Monday, October 19, 2009
Climate change action day
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Thursday, October 15, 2009
Official Opening of Santo Coconut Oil Mill, Vanuatu
Its a great day in Louganville...main town of Espiritu Santo in Vanuatu. After many years of struggling in receivership, COPS Coconut Oil Production Santo Limited officially open the doors again today under the leadership of CEO Bernie Glaser.
Coconuts are a traditional income for around 70% of islands communities and can thus play a pivotal role in the economic empowerment of island nations. At the same time, coconut oil is historically the most price volatile commodity in the world, islands nations are fraught with logistical pitfalls and for may years growers of coconuts and producers of copra have not received their fair share of income.
It is thus accepting a great challenge when the new management team of COPS has committed themselves to an open and transparent system in trading and endeavour to use the mill as a platform for economic empowerment through price and information sharing with growers.
The systems are yet to be put in place, but the commitment is there to operate an ethical and sustainable manner, a significant step forward from many other such operations in the Pacific and around the world.
We look forward to the opportunity to work with COPS to ensure that the aims of all participants, ...farmers, copra producers and the mill can be achieved in a holistic and transparent supply chain management system.
Coconuts are a traditional income for around 70% of islands communities and can thus play a pivotal role in the economic empowerment of island nations. At the same time, coconut oil is historically the most price volatile commodity in the world, islands nations are fraught with logistical pitfalls and for may years growers of coconuts and producers of copra have not received their fair share of income.
It is thus accepting a great challenge when the new management team of COPS has committed themselves to an open and transparent system in trading and endeavour to use the mill as a platform for economic empowerment through price and information sharing with growers.
The systems are yet to be put in place, but the commitment is there to operate an ethical and sustainable manner, a significant step forward from many other such operations in the Pacific and around the world.
We look forward to the opportunity to work with COPS to ensure that the aims of all participants, ...farmers, copra producers and the mill can be achieved in a holistic and transparent supply chain management system.
Saturday, October 10, 2009
Fair & Organic in Fiji
bula vinaka from Fiji....just completed our certification of our partner Bula Organics.. for the start of 2010 our Nui soaps will be hand made in Fiji again....for anyone to support this initiative please consider for your next purchase http://www.nuicoconut.com/australia/nui_products_AUS/nui_bodybar.htm
...vinaka vakalevu ..thank you very much
...vinaka vakalevu ..thank you very much
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Historic day as COPS Ltd (Coconut Oil Products Santo) in Santo, Vanuatu, starts purchasing copra for the refurbished coconut oil mill. The aim is to usher in a new system of commercial partnership arrangement, including African Pacific and all coconut farmers of the Archipelago.
One of the mandated aims of the business model applied within the systems is a complete track and trace system that will allow all stakeholders to understand the mills impact on the nation wit the goal to measurably improve the livelihoods of the growers on economic, social and environmental levels.
I am extremely please to be involved in this project and look forward to be able to chart the progress of the COPS and all stakeholders in Vanuatu in this endeavour.
Please do not contact me should you have any interest in having more information.
One of the mandated aims of the business model applied within the systems is a complete track and trace system that will allow all stakeholders to understand the mills impact on the nation wit the goal to measurably improve the livelihoods of the growers on economic, social and environmental levels.
I am extremely please to be involved in this project and look forward to be able to chart the progress of the COPS and all stakeholders in Vanuatu in this endeavour.
Please do not contact me should you have any interest in having more information.
Sunday, September 27, 2009
William Wordsworth: The World Is Too Much with Us (1807)
The world is too much with us; late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers;
Little we see in Nature that is ours;
We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!
This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon,
The winds that will be howling at all hours,
And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers,
For this, for everything, we are out of tune;
It moves us not.--Great God! I'd rather be
A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn; (1)
So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, (2)
Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn;
Have sight of Proteus (3) rising from the sea;
Or hear old Triton (4) blow his wreathed horn.
(1) Brought up in an outdated religion.
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers;
Little we see in Nature that is ours;
We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!
This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon,
The winds that will be howling at all hours,
And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers,
For this, for everything, we are out of tune;
It moves us not.--Great God! I'd rather be
A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn; (1)
So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, (2)
Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn;
Have sight of Proteus (3) rising from the sea;
Or hear old Triton (4) blow his wreathed horn.
(1) Brought up in an outdated religion.
(2) Meadow.
(3) Greek sea god capable of taking many shapes.
(4) Another sea god, often depicted as trumpeting on a shell.
Monday, March 23, 2009
Koko Samoa: an ingredient for an organic economy
Greetings from Samoa. What a beautiful place to be! I am hear as part of a joint team working to understand better how to integrate traditional farming systems, conservation of biodiversity and international trade.Quite a challenge, especially given all the failures of the past to sustainably assimilate these at time divergent aspirations. However, it is a wonderful opportunity to learn, compare and start a fresh in this new paradigm of change.Samoa has a unique cocoa industry in which the tradition of consuming cocoa has become an integral part of the daily life for Samoans both here and those living in around the world. Koko Samoa, a roasted and crushed cocoa paste, serves as a daily beverage ad a substitute for tea and coffee, as well as sweet rice breakfast dish and many a desert.
Comparing the Samoan cocoa experience to the rest of the Pacific nations such as Bougainville, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu, in which cocoa is still only regarded as an export crop, will indeed make for interesting analysis. What I have learnt to far, is given the complex structure of the local industry in relation to diverse products and local markets....It is the farmers who control the price of cocoa in Samoa. Now when last did we see a situation where farmers are price makers and not price takers.
Interesting indeed, with more to follow, but definitely an aspect of an organic economy that should be investigated in more detail.
Greetings from Samoa. What a beautiful place to be! I am hear as part of a joint team working to understand better how to integrate traditional farming systems, conservation of biodiversity and international trade.Quite a challenge, especially given all the failures of the past to sustainably assimilate these at time divergent aspirations. However, it is a wonderful opportunity to learn, compare and start a fresh in this new paradigm of change.Samoa has a unique cocoa industry in which the tradition of consuming cocoa has become an integral part of the daily life for Samoans both here and those living in around the world. Koko Samoa, a roasted and crushed cocoa paste, serves as a daily beverage ad a substitute for tea and coffee, as well as sweet rice breakfast dish and many a desert.
Comparing the Samoan cocoa experience to the rest of the Pacific nations such as Bougainville, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu, in which cocoa is still only regarded as an export crop, will indeed make for interesting analysis. What I have learnt to far, is given the complex structure of the local industry in relation to diverse products and local markets....It is the farmers who control the price of cocoa in Samoa. Now when last did we see a situation where farmers are price makers and not price takers.
Interesting indeed, with more to follow, but definitely an aspect of an organic economy that should be investigated in more detail.
Sunday, February 1, 2009
inorganic+time=organic
Week 5, 31 January 2009
NY Confessions
What a month! 2009, solar eclipse, out with year of the rat, and in with the Ox. Already I have two confessions.
Firstly this has been one of the best months of my life: Professionally, Personally and Planetary. This does not mean it has been an easy one, not at all. It may have even been one of the hardest. My dearest Mutti has taken ill back in the home country, I left my beautiful family in South Australia and the disciplinary effect of our tough economic times is hurting my image as a mr nice guy. Yet somehow, somewhere my life continues to flow in harmony and the gratitude that arises brings pure joy. So I wish to thank all those who continue indulge me and my endless economic adventures.
Secondly, I have become a self help junkie. Tolle, Martha Beck, Byron Katie, Jacob and anyone who can shed light on the subject of Ego. This has affected all my thinking, and has opened me to edit my long held title of : The Organic Economy.
Far from being unique and something for me to define, “The Organic Economy“ is in fact just the reality in which we live, like it or not. Discussed ad nauseam in every possible way, by everyone. In the study of human interaction in relation to our unlimited wants and limited resources. We are all intrinsically linked, warts and all and its definition is our reality. It is today. It just is… It is as human as you are, we are and I am. Welcome to planet earth...
The only thing I can cast thought on, is My Organic Economy! This is my personal diatribe…which I may define, ..describe, ..discuss, …enact, ..change…and in which I can influence my anxiety of the my own scarcity paradigm But more than my thoughts and intention, I wish to document my actions, publicly it seems. I am a “wanna be” eco activist who subscribes to the words of Aristotle.
Is his wisdom, he wrote; “Reading makes a knowledgeable person; Writing makes a precise one” None of my thoughts or actions are new or novel….but this is my soap box. So welcome, homo economicus to www.myorganiceconomy.com.
I start with from simple hypothesis: inorganic+time=organic
NY Confessions
What a month! 2009, solar eclipse, out with year of the rat, and in with the Ox. Already I have two confessions.
Firstly this has been one of the best months of my life: Professionally, Personally and Planetary. This does not mean it has been an easy one, not at all. It may have even been one of the hardest. My dearest Mutti has taken ill back in the home country, I left my beautiful family in South Australia and the disciplinary effect of our tough economic times is hurting my image as a mr nice guy. Yet somehow, somewhere my life continues to flow in harmony and the gratitude that arises brings pure joy. So I wish to thank all those who continue indulge me and my endless economic adventures.
Secondly, I have become a self help junkie. Tolle, Martha Beck, Byron Katie, Jacob and anyone who can shed light on the subject of Ego. This has affected all my thinking, and has opened me to edit my long held title of : The Organic Economy.
Far from being unique and something for me to define, “The Organic Economy“ is in fact just the reality in which we live, like it or not. Discussed ad nauseam in every possible way, by everyone. In the study of human interaction in relation to our unlimited wants and limited resources. We are all intrinsically linked, warts and all and its definition is our reality. It is today. It just is… It is as human as you are, we are and I am. Welcome to planet earth...
The only thing I can cast thought on, is My Organic Economy! This is my personal diatribe…which I may define, ..describe, ..discuss, …enact, ..change…and in which I can influence my anxiety of the my own scarcity paradigm But more than my thoughts and intention, I wish to document my actions, publicly it seems. I am a “wanna be” eco activist who subscribes to the words of Aristotle.
Is his wisdom, he wrote; “Reading makes a knowledgeable person; Writing makes a precise one” None of my thoughts or actions are new or novel….but this is my soap box. So welcome, homo economicus to www.myorganiceconomy.com.
I start with from simple hypothesis: inorganic+time=organic
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