Join us as we preserve the last of the ancient, 
virgin, redwood forests  by obtaining a controlling interest in the 
offending lumber companies and re-organizing them.    Redwood forests
saved.      Keep virgin redwood forests virgin.      Save natural redwood forests.       :::   36 -4

How Does the Project Work?

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You probably already know that money  (putting a few dollars more in the pockets of the wealthy)  is the number one reason why the lumber companies are still destroying what little remains of the Virgin Forests of Ancient, Giant Redwood Trees in the United States.   

Many very dedicated people are making extraordinary efforts to save what's left of these forests.    As a adjunct to their gallant effort, we are applying an additional and previously  unused approach to ending this irreversible destruction.   

Proxy Votes:   As we said in the project introduction, the goal is to control the votes at the stockholders' meetings and not simply to amass money and own the company.   We are using a two-fold approach in acquiring enough votes to control the company.   One aspect of the project is to inspire others to buy stock in the offending company and vote with us, or give us a proxy so that we can use their vote.  

Set Up the  Trusts:   Another aspect of this project involves creating at least three uniquely operated and jointly controlled financial trusts.   The first trust will manage the donations that come to us for the purpose of buying stocks and operating our programs.   The second trust is for the purpose of company redesign.   See the page titled  The Owner's Trust, '   The third trust is for protecting employees' retirement moneys.  For an example of trust design readers are directed to The Reasonables'  Retirement-Investment Trust Program. '   In the Retirement Trust programs, the people, collectively, control their own retirement funds by setting up a  trust and investing the trust's money in safe, tangible-asset, profit-making real estate, on in other secure investments.    All assets will be managed by highly skilled professionals.   The trust managers function under authority granted  by the employees.   

Control Versus Ownership:     The Reasonables '  Save-the-Virgin-Redwoods Project will use its money and its influence to buy and/or otherwise obtain controlling interests in the companies that are still cutting trees in what little is left of the virgin Forests of Ancient, Giant Redwood Trees.    Once each project is completed our Donation Management  Trust will then either hold the stock as an investment or sells the stock and move on to the next environmental offender.   In the other two trusts, the intention is to hold the capital and spend only the profits earned by the invested capital. 

Don't Fight Them -- Buy Them:   Instead of the traditional way of dealing with the forest destroyers, which is fighting with the lumber companies, The Reasonables '   Save-the-Virgin-Redwoods  Project is going directly to the heart of the problem and focusing where the power is.   We focus on the money!   The trust will focus, first, on one specific lumber company -- yet to be determined.   The tangible, do-able goal is to  buy the chosen  company's stock, and/or have others buy stock until the trust owns or controls enough shares in the company to alter its timber cutting policy and to stop the cutting in virgin forests.       (Ref: Where the Money Will Come From) '    

Once we have a controlling financial interest, the offending company will be transformed  into the world's first environmentally friendly  lumber company.  Our   Donation Management  Trust will then become a focal point for directing money at saving all the virgin forests, one company at a time.   

It takes only a little vision to see that this strategy can be used on almost any environmental issue.   And here's the best part.  The principles described on the page titled   The Owner's Trust, '  and the concept of Protecting Retirement Assets, ' can be used by any company anywhere in the entire world.   These techniques are powerful tools for the reversal  of the present trend of the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer.   See the Notes and Reverence page for the "how to. . ." of   Closing the Gap Between the Rich and the Poor. ' 

The Lunatic Fringe:

To some, this may sound like a ridiculous, impossible, airy-fairy idea, but so did every other major transformation on the planet when it was first proposed.'   As an example, imagine the response received by the person who first proposed the following ridiculous,  harebrained  idea:   "If I could show you how to sleep until one hour later each morning, and if I could add an extra hour of daylight at the close of each day, would you be interested?"   Today we call that weird, impossible, out-to-lunch  idea "Daylight Savings Time."       Reference:   The Lunatic Fringe. '    

The typical first response to this idea is that it's simply not feasible because the trust would need to receive millions of dollars in donations.   Then limitation thinking adds a "mind-story" to justify this response:   

Well, perhaps it's time to step outside the conventional mode of thinking.   The trust does not need to receive millions of dollars.  The issue is control, not ownership!  How do we control money we don't own?   We do so by the cooperation of many people, by focusing on one company at a time, and by the steps below:

   What would happen if everybody truly concerned about the destruction of our environment bought just three shares of stock in the offending company and voted with us (in person or by proxy) at the next annual meeting?  

   What if a dozen or so multimillionaires temporarily invested a few million dollars each in purchasing stock in the offending  company and vote with us (in person or by proxy) at the next annual meeting?  

   What if every environmental organization focused just a meager two percent of its time, effort, and money on this project and they all did so at the same time?   Again, the  organizations wouldn't need to give the trust any money, but simply join us in a focused effort.   They could, in their own name, buy and temporarily hold stock in the offending company.    

   What about the thousands of people who would and actually will donate to a trust where their donation is never spent, but rather, it is invested in an ever-growing fund where the profits are used to create a financial power point for protecting the Earth for their children and and for their grandchildren.?    

Even the men running the chain saws don't want the trees destroyed.   They are simply doing what they need to do to survive.   And the men running these lumber corporations don't want the trees destroyed, either.   They are under the control of the Great God Money.   If they don't produce a profit, they're out of a job.

   And when  each aspect of the project is complete, those who bought shares of stock in the offending lumber company can sell those shares and have their money back.   In this scenario, the big unanswered question is:  "At that time of sale, what will the stock be worth?"   The answer to that question depends on our ability to transform the company into the world's first environmentally friendly lumber company.   (See the sections below --- "A Renewable Resource"  and  "Walk Our Talk.")   

This Project is HOT!  
      It's Timely!   
                It's Do-able!   
                        It's Vital!    
                                 It's Urgently Needed!     
                                         And There's NO Functional Alternative.

So the real question is NOT:  Is this concept feasible?"   The important question is:  "How quickly can the trust become fully functional?"   

If you still think we're crazy, we invite you to take The Truth Challenge. '  

The Trust  Money Is  Invested!

Note the difference between the money commonly donated directly to worthy causes and the money put into The Environmental Trust.   In most cases, no matter how worthy the cause may be,  the money donated directly to that cause is used,  spent, and is soon gone, and the organization's leaders are again out looking for more donations.***  

*** The forest-land and other 
asset-holding organizations such as 
museums are obvious exceptions to this.

In contrast, the vast majority of the money put into The Environmental Trust  remains in the trust.    The trust investment money is never spent!     Obviously the trust requires funding for its creation and management.   This money will be separate from the investment fund and it's use carefully  controlled.   In a manner similar to that used in  The Reasonables' Retirement Investment Trust Program, '  some money will be invested for the express purpose of producing profit to pay the trust's expenses.    The trust fund, itself,  becomes a never-ending, ever-expanding, environmentally focused, financial power point.   

Once the offending lumber company has been  stopped from destroying virgin forests, the pristine forests that the company owns will be sold to organizations dedicated to forest preservation for perpetuity.   That money will then be available to go after the next most offending lumber company.   The company's  remaining forest will be treated as an ecosystem and managed as a renewable resource.    

The corporate-management priorities will then be shifted  from profits to people.   The lumber company employees who choose to cooperate with this transformation will be invited onto the team and will be treated as fellow travelers on space ship Earth.   Their interests, needs, and requirements will be a significant factor in the company's plans for future management.   Studies have been done with regard to how businesses can be run with management and labor working in harmony and with decisions made by consensus rather than by "The Great God, Money."  We  intend to follow those guidelines.  

 A Retirement Investment Trust.' will also be set up for the benefit of employees.   Those who adamantly oppose the changes will simply be invited to take themselves elsewhere.   Anyone intentionally expanding the destruction in the pristine forests in any way will be treated the same was as they have been treating the virgin redwood trees!   See  The Silent Conspiracy. '   

Saving the Virgin Forests of 
Ancient, Giant Redwood Trees 
Continues on  the page titled:   
Project Details '