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Future Clock T Minus 20 Years - and Counting
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Mr. Anthony Cary CMG, the British High Commissioner to
Canada addresses the Canadian Association for the Club of
Rome on the environment, April 2007
Ambassador David Wilkins, U.S. Ambassador to Canada addresses the Canadian Association for the Club of Rome.
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The Video Internet Team
Producers James Blondeau and Maggi Elgeziry Host - Kylah Dobson Photographer Paul Dickie
Groups Six Musicians Terry Tucker / Canada Sweet Doll / China Garnet Challenger / Dominica
Elements of Nature Host Kala Lewis The Nature Art of Ralph Idema The Triangle Manterex 11
Project Introduction - Protecting the Future
Future Clock - T minus 20 Years’ was created on January 1st 2006 by James Blondeau and Maggi Elgeziry. Although the project has an international reach, it is and will continue to be based in Ottawa, Canada. It was designed to make people aware of the dangers of over-extending our use of natural resources and to bring together, some idea people. James and Maggi believe that by creating a Future Clock Television program and by playing it on the internet, it was achieve our objective of reaching some of the most intelligent and interesting people in the world. People with ideas. People who can think and use their heads. The Objective - Encourage men and women from every country in the world to work together and solve 7 major global problems:
Fresh Water Supplies Forests and Deserts Pollution - Air/Water/ Noise Population Density
Food Supplies War Oceans and Mountains
Paul Dickie - Creative Photography
Enviro Music Artists
Enviro Art
Enviro Photography
Judith Hether- Corners
The Nature Art of Ralph Idema
Paul Dickie - Creative Photography Several music artists from around the world featuring many cultures and languages are contributing original music to the project. There is art and photography. Videos, DVDs, and D.R.I.V.E segments are all part of this exciting project. By using music combined with these video segments, we believe it will increase the attention-level of the audience and attract a much larger viewer-base for the project. Beginning in September of 2006, our objective is to produce a music and multimedia program featuring the Future Clock message and tour several universities and colleges around the world. Music is the most powerful language in the world and by combining it with video, the Internet, and this important message, we are confident it will bring a new generation of global citizens to work together on this common cause.
The Future Clock
The `Future Clock - T minus 20 Years’ project, has been created to count down from January 1st, 2006 to January 1, 2026. The Future Clock will be seen on the web site and act as a symbolic icon, counting down the many minutes, hours and years that we believe it will take to accomplish the following
1] The formation of `Future Clock - T minus 20 Years’ project to analyze and solve 7 major problems affecting the planet.
2] Bring together qualified environmental experts, scientists and political decision makers, as well as an international team of progressive thinkers to discuss and provide logical solutions to the seven problems.
3] To implement the solutions in a timely and efficient manner and to not sway from the set plan of action.
4]To accomplish our objective by January 1, 2026 and maintain the integrity of the project so that the long term benefits will last well into the future.
In 20 years time, and after a number of projects have been produced and completed by the Future Clock team, we expect the world will see the value in conservation, and promote logical sustainability as a more focus objective for the future generations of the planet.
Funding
`Future Clock - T minus 20 Years’ has received start up funding from The National Research Council/IRAP Program and from members of the Canadian Association of the Club of Rome. If you wish to become a sponsor or make a contribution, contact James Blondeau at Tallimar@istar.ca
Who We Are
Management of the Future Clock project will be provided by Maggi Elgeziry and James Blondeau in association with Future Clock volunteers. Equipment and services will be operated by the Dunrobincastle.com Production Team, providing a wealth of multi-media experience from a host of programs produced in 12 different countries. We produce television documentaries, multi-media live concerts and an inter-active internet network of special educational projects including TimeKeepers, The Aviators, the Marco Polo Show, The River Show and The Music Chambers.
International Internet Reporters
`Future Clock T minus 20 Years’ is looking for volunteers to form a team of FC International Internet Reporters. We need people who can record information, video and/or digital still photographs of events or activities taking place related to our seven topics.
If you know of any issue or event that is happening in your part of the world, send us a brief outline of your story. Each report, once approved, will be placed on the `Future Clock Newscasts.' |
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Project Participation
We believe that by stating the seven problems and by offering a series of solutions and comments, we are on the right track to accomplishing our objectives. But more information and innovative ideas are required to make the web site a success. What is needed are ideas that invites inter-active participation in the Future Clock project.
Take for example our own International Internet Reporters. With the invention of the still picture and video telephones, we have the opportunity to have important stories emailed to the web site from anywhere in the world. Now anyone can volunteer to become an internet reporter for the Future Clock project.
Elements of Nature
A series of informative `Question and Answer' sessions featuring Kala Lewis, mother of four, who wants to know about specific elements of nature and how it relates to the future of her children. We'll cover topics like weather, air, water and noise pollution, controlling population and the debate on Global Warming - Reality or Myth.
Future Clock Videos
Future Clock Videos and Newscasts will provide viewers with an update on environmental and nature related information. Featured reports include stories from our International Internet Reporters and complete updates on many of our workshop related components such as CACOR presentations, music, EnviroTours and new fundraising products.
D.R.I.V.E.
The D.R.I.V.E. project is a series of digitally recorded internet video experiences. Using a camera and a microphone, our Future Clock camera and web site takes you into a world of nature, relaxation, environmental adventures and sometimes shocking reality. Into a world, which will face some of its greatest challenges over the next 20 years. It is a journey into the future.
For two to three minutes, you can relax and see one continuous, uninterrupted camera shot featuring only the sounds of nature. No voices, no traffic, just the silence of the natural world.
Nature Walk River Walk
Winter Walk Bird Feeder
Underwater Recovery The World of Insects
For more information on obtaining our collection of full length D.R.I.V.E. digital video disks of DVD’s, click Castle Store.
The Future Clock DVD Documentary Division
A series of DVDs are presently being produced and will be made available through the Future Clock department at the Castle Store. These DVDs include topics on population, deforestation, fresh water reserves, and pollution. Additional topics, relating to the future of the planet will be produced and issued over the 20 year period.
The Future Clock Video Contest
In 1992, 1995 and 1997, Dunrobincastle.com, produced three original video contests for students, inviting schools across Canada to videotape seniors and veterans in the classroom relating the memories of the 20th century. Over 500 schools participated and the best interviews in Canada were awarded prizes including a trip for 10 students to Holland in 1995 with Canadian War Veterans. The video taped interviews created were combined with a massive video collection produced by Dunrobincastle.com, which in 2008, will become TimeKeeper’s, an internet based, video library for children.
With the success of the TimeKeeper’s video contest, we will be creating a Future Clock version of TimeKeeper’s, inviting students and adults to record interviews with experts in related fields of our topics, discussing their ideas and solutions to the problems.
Contest Details:
The Future Clock Video Contest is an effort to encourage students, Future Clock members and the general public to record on video tape, interviews with someone who may have credible ideas on how to solve the problems we face with Fresh Water, Pollution, Deforestation and Over-Population. Since these are global problems, the contest is open to anyone in the world and participants should view our rules and regulations in the official instructions book as seen on this web page.
The contest begins March 1, 2009 and entries must be mailed no later than August 30, 2009. Winning tapes will be announced and award prizes on November 1, 2009.
This contest is designed to encourage participation in the Future Clock project and to create a vast video library of taped idea’s and solutions. Some of these tapes will be featured in the Solutions Component of the project, kept in our Archive Library,
and be seen throughout 2006 on our weekly, Future Clock Newscast.
See - Official Instruction Handbook and Rules and Regulations
The Video Stock Shot and Research Library
The Video Library is a series of interviews and clips from
Presentations recorded at the Canadian Association for the Club of Rome
Future Clock international reports,
Entry clips from the Future Clock Video Contest,
Future Clock Interviews
Future-related D.R.I.V.E programs.
These segments deal with the issues at hand, directly emphasizing the problems and the solution that must be found to protect the planet’s future.
Ottawa River Valley Nature Tours
Dunrobincastle.com will be preparing a series of Enviro/Nature Tours for the summer and fall of 2006. Four unique tours will be based in Canada’s own Ottawa River Valley, where there are a host of beautiful nature locations. These tours are designed to inform, educate and create a serene, relaxing atmosphere for any visitor. Short daily presentations will also be conducted to educate the Enviro Tour visitor through workshops, discussions and debates on the `Future Clock - T minus 20 Years’ project. Contact Tallimar@istar.ca
The Future Clock Ambassadors Conference
On the first Sunday of June of 2006, a special Future Clock Conference and afternoon BBQ dinner will be held to view videos, hear music, and discuss the future of the planet. Invitations will be issued to CACOR members and every international Ambassador in the Ottawa region. This seven-hour conference will bring together those who can make a difference. By inviting the Ambassadors and their spouses to the event, we will present our case and request their input and idea’s while attempting to form a concise, productive alliance of forward thinkers. This group, featuring CACOR members, the Future Clock team and the international Ambassadors, will work together with a series of simple objectives and a real time schedule, giving the project a global capacity for achieving its goals.
The First Annual
Future Clock Ambassadors Conference
Date June 4th, 2009
Time 12:00 pm to 7:00
Location Casa Wilkirk Business Retreat on the Ottawa River
Admission $ 155.00 per person
Event Objectives
To present the live multi-media program to promote the tour and DVD distribution
To discuss the four topics of Fresh Water, Pollution, Deforestation and Over-population.
To combine the abilities of CACOR, the Future Clock project team and each of the participating Ambassadors into a powerful unit
Finding solutions and making decisions to implement them on a global scale.
To design a promotional plan for the project in the media and on the web site
Conference Schedule
1:00 Orientation, introduction of attendees and objectives
1:30 Lunch
2:30 Live Multi-media Concert and Video
3:15 Global Simulator presentation
3:30 Round Table Discussion of Four Topics
5:00 Conference review and plan for 2006-2007
Discuss Long-range Plan
Solidify Ambassador’s Commitments
6:00 Buffet BBQ Dinner
The North American Multi-Media Music Tour
In the fall of 2009, a live multi-media concert tour of 5 Canadian and 5 American universities will take place. This 10 concert tour will include a host, a technical crew, and a group of professional musicians working in conjunction with a live synchronized video program to be seen on two large screens attached to the stage.
The program will feature the Future Clock message and will accomplish the following objectives.
1] Promote our message and ideas to university students using music and a multi- media presentation and recruit a new generation of Future Clock members for the 20 year project.
2] By using the web site, set up and form university based Future Clock clubs and recruit new international Internet reporters for the project.
3] Promote the sale of DVD’s from the concert as well as other Future Clock related products.
4] Promote the tour through the media in each location, thus promote the project at the same time.
Conclusion
`Future Clock – T minus 20 Years’, is a project capable of actually reaching our target audience. It is an audience who has become absolutely essential as partners if we are to achieve our objectives. But we must work quickly.
This is an audience who is rapidly becoming `out of touch’ with these important environmental issues. Most people appear to be racing through their lives, working or being heavily active 7 days a week. It has been recently noted that many workers are not taking their earned vacation time, for fear of getting behind or losing their jobs. Information overload is one of today’s most pressing yet, overlooked problems.
To attract attention and earn the respect of this highly desensitized audience, we need to use every possible method to make them aware of the problems we are facing.
Every day North America consumes more than it’s share and we are all part of that unbalanced culture of thinking.
By using the series of Future Clock `workshop components’ as an educational tool, and distributing the message via the internet, we have the ability to reach North Americans as well as the entire planet.
Unconventional methods of using modern music, short video clips, contests, Enviro Tours, Energy Tips and the special annual Ambassadors Conference will give credibility to our organization. Making it a long-term project over a twenty-year period will allow us to achieve our objectives, connecting perhaps, hundreds of thousands of international members.
Future Clock can create a whole new generation of leaders and volunteers who will strive to solve, not only the immediate problems, but set a standard and formulate a plan of action that will carry the message and the method to the next generation 20 years from today. Future Clock; Formulating the implementation of major environmental solutions on a global scale.
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Dunrobincastle.com was created on February 25, 2000 by James Blondeau, who has produced over 88 video, music and internet projects in 12 different countries. As an internet video content producer, James works with a team of talented artists, entrepreneurs, business leaders and professional technicians. Our Internet Video Station covers a wide variety of information, entertainment and educational programming. The five projects listed below cover historical documentaries, the future of the planet, the evolution of China, aviation and the Ottawa River Valley. Our video / multi-media / music production company can produce videos, television programs, internet commercials and live music concerts and we have a number of DVD and CD products in our Castle Store. The entire project will be funded by sponsors, membership fees, financial contributions and internet commercials and advertising. This innovative web site is hosted through our sponsorship program with the professional business consultants at Cybercan. If you are looking for originality, join the Dunrobincastle.com project today and help us inspire, educate and encourage those who believe in the future.
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