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World’s first Power Plant for Poverty to be Built in Ontario
– an idea whose time has come
Toronto, Ontario – January 26, 2015
NEUTOPIA ecoSOLUTIONS Inc. today has announced plans of their first Power Plant for Poverty, expected to be operational by the end of this summer. The social impact renewable energy project located in the municipality of Clarington, will receive guaranteed monthly revenue from supplying clean energy into the Ontario power grid for the next 20 years. It will be the first power plant in the world of its kind…not because of the technology, but because of how the profits are used: 100% of Neutopia’s profits are re-invested into projects to help empower people with technologies that fight the root causes of human suffering around the world. It will generate millions of dollars not to line the pockets of corporate shareholders, but to save tens of thousands of lives.
The Re-distribution of Wealth via a New Socio-Economic System
Unlike a charity or a not-for-profit where the money is gone once it’s raised and spent, with Neutopia the money is first invested into a cleantech project of the investor’s choice and the investment is paid back with guaranteed financial returns over 2 – 25 years while Neutopia uses its own profits from the project to bring technologies to help empower people in need (with ROI’s as high as 25%). The ‘pay-it-forward’ business model changes the face of investing because every dollar invested results in a guaranteed financial return unlike charities, and has an associated social impact unlike the stock market. Neutopia has basically united the two to attract both traditional investors and social impact philanthropists raising the bar to a whole new level for People Profit Planet initiatives.
Neutopia says “the answer to solving many of the problems in our world is not to be found in any particular technology, they already exist; the solution is in a new way of doing business with those technologies, essentially a new economic system that actually makes it profitable to help people in need”.
Neutopia’s business model is essentially using the profits from selling clean energy or biofuel to purchase technologies that help lower the operating costs of a local food bank, a building to help people with special needs or seniors in a long-term care facility, or to provide renewable energy to a village in Africa or even clean water technologies to an orphanage in India, or bring measles vaccines, or education, sustainable food supply etc.. The ideas are endless, but Neutopia has a blueprint on how to change the world with this system and has been attracting international interest. As Laporte stated at the International Vertical Cities Conference in Seoul, South Korea: “Our system works not by stealing from the rich and giving to the poor, but by earning a profit by helping the rich get richer and using our own profits to help the poor. It’s a twist on Robin Hood meeting the Internet of Things and our time has come.”
Project Was Destined to Expire
The solar project was suspended over the past couple of years because the three original owners were in a legal battle over default of payments during development. It remained at a stand-still, destined to expire during a lengthy litigation process until Robert Laporte, CEO of Neutopia, approached each owner individually to figure out a solution:
“I met with each owner to get to know them. I wanted to understand what their goals were originally, and what their problems were now, in order to think about what kind of solutions may be possible”, said Laporte, “if the problem was only financial then Neutopia has unlimited funding for energy, green buildings and landfill diversion projects from the Neutopia Social Impact and Green Investment Network, so forming a partnership or buying the project at higher than market value would be an option.”
The owners did not want to have any partnership but rather to sell their respective ownership stake in the project, and were simply not able to establish a path forward with each other until Laporte came into the picture and never gave up.
“It took almost a year of on-going negotiations, whether by telephone, sending emails at 2am or even begging them to let us take on the project as it would result in millions of dollars being devoted to help ease suffering as part of Neutopia’s Social Impact initiatives”.
“If you want to change the world you need to think outside of the box, I’m just so thankful that these three businessmen had the heart to give Neutopia a chance. Now they will earn a profit rather than let it die in the courts and Neutopia will be able to help thousands of people in need every year for the next 20 years!”
Strategic Partnership is Key with Powerful Legal Team and Board of Advisors
Award-winning eco-engineers and distinguished professors (including a team of students from Canada’s largest college, Humber) will be assisting with the project, which is part of an emerging ecoPARK network Neutopia is planning around the world.
The solar project put Neutopia’s innovative tendering process to the test, inviting more than 300 cleantech and social impact investors to participate. They finally selected their investment partner on January 9th tapping into a multi-strategy hedge fund. The strategic partnership is with a project development company backed by an independent multinational asset management firm with more than $600 million in real estate assets and who now has a commitment to invest tens of millions of dollars into cleantech projects in Ontario. It also brings with it one of the most powerful law firms in the industry to protect Neutopia’s projects from hostile take-over’s, corporate corruption and circumvention so prevalent in the energy industry.
“We re-introduced the project to dozens of companies that were hungry for a piece of the pie, and some have already attempted circumvention, even calling the project owners directly,” says Laporte, “it’s a very dirty game and if any person or company attempts to slow down this project or bribe one of the original owners it will be regarded as stealing food and medicine from the poor and will not be taken lightly; it will be made public and dealt with in both social media and in the courts. Indeed, they better have deep pockets and prepared to sacrifice their shareholders stock value if they attempt to circumvent Neutopia, as we have already tapped into social media where millions are now learning about the project. We will defend the people we’re trying to help with whatever it takes.”
Neutopia is now uniting a powerful Board of Advisors including various scientists and champions of environmental sustainability and social change from local community groups and due to the global impact it could have, Neutopia has also invited members from the United Nations Task Force on Climate Change, UN Food and Agriculture Association, signatories to the UN PRI (United Nations Principles on Responsible Investing), Doctors Without Borders, Engineers Without Borders, and a host of world renowned organizations that could also benefit from Neutopia’s projects.
In an effort to create more awareness about the innovative business model that simultaneously fights climate change while solving many of the root causes of poverty, Neutopia has already reached out to Hollywood by contacting the agents of pro-active environmental and social change advocates including Angelina Jolie, Susan Sarandon, Morgan Freeman, Woody Harrelson, Sean Penn and Leonardo DiCaprio who was the host of a popular documentary on climate change but which lacked the solutions that Neutopia proposes.
Neutopia has also reached out to local hospitals such as St. Josephs and St. Michael’s, Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Kids, and even the Salvation Army and YMCA where Neutopia urged some of their property managers to join the $600 Million Retrofitting Canada Community Initiative last year (another program that implements the same business model via Green Building efficiency retrofits). Participating would enable these charities and community organizations to save millions of dollars by integrating Neutopia’s solutions to simultaneously lower the cost of waste management, water and energy in their buildings above and beyond their current efficiency efforts via traditional companies (which in-turn would prevent millions of dollars given to them by the public from being wasted on inefficient general building operations and maintenance while simultaneously enabling them to save thousands of lives under Neutopia’s unique program).
Neutopia has already attracted international interest with their $1 million Green Community & Social Impact Scholarship Program, and has signed exclusive development rights for various cleantech projects across Canada and the United States, including an innovative partnership agreement to retrofit 250 buildings across Canada with utility cost reduction technologies and also to develop food waste conversion and up-cycling projects in Toronto and New York.
In the words of Neutopia’s CEO, Robert Laporte, “No other company comes close to matching the social impact Neutopia can have in a community.”
“The innovative Green Development and Social Impact pay-it-forward business model is a blueprint on how to change the world in the fastest and least expensive way possible. We didn’t see the Occupy Wall Street protests as a solution; sure it raises awareness on the importance of the redistribution of wealth and that’s a start, but it’s not the solution in itself. And we didn’t think starting a charity and begging people for money was a viable answer either, neither is lobbying governments or the big energy companies to devote more to climate change because they’ve heard enough complaints and we’ve waited long enough for action. Instead, we decided to create a new way. A completely new business model. And I knew there was only one way to do it. I knew the traditionalists needed a serious wake-up call and it would take something absolutely revolutionary…
Unprecedented Business Feasibility Study
“I quit my job in 2008 and traveled 80,000 km across North America in an effort to conduct an unprecedented business feasibility study. The goal was to interview community leaders, land owners and business executives to find out what the most common problems and obstacles were, what technology solutions solve them, and to test the business model. I presented to Town Councils, Municipal Public Works departments, and held free educational seminars from coast to coast in Canada and the United States. When money was tight I slept in my rental car behind hotels or in farmers fields, and I ate things that would make some people sick, but I had a vision. You need to become the change you want to see, right? That’s how paradigm shifts happen. Soon the old way dies off and the new way has a following.
We are now recruiting Neutopia Ambassadors around the world to help with our 10-minute Community ecoPARK and Green Building Efficiency SOS Program. We’re training reps on Skype and arming them with the tools and blueprint. We have an international network of technology solutions united into one company, and our only obstacles are complacency and corruption among community leaders and property managers. If the people are educated about what others are doing around the world and what is possible, then they can demand change in their own communities and buildings and we’re going to win this damn war, but we need to mobilize students and like-minded community members who want this change to happen NOW. We need an effort with a force such as in times of war if we expect to see dramatic results.
“Neutopia is now transitioning from working on laptops in coffee shops to inspiring a global tribe on the internet, uniting a Neutopia army like sleeper cells on every continent with unlimited funding from forward-thinking investors and the passion of like-minded people. And the amazing thing is that even at-risk youth who were destined for a life of crime and people living in despair in third world countries can find a new way of life with Neutopia; getting paid to make the world a better place.
“I’m living my dream; I knew I couldn’t sit in a cubicle and look at a screensaver of a beach or mountains, knowing they are slowly being destroyed…or let pictures of diseased and suffering people make me sad. I sharpened those tears into a solution to cut through the government and corporate ignorance and we are going to educate our leaders and they can either watch us or they can join us…but they definitely cannot stop us.”
Neutopia is now training Ambassadors around the world via Skype and identifying development sites for the investment network, lowering the global carbon footprint in the fastest and least expensive way possible while ensuring the redistribution of wealth among society. Robin Hood meets the Internet of Things combined with Environmental and Social Impact.
Indeed, nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come.
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What is Neutopia?
The World’s largest Green Development and Social Impact Network of 100’s of world leading eco-solutions and Social Impact investors whose mandate is to lower the world’s carbon footprint in the fastest way possible. Their efficiency plans lower total energy costs, conserve water, embrace on-site recycling, minimize waste costs, establish cogeneration & renewable energy with smart-grids, the game-changing Social Impact business model identifies over-spending in communities and individual buildings, provides the technology to recover that lost revenue, and then re-invests 100% of their own profits into Global Empowerment.
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The World’s First Social Benefit Energy & Infrastructure Company is About to Be Revealed to the World
Toronto, Ontario – February 4, 2014
Pioneering a revolutionary business model being hailed as the Robin Hood of energy companies, Neutopia is bursting at the seams as branches start popping up around the world.
But unlike Robin Hood, Neutopia doesn’t steal from the rich to give to the poor; they help the rich get richer by selling technologies to make them more profitable and then uses their own profits to help those in need.
Neutopia’s Global Green Partnership Program is an innovative way that simplifies efficiency & energy projects for the non-building specialist and non-technical community leader. Founded to streamline adoption of sustainable infrastructure and solve global problems by fighting the root causes of poverty, Neutopia’s solution is simple: help the rich get richer by saving on electricity, fuel and water consumption, heal the environment, and help empower the poor. Neutopia is a company that has integrated Profit-People-Planet to a whole new dimension while raising the bar on Corporate and Community Social Responsibility; a revolutionary business model that builds wealth while empowering lives.
Neutopia Global Ambassador Program
Armed with a proprietary LEAN Community and Green Building SOS Program, Ambassadors simply fill out a project template with their smart phones and email the results back to HQ. It’s so simple even a 12 year old child can do it. It eliminates the need for costly engineering assessments and energy audits by harnessing various cloud based software programs and telecommunications incorporating the use of technology for virtual meetings, satellites and GIS Mapping tools enabling Neutopia to effectively identify, develop and manage a series of projects from a distance. Once the Ambassadors identify a project opportunity based on GPS coordinates, local energy costs, government incentive programs and even local weather data, it sets an international team of experts into motion.
The network includes many of the world’s top technology companies whose workforce Neutopia taps into; already over 100,000 strong and growing every week as meetings take place in board rooms and class rooms around the world. Neutopia’s portfolio is so vast there is not one town in the 80,000 km 2-year cross continental feasibility study that they say could not benefit from a Neutopia ecoPARK. And that’s just in North America where energy prices are among the lowest in the world.
From engineers to environmental scientists and a massive sales & service infrastructure specializing in green buildings, renewable energy, waste-to-resources & bio-based products, the network is growing exponentially. Neutopia has essentially united an international network of technology experts and project scouts to help uncover millions, if not billions of dollars in savings for communities and property owners. Neutopia is the epitome on how to capitalize on the Internet of Things.
Neutopia was invited by the senior producer of a program hosted by Donald Trump Jr. for a television feature to air on Fox and Blooomberg. Still waiting for scheduling, the interview will reveal how a Neutopia Student Ambassador group in Africa can attempt to uncover savings for the Trump Tower in Toronto utilizing Neutopia’s proprietary Green Building Efficiency SOS program. If it works, and the business model is applied to the Trump empire whose global real estate assets total more than $7 billion, then the Trump family could potentially save millions of dollars per year and Neutopia may be on the verge of saving thousands of lives in Africa – not by asking the Trump family to give to charity, but rather by helping them get richer.
Neutopia’s Fortune 500 Challenge
All 500 of the Fortune 500 companies are being sent invitations to participate in the program which could help lower the operating costs of their thousands of buildings all over the world while boosting their Corporate Social Responsibility campaigns. Neutopia is primed with a blueprint to arm tens of thousands of Ambassadors on every continent with the tools we need to change our planet; reduce our carbon footprint and save energy…while inspiring global change, feeding the hungry, healing the sick and delivering hope to the hopeless.
Robin Hood meets the Internet of Things meets the world’s most diverse portfolio of solutions to help our community’s, our economy and our planet. Indeed, nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come.
The United Nations Millennium Development Goals for energy were intended to increase clean energy generation & adoption of efficiency technologies around the world to reduce our carbon footprints. Neutopia ecoSOLUTIONS Inc. is a blueprint on how to streamline discovery and development opportunities quickly. We are game-changing Solutions providers combined with the Internet of Things, and our time has come.
Neutopia’s LEAN Community & Green Building Programs
Neutopia is a fast growing global network of leading technology companies and a sales network specializing in efficiency, enabling us to present a complete suite of green technologies to help entire communities to ‘go green’, solving energy and waste problems while creating long-term sustainable employment. We accomplish this by creating our unique Neutopia ecoPARK & Green Community Plan™ based on the concepts of biological systems integration; a methodology similar to what Kaizen and Six Sigma™ have done for industries, and what LEED™ does for buildings, although on a much larger scale to benefit entire communities.
Essentially, communities should be regarded as living organisms; what comes in, what goes out, and how the different services and local industries can connect like organs in the body functioning harmoniously to benefit the whole. We uncover efficiency problems and lost revenue, provide the technology/equipment to recover that lost revenue and then re-invest 80-100% of our profits into Community Empowerment programs; this could be to provide energy to a remote village in a developing nation or to help a local food bank, school, or support for seniors or persons with disabilities. The exact project depends on the client we are helping.
Pioneering a revolutionary business model that merges Corporate and Community Social Responsibility with Environmental Sustainability and Social Benevolence, Neutopia is the world’s first Social Benefit Energy & Infrastructure Company. We don’t just change light bulbs or promote efficiency; we are technology integrators that teach new methods to improve efficiency, adopt and embrace new technologies to uncover lost revenue streams and increase profitability and ultimately shareholder rewards. Our technology partners develop new ways for energy to be generated, delivered, stored and utilised. We bring them to the world.
Reducing Financial Risk is Key to Breaking Barriers and Creating Enablers
The Neutopia Green Energy Investment Network is prepared to finance up to $600 million in Green Building projects in Ontario alone. In other words, property owners don’t even need to pay the up-front cost to get these solutions installed. Combined with a renewable energy division managed by financial advisors experienced in international project development, financing and operations, Neutopia is set to make a global impact and is already fielding requests for entire community ecoPARKS and Green Building projects around the world. This is sure to make their manufacturing partners a lot of money without paying for new sales reps.
The Social Benefit business model has attracted international interest where Neutopia has been a guest lecturer on merging Sustainable Community Development, Social Innovation and Leadership in Business. Neutopia is now receiving requests to develop these green plans and provide the equipment and technologies and is expanding the training program for an international team of Ambassadors to uncover business opportunities around the world. Currently pursuing projects for high rise condos, hotels, resorts, industrial and commercial sites, Neutopia is streamlining efficiency projects and is about to cut the global carbon footprint with a historical impact.
Toronto, Ontario – December 2013
“7 last year, 14 this year, and we have more than 50 projects on the table for 2014…we need more help!!”
Neutopia ecoSOLUTIONS Inc. (www.neutopia.ca), the world’s first Social Benefit energy company, has submitted 12 solar projects to the government feed-in-tariff program, smallFIT 3. Ranging from 250kW to 500kW, Neutopia can earn significant revenue from Project Development and Land Leases while some land owners chose to join the Neutopia Partnership Program enabling them to earn more than simply accepting the standard lease offer. The Neutopia Project Development Network is composed of several alliances with various engineering partners and equipment manufacturers including investors who have established a partnership with Ontario municipality’s to ensure the projects would all be submitted as Contract Capacity Set-aside Status.