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Making Life Better for People
By Jim Cathcart, The Acorn Letter, Vol. 3, Issue
1, 1996
For many years I have been following the work of
a wonderful man Peter Meisen. Peter has taken on the
mission of furthering the work of R. Buckminster Fuller,
one of the great geniuses of this century. Fuller,
known best as the inventor of the geodesic dome, devised
a plan by which all the people of the world could
both improve their standards of living and eliminate
the need to take things from each other. Think on
that for a minute. If that were accomplished we would
have a virtual heaven on earth.
Fuller determined by exhaustive scientific study
that we really are capable of doing this. There is
enough renewable energy (not fossil fuels) on earth
to meet all the electrical needs of all the population
centers in the world for hundreds of years to come.
The problem is that this energy is either in remote
regions or is being used only in certain political
fiefdoms.
If we could connect energy lines across time zones
and political boundaries, it is possible to provide
for everybod's energy needs...everybodv's. He further
discovered that when people had access to affordable
adequate energy; healthcare improved, education advanced,
and, most surprising of all, population growth leveled
off or decreased! Now if that is not adequate motivation
for the world to cooperate, I don't know what could
be.
Peter Meisen took it upon himself to not let this
idea die with Dr. Fuller. Peter formed Global Energy
Network International, GENI, based in San Diego and
has been circling the globe meeting with heads of
state and environmental leaders to further this cause.
At last report, Peter said that fifty two countries
are now connected and are sharing energy across borders,
time zones and continents.
Meisen says, "Everything is the function of an electron
going through a wire. We (developed nations) have
a lot of it (energy) and 2 billion people have none.
We have the technology to transmit high voltage power
4,000 miles. Yet some cities have to shut down their
power plants occasionally due to a lack of resources.
That means the machines, lights and appliances also
shut down... and often so does learning. This cannot
and should not continue."
GENI's offices in Russia, Alaska, New Zealand, Germany
and Australia are staffed by volunteers. The organization,
whose motto is "Committed to improving the quality
of life for everyone without damage to the planet,"
is led by Peter Meisen and a full time marketing director
based in San Diego. Individual donations are their
primary revenue source. They mail the GENI newsletter
to every president aud prime minister in the world.
If you too would like to know about GENI and encourage
their work for all of us, contact them at:
GENI
P.O. Box 81565
San Diego, CA 92138
Phone 619-595-0139
Fax 619-595-0403
E-mail: info@geni.org
Website: http://www.geni.org
Peter Meisen with Mikhail Gorbachev
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