May 1 2012: I have heard about this "one laptop / kid" program awhile back and I thought that maybe if this program is combined with what we have done or attempted in the rural schools in the troubled areas in the Philippines (my country) this would really blow one's mind! We had this project of getting the students to plant 500 trees and in return the school gets one 2nd hand desktop set. Plant 2000 trees and the school gets 4 desktops. If you give 10 laptops and in return it has to plant 2000 trees! Wouldn't that be a lot wonderful? 2000 times a lot better! Just think of what 2000 more trees can do to the environment? Give me 1,000 laptops and we'll plant 5,000,000 trees! How's that? Our project was so hot that schools in the periphery of the project was practically begging to be included in the project! Maybe Mr. Negroponte should add this concept to his project, even if it is not in the Philippines. In many developing countries this idea will hit the jackpot!
Apr 17 2012: Mr. Gates and Mr. Hansen talks about what our present generation will have to do to avert the catastrophic scenarios of climate change. We believe that we must also do something to get the trees planted to absorb the CO2 already in the atmosphere and to get the next or succeeding generations to be aware of the problem and do what can be done to continue the effort in their own time.
Towards this end, in our own little world we have conceived of an innovative way on how to get the next generation to care about the environment and plant millions of trees to capture and store the CO2 in the atmosphere. We have already done it. And because it is so simple and its cost is so cheap ($1/tree) we strongly believe that we can do it again many times over, anywhere. We simply motivated our young students in our rural schools to plant trees by giving them in exchange used desktop computers. Each student plant a tree or two as his personal contribution to the effort! For every 500 trees that they plant, their schools get one computer set. The more computers they want, the more trees they have to plant. It is not only a novel way of getting the trees planted, but it is also a way of opening the worlds of the students to the magic of the computer age and the internet! If provided with discs about the environment and their roles in making it livable, it will certainly blow their minds.
What the idea really needs now are people who believe enough to fuel the transformation of the idea into reality!
WE HAVE DONE IT BEFORE
We planted 200,000+ TREES -
Benefited 100+ SCHOOLS -
Given 400+ COMPUTERS –
Benefited 200,000+ STUDENTS
WE CAN DO IT AGAIN FOR 1 YEAR
Plant 1,000,000 trees
Benefit 100,000 students
Give 2,000 computers
For ONLY $1,000,000
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Towards this end, in our own little world we have conceived of an innovative way on how to get the next generation to care about the environment and plant millions of trees to capture and store the CO2 in the atmosphere. We have already done it. And because it is so simple and its cost is so cheap ($1/tree) we strongly believe that we can do it again many times over, anywhere. We simply motivated our young students in our rural schools to plant trees by giving them in exchange used desktop computers. Each student plant a tree or two as his personal contribution to the effort! For every 500 trees that they plant, their schools get one computer set. The more computers they want, the more trees they have to plant. It is not only a novel way of getting the trees planted, but it is also a way of opening the worlds of the students to the magic of the computer age and the internet! If provided with discs about the environment and their roles in making it livable, it will certainly blow their minds.
What the idea really needs now are people who believe enough to fuel the transformation of the idea into reality!
WE HAVE DONE IT BEFORE
We planted 200,000+ TREES -
Benefited 100+ SCHOOLS -
Given 400+ COMPUTERS –
Benefited 200,000+ STUDENTS
WE CAN DO IT AGAIN FOR 1 YEAR
Plant 1,000,000 trees
Benefit 100,000 students
Give 2,000 computers
For ONLY $1,000,000
CAN BE DONE FOR 5 YRS FOR 10M TREES