Open Source Economic Development 7GEN Planning ICEIndependence ... Chatting with the President of YOUR UCANX about the origins of YOUR ICEarth: Amy is referenced in our Wayback Machine archives at web.archive.org/web/20040126212811/roulets.net/ICEmusic/MinC/lookInconcert.htm Ill give you a call tomorrow to discuss overall planning for next week. Best. On 6/30/14, Norm Roulet wrote: > Gloria, below are the links to the SOS of Ohio and California for the > original incorporating documents for IntraCom, ICEarth OH, ICEarth CA, > 7GEN and Star Neighborhood Development - IntraCom predates all, to > 1996. Id like IntraCom moved to Dulce, NM, as discussed, and all > others should be consolidated under that, putting our founding at > 01/29/1996. I am sole shareholder and authorize this transfer, to > establish IntraCom Co-Op, to be not-for-profit. See links and let me > know if you or Bernice need to discuss - consider this binding, from > me. > > Business Search by Name > 930113 Business Name INTRACOM CO., LTD. DOMESTIC LIMITED LIABILITY > COMPANY 01/29/1996 01/29/2016 Active - - OHIO > > www2.sos.state.oh.us/pls/bsqry/f?p=100:7:0::NO:7:P7_CHARTER_NUM:930113 > > 1317600 Business Name ICEARTH, LLC DOMESTIC LIMITED LIABILITY > COMPANY 05/10/2002 - Active - - - > > www2.sos.state.oh.us/pls/bsqry/f?p=100:7:0::NO:7:P7_CHARTER_NUM:1317600 > > 1642491 Business Name 7GEN, LLC DOMESTIC LIMITED LIABILITY > COMPANY 08/17/2006 - Active - - - > > www2.sos.state.oh.us/pls/bsqry/f?p=100:7:0::NO:7:P7_CHARTER_NUM:1642491 > > 1688516 Business Name STAR NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT LLC DOMESTIC > LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY 03/23/2007 - Active - - - > > www2.sos.state.oh.us/pls/bsqry/f?p=100:7:0::NO:7:P7_CHARTER_NUM:1688516 > > Entity Name: ICEARTH, INC. > Entity Number: C2437010 > Date Filed: 11/04/2003 > Status: SOS/FTB SUSPENDED > Jurisdiction: CALIFORNIA > Entity Address: 2440 CAMINO RAMON SUITE 225 > Entity City, State, Zip: SAN RAMON CA 94583 > Agent for Service of Process: NORM ROULET > Agent Address: 2440 CAMINO RAMON, SUITE 225 > Agent City, State, Zip: SAN RAMON CA 94583 > > kepler.sos.ca.gov/ > > Note, this registration is suspended, which was intentional. However, > this ICEarth was based in an incubator, in San Ramon, operated by > Contra Costa County, and I consider the COUNTY stakeholders in > ICEarth. I will contact the county administrators to address this. > > On 6/30/14, Norm Roulet wrote: >> Below is an email that added Chris Boucher to our UCANX Board, and >> proposed an Org Chart, with a list of the board members and advisers, >> as of June 22, 2011 - since then, you were made President - all else >> should now be brought up to date. I will investigate Jamie Melvin, as >> his affairs do not appear in order - all my other Ohio/Maine >> recommendations remain valid. >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: Norm Roulet >> Date: Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 8:33 PM >> Subject: IntraCom/UCANX Update: Boucher on Board - Org Dev - Hemp InT+IME >> - >> NEO $ Trillions - Star Dev - Doc Dev - Budgeting >> To: UCANX >> >> >> Dear IntraCom UCANX Board, >> >> Im pleased to provide an update of UCANX related activities and >> developments, as of June 22, 2011. >> >> Introducing Chris Boucher to the UCANX Board of Directors >> UCANX Organizational Development Task Force Update >> InT+IME + ICEarth + IntraCom... UCANX = HEMPX + MMJX >> NEO $ Trillions For Hemp Development Task Force >> Star Neighborhoods For Hemp Development Task Force >> Documentary Development Task Force >> General Budgeting Expectations >> >> IntraCom/UCANX Update: June 22, 2011 >> >> Introducing Chris Boucher to the UCANX Board of Directors. >> >> UCANX Board member/Secretary Gloria Castillo has recommended Chris >> Boucher >> for the UCANX Board of Directors. He is the President of Hempsteads - >> hempsteads/. >> >> I met with Chris on my last trip to California, June 15, and I second the >> nomination (any opposed, please contact Gloria or me). >> >> Chris knows hemp, and is a long-standing and active international hemp >> industry consultant and trader who is well informed on the most current >> industry developments and driving its transformation. Chris is based in >> Southern California and well networked with leaders for legalization of >> hemp in California and world-wide. Chris is also well known for growing >> hemp in the USA - see a proposal from Chris for scaling hemp industry >> development (which we will support through UCANX/HEMPX), with the >> following >> bio material... from HempLogics: >> hemplogic.blogspot/2011/06/america-hemp-start-up-program-2011.html >> : >> >>> In 1994 Chris planted a test crop of industrial hemp in Imperial Valley, >> California with full approval from the USDA. His hemp crop was the first >> industrial hemp crop in the USA for decades. As the crop reached >> maturity, >> the DEA declared his crop illegal because of the trace amounts of THC >> found >> in all industrial hemp and plowed the hemp crop under. >> >> >> Ill let Chris introduce himself more fully as the opportunity arises - >> feel free to get in touch to get acquainted and brainstorm. >> >> Update from the UCANX HEMPX Organizational Development Task Force >> >> During prior UCANX Board planning meetings in Las Cruces, NM, Daniel >> Manuchia, Jack Noel and I formed the UCANX Organizational Development >> Task >> Force (Org Dev Task Force). In my words, the mission of the UCANX Org Dev >> Task Force is to design and put in place a sustainable organization for >> the >> development and long-term operation of the United Cannabis Exchange, >> being >> a system for global hemp and MMJ industries commodities transactions, >> with >> related commercial and social networks, supply chains and enterprise >> resource planning systems, to best scale the global cannabis industries >> worldwide. >> >> Last Saturday and Sunday, June 11-12, the UCANX Org Dev Task Force met in >> Las Cruces to further plan and articulate the UCANX organizational >> structure and identify specific resources we are proposing for funding, >> and >> private initiatives we are supporting through various related operations. >> The Board was notified in advance of these meetings, and this is my >> summary >> report. >> >> Below and attached is a diagram of the organizational structure we >> propose >> for initial development of IntraCom UCANX HEMPX - the Hemp Exchange...: >> >>> IntraCom|UCANX >>> | >>> | >>> HEMPX >>> | >>> | >>> | >>> Hemp Development Task Force >>> (DEVTASK) >>> >>> | >>> | >>> | > Funding >>> | >>> >>> ADMINISTRATION >>> Payroll, office management, bookkeeping >>> >>> PRODUCTION POST HARVEST OPS COMMUNICATIONS AND P.R. >>> >>> -Agronomy -Ag. Engineering -Interviews >>> -Seed acquisition -Processing >> -Videos/Documentaries >>> -Supplies -Testing >> -Internet/Intranet >>> -Breeding/genetics -Biofuels -Education >>> -Microbes, Soil -Hi Tech Use >> -Conferences/Seminars >>> -R &D -Productization -Hemp Heroes >>> -R & D >> -Industry Outreach >>> >> -“Hemp St. Journal” >> >> >> Jack and Daniel have compiled a roster of talented hemp industry >> professionals, listed below, ready to fill key roles in this >> organizational >> structure - other UCANX Board members have indicated interests to fill >> other roles and know people who should be added to the team. >> >> All positions have been volunteer-staffed until funded, and are planned >> to be paid contractor positions until such time as the organization is >> able >> to hire employees full-time. All contractors and ultimately staff are >> budgeted to be paid at fair, competitive market rates... hours to be >> budgeted will be based on developments in the hemp industry, and UCANX >> HEMPX funding and revenues realized from start-up through sustainability. >> >> This is a very flexible organizational structure and so budget. >> >> We are assembling the Brightest Greenest Corps - Hemp Heroes - capable >> to >> help lead on-site development of hemp agriculture and processing at a >> very >> significant level in the USA, as soon as that is legal anywhere in the >> country - this team is designed to go grow hemp where the action is legal >> first, and scale from there. >> >> To this roster, I have added UCANX Board members... who are advisers to >> HEMPX, if not planning to be active in its day-to-day operations. Each >> Board member is encouraged to review this roster below and consider where >> their interests fit in the organization, how actively they want to be >> involved - to the workload, payscale and title level - and who they know >> who should be added to the Board or roster of hemp leaders being >> identified >> to help develop this industry now. >> >> Please contact Jack, Daniel and myself with your interests and >> suggestions. >> >>> PERSONNEL CHART FOR HEMPX DEVELOPMENT TEAM >>> >>> Management and Operations >>> >>> Daniel Manuchia, PhD, President, Agricultural Production Coordinator >>> >>> John Noel, DEVTASK Coordinator/Manager >>> >>> >>> Division Directors >>> >>> Dr. Norwood Yamani, Director of Personal Health and Health Care Products >>> >>> Kevin Glidden, Director of Food Products, International Corporate >>> Outreach >>> >>> Carman Melendrez, PhD, Communications Director, Spokesperson >>> >>> Dana Heacox, M.B.A, Ag Economics, Post Harvest Processing Engineering >>> >>> Gloria Castillo, Chair NMIHC, Director Industrial Relations >>> >>> >>> Technical staff >>> >>> Randy Carr, M.S. GIS Expert, Agricultural Technician >>> >>> Heather Cook, Woody Plant production Specialist, Nursery Production >>> >>> Conrad Nelson, M.S. Candidate, Agricultural Microbiology >>> >>> >>> Advisory Board >>> >>> Jennifer Ryder Fox, PhD, Dean of Agriculture, Chino State (consultant) >>> >>> James T. Fisher, PhD, Professor (Emeritus), Woody Plant Physiology >>> >>> Rich Phillips, M.S., International Agricultural Operations Director >>> >>> Rich Richins, PhD, Analytical Testing >>> >>> Bill Althouse, M.S., Biofuels Operations >>> >>> Agua Das, PhD, Pyrolysis, Biofuels >>> >>> >>> UCANX Board of Directors >>> >>> Norm Roulet, Chair >>> >>> Gloria Castillo, Secretary >>> >>> Lory Kohn >>> >>> Jerry Fuentes >>> >>> Rudy Arredondo >>> >>> Joe Sedillo >>> >>> Agua Das >>> >>> Sergio Lebid >>> >>> Mark LeClair >>> >>> Fred Hargrove >>> >>> Jamie Melvin >>> >>> Daniel Manuchia >>> >>> John Noel >>> >>> Chris Boucher >> >> >> Feel free to provide feedback on these organization planning processes, >> people and plans. >> >> UCANX supports Medical Marijuana (MMJ) Industry development, as well, and >> is forming a separate MMJX Org Dev Task Force to formalize that >> organization. You will be informed of developments with that, which is >> included in general UCANX planning and budgeting. >> >> Hemp InT+IME >> >> I personally bring to UCANX an open source information systems and >> knowledge management matrix supporting development of the hemp and MMJ >> industries, which I presented to the UCANX Org Dev Task Force last week. >> >> This ICEarth (Information Community Earth) matrix of secure, private >> intranetworked databases and electronic data interchanges offers unique >> properties supporting optimal individual intellectual property management >> and e-commerce, which well supports the needs of UCANX Stakeholders. >> >> There will be opportunities for UCANX Board Members to participate in the >> planning of all information systems developed for UCANX. The following is >> an overview of the components I propose and am developing - Ill send out >> specific updates as task forces are formed to steer related developments >> - >> the further implementation and development of this matrix is where I will >> focus most of my personal time and attention going forward. >> >> This matrix is based on unique concepts of cooperative ownership of core >> information systems and individual ownership of ones personal core data >> - >> so HEMPX Members of the ICEarth Cooperative will own the information >> technologies of HEMPX, and HEMPX members will own their individual data, >> including records of all transactions, which shall be stored and secured >> within ICEarth, which they own. All this is global, and so beyond the >> jurisdiction of any individual nation - the technologies shall be hosted >> and replicated in several nations considered favorable to the interests >> of >> UCANX members, by the members - all data transmissions shall be secure. >> >> This open source cooperative-ownership matrix was of great interest to >> journalists at the Journalism That Matters Create or Die 2 Conference, >> which I have previously highlighted to this Board, as it supports optimal >> ownership, management and commercialization of journalists intellectual >> property. >> >> The ICEarth Matrix supports optimal development of the intellectual and >> real property of those in the cannabis industries, as well (briefly >> explained below): >> >> InT+IME + ICEarth + IntraCom... (...UCANX = HEMPX + MMJX) + BigBang + >> 7GEN >> + Star Neighborhood Development + NEO $ Trillions = Global Environmental >> Management System (GEMSys) >> >> InT+IME is the Information Technology and Infrastructure Management >> Exchange, which is an open source performance measurement and >> benchmarking >> system for developing world-class information systems and best practices, >> which I first organized around 1995. I am initiating a Hemp InT+IME >> analysis of commodity exchanges and of cannabis and other agriculture >> industries information systems to benchmark and specify the IT >> capabilities >> required for UCANX data management and integration, to design the >> world-class HEMPX. >> >> ICEarth is Information Community Earth, which is an open source >> cooperative >> information technology system developed via InT+IME, in the 1990s - >> established as an LLC in 2002 - providing individuals the optimal >> information environment for secure personal data storage, management, >> interchange and commerce, all of which will be required for HEMPX. HEMPX >> data will reside in ICEarth databases or be managed via secure ICEarth >> information services - the ICEarth HEMPX environment will be owned by a >> cooperative of the HEMPX members, represented by the Board of Directors, >> and each HEMPX member will own his/her personal/organizational data and >> exclusively manage and profit from that. >> >> IntraCom was founded and incorporated in 1996 to develop an Intranet >> solution for health insurance coordination of benefits (COB), and remains >> well positioned to be the open source cooperative electronic commerce >> system for ICEarth owners/members, including UCANX stakeholders (hemp and >> MMJ growers, producers, suppliers, researchers, physicians, government, >> patients, etc.). Confidential, secure IntraCom INTRANET e-commerce >> systems >> will securely access ICEarth members authorized core personal >> information >> systems to manage and broker their cannabis commerce, and even pay for >> goods and services. >> >> ICEarth+IntraCom+UCANX/HEMPX will provide the most secure and efficient >> information services environment in which to scale the cannabis >> industries >> and conduct cannabis business that is possible. InT+IME performance >> benchmarking makes that certain. Via this matrix, all these technologies >> and services shall be provided to UCANX members/owners in the lowest cost >> and highest values ways, and will be funded through small transaction >> fees >> associated with commercial activity within the environment, which will >> quickly be in the $100s billions. >> >> It is important to note, from this matrix, that all these information >> technologies enable development of GEMSys - Global Environmental >> Management >> System - which will integrate environmental monitoring data and >> management >> capabilities into ICEarth, and offer members/owners interactive >> capabilities to monitor and manage their personal environments - e.g. >> integration with Smart Farms. In the future, environmental monitoring >> will >> be a $ trillion+ industry and environmental data will be increasingly >> important to farmers and citizens in general. >> >> The expectation is the GEMSys capabilities will measure the beneficial >> impacts on our global and local environments realized through the >> legalization and proliferation of hemp in America and worldwide - GENSys >> is >> the green industries feedback system for the world, which will prove our >> positive global impact on public health, environmental justice and >> climate >> change over time. >> >> All ICEarth global information systems have open source roots and orbit >> within the Free Open Source Software (FOSS) operating environment. We use >> technologies which support cloud computing and other means to optimize >> information systems performance, and we have at times developed Big Bang >> Technologies to reduce costs and improve effectiveness... and to >> demonstrate the bleeding-edge of these systems. FOSS offers >> paradigm-shifts >> in cost/performance opportunities, leading to innovations with >> technologies >> like with GIS and enterprise resource planning (ERP) for farming hemp >> never >> possible before. >> >> 7GEN was founded in 2006 to transfer the value of these integrated >> information systems from the clouds to the streets for real life, >> real-time >> individual resource planning and decision-making at home, for the next 7 >> generations. 7GEN planning connects analysis of personal environmental >> factors, being developed as GEMSys, with personal ICEarth and IntraCom >> data, all by leveraging FOSS IT and the FOSS community worldwide. >> >> For HEMPX farmers, 7GEN will integrate global satellite, mapping, >> economic, >> demographic, environmental and weather data with ICEarth and IntraCom >> personal data systems to help determine sites for farming hemp and proper >> inputs, and to plan crop cycles and manage physical farm operations, to >> the >> level of mapping the crop-potentials in various fields, certifying and >> insuring their potential value, contracting futures with hemp customers, >> factoring futures contracts, and providing financing. >> >> Star Neighborhood Development was founded in 2006 to plan overall >> community >> redevelopment around insight and opportunities offered through all of the >> capabilities addressed above. >> >> The First Star Neighborhood planned and being developed is where my >> family >> lives, in East Cleveland, Ohio, and the surrounding region, which is >> extensively documented. This planning includes elimination of many >> significant point source polluters, to be replaced with greener energy >> solutions, and the development of open source software, local foods and >> cannabis industries to support a brighter, greener economy there - >> Making >> Northeast Ohio the Open Source Capital of the Brightest Greenest State of >> Earth. All aspects of this development are being measured and analyzed, >> and this will result in saving millions of life-years in this community >> over very few years... the harm from pollution here is that great. >> >> Other Star Neighborhoods we are planning include for permaculture in >> Monticello, New Mexico, and for hemp energy crop and industry development >> in Ohio, for Dayton Power and Light, and in Arizona, for Arizona Public >> Service - which is explained further in Star Dev Task Force below. >> >> As hemp and MMJ are introduced into more of the American economy and >> global >> industrial mainstream, at local levels, communities and individuals need >> tools to map and implement cannabis economy solutions that fit local >> needs >> and objectives - 7GEN and Star Neighborhood Development are designed to >> optimize the physical development of new economy communities, integrated >> with ICEarth and IntraCom virtual information systems, to transform our >> environment and economy with optimal data management and e-commerce, >> whether with journalism, MMJ, hemp, mesquite or local food. >> >> The open source cooperative information systems environment described >> above >> is an innovation and wealth creation machine, connecting together all the >> worlds people involved in important transformations of global life and >> commerce - a core network of the new economy - and all members need >> financial systems therein to support aspects of their lives and >> operations. >> Some financial systems may remain internal - an ICEarth Credit Union - >> and >> others may require OPM - Other Peoples Money. To bring as much OPM into >> cannabis industries development as possible, as quickly as possible, I >> have >> launched the NEO $ Trillions initiative. >> >> NEO $ Trillions is intended to be an ICEarth foundation, mutual and >> venture >> capital fund, pooling outside funding from all sources to finance ICEarth >> member activities - we will establish a NEO $ Trillions For Hemp Fund to >> draw public and private investment to hemp industry development. >> >> I will discuss funding further in the NEO $ Trillions Task Force and >> General Budgeting Expectations updates below. >> >> Using open source software and open source developers worldwide, the >> implementation of the information systems to support all the functions >> proposed above to make HEMPX operational will not exceed $100,000. The >> information systems operating costs to UCANX members after that shall be >> very minor and captured as a part of fees for transactions within the >> Hemp >> Exchange - the lowest cost, highest value information systems solutions >> possible on Earth. >> >> NEO $ Trillions For Hemp Development Task Force >> >> As I mentioned in the Hemp InT+IME reporting above: To bring as much OPM >> into cannabis industries development as possible, as quickly as possible, >> I >> have launched the NEO $ Trillions initiative... and we shall develop an >> investment fund in that for hemp industry development - NEO $ Trillions >> For >> Hemp. >> >> Funding hemp industry development via NEO $ Trillions For Hemp highlights >> the facts that: >> >> in coming years, there will be $ trillions invested in developing the >> global hemp economy; >> hemp will become a $ trillion economy itself; >> $ trillions in profits will be created for individuals who participate in >> developing this economy now, worldwide. >> these $ trillions are of the NEO - NEW - Economy! >> >> >> ICEarth IntraCom HEMPX shall connect hemp industry investment >> opportunities >> with NEO $ Trillions for hemp. >> >> NEO $ Trillions is an expansion of the CAUSE for Cleveland economic >> development initiative I launched in 2002 - Calling All University School >> Entrepreneurs for Cleveland - whereby I used a unique Intranet of one of >> my >> private virtual communities (all the alumni of my private prep school) to >> ask for collaboration transforming our home region of Northeast Ohio to >> a >> new economy. >> >> University School is a well established, prominent Northeast Ohio college >> preparatory school with an influential alumni population that is >> distributed in positions of leadership, wealth and authority worldwide. >> My >> initial CAUSE outreach attracted the interest of a high percentage of >> these >> alumni, and expanding this platform to the NEO $ Trillions level is an >> appropriate next step for CAUSE and ICEarth. >> >> Growing CAUSE into NEO $ Trillions is a demonstration of the power of >> networks within one degree of separation from you. All relations I am >> first >> calling upon to help drive $ trillions into the cannabis industries are >> associated with the prep school I attended in the 1970s and so separated >> by >> just that one degree from me. We are now distributed world-wide, but >> interconnected via our own private University School Intranet of 1,000s, >> which may move $ trillions. >> >> This Intra-network may direct $ trillions into the cannabis economy at >> many >> levels of funding and investment - some alumni have money to invest in >> general funds and will diversify... some are entrepreneurs looking for >> the >> next big ventures... some own or work for organizations that will have >> futures in hemp... some know the President of the United States... some >> farm - all benefit from having the latest, most-inside information on >> developments with the hemp economy. >> >> I have already contacted the first nodes of my CAUSE network to seek >> support for developing NEO $ Trillions for HEMPX and affiliates, and I >> will >> be contacting all of the 1,000s more. I will not be able to report on the >> specifics of the CAUSE outreach, as all internal communications will be >> rooted from a private Intranet not associated with UCANX, and the members >> of the US Intranet are entitled to the privacy afforded by that private >> virtual community >> >> No matter how integrated we believe our worlds may be, life on Earth is >> still largely controlled by powerful people in closed, private networks >> like of the alumni of private schools. NEO $ Trillions is intended to >> integrate ICEarth member interests with other private Intranet member >> interests, while protecting the privacy of the members of each of those >> networks. UCANX Intranet members shall want such privacy, as well. >> >> Expanding NEO $ Trillions beyond CAUSE, yet remaining within one degree >> of >> separation, I am also contacting 1,000s of other world-leaders in my >> networks about UCANX and the hemp revolution now underway, and will >> encourage each of you to do the same, bringing into play your relations >> one >> degree of separation from you. >> >> Acting as a Board, we have 10,000s of important people one degree away - >> and they have 1,000,000s. >> >> Big jobs, like reinventing rustbelt regions or reintroducing hemp farming >> in America (which may be related), take bold, virtual collaboration by >> millions of people internetworked by big and small private and public >> local >> and global networks, which include you and me and our schools and >> universities. >> >> I expect that within a few weeks of each of us on the UCANX Board >> reaching >> out to everyone in our networks to share a common message of opportunity >> with HEMPX, the cannabis industries shall be sufficiently supported to >> legalize growing hemp in the USA and to scale as is best for the global >> environment and economy, within a knowing information community Earth. >> >> UCANX-related initiatives already seeking NEO $ Trillions For Hemp >> include >> a documentary project about the hemp legalization movement (see Doc Dev >> Task Force below), NanoSpire, Phyto Pharma Testing (PPT), and >> Cannabis-Commerce. >> >> I believe many UCANX Board members are associated with ventures in a >> position to benefit from capital and other types of entrepreneurship >> support - UCANX intends to seed such opportunities through development of >> NEO $ Trillions For Hemp. >> >> In my outreach for funding for NEO $ Trillions For Hemp, I am offering >> the >> opportunity for early participants in this Fund to help with its initial >> organization, management and operations - build that Board of Directors. >> We >> will quickly attract fund managers to support this process - for now, I >> am >> assembling a pledge list of potential funders and managers. As we reach >> some critical mass with this funding process, the Funds management team >> and structure shall be determined, in an open source way, as with >> IntraCom >> and UCANX. >> >> To facilitate this process, we will form a NEO $ Trillions Task Force. >> >> Any UCANX Board Members or associates interested in the development of >> this >> funding process should contact me to join this NEO $ Trillions For Hemp >> Task Force. >> >> If you are associated with hemp-related initiatives seeking funding, >> contact me to add them to the list of prospects for NEO $ Trillions For >> Hemp financing. >> >> Star Neighborhoods Development Task Force >> >> My wife and I do far more than talk about Making Northeast Ohio the Open >> Source Capital of the Brightest Greenest State of Earth, as we live by >> that mission each day. >> >> Beyond initiating CAUSE For Cleveland, we have based ICEarth and IntraCom >> here, and in 2004 founded the realNEO ICEarth-based social network here, >> that has transformed the region - using ICEarth information systems, we >> have exposed major polluters and government corruption and brought change >> against them... so we are saving lives. >> >> Using ICEarth information systems, we have educated the region on the >> importance and coming of the cannabis economies, and primed citizens, >> government and industry here for the opportunities offered by going >> brightest, greenest. >> >> Using ICEarth information systems, we have done all this and much more >> with >> FOSS, educating the community on open source software and economic >> development. >> >> And, using ICEarth information systems, my wife and I have lived >> brightest, >> greenest lives here, buying a boarded-up house in the ghetto... removing >> the lead paint... renovating with milk paint and other low VOC >> coatings... >> adding skylights... retaining historic materials... adding a green >> roof... >> replacing the concrete drive with gravel to reduce run-off... adding rain >> barrels... separating the black and gray water for irrigation... removing >> toxic soil and adding organic material and an organic garden... >> composting... raising chickens to reduce waste and feed the family fresh >> eggs... growing most of our produce during the growing seasons... >> preparing >> for the cannabis economy to come to Ohio... all on a 60x120 foot urban >> lot, >> with a Century Home, and demonstrating all that in the ghetto to our Star >> Neighbors and on-line to millions, so others may follow our good >> examples. >> >> All this thereby converges with 7GEN Planning of physical Star >> Neighborhoods with ICEarth IntraCom virtual economies >> >> The First NEO Star Neighborhood, which my wife and I have pioneered in >> East >> Cleveland, Ohio, shall continue to evolve as our information systems and >> green economies evolve.... and as hemp and MMJ become legal in Ohio, and >> more NEO Trillionaires invest in the community. >> >> UCANX may now plan and drive alignment of appropriate bright green >> resources in other Star Neighborhoods, very quickly. Other Star >> Neighborhoods we are planning include for permaculture in Monticello, New >> Mexico, and for hemp energy crop and industry development in Ohio, for >> Dayton Power and Light, and in Arizona, for Arizona Public Service >> >> Core to 7GEN planning of Star Neighborhoods is the realization climate >> change changes everything, and people and communities must plan brighter, >> greener futures based on better data and information systems, which >> reflect >> real demographic needs and environmental realities. Needs include for >> food, >> energy, water, knowledge and healthcare, which may be addressed locally >> in >> many ways via optimized information systems. These systems may change the >> very communities where they are implemented - they allow for things like >> local power from local hemp, with constellations of resources supporting >> orbits of related hemp enterprises, connected via optimal resource >> distribution grids, resulting in cleaner air and better public health. >> Current community planning systems and leaders are not capable of >> envisioning such things. >> >> Such 7GEN Star Hemp Neighborhood planning is part of my day-to-day life, >> as >> I fight for local green energy alternatives against coal power plants in >> my >> Star Neighborhood of East Cleveland. >> >> 7GEN Star Hemp Neighborhood planning should now become part of UCANX >> planning, as we consider how to grow sufficient hemp to power a coal >> plant >> in Dayton Ohio... how to power plants in Arizona. The funding to advance >> that 7GEN Star Hemp Neighborhood planning is included on a case-by-case >> basis in our proposals to Dayton Power and Light and Arizona Public >> Service. >> >> Over the next few weeks, Jack Noel will assemble more information >> supporting 7GEN planning for developing a Star Permaculture Neighborhood >> in >> Monticello, NM, and I will begin work on 7GEN planning of the hemp supply >> chains that will define Star Hemp Neighborhoods for DP&L and APS - I will >> notify the Board of opportunities for review of these materials and >> feedback. >> >> Documentary Development Task Force >> >> From meetings at the recent Journalism That Matters Create Or Die >> conference, a number of new media initiatives and forces surfaced that >> will >> be valuable in the movements to legalize the farming of hemp in America >> and >> develop the cannabis economies worldwide. >> >> >> The attendees at the Conference, including myself, formed a group called >> the G52 to implement new media initiatives of importance to journalism >> We have discussed using the ICEarth Matrix for journalism intellectual >> property, as explained for UCANX above >> Many G52 members have individually expressed interest in the work of >> UCANX >> and the hemp movement, bringing that to the attention of a significant >> community of journalists, and their networks >> Next generation movements within the G52 are interested to become >> involved >> in the hemp movement further, and bring new media expertise >> >> >> One such next generation new media interest is to do a documentary about >> the legalization of hemp now before us... however that may ultimately >> go-down. >> >> A talented young filmmaker named Tani Ikeda is interested to produce a >> documentary on this, as I introduced in my last Board Update. >> >> Tani has asked me for feedback on concepts for a documentary - Ive >> offered >> some feedback and suggested she speak with other board members. Lory Kohn >> and Chris Bucher are already offering Tani their insight as the kernel of >> the Doc Dev Task Force. >> >> The concept developed will be included in our overall UCANX package of >> proposals for NEO $ Trillions For Hemp funding - view this as a $500,000 >> private venture to be funded by industry-minded VCs, with the objective >> to >> hit the big screen hard and make a profit for the filmmaker and >> investors... hemp is the subject. >> >> You know my expectation is that we will be legalizing planting hemp THIS >> SUMMER in the USA. As such, I expect the real action with hemp will occur >> over the next few weeks... if not, we will be looking at a whole new set >> of >> issues, over a longer timetable, and will focus UCANX planning on >> international developments. >> >> I want to now connect Tani, bccd on this update, with any board members >> interested to help with this project - I know Gloria and the folks in NM >> are involved in the film industry and interested to support this >> initiative... does anyone else want to help produce a documentary? >> >> If you are interested to join the Documentary Development Task Force, >> speak >> up - email me and I will send you all the current supporting concepts, >> budgets, etc. >> >> To contact Tani, email Tani Ikeda >> >> General Budgeting Expectations >> >> Development of UCANX to date has been self-funded through the work of >> concerned citizens who are transforming the global cannabis economies. We >> have self-organized into a Board of Directors, and completed a thorough >> pre-funding planning process that has established an organizational >> structure, staffing roster and business plan for developing a sustainable >> commodities exchange and scalable hemp economy worldwide. >> >> Based on the high quality of people, processes and plans set in place, >> this >> undertaking is ready to fund at this stage of operations. I have >> initiated >> the funding process with a call out to likely qualified investors through >> the NEO $ Trillions initiative - this shall spark the activity of >> early-stage angels within a few weeks. >> >> The UCANX Org Dev Task Force projects HEMPX year-1 operating costs of >> approximately $1,000,000 - which is a safe, round number. I recommend >> budgeting $100,000 of that for HEMPX information systems development. >> Initial revenues shall come from memberships in HEMPX and fees for hemp >> transaction processing - while hemp is illegal to grow in the USA, it is >> grown worldwide and traded in the USA... HEMPX is ready to enroll members >> and support global industry transactions now. >> >> I believe the best method for funding start-up costs in excess of >> operating >> revenues is to arrange a line of credit from NEO $ Trillions or related >> investors for loans to HEMPX, a division of IntraCom. IntraCom is >> intended >> to be a cooperative, and so should not issue stock or release equity >> ownership. Loans do not prevent restructuring of IntraCom into a >> cooperative, but secondary ownership interests may. Loans may also be >> structured quickly and informally. >> >> I currently own all the equity of ICEarth, IntraCom, 7GEN and Star >> Neighborhood Development and will contribute them to this undertaking for >> reorganization into cooperatives or as otherwise decided under the >> leadership of appropriate officers and boards of directors. >> >> I am actively seeking parties interested to take a leadership role in >> development of NEO $ Trillions for Hemp, starting with a line of credit >> or >> loan for completing development of the HEMPX Organization and Exchange. >> Such early-stage investors will have a preferred position in helping to >> structure NEO $ Trillions, offering an early stage position to invest and >> profit otherwise in the development of these industries. >> >> Grant and government economic development funding shall be considered as >> well. >> >> Ill be spreading the word and will encourage you to do so as well - Im >> preparing materials about this for the investor world now, and will >> forward >> you copies for review and use. >> >> Please contact me with any feedback or questions, or in response to >> action >> items herein. Ill be in contact on specific next steps. >> >> Until we are fully funded, my priority is lining up commitments into the >> NEO $ Trillions For Hemp fund, and getting that structured to fund HEMPX >> development. Ill be in contact with the Board to more fully detail that >> process by the end of the week. >> >> -- >> Norm Roulet >> ICEarth icearth.drupalgardens/content/january-17-2011-intracom-ucanx-board-update >> norm.roulet@gmail >> 216-688-5221
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