Sam Nelson

The Atmosphere Connects Us All

Our group in Western Australia, Maia Maia Emissions Reduction Currency System, is issuing the Boya, the world's first local currency based on greenhouse gas reductions.  Help us to create a professionally shot video to share our important story with the rest of the world.

We all have heard the highly politicised story about carbon credits and offsets and taxes, etc... What makes the Boya different from these is that those approaches are based  are based on giving someone permission to pollute.  A Boya doesn't - it is more like a frequent flyer points scheme by which a community rewards itself for doing a good thing for everybody on the planet. The result - zero politics.

The boya (pictured above), is named after the rock trading tokens historically used by Australian Indigenous peoples.  Communities work together to drop their emissions or plant trees to make to make the world a better place for everybody by reducing greenhouse gas. 

Maia Maia then helps them estimate the gas reductions using accounting standards already approved by every country on Earth.

The boya has already connected people from places as diverse as Australia, Ghana, Uganda, and the US.  The real power of boya are the stories on the back of each note which share the good news of how each community has worked to prevent global warming. A QR Code allows a free mobile phone app to scan the note, see exactly where it came from, and allows people who use it to add to the story by creating comments on how they exchanged their Boya to make the world a better place.

We would like to share our story more broadly by creating a professional video for distribution on the Internet.  We also intend to use this video to enter the international Buckminster Fuller Challenge (in honor of the fact that the great innovator Buckminster Fuller first envisioned what we are doing as far back as 1967).

So be part of the boya revolution.  We will thank you on our website (www.maiamaia.org) and send you boya from one of our communities to match each dollar pledged as a return on your investment in us!  

You can also read more about us on our blog www.themaiamaiaproject.blogspot.com

Cheers.

Sam