Can the New Internet Save the Planet?

Reflections on the 2008 election by TrueCarbon.org founder Yobie Benjamin.

New Year, new President!  I am excited about the future.  My partner from Amsterdam asked me why I was so excited amidst the worst economic crisis in a generation?  Perhaps it’s the eternal optimist in me?  Not really. The last year revealed the amazing power of the Internet and its ability to effect change.  It also revealed the power of the small, the power of small acts collectively delivering the voice of change. A Facebook friend wrote an eloquent point of view not with the prose or poetry of words but with a medium that is familiar to the business elite - a Powerpoint presentation. 
Take a look at: truecarbon.org

The power of Karl’s slide show was in the elegant capture of last year’s Internet story - That there was a collective brain that yearned for change and made it happen. It was in collective power of small acts that delivered profound change.  My friend Debra led a small team of us to build a site to provide information for absentee voters who were surprisingly ignored by the legions of voter registration sites.  The small act delivered 80,000 absentee ballot registrations saving voters the horrors of the provisional ballot.

Many lessons learned and now I will put it all into good use for a cause bigger than the presidency of one country - the cause of a cleaner world and a future world worthy of my children and all the children of generations to come.

More to come.

Yobie Benjamin