Oilforest Pilot Program

The Oilforest Plan: Pilot Program

Special opportunity for 1 Caribbean nation & 1 African or Pacific nation: Lead your region in environmental & economic renewal, & save 50% on your Phase One workshop series.

Resolution Fund, LLC will officially introduce the Oilforest Plan in June of 2010.

Before the program is formally introduced to the world, we are looking for two nations to become pilots for this program; one in the Caribbean, and one in Africa. In return, you'll get a head start on your neighbors, you'll take a regional economic/environmental policy leadership role, and you'll save 50%.

Between now and the official introduction, we will recruit two countries--one from the Caribbean and one from either Africa or the Pacific--to help us refine the workshops. In return for your help during this formative period, you will save 50% on the entire series of 3 workshops. That's a total savings of $64,750 (USD).

The Pilot program differs from the Oilforest Plan that will be offered later in three ways:

Collaboration: These will be the first presentations of these workshops, so we will solicit a lot of feedback during this process. You'll not only help shape the program for future attendees, but you'll have more "quality time" with the instructors;
Discount: You will pay only half of what future clients will pay (maybe less than half, if price increases are necessary in the future). You'll pay only $64,750 (plus travel expenses for the workshop faculty) for the entire series of 3 workshops, which is also the amount you'll save.
- Not sure if the Oilforest Plan is right for your nation? Do you need additional support from other people or organizations in your country before making a commitment to become a pilot for the Oilforest Plan? Or, do you simply want an actual sample of the program before deciding? In that case, you may purchase Workshop #1 by itself. After the workshop, if you decide to proceed with the entire program, the cost of that workshop shall be deducted from the balance of your remaining tuition, unless you need to repeat Workshop #1 for a larger group of stakeholders in order to launch the program properly.
Commitment to complete the 3 workshops within a year: Future clients can complete Phase One (the 3 workshops) at whatever pace they wish. As a Pilot Nation, you must commit to complete the entire series of 3 workshops within one year, and you must commit to scheduling the first workshop to take place within four months of joining the Pilot Program. Committing to the entire series of workshops requires paying for all of them in advance. (However, with your 50% discount, your total payment is over $30,000 less than the regular cost of Workshop #3 all by itself.)

An economic & environmental solution for banana-producing nations.

Your Uncertain Present: Ever since the August 1, 2005 WTO ruling, most ACP banana-dependent nations have been "waiting for the other shoe to drop": They know an economic cataclysm is on the way...they are considering a myriad of potentially-risky alternatives...and they have good reason to fear the worst.

Your Painful Near-Future: If these countries do not quickly develop practical, affordable strategies to cope with the demise of their banana economies, they will most likely become foreign-aid-dependent charity cases, and/or will adopt environmentally and socially destructive desperation measures.

Your Healthy, Wealthy Future: The 21^st century has 3 fast-growing resource crises; food, water, & energy. It also has 3 socioeconomic crises: Contamination (of the natural & built environments), corrosion (of the aging built environment), & constraint (less room for sprawl). Switching from bananas to sustainably produced, tree-based vegetable oil can solve your food, water, and energy crises. An integrated revitalization strategy--properly implemented--can solve your contamination, corrosion, & constraint crises.

The Oilforest Plan helps you safely transition to a healthier, wealthier future.

To learn more about The Oilforest Plan Pilot Program--or to sign up--email Storm Cunningham (storm@resolutionfund.com), or call him at 202-204-3040 (Alexandria, Virginia, USA).