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The Global Marshall Plan Initiative views itself as an integrative organizational platform for a "world in balance". Composed of a network of more than 5000 supporters from all levels of society, brought together from politics, economics and civil society, the Initiative is based on five core goals for fair globalization. Through its network-like character, it is organized through even hierarchies and without a centre. Everyone is invited to actively participate and take action with their circles and the accompanying opportunities to implement a World in Balance! The goal of the Global Marshall Plan Initiative is to establish a framework compatible with sustainability for the global economy – a global Eco-Social Market Economy. == Origins == The idea of a “Global Marshall Plan” was first published in 1990 by U.S. politician, entrepreneur and environmentalist Al Gore in his book “Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit”. The choice of name deliberately recalls the historical Marshall Plan after the Second World War (officially: European Recovery Program), a symbol for hope, solidarity and peace. The idea of a Global Marshall Plan was not new but had already been endorsed in the 1990s by personalities from a variety of sectors: Kofi Annan, Al Gore, Hans Küng, Susan George, Mikhail Gorbachov, His Royal Highness Prince El Hassan bin Talal of Jordan, George Soros, Lutz Wicke, Georg Winter and many others (Global Contract). As early as the beginning of the 1990s an ecological Marshall Plan was established by prominent personalities such as journalist Franz Alt and German Green politician Joscka Fisher. Along with many other supporters, they called for the establishment of an eco-social market economy, 100 billion DM put towards the environment every year and a Kerosin tax. As the world increasingly finds itself in a difficult, unsustainable situation as a result of rapid globalization, both in terms of environmental issues, poverty and unequal distribution, as well as the disproportionate cultural balance, on 16 May 2003 representatives from 16 civil society organizations revived the original idea for a global Marshall Plan as a movement for world peace, sustainability and justice, and at the Frankfurt airport, the Global Marshall Plan initiative was launched. Since the initiative should be organized as a network, i.e. locally and without hierarchies, the coordination of tasks and activities was assigned to different people and institutions: the coordination of content was taken up by Prof. Dr. Franz-Josef Radermacher as Head of FAW/n, politicians, and Josef Riegler, with particular importance on an EU level and the Eco-Social Forum Europe. The coordination, initiation and promotion of supporters’ activities internationally were assigned the Global Contract Foundation and Frithjof Finkbeiner. Due to the enormous positive response and the wide range of activities, this commission was soon transferred to the Global Marshall Plan Foundation. The long-term goal of the initiative is to establish a global eco-social market economy and alter the current failing global framework to lead to long-lasting peace and sustainability. From the beginning, the founders set themselves the goal to develop the initiative as openly as possible and also to win over the support of the economy. All actors and parts of the global society should find that in the Global Marshall Plan one-sided organization can constructively be prevented. The initiative aims to provide the great possible support to the world to ensure that plan is continually developed in its substance, quality, implementation and coverage. In a series of lectures in 2003-4, the initiative was refined further and eventually the first report on the Global Marshall Plan Initiative (“Global Marshall Plan – A Planetary Contract for a global Eco-Social Market Economy) was complied to be published in September 2004. In the meantime, more and more members of the European Parliament and national parliaments began to back the initiative. Soon organizations from the civil society and the economy followed, as well as the first university. The initiative was also received very well internationally. The initiative has grown into a network made up of over 5000 individual supporters, organizations as well as numerous federal states and communities. Believing that change will come from the centre of society, supporters raise awareness of the issues surrounding globalization and motivate those around them for the implementation of fair globalization. Lectures are an essential part of spreading the word. By raising awareness and informing, alliances are formed and pressure is created from “bottom-up”. Those motivated are trained through multiplier training in Global Marshall Plan Academies. *The Green Marshall Plan * is a policy promoted by Canadian Green Party policy advocate Constantine Kritsonis. It is calling for a tapping of central banks for funding of green infrastructure projects designed to wean Canada off fossil use and into 100% renewable energy. According to professor Marc Z. Jacobson, the entire world can be powered by renewable energy. Hemp can replace much of oil for plastics. A Facebook Group THE GREEN MARSHALL PLAN has the following introduction: "We have heard in times of financial crisis that corporations are *too big to fail *, that those companies and their shareholders should be bailed out by tax payers and central banks. Hence the corporate bailouts. Hence the trillions of dollars created by central banks as financial *stimulus * that is under performing. If corporations and LIBOR rigging mortgage bundling banksters are to big to fail, then certainly our planet is to big to fail, certainly our children are too big to fail and all living species on Earth are too big to fail. So let's bailout our planet. Canada should do it's part. Where to start? Oil and money. We need a *Green Marshall plan *. Green Party of Canada policy states that our central bank should return to a *prominent role * in creating money. I warrant that the best role for that newly created money is saving our ecosystem by creating green jobs. We need to dispel the mass illusion that oil is mandatory for transportation. The technologies exist to replace fossil fuels today. See prof Marc Jacobson's TED talk on how it's done: https://www.ted.com/speakers/mark_z_jacobson Let's use new green dollars from the BoC to build nation wide renewable energy based networks of electric vehicle fast charging stations to incentivize the shift from the internal combustion engine to EV's. They can be citizen owned with user fees going to the Receiver General. The new green dollars: Yes they can! *Fast track high speed Maglev trains to reduce emissions and save time. *Build smarter electric grids and micro grids with low cost utility scale, next gen flywheel energy storage for baseload power that nuclear advocates propagandize as impossible for renewables. *Expand hi speed wifi access. *Say NO to corporate GMO gangsters Monsanto and their cancer causing, SLAPP suiting, politician bribing pesticide monoculture. It is the politics of entrenched interests which are willing to see people literally tortured to death rather than risk their profits that holds back progress. We need to start FIGHTING BACK. How? Define clean food as a basic right. Let's use that new policy inspired BoC money to support bringing affordable organic food to cities with renewable energy powered, citizen owned vertical farm skyscrapers. The farm in the city removes the costs of long distance transportation, it's carbon emissions and offers produce to market faster and fresher. The technologies exist to change our world for the better". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Global Marshall Plan Initiative」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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