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What will be in 25 years if we continue to think and act as we presently do?

Why should this program be attempted on a large scale like one college or several at one time instead of a simple community project?

Why young minds instead of older, more worldly, educated people attempting to solve the biggest problems of the world?

How developing the project can support itself.

How to build a $950 million, per year, company.

What is so in this area?

What is the almost predictable future?

What is the way the future could be if the project was in full motion?

What will be in 25 years if we continue to think and act as we presently do?

• The shark species of the worlds oceans will be decimated to a point that will completely upset the delicate balance of life. Causing a major disruption of the oceans acting as a food source for the world population.
• Sea levels will continue to rise
• In the last 50 years, mankind has progressed into a more selfish, “It’s all about me” approach to life. Continuing this trend, will only more alienate the poorer countries from the wealthier. Land masses for farming and feeding ourselves will continue to decline until a tipping point is reached. The separation between the wealthy, the middle class and poorer people of the world will grow greater. The direction is inevitable, unless mankind begins to think of mankind as a whole instead of mankind as one individual. 

Why should this program be attempted on a large scale instead of starting with one school at a time?

• The program can start small. As long as it begins with one college. The college simply needs to have the right or authority to tailer some of its classes to where the students will obtain credit for the time spent towards their degree of choice. 
• In theory, the idea would work better by having a small group of schools, such as the Ivy League schools, the ACC, the Big Ten, etc. to have the program installed at once. But the idea is the same. Organize and allow the college students the chance and direction to begin creating the ideas to solve the world’s biggest problems.
• The program is just not tailored to begin with just a small town or community; with one or two people starting on their own. It is about education and the number of collective minds available in one and more colleges. It can start with one college. As long as the direction is to bring in more college students to work together in conjunction with local, nation wide and international businesses. 

Why young minds instead of older, more worldly, educated people attempting to solve the problems?

• First, the older folks and generations haven’t stepped up to the plate and done so. They have made the world as it is today. They have allowed the world to grow into this selfish, “It’s all about me, attitude.”
• It comes down to time. They are already filled with the rigors of making a life as they have for the number of years they have been around. The see the world as it is and that it is too difficult to change. They routinely get caught up in dealing with past history of a problem instead of simply solving the problem. 
• Todays leaders, CEO's, politicians and employees already have their job. Their present time in life is not to learn and become creative. Unless it is their sole objective, which it is not, the working people of the world today do not have the time to create the solutions the world needs nor the time needed to be spent working on those solutions and putting into action. 
• College students spend their time already learning and creating ideas. This is their career. And they are surrounded by others in the same time frame as themselves to learn new ideas and form new ways of thinking. As opposed to the world of older adults who see the world as it is. They simply need help in getting organized. They just need to be organized to achieve what they are already good at; creating and coming up with new ideas.
• One such example: BoyanSlat.com

Here is a 19 year old young man that has come up with a very creative and workable plan to begin the clean up of the plastic trash problem of the world’s oceans by seeing things from a different perspective than a world full of older, wiser more, educated adults. He uses the ocean currents them self to assist in their own clean up. 

 - Even though it is a world wide program, it still comes down to the small individual, creative ideas of one piece at a time to develop a world wide plan to solve problems like, world wide health care, fresh drinking water for the planet, garbage land fills that are rapidly taking over the planet and not adequate to accommodate the worlds continuous amount of trash. etc.

How developing the project can support itself.

As was first discussed, this project will not work unless it has the potential to support itself and make a profit for everyone involved. A charity project has a temporary life. A profitable business has the potential to sustain itself indefinitely. What was not discussed is this. How does the idea make a profit for the person(s) and organization who will take the chance and develop it. Also, how can the schools afford to implement this new program into their curriculum?

Upon a schools acceptance of implementing the program into their curriculum, during a student’s enrollment into the beginning of their yearly class schedule, the student is charged an annual fee of $200.00. It is a $200.00 fee. One college book often costs that amount. Seeing that students today are easily paying anywhere from $2,000.00 to $20,000.00 for annual tuition, a small fee of $200 would be very reasonable to have the opportunity to participate in such a program. The$200.00 gets split two ways. $100 goes back to the organization that has developed the project and would probably be overseeing the International Panel, at least to some extent.  The other $100 goes directly to the school where the student has entered into the program to help pay operating costs. Below is a schedule of how this would work.

If most students spend on average of four years in school, once enrolled they will more than likely continue their participation since it has now become part of their education. Let’s take for example just the participation of the eight Ivy League Schools, five years from today, with an approximation of only 50,00 students overall at only 10% enrollment in the plan; a very conservative figure, seeing there are more than 50,000 students in the eight Ivy League Schools combined. (2011 enrollment totals of all 8 schools = 134,000 students)

10 years from today                            $2,500,000…every year.

Not every student will enroll. But if 25% of them do (134,000 x 25% = 33,500 x $100), the eight Ivy League schools alone make and share $3,350,000 pr year, just to pay for operating expenses. Not to mention, notoriety, higher enrollment and anything that would go along with that.

How to build a $950 million, per year, company.

The overall intention here is for a world wide program. There are currently 15 million people enrolled in colleges either full or part-time across the United States alone. There are 95 million people currently enrolled in colleges and universities worldwide. Below is 1/95th of the current enrollment of college students *.  This would continue and grow, every year.

If there are 15 million college students in this country alone, in 10 years from today, if only 10% of them enrolled, the Gross Profit would be…(1,500,000 X  $100.00  =  $150,000,000……Per Year & continuing)

We have not taken into account any schools participating throughout the rest of the world. However, at 95 million college students, at only 10% enrollment, in 10 years from today, that figure would be… (9,500,000 X $100.00 = $950,000,000……Per Year & continuing)

That money, $100 per student, goes back to the individuals, partners and private equity fund that originated the plan. In addition to this, it continues on in perpetuity. What is ultimately better is that we all had a big share in a plan that can actually make the world a much better place for many years to come. Now isn’t this much better than simply going about our own lives individually?

What is so in this area?    

Students go to college only having the opportunity of bettering themselves. Worldwide problems have a very limited opportunity of being solved with so many people all working in so many different directions for feasible solutions. 

Businesses work alone; with no real direction but surviving for them self on a day to day or yearly basis. 

What is the almost predictable future?    

The world has monumental problems that have limited amounts of resources in the case of coming up with workable solutions for them. Schools, industries and governments for the most part do not work together on a common long-term obtainable goal. With out a change in the way of thinking, the almost predictable future would be for each country and its businesses to continually work on individual ideas for the better of the common good. 

A single business, AT&T for example, is in the business of communication. Quite possibly they may find the time to work on a charity of some common, world wide, problem. And they may make incredible progress toward solving that problem. But their actual business is not to solve the world problem. Basically, smaller feats get accomplished at higher costs over longer periods of time. The current problems we have like lack of fresh drinking water, mismanagement of global farming areas, or the continuous depletion of the food sources of the oceans, will continue to grow. 

What is the way the future could be if the project was in full motion?    

With a plan and a change in the way of thinking, common goals to solve many of the problems of the world can actually be achieved with less cost in shorter time frames. With a link between the business community and the number of and creative minds of the college students, the students can help better direct where the efforts of a large business can be to achieve the results of the problem, while making it a part of the actual business involved, instead of the businesses doing so as an offset of their business or part of a charity project. 

Currently, businesses have and keep a more focused line of sight. Sticking with their plan, their new product, their personal direction for their own growth. As opposed to having the opportunity of utilizing say 5 - 20% of their direction and effort toward working on a common goal that will help grow their company, increase their profits and help to solve some part of the worlds biggest problems. Problems that are currently affecting them negatively already.  Which in turn will open areas for new services, new products that need to be invented, made, distributed. Their companies will grow. Employment world wide would grow. Education would grow. The number of people entering and receiving a higher education would grow because there would be more opportunity to use that education. 

The problems of the world are actually business opportunities just waiting to be solved. The work force is available with the creative minds sitting in colleges all over the world thinking solely about them self just waiting to be organized. Students can help to outline and direct where new products would be needed, where each particular business could fit in to the direction of what problem is being worked on. At times, one specific problem could have many students from various countries, as well as the businesses in those countries, all working together toward a common goal. Businesses making new products, forming new alliances in other countries as well as local companies benefiting from expansion, working with local students who will end up working in some of those businesses. 

World wide problems will never completely go away. But we can begin to solve them on a world wide scale. 

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