MarkRoest,  June 7, 2009, HolisticHelping
Dear Janet, Andrius and All,
Last Sunday I spent several hours at the Maker Fair (see Make Magazine's website) and afterward discussing his family of inventions for sustainability, and the associated business opportunities. I thought of you all, and this seems like a good point to introduce it.
Jon is the head of Kyoto, Free is the Sun, www.kyoto-energy.com. I would like to invite discussion with you all about setting up one or more distributorships (larger scale) and / or dealerships (local level) to retail his product line. The Kyoto Family product group is particularly appropriate for small social ventures created by and around both Independent Thinkers and mutual support groups. This will generate real revenues, and it will also pave the way to creating complex solar businesses -- look at the Butterfly, which generates 800 watts per panel, plus 400 degree Celcius air and 70 degree C water from cooling the panels (it's a concentrating collector, 12 feet long, and tracks the sun on two axes!). That business can create revenues that can be the capital for building the houses he designed, which will sell for $1000 per 100 square foot (9 square meters) module, which can be arranged 4 around a central space, which needs floor and roof to make a 5th module -- 500 square feet of high-tech living space, with eco-utilities, for $5000.
Please let me know if you would like to participate in planning this social business venture. David Alan Foster, David's employer, and I are also building a solar sales business, Renewables West, which can source and sell globally; see www.renewableswest.com. That is probably the vehicle we will use to work with Jon.
Jon has a franchising system to make learning and managing relatively easy, but the minimum container-load shipments and Jon's habit of making products that start flat for shipping, mean large-budget purchases -- probably on the order of $50,000 to $150,000. That means we need to, and have the opportunity to, aggregate orders from multiple dealers and distributors, as long as we can cover the financing and get the loads broken down and safely shipped to their destinations. Who has more ideas and resources?
Hello All!
Sorry, I forgot to mention that Jon also set up a carbon credits operation, so the cost of the energy saving and producing hardware can be recovered from selling them to people in Germany, and he also has financing, although I don't know the details yet. In other words, this thing is set up to succeed, and to empower low-income populations to succeed too -- in fact, that is his purpose in doing it in the first place!
So do you want to make a difference with something that will go global, while empowering holistichelping and your other groups?
Please let me know, and give me a sense of the scale you think you can operate on, by direct email, as well as posting: MarkLRoest@gmail.com.
By the way, I realized that some will ask what the relationship of my communication is to the posting: I responded to the phrase, "winning by sharing"!, because that is what I am seeking here, along with the others in the network in the San Francisco Bay area.
Thu, 11 Jun 09 14:44:55 +0000 umesh rashmi rohatgi: wonderful ideas and peoplewho wish to start social enterprises should look into it.
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