Thursday, May 10, 2012

The case for 'collaboration'

YOU CAN GET A LOT DONE,IF YOU DON'T CARE WHO GETS THE CREDIT.
I was talking to a young man today in law school.  we were both waiting for bus 27 to carry us to our designations. He has this program called "The spoken Word" not a church ministry.  The draw is he voices well articulated concepts.  I hope soon to see one of his performances.  I then mentioned to him that collaborations are a way to work with other people to get things done.  (This is to you Mrs. Nancy Walsh).  I am am going to do some collaborations my self.  Concept E-3...Nature Restored is to be a global movement solving humanities environmental woes.  Along the way there will be lot of opportunities to address some human social needs of comfortable housing and access to fresh water. With a population pushing toward 7 Billion souls, we need to develop some new models to deal with our growing population.  The cause for collaboration includes partnering with Habitat for Humanity here in the Chesepeake Bay Area. In order to provide well built and affordable homes for working class families, I need to develop relationships with existing builders.  This is since I have a lot of great ideas.  I need to 'borrow someone elses credibility'.  Then monmies would be made available to build low income housing.  My thouhgt is that these 'homes' should be well insulated.  They should have 'living' roofs on them.  These truly 'affordable' home should conserv water and save on utilities.  with collaboration as my model it takes away the 'greedy mentality'.  I should share my ideas with my partners.  This will save money on refurbishing 100's of the homes available through the city of "Baltimore's" Vacancies to Values program.   The need for low income (Walmart, Mcdonalds, Exxon,Safeway, wages type housing.) housing is  at the crisis level.  "Collaborations" like Vacancies to Value) should be in every city in America.  a [popular form of Collaboration is' The Fair Trade' program touted by better coffee shops throughout America.  another collaboration of note is every major motion picture we watch at theatres.  Look at the scores of people mentioned in the end credits.
So this is 'The case for collaboration'.  I am off to collabborat now myself.  Until next time,  this is Steven childs, founder of concept E-3... Nature Restored  and the chief collaborator for "The Baltimore Project".