Our Family Orphan Communities, Inc, (OFOC) is a nonprofit charity that is designing and developing a self-sustaining, environmentally green, high-tech Community in which street orphans will be raised in families with surrogate parents and grandparents. The children will receive healthcare, family values, education, and job and computer skills to prepare them for their future and the future of their country.  These communities are destined for third-world and developing countries.

Currently OFOC is working with the Vietnam Aid Society for Disabled Children to develop this Community in
Ninh
Binh
Province where the land has been donated for the project. You can see our progress at www.orphancommunities.org.

To assist this cause, Xippee, Incorporated has donated 300 shares of its corporate stock to OFOC.  Xippee, Inc. is a software company that has developed a free internet search tool that makes doing searches on any search engine easier and faster.  Instead of having to type in additional search terms to add or delete from your search criteria, you simply highlight a word in the search options, a small window with + and - will appear, you then click either option and your search will be automatically redone either adding or removing the term you had highlighted.   This is one of the few free software programs to ever receive a five star rating by download.com. You can download this free search tool at www.xippee.com.

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The project, Ethanol & Orphans, is looking for celebrities who think it is a good idea and who will endorse the project.  The project sponsor is the not-for-profit charity, Our Family Orphan Communities, Inc. 

The Ethanol & Orphans project is currently underway in Vietnam where we will be building a cellulose ethanol refinery and using the profits to build:
 - a Self-sustaining, high-tech, green Community for street orphans where they will be raised in families with surrogate parents and grandparents, given care, skills (job, computer, familiy/life) and supplemental education.
 - a Medical clinic supported by the profits from the refinery so those who cannot afford it can still receive treatment.
 - more care for disabled children (who are still today being born with birth defects from Agent Orange which was used in the war in the 60's and 70's) so they can learn to be self-sufficient even with disabilities.

We are looking for people who care about:
 - improving the environment
 - using less petrochemical fuels
 - helping developing / third world countries to improve
 - street children living barely surviving
 - disabled children who need assistance
 - providing medical/dental care for those who cannot afford it
 - protecting food sources (we will use sugarcane for the refiery, NOT grains)
 - providing education for children, the future leaders of their country
 - and more humanitarian projects

The celebrities will be asked to speak about our project when they can, and to allow us to use thier comments/picture/name in our website and promotion materials.

For complete details about the project, see: http://www.orphancommunities.org
For questions, write to us at: info@orphancommunities.org
 
Please forward this to others who you know will be interested in supporting this project.

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What do Ethanol and Orphans have in common? 
ANSWER: Vietnam and Liberia. 

This is where ethanol refineries will be built and the profits used to build medical clinics and self-sustaining communities where orphans and disabled children are raised in families.

Our Family Orphan Communities, Inc., is a tax-exempt, not-for-profit organization that has a mission statement “to design and create modern, self-sustaining, high-tech, family style communities in which orphans live with surrogate parents and grandparents in a family setting, receive quality education, learn practical family living and job skills, future oriented high-tech skills to prepare them for their future and for leadership roles in their country.” The funding for the initial construction of the Orphan Community and Medical Clinic will come from the earnings of an “economic engine” business – such as an Ethanol Refinery that will in itself provide many jobs and other benefits to the host country.

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Ceres Conference 2007

April 25-26, 2007 | Seaport Hotel | Boston, MA

Early registration ends Friday February 23rd!
The Ceres Conference 2007, Advancing Sustainable Prosperity, comes at a critical juncture. The world is struggling to meet energy and water needs, the planet is warming at an alarming pace, and many still live and work in poverty. While corporations are under increasing pressure to compete globally while maximizing returns, these environmental and social challenges are business issues that need serious attention. They pose both risks that must be managed proactively and opportunities that must be leveraged immediately.

Advancing sustainable prosperity is about understanding that capitalism and sustainability are deeply and increasingly interrelated. By uniting investor and environmental perspectives, business strategies can be aligned with sustainable solutions so that the planet can be protected at the same time that people can prosper.

Ceres, the world's largest network of investors, environmentalists and companies united for sustainable prosperity, challenges conventional short-term thinking, builds long-term value and produces measurable results.

Join us for the Ceres Conference 2007, which will bring together and mobilize CEOs, corporate directors, investors and national environmental leaders to take action on these vast challenges before us.

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I have a vacancy for a plumber who is up to date with the Portuguese building regulations. If you know anyone or have an interest yourself, please drop me a line and let's have a chat.

Work will be on the installation of renewable energy - solar thermal. Area needs to be flexible to certain expent - quality and reliability are my prime concerns.

Commence 2007

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FotoInsight lanza una nueve idea de producto en apoyo a la creciente demanda popular por la reducción en el número de bolsas de plástico desperdiciadas.

Cambridge, Reino Unido. 21 de Junio de 2006. – Motivar al consumidor usar menos bolsas de plástico que son tan dañinas al medio ambiente ha sido un desafío por años. Hasta en los comercios más pequeños, las bolsas de plástico se reparten generosamente. En contra de esta tendencia anti-ecológica, la empresa FotoInsight de Cambridge imprime fotografías sobre lino para bolsas duraderas. Estas re-usables bolsas con foto cuestan €6.99 y son el regalo personalizado ideal y con sentido. Usado regularmente sobre el transcurso de su larga vida, una bolsa fotográfica FotoInsight ayuda evitar miles de bolsas de plástico de supermercados. ¿Porqué llevar el logotipo de una cadena de supermercados, cuando la bolsa puede estar impresa con la propia fotografía favorita?

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Using canvas tote bags helps to reduce the number of supermarket plastic carrier bags wasted each year. Photo services print digital photographs onto canvas tote bags replacing the supermarket logo.  

Encouraging consumers to use fewer environmentally damaging plastic carriers has long been a challenge. If modern urban life had a flag it would be a plastic bag: ugly, somewhere unreachable and likely to remain there long after the last bit of open space has been concreted into a supermarket car park. The UK's largest supermarket chain said this month that it would seek to cut the number of carrier bags it gives to customers by 25% over the next two years.

Much more could be achieved by getting people to use their own, durable carrier bags.
Some photo printing services apply digital photos onto canvas for long lasting carrier bags. These reusable photo tote bags start from £4.99 at http://fotoinsight.co.uk/gifts or €6.99 at http://fotoinsight.com and are an ideal, personalised and useful present. Over the course of its long life a reusable Tote Bag helps avoiding thousands of plastic supermarket carriers when used regularly. Why carry a supermarket’s logo when the carrier can feature ones favourite photograph. One of the photo services printing onto canvas, cotton and tote bags is FotoInsight of Cambridge (http://fotoinsight.co.uk). In light of the recent discussions about global warming, CO2 emissions and land fill photo tote bags may prove a smart, sub £8/€12 gift idea.

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FotoInsight launches new product idea supporting popular demand to reduce the number of supermarket plastic carrier bags wasted each year.

Encouraging customers to use fewer environmentally unfriendly plastic bags has long been a challenge. The UK's largest supermarket chain said this month that it would seek to cut the number of carrier bags it gives to customers by 25% over the next two years. Much more could be achieved by getting people to use their own, durable carrier bags.

FotoInsight of Cambridge prints digital photos onto canvass for long lasting carrier bags. These reusable photo tote bags cost £4.99 and are an ideal, personalised and useful present. Over the course of its long life the FotoInsight Photo Tote Bag helps avoiding thousands of plastic supermarket carriers when used regularly. Why carry a supermarket’s logo when the carrier can feature ones favourite photograph.

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eco6 – Zurich, Switzerland, 9-10 Oct 2006

• eco06 is the annual event of the international socially responsible community. A conference which draws together the world’s leading experts in these fields, economie 06 offers you a rare opportunity to meet, learn from and be inspired by passionate, creative individuals from all corners of the SRI and CSR community.

eco06 will be held on the 9th and 10th of October 2006, at the Kongresshaus in Zurich, Switzerland, a city at the heart of Europe's financial institutions - and in one of the most magnificent beauty spots in the world.

• A formidable array of international speakers includes
  • Professor Hans Ruh, Institute of Social Ethics, Zurich Iniversity
  • John Renesch, the acclaimed San Francisco based business futurist,
  • Dr Kevin Money, Director of School for Reputation, relationships and Respnosibility
  • Deborah Doane, writer and reseasrcher in the area of corporate social responsibility
  • and bestselling economist Noreena Hertz, dubbed ‘Britain’s Naomi Klein’
  • visit www.eco6.co.uk for the latest list of speakers
• Equally important is the opportunity to interact with hundreds of diverse and knowledgeable fellow delegates from across Europe and beyond - ranging from fund managers, insurance groups and multinationals to NGOS, charity trustees, environmental groups and academics.
• The format, including ‘open forums’ and expert panels, has been designed to facilitate audience interaction and provoke debate. It should prove to be intellectually stimulating, informative, intense, challenging - and hugely enjoyable.
• economie 06 is the only event to bring together the inextricably linked twin strands of SRI and CSR, giving delegates ‘the bigger picture’ .
• A number of bursaries are available to ensure as diverse a range of participants as possible. If you’re a charity/NGO/small company or from the developing world or a student/academic or other non corporate individual with an interest in SCR/SRI you may be eligible.
• At the heart of economie 06 lies a commitment to advancing education in SRI and CSR, subjects which will play an increasingly important role in our world’s future. As a demonstration of this the young winners of the economie 06 Student Bursary Competition will be attending – we hope you make them welcome!

For more details and registration, visit www.eco6.co.uk .

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