The Industrial Age economic model creates money out of thin air and requires the living people and the Earth pay the bill in labor and natures resources. When peoples labor pays the bill a debt crisis is eventually created with poverty the inevitable result; when nature pays the bill the environment is damaged. This economic model based on competiton and conflict has created a legacy of debt, and a withering planetary environment.

Who will Solve these Problems?
Click on a Sector to view Identified partners & friends.

Extreme Poverty results in Unsustainable Development.

Our flagship project to address poverty, Prosperity Program, utilizes the FDU economic model to overcome extreme poverty by providing individuals with access to information age markets, currency, and exchange systems. Combating poverty is the objective of Millennium Development Goal 1

Education is a Human Right critical for Sustainable Development.

Goal 2: Achieve universal primary education

Indicators

Above is the documentary prepared for the 2010 Peace Day Global Broadcast on Millennium Development Goal 2:
Achieve Universal Primary Education

Target 2a: Ensure that all boys and girls complete a full course of primary schooling

2.1 Net enrollment ratio in primary education
2.2 Proportion of pupils starting grade 1 who reach last grade of primary
2.3 Literacy rate of 15-24 year-olds, women and men

In almost all regions, the net enrollment ratio in 2006 exceeded 90 per cent, and many countries were close to achieving universal primary enrolment.

The number of children of primary school age who were out of school fell from 103 million in 1999 to 73 million in 2006, despite an overall increase in the number of children in this age group.

These successes underscore that much can be accomplished with the political will of governments and with adequate support from development partners.

MDG 2 Solutions:

One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Computers: Hand cranked computers for learning from a distance so children from the most impoverished places have access to education. see video

Room To Read: Partners with local communities throughout the developing world to provide quality education by establishing libraries, constructing schools, and providing educators. see video

SEWA Nepal: Providing civil institutions, parents and individuals with emotional literacy education.

INVENEO: Provides people at the local level with Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) systems thereby empowering a means for them to prosper from the global marketplace of goods and ideas, get educated, and through telemedicine improves a number a health issues. See Video: CNN Gobal Challenges

'Back to School?' - the worst places to be a school child

20 September 2010 ~ The Global Campaign for Education today launched their report 'Back to School?' of the worst places to be a school child in 2010. Somalia and Haiti have topped a list of the world’s worst places to be a school child as a new report from the Global Campaign for Education, backed by organisations including Education International, Oxfam, Plan, Save the Children and VSO warned that poor countries are teetering on the brink of an education crisis with the growth in access to education now stalling.

The agencies, which are part of the Global Campaign for Education who authored the report shows how, despite promises from leaders across the world, chronic under investment in education means that 69 million children are still out of school.

Human Rights make a life worth living.

Through the United Nations conventions and agreements you have Human Rights which have been agreed to and are recognized, following are links to pages explaining those rights and the text of United Nations documents relating to each. Know your Rights!

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Convention on the Rights of the Child

International Right to Equal Remuneration

International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

Right to Organize and Collective Bargaining

Universal Declaration on Cultural Diversity

Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Rights

Freedom From Racial Discrimination

Human Genome & Human Rights

Charter of the United Nations

Convention Against Torture

Convention Against Genocide

The Geneva Conventions

UN Declarations and Resolutions on AIDS

UN Human Rights Council
General Assembly resolution establishing the Council, latest news, meetings, events, membership.

High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)

Human Rights Day
Statements, General Assembly commemoration, additional resources.

Shall we let starvation continue when we could prevent it?

Peace Portal friends or partners supported for their efforts in combating hunger, starvation, and the long term causes of this catastrophe include:

Feed the Children: responds to disasters worldwide, with focus on feeding children. Last year, they shipped 135 million pounds of food and other essentials to children, supplementing almost 800,000 meals a day worldwide.

Directions International: organization of Dr. Mehelinda Gaborne-Sison, dedicted to ensuring no child or mother need go hungry. She has worked in many developing countries, is coordinating our Peace Portal partnerships in the health and food sectors, and is the Executive Trustee of the Peace Portal Humanitarian Trust.

Action Against Hunger: saving the lives of malnourished children and their families while ensuring access to safe water and sustainable solutions to hunger.

Trees for Life: growing trees to produce food.

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Health is the real wealth, one who has health, has hope.

Beneficiaries of the Peace Portal Humanitarian Trust that are supported for their efforts in combating child mortality from disease, HIV/AIDS, and general health care include:

Dcotors Without Borders: international medical humanitarian organization working in nearly 60 countries to assist people whose survival is threatened by violence, neglect, or catastrophe.	MineSeekers Foundation: providing detection,identification and removal of landmines. By rehablitating the land and ensuring that the the communities afffected have sustainable futures.
SEVA: for nearly 30 years, Seva Foundation has served people around the world who are struggling for health, cultural survival and sustainable communities.	Global Health Program: aspect of the Gates Foundation, they provide vaccines, drugs, and other tools to fight diseases common in developing countries; and research new health solutions.

We have borrowed the Earth from our children, time to give back ~ Goal 7: Ensure environmental sustainability

Indicators

Target 7a: Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programmes; reverse loss of environmental resources

Target 7b: Reduce biodiversity loss, achieving, by 2010, a significant reduction in the rate of loss

Above is the documentary prepared for the 2010 Peace Day Global Broadcast on Millennium Development Goal 7: Environmental Sustainability

7.1 Proportion of land area covered by forest
7.2 CO2 emissions, total, per capita and per $1 GDP (PPP)
7.3 Consumption of ozone-depleting substances
7.4 Proportion of fish stocks within safe biological limits
7.5 Proportion of total water resources used
7.6 Proportion of terrestrial and marine areas protected
7.7 Proportion of species threatened with extinction

Target 7c: Reduce by half the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation

7.8 Proportion of population using an improved drinking water source
7.9 Proportion of population using an improved sanitation facility

Target 7d: Achieve significant improvement in lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers, by 2020

7.10 Proportion of urban population living in slums

Are we on target?
Carbon dioxide emissions reached 28 billion metric tons in 2005 and continued upward, resulting in increased atmospheric concentrations of CO2. Globally, emissions increased by 30 per cent from 1990 to 2005, with annual growth from 2000 to 2005 greater than in the preceding decade.

From 1990 to 2005, changes in emissions ranged from a 38 per cent decline in countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States to an 82 per cent increase in South-Eastern Asia. Per capita emissions remain the highest in the developed regions, about 12 metric tons of CO2 per person per year, compared with about 3 metric tons in developing regions and 0.8 metric tons in sub-Saharan Africa. Emissions per unit of economic output fell by more than 20 per cent in the developed regions, while they increased by 35 per cent in South-Eastern Asia and by 25 per cent in North Africa.

~ Above content on this page comes from pased on the UNDP website located at http://www.undp.org

MDG 7 Solutions

Bloom Box: new device that can generate power on the spot, without being connected to the electric grid, that's inexpensive and clean, with no emissions. see video: Lesley Stahl on 60 Minutes

Aprovecho Rocket Stoves: This ingenious technology decreases pressures on deforestation, health disease caused by smoke, and pollution form open fires.

Roots & Shoots: The Jane Goodall Institute’s global environmental and humanitarian program for youth, Roots & Shoots, includes 7000 groups in 80 countries. There are chapters in schools, community centers, and homes around the world, involving students from kindergarten to university age.

Paulownia Tree: Fastest growing Hardwood Tree on Earth. it can be used for reforestation, sustainable lumber and fuel.

Vegawatt: The Vegawatt biofuel generator is an exellent solution for the up-cycling of used cooking oil waste. It includes a turn-key waste vegetable oil (WVO) refinery, automatically transforming waste cooking oil to a readily available source of fuel to generate on-site electricity and hot water.

One World Youth Project: Unique middle & high school curriculum for its participating groups which focuses on the MDGs, cultural exchange, and service work.

Miracle Corners of the World (MCW): Works closely with community members and leaders, educational institutions, governmental agencies and not-for-profit organizations on a global basis to develop programs that advance cross-cultural understanding and promote sustainable improvements in the education, healthcare and economic well-being.

TakingITGlobal (TIG): An international organization –led by youth and enabled by technology. TIG connects youth to find inspiration, access information, get involved, and take action to improve their local and global communities.

Solar Fridge: Small portable unit requiring no outside power source that is used to keep food cool for days so it does not spoil.

SolarFlex Fruit & Vegetable Dryer: Passive solar fruit and vegetable dryer that has a flexible design and is inexpensive to manufacture. Drying fruits and vegetables with this system is a cost effective long-term food storage solution that requires no external electricity to operate, and eliminates the need for chemical preservatives.

We seek to live in Peace, will you help.

Peace Portal friends & partners participating in Peace programs include:

EarthDance: sponsoring a yearly global peace festival synchronized in over 300 locations spanning 60 countries, "Give Peace a Dance."	Culture of Peace: a United Nations-designated Peace Messenger Initiative, coordinated by Pathways To Peace. The annual highlight of the initiative is International Day of Peace.
Peace Villages: bridging the fields of peacemaking, education, the arts and media through inter-faith community development projects. Premeir Partner	Peace Music Project: world wide Open-Source music Project allowing for a collaborative effort of musicians from across the globe. This is a global jam for Peace! Platform Partner

We work to achieve UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)

Millennium Development Goals Documentary as shown on the 2010 Peace Day Global Broadcast

UNDP Global Progress Report

The UNDP (United Nations Development Programme) most succinctly describes the Millennium Development Goals in terms of their specific targets, which:

synthesise, in a single package, many of the most important commitments made separately at the international conferences and summits of the 1990s;
recognize explicitly the interdependence between growth, poverty reduction and sustainable development;
acknowledge that development rests on the foundations of democratic governance, the rule of law, respect for human rights and peace and security;
are based on time-bound and measurable targets accompanied by indicators for monitoring progress; and
bring together, in the eighth Goal, the responsibilities of developing countries with those of developed countries, founded on a global partnership endorsed at the International Conference on Financing for Development in Monterrey, Mexico in March 2002, and again at the Johannesburg World Summit on Sustainable Development in August 2002.

Functionally, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are eight goals which nations of the world have contractually pledge to cooperatively achieve by 2015 that respond to the world's main development and humanitarian challenges.

The MDGs are drawn from the actions and targets contained in the United Nations Millennium Declaration that was adopted by 189 nations-and signed by 147 heads of state and governments during the UN Millennium Summit in September 2000.

The eight MDGs break down from 8 general Goals in to 21 quantifiable targets. The targets are explained on the pages dedicated to each Goal, please explore each one by clicking on the links below.