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We invite all the citizens of the world to gather in Canada in 2010; bring all your hopes and dreams to change the world from ME 2 WE!
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| 850,000 people at Downsview Park - World Youth Day |
- Introduction
- Age of Aquarius
- The Inspiration
- Message to the G8 Leaders
- Concert Program
- WOODSTOCK '69 Connection
- Spirit of Woodstock returns
- John Lennon Connection
- Our Team
- Our Social Commitment
- E=MC² Foundation
- E=MC² Company
Introduction
Artist David Kam has join forces with legendary producer of Woodstock '69 Artie Kornfeld (the father of Woodstock), to bring you the IMAGINE - music and arts festival, a 2-day charity event unlike any other, to change the world from ME 2 WE.
Since music is a universal language that unites people, we hope to bring over 1,000,000 dreamers to IMAGINE. We also plan to broadcast IMAGINE to 300 million people worldwide.
The theme of IMAGINE is "2 days of Love and Music to Change the World" and is being dubbed "Woodstock for the WE Generation".
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The Inspiration
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| John Lennon & Yoko Ono - Bedin for Peace in 1969 |
IMAGINE is inspired by John Lennon's song of the same name and is also being infused with the spirit of WOODSTOCK '69 (and LIVE8),
to create a “SPARK” for massive environmental and social change.
Imagine
Imagine all the people...
Living life in peace...
A brotherhood of man...
Imagine all the people...
Sharing all the world...
You may say I'm a dreamer...
But I'm not the only one...
I hope someday you'll join us...
And the world will be as one...
John Lennon
Join us and the world will be as one!
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Message to the G8 World Leaders
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| G8 World Leaders Meeting 2007 |
IMAGINE takes place around the same time as the G8 World Leaders Meeting in Canada.The G8 World Leaders Meeting is a meeting of the world's richest nations (Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the UK and the US), representing 14% of the world's population, and 65% of the world economy.
The combined G8 military spending was US$850 billion, representing 72% of the world's total military expenditures and accounting for 96-99% of the world's nuclear weapons.
IMAGINE is part of the visionary open source EARTHSHIP Summit, the world's largest happening for environmental and social change. This is an alternative people's summit to complement the G8 World Leaders Meeting.
We plan to invite to the EARTHSHIP Summit, 200 of the world's poorest nations aka non-G8 nations, non-profit organizations, green businesses, and concerned citizens of the world.
Citizens worldwide will be able to share the beauty of art, listen to music and deal with issues such as: poverty, peace, sustainability, health, the extinction of species, equal rights, the environment, and the future of our planet. Along with the concert, there will also be conferences, exhibitions, sustainability competitions, talent search, and happenings across the world dealing with social and environmental issues.
We plan to produce a summary report of the world's concerns for submission to all the G8 World Leaders.
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Concert Program
| Our Concert Program for IMAGINE |
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| Stage 1: July 10, 2010 |
Peace |
Includes tribute to The Beatles |
| Stage 2: July 10, 2010 |
End Poverty |
Includes tribute to Pink Floyd |
| Stage 3: July 11, 2010 |
Save Our Planet |
Includes tribute to Led Zeppelin |
We also hope to make IMAGINE into a movie and show it at movie festivals worldwide.
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The WOODSTOCK '69 Connection
Artie Kornfeld at age 26, was one of the four original founders who organized the world famous WOODSTOCK '69. Woodstock was a music festival, billed as An Aquarian Exposition, which took place at Max Yasgur's dairy farm in the rural town of Bethel, New York from August 15 to August 18, 1969.
WOODSTOCK '69 turned out to be one of the world's largest and greatest cultural (counterculture) events of the 20th century. Attended by half a million people, the festival exemplified the counterculture of the late 1960s – early 1970s, known as the "hippie era". WOODSTOCK '69 had thirty-two of the best-known musicians of the day, including Jimi Hendrix, the Who, Janis Joplin, Santana, Grateful Dead, Joe Cocker, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young... The event was captured in a successful 1970 documentary movie, Woodstock, an accompanying soundtrack album, and Joni Mitchell's song "Woodstock", which commemorated the event and became a major hit for Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young.
Artie Kornfeld was the soul of WOODSTOCK '69, seeing it as a way to end the Vietnam War, and to support civil rights, while Michael Lang saw Woodstock as a new, relaxed way of bringing business people together. The other two partners John Roberts, and Joel Rosenman put in the seed money to finance the project.
There has been a few attempts to cash in on Woodstock '69 with other music festival, including Woodstock II and Woodstock III, but Artie Kornfeld was never involved with the organization of any of them. Artie proudly says he was not involved with Woodstock II or Woodstock III.
Even Neil Young said, "other music festivals were not the same, without Artie Kornfeld..." The Woodstock Preservation Alliance acknowledged that Artie Kornfeld was the soul of Woodstock by naming him the "Father of Woodstock"...
We invite the entire Woodstock Nation to bring back the spirit of Woodstock '69 to the world. People are dying from poverty, the planet is polluted, numerous species are facing extinction, there is still war and injustice. Join the green movement, and share the vision for a better society.
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The Spirit of Woodstock '69 returns with IMAGINE
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| Half a million people at Woodstock in 1969 |
After 40 years - since Woodstock '69, Artie Kornfeld is returning to help organize IMAGINE - a new "Woodstock for the WE Generation". IMAGINE is the only music festival created in the true spirit of Woodstock '69 that Artie Kornfeld has been directly involve in organizing and promoting...
Artie Kornfeld put his heart and soul into creating Woodstock '69, as a way to end the Vietnam War, and to support civil rights. In fact Artie's mother was one of the leaders of the freedom rides, to end segregation in the south, so the spirit of wanting to create a better world was instilled in Artie Kornfeld at a very young age.
For IMAGINE, Artie Kornfeld is teaming up with green visionary Artist David Kam to make it another world changing event. Come join history!
Artie says, "we will unite four generations to bring back the spirit of Woodstock '69 to change the world from ME 2 WE. I believe that what we did at Woodstock in 1969 helped the civil rights movement, and eventually ended the Vietnam war; it also set the stage for Obama to be elected President of the United States and I am so proud of that".
Artie later became Vice President of Capital Records (East Coast Division), helping to write, and produced an astonishing 100 platinum records. He
become friends with Jimi Hendrix, the Beatles, Frank Zappa, Blondie, Sonny and Cher and among other rock royalty...
To learn more about Artie Kornfeld, click here
Artist David Kam also invited Michael Lang, the other original organizer of Woodstock '69 to join the team for IMAGINE, but he declined due to other commitments.
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The John Lennon "Imagine" Connection
Aritie Kornfeld wrote songs for others and even had his own brief stint as a pop star in 1965 and ‘66 when his group, the Changin’ Times, had one of two hit versions of his song “Pied Piper,” a tune that John Lennon singled out as a favorite in interviews at the time. With that hit, Kornfeld toured the U.S. as an opening act for Sonny and Cher.
Years later, he had occasion to meet Lennon when they were using adjacent recording halls.
“I was in the restroom, leaning over the urinal snorting coke. Without his glasses on, Lennon couldn't’t see a thing, and all of a sudden I felt this wet stream running down the back of my leg. I turn around and go, ‘Oh, my God, John Lennon! And, by the way, you’re peeing on me.’
“He said, ‘Who are you?’ I identified myself, and he said, ‘I know you’ but didn't’t say anything about Woodstock. Instead, he told me that ‘Pied Piper’ was one of his favorite songs. That made me feel real good, because then, in the early ’70s, people only knew me as Artie Woodstock.”
By 1968, Kornfeld was Capitol Records’ East Coast Vice President of Artists and Repertoire. He helped sign the Band, Debbie Harry’s first group and other acts to the label; assisted Paul McCartney in setting up the Beatles’ Apple Records; hung out with Frank Zappa; had a “drug friendship” with Jimi Hendrix and otherwise comported himself in the manner of the times. How times have changed, Artie is now living a life as clean as a whistle, with focus on meditation and a healthy lifestyle.
Artie became good friends with Lennon near the end of his life... Although John Lennon has passed away, but his dream lives on. Come join us dreamers for a chance to experience 2 days of Love and Music to Change the World.
OUR TEAM OF DREAMERS
Here are some of the team members that we are assembling. Note: that the list is just a partial list and the team is still being assembled.
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Artist David Kam, Co-Founder of IMAGINE
Artist and green visionary David Kam conceived the EARTHSHIP Summit and the 2-day IMAGINE music and arts festival, as part of his master plan call the Human Internet Project. His plan calls the creation of a massive inter-connected grassroots "Global Village" of people, organizations, and computers to bring about massive environmental and social change on a global scale.
He is the founder of the Thinkism Art Movement, the first fine art movement of the 21st century ("known as the socially conscious art movement"). Founded on September 12, 2001, the day after 911, the Thinkism Art Movement produces socially conscious art relevant to the 21st century. Some
people view Thinkism as “protest art”, but it is more than that. We are living on the brink of a world metamorphosis, with world events moving at the speed of light; Thinkism art's 21st century themes include: war, climate change, extinction of species, poverty, media control, the rise of the Internet, pop culture domination, genetically modified organisms, love, freedom, racism, gun
control, globalization, terrorism, fashion in society, celebrities in
society, the role of money in society, the fine
line between advertising and false advertising,
food in society, sex in society ...etc.
David Kam
Polar Bear Extinction
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Artist David Kam is not famous, nor is he rich, nor is he even well connect; David is just a ordinary unknown artist with a small idea and a big dream, since the founding of the Thinkism Art Movement in 2001. In his small world, he and other like minded artists painted about climate change, the extinction of species, poverty, war, media control, the rise of the Internet and other themes relevant to the 21st century.
In fact, back in 2001 artist David Kam produced the world's first painting about climate change, almost 7 years before Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth film, called Polar Bear Extinction, shown above in his Extinction Style ("the main subject is left blank on canvas").
Fast Forward Almost 10 years Later
The Thinkism Art Movement which started out in 2001 was not only about creating socially conscious art, but in David Kam's manifesto in 2001 he wanted also to use art to make the world a better place by creating positive social change.
After almost 10 years later, artist David Kam is making his dream a reality.
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Artie Kornfeld (the father of Woodstock), Co-Founder of IMAGINE
In 1969 at the tender age of 26, Artie Kornfeld helped raise Woodstock from a pipe dream to the world’s largest peaceful gathering and the defining moment of his generation. You can say that Woodstock '69 was Artie's "Citizen Kane".
Woodstock in 1969 is widely regarded as one of the greatest moments in popular music history and was listed on Rolling Stone's 50 Moments That Changed the History of Rock and Roll. The event was captured in a successful 1970 documentary movie, Woodstock and an accompanying soundtrack album; Joni Mitchell's song "Woodstock", which commemorated the event became a major hit for Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. Artie is now known worldwide as “The Father of Woodstock”, the name was given to him by the Woodstock Preservation Alliance.
Before Woodstock, Artie got his start in the music industry, after a record executive heard a demo he had made and signed him to a songwriting contract. Within six months, four of Kornfeld’s compositions were on the Billboard charts, performed by such groups as the Angels, as a follow-up to their hit "My Boyfriend’s Back", Wayne Newton and the Shirelles. In 1963, he was sent out to L.A. to write with Jan Berry of Jan & Dean, with the notable result being the car crash classic, "Dead Man’s Curve".
Along with writing songs for others, Artie had his own brief stint as a pop star in 1965 and '66 when his group, the Changin' Times, had one of two hit versions of his song "Pied Piper". With that hit, Kornfeld toured the U.S. as an opening act for Sonny and Cher.
By 1968, Artie was Capitol Records' East Coast Vice President of Artists and Repertoire, the record label of the Beatles. He helped sign the Band, Debbie Harry’s first group and other acts to the label; he also assisted Paul McCartney in setting up the Beatles' Apple Records; he hung out with Frank Zappa and had a "drug friendship" with Jimi Hendrix. Now, Artie is living a life as clean as a whistle, with focus on meditation and a healthy lifestyle.
In the legal machinations that followed Woodstock, the partners split into factions, and none of them saw a fraction of the millions racked in by the subsequent movie and albums.
Artie went back to what he did best, composing, publishing, producing, managing, and promoting musicians. His forty years in the music business earned him over 100 platinum projects.
Here are some of the artists signed or promoted or developed by Artie Kornfeld:
Sheryl Crow
Sarah McLachlan
Jack Johnson
Bruce Springsteen
Tracy Chapman
Melissa Etheridge
Extreme
Edie Brickell
Vanilla Ice
Kix
Sass Jordan
Nuclear Valdez
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John Fogerty
Santana
Steve Perry
Kiss
Neil Young
Bonnie Raitt
Tom Petty
Survivor
Pink Floyd
Aerosmith
The Band
Blondie
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Alice Cooper
Paul Cotton
Michelle Shoked
Joe Cocker
ZZ Top
Marshall Tucker
Greg Allman Band
Ratt
Vixon
Steel Heart
Asia
TNT
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The Cowsills
J. Giles Band
Roger Miller
Linda Ronstadt
Alanis Morissette
Lou Rawls
Mandrill
Jimmy Castor
George Segal
Tragically Hip
April Wine
Joe South
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Queensryche
Depeche Mode
Quiet Riot
Eddie Money
Patti Griffin
Triumph
The Left Banke
Bert Sommer
Bob Seger
Felony
Billy Joel
Wilson Phillips |
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Kie Sasaki, COO & Futurist, Director of E=MC² Foundation
• Futurist & trend expert; accurately predicted rise of Internet and green movement in 1980s;
• Won numerous international design awards
• Business consultant for universities, hotels & NPOs
• Skilled in trend forecasting, marketing, branding, new products, and public relations
• Graduated from Bachelor of Law (LL. B.), Master of Education & Certificate in Marketing
• Notable clients include: Cirque du Soleil, Dawson College, The Queen Elizabeth Hotel, Le Chateau Montebello, Robic Patent and Trademark Attorneys, Bell Canada (International), Federation des Producteurs de Volailles du Quebec, Musee d'Art de Joliette, Maison Hamel-Bruneau (Centre de Diffusion Culturelle), Universite du Quebec a Montreal |
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Hiroaki Sasaki, CFO, Director of E=MC² Foundation
• Expert strategist, and financial thinker
• Former director of Industrial Bank of Japan
• Completed an IPO on Nikkei Stock Exchange
• Graduated from Bachelor of Economics
• Skilled in binging companies public, financial turnarouds, strategic planning and financing
• International experiences in South America, Asia & USA.
• Fluent in Japanese, English, Spanish and Portuguese
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Ted Ning and LOHAS.com (part of GAIAM), Strategic Partner
• Ted Ning, Strategic Partner (Executive Director of Conscious Wave)
• Manages LOHAS (Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability) Conference
• The annual LOHAS Conference is now one of the largest B2B green events in the USA
• Executive editor of the LOHAS Journal
• Connections with executives of various companies, corporations, venture capitalists and nonprofits in the LOHAS space.
• Develop LOHAS e-weekly newsletter. Distribute to a growing list of 15,000 subscribers.
• Interviewed by The New York Times, NBC, New Yorker, InStyle, Newsweek…etc. |
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Pamela Millar, Board of Advisors of E=MC² Company
• Executive Director of SOS Climate Change International Conference (Hollywood)
• MBA software consultant to Pixar, IBM, Compaq, Netscape, Adobe and Sun Microsystems...
• Global product strategist, marketing, strategy, business analysis & business models
• Producer and field reporter for global satellite television network
• Guide to green and clean tech startups, including non-profits
• 1 of 3 corporate Ambassadors to Middle East and N. Africa for US State Department
• Chair of 1PIE.org Collaboration portal of Global Summit
• Communications Director at the Green Technology Institute
• Co-author of a book of Buddhist spiritual teachings, available worldwide in 30 languages
• Fluent in French and Spanish, and speaks some Mandarin Chinese |
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Dixon de Leña, Board of Advisors of E=MC² Company
• Pioneered the Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability green movement
• Co-founded Integral Partnerships, with Paul H. Ray (author of “The Cultural Creatives: How 50 Million People are Changing the World”).
• For 30 years, has consulted Fortune 50/500
• Some notable clients include Ætna Life & Casualty, Boeing, Expansion Capital Partners, GTE Telephone, Ingersoll Rand, Microsoft, Numi Tea, and Redhook Brewery
• Author of “Einstein’s Business: Engaging Soul, Innovation and Excellence in the Workplace”
• His current book-in-progress is "A Culture of Authentic Power".
• He and Paul Ray now working on a new book titled "The Beginning Is Here! The Emerging Wisdom Culture Shaping Business Today." |
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Sophie Lapaire, Board of Advisors of E=MC² Company
• Program Director at the Green Technology Institute
• Software consultant to: IBM, Oracle, Sun Microsystems, Microsoft, Macromedia...
• Experienced diplomat, skilled in business negotiations, and successfully mediation
• Accomplished event manager
• French interpreter for: Hillary Clinton, Pope John Paul II, Michel Courvoisier, Twentieth Century Fox, Olympics...
• Skilled in global product and program management
• Producer and field reporter for Global Satellite Television network
• Communications Director of 1Portal.org for the Global Summit
• Program Director of SOS Climate Change International Conference ( Hollywood )
• Co-author of a book of Buddhist spiritual teachings, available worldwide in 30 languages
• Social worker & speaker; lived and worked in Vietnamese refugee camps ("boat people")
• Professional golfer (winner of the British Open for under 18 years old and of the Orange Bowl)
• Language: French, Spanish and Italian |
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James Haviland, Board of Advisors of E=MC² Company
• Creative technologist, mentor & coach with 20+ start-ups
• Helped grow on-line businesses (as much as 200%)
• Particular strengths in business model innovations
• Experience in the music and entertainment industry
• Strategy and connections in entertainment, education, software, and health sciences
• Experiences in media, eCommerce, marketing, education, advertising, and management |
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Jason Doig and Tristan Coopersmith of Treevestor, Strategic Partner for Million Trees Campaign
TreeVestors is a company that plants tropical hardwood trees for harvesting and for carbon offset to fight climate change.
Jason Doig
• hockey player in NHL (Washington Capitals, New York Rangers & Phoenix Coyotes)
• Supported inner-city youth (Ice Hockey in Harlem & NHL Hockey Diversity Task Force)
• Passionate about global environment and responsible investment
• Interested in producing a greener future
Tristan Coopersmith
• Trend forecaster for Creative Artist Agency (CAA)
• Marketing expert for Generation X and Y
• Extensive experience in music, television and entertainment business
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Alan Moore for Musicians and Fine Artists for Peace, and the Butterfly Gardeners Association, Marketing Partner
• Helped Dr. Patch Adams ("Patch Adams played by Robin Williams became a no. 1 movie in USA") set up Patch Adams Centers for Peace and Justice in the Bay area
• Founded Musicians and Fine Artists for World Peace with more than 3000 members
• Founded Butterfly Gardeners Association (BGA) to make the butterfly a symbol for a sustainable environment, world peace, and the conscious evolution of the human race
• Elected by city of Atlanta to be the chair of their Global Peace Concert to commemorate the 45th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King's "I Have A Dream Speech."
• Founding coordinator for Common Cause in the 15 C.D. in Pennsylvania to promote environment causes
• Invited by the United Nations to release 400 butterflies for the Earth Summit
• World's largest butterfly release for Earth Day 99 with over 10,000 children
participating
• Hague Appeal for Peace Convention in 1999 butterfly release
• Butterfly release at Hiroshima-Nagasaki Memorial Observance for the fifty-second anniversary of the first use of atomic weapons at the Lincoln Memorial
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IMAGINE hopes to keep commercialization to a minimum, whenever possible:
- by selecting bands and sponsors that reflect the true spirit of the EARTHSHIP Summit;
- all cups, plates and utensils will be made from corn starch/potato starch and will be biodegradable, whenever possible;
- all napkins and paper products will be made from 100% recyclable paper, whenever possible;
- Energy for the concert will be supplied by hydro-electricity, a renewable resource - with almost zero carbon footprint.
Money raised money for the E=MC² Foundation will be used to fund the following charitable programs:
- have exhibitions that teach people to be more green;
- have conferences to discuss and shares ideas on saving planet earth and humanity.
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Make Hunger History:
This is a program which teams up with supermarkets and food manufacturers to fight malnutrition and poverty, by helping poor farmers buy seeds and farm equipment, create wells and water purification programs, provide jobs for the poor and provide emergency meals to the desperately hungry. We hope to help 100 million people; |
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Sustainable Schools Competition:
This program is
to make 10,000 schools more sustainable .Winners will receive plane tickets and VIP backstage passes to the concerts.
We will also teach 50 million students to be more sustainable and in turn the students will go home to teach their parents. Includes a nutrition program to teach young people to eat more healthy food, and to fight obesity. |
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Save Our Planet Project:
Via a Organic T-shirt Design Competition, we
will provide jobs in third world countries, such as Africa, for producing re-usable shopping bags and organic t-shirts; |
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Worldwide Campaign to Ban Plastic Bags:
Via a Re-usable Bags Competition we will reduce plastic bag use by 10% worldwide, thus reducing fossil fuel use, reducing pollution and fighting climate change. |
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Million Trees Project:
This is a program to re-forest the earth with millions of trees. We will plant 1 tree for every new member that buys ticket for our events and registers online at our online community. |
- World Peace Garden: a $30 million twin World Peace Garden project art installation, with one garden in New York and one garden in Montreal; the garden is connected via a satellite and Internet feed to allow people to chat with one another via IP video phone.
About the E=MC² Foundation
The E=MC² Foundation is a registered Canadian non-profit organization, founded artist David Kam. Acting as a "Catalyst for Building a Greener World", we are dedicated to making the world a greener, happier and more friendly place.
We do the following:
| 1. help alleviate hunger and poverty |
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| 3. empower and fund other charities (NGO) |
| 4. unite people to make the world a better place |
The EARTHSHIP Summit is the E=MC² Foundation's first major event.
About the E=MC² Company
The E=MC² Company is a social business founded artist David Kam, that is creating a Global Village to connect 300 million
people, organization and computers together - in a massive network
to solve some of Earth’s most pressing problems!
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