Just What Is the Global Energy Network Institute?

"One Man Changed the Way We Look at the World.  Another Man Took That Vision and Changed the Way We Talk about Energy. 
Read on..."

Listen as Peter Meisen, the creator of GENI, talks about his mission... inspired by Buckminster Fuller.

Peter Meisen is on a mission to help develop the electricity systems of the third world... Fortunately, he's convinced our world-class speakers to help out :)

This year he'll be off to help build the grid in rural communities in the heart of Africa.  As he was working on this project, he started thinking...

"I wonder if others in my community share a similar passion of helping others in need?"

Well it turns out there are some people who are interested... and they just happen to be some of the biggest names in business and transformational education!  Read more about this fundraising effort at www.onfullerliving.com .

Dr. Fuller and his students then set to work to answer this question.  They discovered that the best global strategy is to connect the electric power networks between all regions and continents into one, global energy grid.  It would use the abundant renewable energy resources available all over the world and would create a world wide web of electricity.

The benefits of this sustainable, world power solution are proven:

• Decreased pollution from fossil and nuclear fuels
• Reduced hunger and poverty in developing nations
• Increased trade, cooperation and world peace.
• Stabilized population growth  
   

How Does the GENI Project Impact Women? In the so-called "First World" countries, ‘energy’ means electricity, oil, natural gas and motor fuels.  Dealing with these things is generally viewed as men’s work. But in developing countries, especially in the poorest areas, most of the energy comes from traditional fuels such as wood and charcoal.  And collecting it is strictly ‘women’s work’. In Mali, for example, firewood and charcoal represent about 80% of the country’s energy consumption and in rural areas women spend more than a third of their time collecting wood. This is not an issue affecting only a few isolated areas. Close to two billion people in developing countries use traditional fuels as their primary energy source. Increased access to clean, affordable fuel and technologies for cooking and heating-- as well as motorized equipment for grinding grain and pumping water-- can bring immediate benefits for women and girls. - In Guatemala, the introduction of electric mills has reduced the time women spend grinding corn for tortillas from two hours to 15 minutes.   - Women spend three times more time transporting fuel and water than men, and women carry four times more than men in volume. - Women are the main decision makers and users of household energy for lighting, cooking and heating.   Excepted from an article by Gail Karlsson, “Women's Business?”  July 2007.  www.IUCN.org . WORLD CONSERVATION.

The Answer is: 
Linking Renewable Energy Resources Throughout the World

Peter Meisen, the founder and director of GENI, recognized the need to actually implement this amazing idea.  He says he thought to himself when he first heard the idea, "Somebody ought to do something about that!"

Years later he realized that 'somebody' was probably he.

Now, Peter is on a mission to link the electricity systems of the world.

Here’s what people are saying about GENI
 

I support with enthusiasm your initiative. While directing the Foreign Affairs of Egypt, between 1977-1991, I have advocated the integration of the electricity grids of all the African countries of the Nile River using the Nile as the infrastructure of this project. I believe, as you do, that electricity must be at the service of peace and international co-operation.

Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Former Secretary General, United Nations

 

The Global Energy Network Initiative plans to undertake various regional projects that will benefit humanity and the planet. According to GENI they plan to increase universal living standard, reduce the cost of electricity, reduce pollution from fossil fuel and nuclear generation, reduce poverty and hunger around the world, stabilize population growth and promote international trade, cooperation and peace. I fully support these initiatives by GENI.

His Holiness, The Dalai Lama

 

The electric power business has grown remarkably in this century across the globe. However, the quantity of electricity traded internationally is abysmally small. Interconnecting grids internationally would permit the generation and transfer of electricity at least possible cost, which would not only ensure efficient utilization of natural resources, but also provide access to tapping efficiently generated power across international boundaries. The environmental and economic benefits from this approach could have revolutionary significance.

Dr. Rajendra K. Pachauri Ph.D., Director General, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) and Chairman, The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), 2007 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate

 

The GENI proposal encouraging the interdependence of nations through the sharing of energy resources is most exciting. One of the obscenities of Southern Africa is to see electric power lines strung across a rural landscape overshadowing communities where women spend most of their days walking kilometers to find firewood just to survive. I would support an initiative that promotes the distribution of energy to those that are condemned to a cycle of servitude. The opportunities for co-operation and increased international understanding through the establishment of an international power grid would be substantial.  I wish you well with your efforts.

The Most Revd. Desmond M. Tutu, Archbishop Emeritus of South Africa, Chairperson of Truth & Reconciliation Commission, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate

 

I have followed closely the work of Global Energy Network International for some time, and find the project to be one of the most important opportunities to further the cause of environmental protection and sustainable development.

Noel Brown, North American Director, United Nations Environmental Program

 

And How Does All of This Affect You?

One of Buckminster Fuller’s views was that there was one major turning point for the future of mankind.  It was when Sputnik was put into space.  It marked the shift from the Industrial Age to the Information Age. 

The implication for this was in our understanding of our world. 

The Industrial Age operated out of the theory of supply and demand.  "If I give you my steel, you have it and I don’t.  You will succeed and I won't."  There was scarcity of natural resources and the energy to fabricate what we needed.

With the launching of Sputnik into space, we moved into the Information Age.  Even though in a lot of areas we still operate on the principals of supply and demand, we're more and more using the generalized principals explained by R. Buckminster Fuller. 

We're seeing how information can be used in infinite ways and is abundant.  We are no longer tied to a world of scarcity.

Discover what that means to you and how to build these generalized principals into your business...and your life.

You can also read more about the free teleseminars at www.onfullerliving.com .

We hope you'll join us for the call!

Sincerely,
 

Peter Meisen
Founder and Director
The Global Energy Network Institute
+1.619.598.0158

P.S.  Visit the general GENI website at www.geni.org .  Find out what you can do to help today.