I am not sure what is your connection to the Gold Standard, but you are the only person I see listed in the WiserEarth Gold Standard group.  I hope to make a connection as I have both a very good idea and maybe enough resources to make it real. Certainly I am way beyond the dabbling stage.

My idea is a network of global Gold Standard CDM project teams connected via WiserEarth who have access to a virtual workplace, tools, process and methods AND the money to support them in their work.

I have been building a virtual workplace for over a decade. My inspirational roots for this go way back to Stewart Brand and the Original Whole Earth Catalog (1969). My life's work has been to build a platform that can support the team formation,  project management and time tracking that is essential to the economic viability of virtual teaming. I see the toolkit and models in the Gold Standard as a foundation for creating the process and administrative models to bring organizational momentum to dispersed project teams - and I see the networking tools of WiserEarth as being the way to facilitate the formation of teams composed of people with complimentary competencies, skills and passions.

We have built a model for working online that mirrors the way people work in a physical workplace. See www.iPrismGlobal.com  and www.GreenPortal.org for context.

We also have a direct association with www.ni.com in which instrumentation, simulations based on science and engineering principlals, and credibile data modeling can be made available to teams both on the ground and on the cloud.

My hope is to engage Paul Hawkin and others in WiserEarth in first a discussion and then in building a conceptual model that can be a template for how this global network of Gold Standard CDM teams can work with utility companies, local governments, cooperatives,  and private enterprise. 

I have a presentation to make to www.cipco.net on September 5th - in which I have  a rough model of how such a network of CDM team scan be formed in Iowa - I will suggest the Gold Standard as the organizational model for theses teams. So there is an immediate practical focus for me in moving my idea forward. I also have a project with the State of Iowa with a very high visibility and can see how the conceptual model I have been describing might be presented to a potential for lauching on a larger scale -

Please let me know if you are interested and abl eto help me in this  - or if you can help me find others who have a similar vision - and the resources to make it real.

I want to connect with an organization(s) or individuals who have moved beyond lamentation on this topic and are actively developing alternative economic practices.  I have developed many projects (see www.GreenPortal.org ) with groups that are part of the problem in their habits of funding and sustaining collaboration. But I have not found anyone who is able to break away from traditional financial models and practices. I have developed methods for cooperative team work and have sophisticated tools in place - but without substantive work these are mostly unused or more often used to forward wrong headed objectives. 

I saw last night a piece on the children in Haiti eating mud bricks. Eating my breakfast this morning I could not accept that I have no way to apply my substantial skills and capabilities to that problem. Please help me connect to others who are ready and able to stop talking about and start changing the way money is used.