bookstore. We didn't pal around, and I had nothing to do with his positions. I knew him as well as thousands of others did, and like millions of others, I wish I knew him better. Demonization, guilt by association, and the politics of fear did not triumph, not this time. Let's hope they never will again. And let's hope we might now assert that in our wildly diverse society, talking and listening to the widest range of people is not a sin, but a virtue."<br>
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