Our Earth Day 2012 Competition:  Partnerships for Good: Creating a Healthy Sustainable Workforce

I Need Websites and I Need Qualified Sales Leads launched this online competition to find the world’s most innovative market-based solutions that create economic opportunity and provide safe drinking water or renewable energy for disadvantaged populations.

In our increasingly interdependent world, a healthy, agile and sustainable global workforce has never been more essential, or more possible.

With billions living with marginal access to water and energy there is an urgent need to create profitable economic opportunity and generate employment in the delivery of sustainable off-grid fresh water and clean energy around the world.

We need creative, collaborative approaches and technologies that advance broad-reaching skills and job development strategies; disseminate and leverage employment information; and open access to new markets and jobs, to ensure today’s workers are prepared to meet the rapidly changing needs of the world’s economy.

Unexpected and creative innovations are emerging across all geographies, from every corner of the world. Changemakers are rising to the challenge of building lasting architectures for employment, and working together to create tomorrow’s job markets today.

We invite you to participate in our international competition: Partnerships for Good: Creating a Healthy Sustainable Workforce.

This competition seeks market-based innovations that are developing employment opportunities for vulnerable populations. The best entries will be those that have demonstrated impact, are prepared to scale-up, and have sought partners to expand their reach.

Each month we will select a winner from one of our solution categories: Fresh Water, Solar, Wind and Biofuels. The winner will be invited to present their entry in a live webinar that we will promote to our global audience of water and clean energy professionals. In addition, the winning entries for 2012 will all be invited to participate in a live panel discussion to promote their efforts to create a more sustainable environment for global growth.

Join us in collaborating to power the marketplaces of the future by overcoming barriers to create economic opportunity and generate employment. Winning solutions may include those that create:

• Increased access to fresh water or clean energy among marginal populations;
• Innovations in creating a profitable mechanism for delivering water or clean energy to marginal populations;
• Connections between local entrepreneurs and global markets;
• Systems to promote awareness of affordable fresh water and clean energy solutions.

Have you launched an organization that expanded the horizons of underserved citizens? Do you know someone who has?

Make a difference! Submit your solutions or nominate a project today using our Contact Us form!

John Malone
President
I Need, Inc.

http://www.ineedrenewableenergy.com

http://www.ineedfreshwater.com

http://www.ineedqualifiedsalesleads.com

http://www.ineedwebsites.com

World Energy Demand Projections:

• World energy consumption will be 47% greater in 2035 than it was in 2007.
• Most energy will be consumed in non-OECD countries.
• In all non-OECD regions combined, economic activity—as measured by GDP in purchasing power parity terms— will increase by 4.4% per year on average, compared with an average of 2.0% per year for OECD countries.
• Fossil fuels are expected to continue supplying much of the energy used worldwide. 
  • 

Liquid fuels

Given their importance in transportation and industrial end-use sectors, liquid fuels are expected to remain the world’s largest energy source for the foreseeable future. In the transportation sector, despite rising prices, use of liquid fuels will increase by an average of 1.3 percent per year, or 45 percent overall from 2007 to 2035.

Natural Gas

Natural gas consumption worldwide may increase by as much as 44% between now and 2035, with 39% used for industrial processes and 33% for the generation of electricity.

Coal

In the absence of national policies and/or binding international agreements that would limit or reduce greenhouse gas emissions, world coal consumption is projected to increase at an average annual rate of 1.6 percent. Much of the projected increase in coal use occurs in non-OECD Asia, which accounts for 95 percent of the total net increase in world coal use from 2007 to 2035. Increasing demand for energy to fuel electricity generation and industrial production in the region is expected to be met in large part by coal.

Electricity

World net electricity generation is expected to increase by 87 percent by 2035. Total net electricity generation in non-OECD countries is expected to increase by 3.3 percent per year on average, as compared with 1.1 percent per year in OECD nations. Anticipated sources of growth within electrical generation are

• Renewables - growth projected at 3% per year.
• Coal-fired generation - growth projected at 2.3% per year.
• Hydropower and wind power are expected to be the largest renewable electricity producers in the coming decades.
• Rapid growth is expected in other renewable energy sectors—including solar, geothermal, biomass, waste, and tidal/wave/oceanic energy.