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For Social Businesses, and Revolutionaries who want to change the world
The Green Stock Exchange is a social business on a mission to change the world for the better.
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The company operates a platform for social change called
the "Green Community Platform". It is a wiki styled Web 3.0 collaborative system for bringing together people, investors, issuers, companies, and non-profit organizations interested in small eco-friendly, socially responsible and sustainable businesses.
The Green Community Platform taps into the creative and collaborative spirit of humanity to change the world for the better.
The Green Community Platform includes a green social network ("modeled after MYSPACE and FACEBOOK"), a social stock exchange ("the Green Stock Exchange is modeled after AIM London Stock Exchange and NASDAQ"), a green ad network ("modeled after GOOGLE'S ADSENSE "), a green business certification program, community driven brands, greener products, and a green magazine.
Millions of members and organizations from the Green Community Platform help us generate profits by actively participating in the investment, creation, sales, manufacturing, promotion and distribution of more earth friendly and more humanity friendly products.
The Green Stock Exchange rides an explosive paradigm shift occurring in society values, one that speaks to healthier living that is more economically, environmentally, and spiritually sustainable than now prevails.
We cultivate a new breed of consumers that are more concerned about human rights, fair trade, organic foods, the environment, health, sustainable practices, and spiritual and personal development, which is loosely classified as LOHAS consumers (LOHAS is an acronym for Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability).
Studies have classified 23% of the U.S. population
(about 50 million adults) of the U.S. adult population
as " LOHAS", who tend to make their purchasing decisions in keeping with their values of social and environmental responsibility. It is a $230 billion market segment in the United
States alone and a $546 billion market worldwide.The
leading countries spearheading this green movement
is Japan and Taiwan.
The Green Community Platform will empower millions of members and organizations worldwide to change the world for the better. This includes, but not limited to the following inter-connected collaborative systems, brands, products and services below. One User ID can access all the following products and services below:
- green social network: the E=MC² Creative Friends Network is a green social network ("it is modeled after MYSPACE and FACEBOOK") , where people can make friends with other green revolutionaries ("includes blogs, forums, wikis, start-a-business, search engines, classified, personals, photos, jobs,art, music, movies, videos and more"); at our online social network, our goal is to help
our members reach their full potential.
- social stock exchange: the Green Stock Exchange is North America's first social stock exchange. The eBAY.COM AUCTION STYLED online bulletin board for trading securities empowers social businesses, which are more
earth friendly and humanity friendly. The exchange makes it easier for people to invest in green companies ("it is modeled after AIM London Stock Exchange and NASDAQ "). Since all the listed companies on the exchange are pre-screened, evaluated, and audited according to social and sustainable guidelines set by the exchange, it will make it much easier for green investors to find and support social businesses. The GREENSX provides opportunities for small green Issuers to access public equity capital efficiently, while providing early stage investors, angel investors, and venture capitalists with greater liquidity.
- green ad network: AdCharity is an ad auction and ad delivery network ("it is modeled after GOOGLE'S ADSENSE"), that allows marketers to reach people interested in green living. Products that can be advertised includes: hybrid and electric cars, organic and natural food, organic and natural personal care products, yoga, tai chi, massage centers, spas and fitness products, green and sustainable building, eco-tours, hiking and wilderness trips, energy efficient electronics/appliances, socially responsible investing, natural household products (paper goods and cleaning products), natural and preventive medicine (naturopathic, Chinese medicine, etc.), fair-trade fashion, and eco-publications;
- green magazine: LOHAS Magazine is an online open source catalogue and magazine created by blog journalists and citizen reporters, for LOHAS (Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability). Citizen journalists, movie-makers and photographers bring the stories and images.
Subject include: climate change, news, health, the environment, social issues, conservation, green products reviews, videos, global warming, cooking, gossip, advice and whatever suits your taste. It is a magazine create by the people, for the people.
- green charity: Green Charity is
"Charity Without Boundaries".
The Green Charity program is a non-profit social network that puts you in touch with thousands of non-profit organizations, volunteers, donors, and recipients from all over the world. It makes it easier for people to find and donate to charities.
Don Tapscott, author of Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything, urges people to consider new business models, including the wiki workplace and open platforms, which tap into the collaborative spirit. Push programs assume demand can be forecast and treat people as passive consumers. In Wikinomics, the new pull platforms are customized and flexible and treat people as networked creators. For example, rather than relying on music companies to pre-determine the mix of songs on a CD, an increasing number of music listeners are downloading individual tracks and assembling their own tailored sequence of songs. Another good example is blogging tools that provide everyone with the capability of quickly “publishing” their perspectives and creative content like music, photos and even video (example YOUTUBE.COM) and making it broadly available to others.
The Green Community Platform empowers revolutionaries who wish to change the world for the better.
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What is a social business?
Students in business schools now learn that businesses are of two kinds: a) for-profit: business to
make money, and b) non-profit: business to do good to others. We envision a third type of enterprise, that both makes money and also benefits society, which we call social entrepreneurs or social business.
The new "social business" is a mission
driven enterprise that makes money, while benefiting
society. A social business is a new model of business. Since a company makes a profit, while
benefiting society, some people call it a b-company
(benefit company) or social business or social
entrepreneurs or social capitalist. Examples of
"social business": are micro-credit to
the poor (founded by Nobel Prize winning Dr. Muhammad Yunus founder
of Grameen Bank), The Body Shop (when it was first
founded), Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream (when it was first
founded), EDUN (ethical clothing founded by wife of BONO, a member of rock group U2), and Plumpy'nut (a nutritious food bar
created by André Briend to feed the malnourished
poor).
We hope that green investors will support enterprises that:
- help people live longer (organic and healthy foods; alternative medicines; yoga & fitness);
- make people happier (personal development; social issues);
- bring a better future for our children (sustainable
practices and technology);
- help people live more comfortably (sustainable houses and buildings);
- support charity and local communities (giving back);
- protect the environment (organic farming, sustainable materials, recycling) ;
- foster peace, fight poverty and encourages equality (fair-trade, micro-financing, better board member and upper management representation);
We believe that the creation of the new Green Stock Exchange (GREENSX) will benefit mankind and planet earth, by supporting a more compassionate type of "creative capitalism". The Green Stock Exchange (GREENSX) is a type of social exchange similar to South African Social Investment Exchange (Sasix) and Brazil’s Social Stock Exchange (BOVESPA), but with focus on for-profit social entrepreneurs or social business (small eco-friendly, socially responsible and sustainable businesses).
"We started out by assuming a world with two kinds of people, one kind wants to make money, the other kind wants to do good. But in the real world there are not two types of people, but only one type of people with two types of interests, in varying proportions", says Dr. Muhammad Yunus founder of Grameen Bank.
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LOHAS Movement Means Big Opportunities
The Green Stock Exchange (GREENSX) is part of an green movement internationally known as LOHAS
(Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability).
The term LOHAS was first coined by sociologist Paul Ray and psychologist Sherry Anderson, co-authors of The Cultural Creatives: How 50 Million People are Changing the World (also founders of Gaiam, LOHAS Journal and LOHAS Forum in 1999).
Studies have classified 23% of the U.S. population
(about 50 million adults) of the U.S. adult population
as " LOHAS", who tend to make their purchasing decisions in keeping with their values of social and environmental responsibility; LOHAS members are those
who are passionate about organic foods, the environment,
the planet, social issues, health, about human
rights, relationships, fair trade, sustainable
practices, peace, spiritual and personal development.
It is a $230 billion market segment in the United
States alone and a $546 billion market worldwide.The
leading countries spearheading this green movement
is Japan and Taiwan.The marketplace includes goods and services such as:
- Organic and natural food
- Organic and natural personal care products
- Yoga, Tai Chi, massage centers, spas and fitness products
- Hybrid and electric cars
- Green and sustainable building
- Eco-tours, hiking and wilderness trips
- Energy efficient electronics/appliances
- Socially responsible investing
- Natural household products (paper goods and cleaning products)
- Natural and preventive medicine (Naturopathic, Chinese medicine, etc.)
- Fair-trade fashion
- Eco-publications and advertising
People are now just realizing the interconnectedness
of global economies, cultures, environments, and
political systems, as well as the interconnectedness
of mind, body, and spirit within individuals in
order to achieve full human potential. Read more about LOHAS >
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Charity
Founded by artist & social entrepreneur David Kam in 2007, the Green Stock Exchange (GREENSX) is a division owned and regulated by the Green Stock Exchange Inc. The Green Stock Exchange is a different kind of company. We are social entrepreneurs (our definition of "social entrepreneur" is a mission driven enterprise that makes money, while benefiting society”).
As our commitment to giving back , we plan to donate 15% of all trading fees to charity (E=MC² Foundation), so we can support charitable programs such as MakeHungerHistory.com to alleviate hunger and poverty. We hope to raise $100 million thorough various efforts to make the world a better place.
Come join the green revolution!
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