Earth Treasury

Named in honor of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva (Japanese Jizo), who has vowed not to enter Nirvana until all beings have left the Hells.

Group members

• Edward Mokurai Cherlin, Founder, echerlin@gmail.com, +1 408 219 4178
• Mark Roest, OneVillage Foundation
• Andrius Kulikauskis, Minciu Sodas
• Mike Killen

Goals

• End Poverty at a Profit.
• Go beyond One Laptop Per Child education program, linking schools all over the world with hands-on science that benefits their communities, business education, and much more.
• Rewrite curricula in Free/Open Source software and electronic textbooks that integrate software capabiilities and the riches of the Internet.
• Bring schools worldwide into environmental and health data acquisition and mapping to assist with agricultural, health, business, and other needs.
• Give every person who wants it a voice in the conversation about our future.

Activities

One Laptop Per Child demos can be arranged with people all over the US and the world. We are happy to go to conferences or to meetings of computer user groups, service organizations, schools, churches, Scout and Guide troops, and so on.

We have been offerred two sources of coffee in countries where we can link schools together.