Please help ZERI get some funding for their efforts if you can.
Thanks!
Gary Liss
>From: "ZERI Foundation" <news-english@zeri.org>
>
>ZERI Pavilion Leaves EXPO 2000?
>
>http://www.zeri.org/news/flash/00/000720.htm
>Deutsch: http://www.zeri.org/news/flash/00/000720d.htm
>
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>As reported in media all over Germany this morning the ZERI pavilion has a
>short-term
>financial crisis. This situation is so serious that the pavilion may be
>out of
>funds in less than 2 weeks and it will be forced to close.
>
>ZERI (Zero Emissions Research and Initiatives) Foundation, which is the
>foundation
>behind the pavilion, works on 5 continents on projects for sustainable
>development,
>health, environment and intercultural understanding.
>
>The present crisis is mainly the result of the three factors listed below.
>
>1) The pavilion became much more expensive than expected, due to the
>extensive
>structural tests that had to be undertaken. The pavilion was actually
>built once
> in Colombia in order to prove the strength of bamboo as
> construction material.
>2) Some sponsors have backed out.
>3) Sales in the store are less than 20% of what was expected.
>
>However, there is a lot of hope!
>
>ZERI´s participation in the EXPO is a success. Our main concern is to
>communicate
>our ideas and convert them into a widespread notion. A large number of
>visitors,
>a great interest for our showcased projects and the EXPO itself generated
>a number
>of ZERI-projects in different parts of the world. This, of course, generates
>income in the long term to secure that ZERI Foundation will prosper and reach
>out to more people around the world.
>
>The EXPO is also helping us greatly to find solutions.
>
>Our mainly voluntary staff (from 39 different countries) is working hard with
>a lot of joy and enthusiasm planning to solve this short term problem in a
>number
>of ways. For example:
>
>1) The multicultural "Save the Pavilion" party with dance and music
>from around
>the world will take place tomorrow, Friday the 21st of July from 12.00 until
>at least midnight. Pavilions such as Colombia, Mexico, Sri
>Lanka, Germany,
>Romania, the South Pacific and Fiji in particular, Bolivia, India, Ivory
>Coast,
>Argentina and Ghana have agreed that their artists will perform in order
>to help
>ZERI.
>2) We are looking for sponsors for products, services and financial
>support
>3) We accept donations from private persons and companies
>4) We are currently working on the publication of a mini family book
>about ZERI
>which will be translated and distributed in 200 languages
>5) The "whale song hotline". Creating a pay phone service bringing
>live whale
>songs from the Pacific Ocean to the ZERI Pavilion and to the listeners.
>6) Improving marketing efforts at the ZERI Pavilion store.
>7) Selling memberships in the ZERI Pavilion Club in order to keep the
>pavilion
>alive!
>
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Gary Liss
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