We are foundation and the creators of the unique, innovative, socioeconomic business model behind the development of Maya Global 2012. We are the two co-founders of Maya Global 2012 – old business guys and baby boomers that have developed the “2040 Outlook Company” model to bring the power of private enterprise, technology, social engineering, and education to bear on the problems of rural poverty and environmental degradation in the world’s developing regions.

As citizens of this planet, we are always asking ourselves, “What If?” Over the next several newsletters we will answer the What Ifs, by sharing with you the concept behind the 2040 Outlook Company. Through Maya Global 2012 and the 2040 Outlook Company, we will show how we can bring our friends, family members, and colleagues together to create an unstoppable social movement aimed at reducing poverty and improving our natural environment. To build the necessary momentum to fuel the process, we need to reach out and encourage others to join our Maya Global ‘Tree of Life’ as founding members. There is no catch. We are not asking for a donation. We are only asking our fellow tenants of this amazing, yet fragile planet to join a global community of socially conscious people from all walks of life. Those of you who are receiving this newsletter are already founding members of the Tree of Life, and we need your help in order to succeed. We ask that each one of you forward this message on to two friends or family members. This is your chance to leave your mark in the history books!

Maya Global 2012

New Leaf World Markets’ 1st Project
Maya Global 2012 has been carefully selected as our first project due to the significance of December 22nd, 2012 to the Maya people as they, along with all of humanity, enter into the ‘dawn of a new era’. December 21st is the ending of the 5,140-year-old Maya Calendar, which coincides with the cosmic alignment of our solar system with the plane of the Milky Way – an event that occurs once every 25,920 years. What more meaningful time to give birth to the building and development of our three entities that are designed to attack and reverse rural poverty and environmental degradation?

Reducing Poverty and Improving Environments

Recently, the UN 2009 World Hunger estimate of 1 Billion has been revised to 870 Million! Is this acceptable as we enter the 21st Century? We say “NO, NO, NO…”
Whether it is 1 Billion, 870 Million, or 500 Million…what does such a staggering number say about how we conduct our business and social affairs? Government agencies, world leaders, NGOs, businesses, and other leading institutions and are often too busy to devote themselves towards coming up with a real solution. Those that do try to help eliminate rural poverty and environmental degradation usually try to do so using the same techniques that have failed time and time again. We believe that through the “2040 Outlook Company” model for New Leaf World Markets, New Leaf Seed Foundation, and our indigenous projects – like Maya Global 2012 – we can eliminate these two serious problems for developing nations around the world. Our model far exceeds what has been known as Fairtrade, and will set a new standard for how the global economy should operate based on the power of the socially conscious consumer. To learn more about Fairtrade, please view the video below featuring Dr. Peter Marchetti, who has lived most of his life in Central America and is a world-renowned expert on Fairtrade and micro-financing.

We feel our “2040 Outlook Company” socioeconomic business model represents the way that most companies will be operating by 2040.
We invite you to ask your friends and family members to become a part of it today.

Maya Global 2012’s #1 goal in 2012 is all about on-line traffic

…to get as many people as possible to visit www.mayaglobal2012.com, and to join the ‘Maya Global Tree of Life’ as a founding member. If we cannot do this…we will fail!

We, you and I, all of us, every family member, and friends must do something to bring hope to the Maya after so many years of despair. We can help them help themselves. Join our efforts. Visit our Get Involved page. ‘Like’ our Facebook page. Help us help them. Together we can accomplish something very meaningful. Let us not focus on December 21, 2012. Let us instead look to December 22. 2012. That is the dawn that counts! Maya Global wants to help create a dawn that is filled with optimism for the Maya. You too, can be part of that story.

If you really want something special this holiday season, don’t forget to check out our Maya Global 2012 Trip — December 13-22, 2012.

Help us create a bright new future

Let’s Share The Real Maya Secret

Let’s get everyone we know, everyone they know, all socially conscious people of all demographic groups to join the Maya ‘Tree of Life’ as a founding member laying the foundation for Maya Global 2012. In the spirit of Rigoberta Menchu, Maya woman from Guatemala and 1992 winner of Nobel Peace Prize, “We are not myths of the past, ruins in the jungle or zoos. We are people and we want to be respected, not to be victims of intolerance and racism.”

Reducing Poverty and Improving Environments

Conditions are very poor in the Mayan region. Honduras is the third poorest country in Latin America. The number of rural Honduran households living below the poverty line is estimated at 74.6%, of which 60.9% live on less than one dollar per day with massive unemployment over 30%. In rural areas, people complete only 3.5 years of school. The percentage of malnutrition among these children is 42.7. In the Mayan region chronic malnutrition can reach 88%. In Guatemala almost 57% of the people are poor and 21% live in extreme poverty. 49.3% of children under 5 suffer from chronic malnutrition. This is the third highest rate in the world. Malnutrition is more prevalent among the indigenous population with rates as high as 69.5%.

Honduras and Guatemala suffer from the most severe socioeconomic and environmental ills today, with a large percentage of their rainforest and temperate forests being wiped out due to slash and burn subsistence. Professor Daniel Farber of Northeastern states, “In 1960, wood lands blanketed nearly 60% of Central America. Today less than one-third of the original forests remain standing; the rest have vanished”. In particular, the tropical and mountain forests of Central America continue to be destroyed at a frightening speed. Between 1961 and 1991 over half of the forests in Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador were cut down — a rate of deforestation that applies to Central America as a whole. At this pace, within decades, the world will be left with little more than a few parks and reserves as vestiges of the great ecosystems of Central America.

Help Maya Global create a solution for these problems!

‘Trip of a Millennium’

First…join the Maya Global Tree of Life and become a founding member of the Maya Global 2012 foundation. You will receive important news and updates from Maya Global regarding the 2012 trip to Honduras and Guatemala as well as informative updates on the Maya Global 2012 individual projects. You will also be entered to win an all-expense paid spot on the trip!

Then check out the details of The Maya Global 2012 Trip – December 13-22 in Guatemala and Honduras. These two important steps to ‘call to action’ will help us tell the world there are new sustainable socio-economic business models to reverse rural poverty and environmental degradation around the world now for the 21st Century. Society’s old existing models are not getting it done…it’s a new world.

Developing sustainable agricultural industries is a key component of Maya Global

SAAQ’ ACH’OODI NIMLA K’ALEB’AL (SANK)

The SANK project benefits 33 indigenous communities in the northern Alta Verapaz department in Guatemala. The Sechocho community association has 115 growers of Maya Red Cacao (coco) the key ingredient in award winning gourmet chocolate. The cacao price is set at the NYSE. Most farmers receive much less than this price though the Maya red cacao is worth 50% more. This situation is typical for all of the growers in SANK’s network, not just those growing cacao. While SANK is working to change this, an agreement with Maya Global would alter the entire equation by allowing the Maya to enter the retail marketplace and bypass the wholesalers. SANK has other growers producing crops like sweet potatoes and yucca as well as a wide variety of fruits, nuts, and more. Plans are in the works to combine these additional products in the effort to produce more value added products.

Reducing Poverty and Improving Environments

Maya Global selects its local initiatives by choosing to support those that have already gained the support of the indigenous people. Maya Global then partners with them to create a new entity that meets the Maya Global Standards of Operation. The new companies must have social goals that are an integral part of their business plan. They must have employee ownership programs. They must offer meaningful participation to growers that supply their products. They must share profits with a community foundation that will fund regional projects such as health clinics, educational facilities, and water systems.

The most common obstacle these companies face in gaining access to global markets is a lack of production facilities and money. They cannot borrow the money and even if they could, paying the interest would bankrupt them. Maya Global will fund these needed facilities and programs with grants through its non-profit foundation and corporate sponsors. An agreement with Maya Global would alter the entire equation of obstacles by allowing the Maya projects to enter the retail marketplace through our New Leaf World Marketplace and bypass the wholesalers, distributors and others through the online marketplace. Consequently, a value-chain is created where 90% of every retail sale goes back to the individual project enterprise.

The Cosmic Alignment of our Solar System with the Milky Way

Join us on our December 13th-22nd trip to Mayan World. The trip will conclude at the Copan Ruinas on December 21st, where you will have the opportunity to learn about and to celebrate the Maya ‘dawning of a new era’. First, you will visit our five Maya projects on an exclusive tour in Guatemala, and learn about their plans to build agri-processing enterprises for natural and healthy products. You will learn about their goal to join and contribute to a world community of socially conscious people that want to eliminate poverty and environmental degradation in rural regions around the world. If you can’t join us on our trip, be sure to support our endeavor by joining the ‘Maya Global Tree of Life’.

Sakapulas Black Salt

Black Salt production is thought to have been a part of the Maya Culture dating back to the early days of its 5,140 history. Sometime around 1560, the Spaniards reported that this Sakapulas community had been extracting salt from the lands along the river. The salt is actually drawn from the earth by spreading special soil and wetting it. On productive days the salt can be baked several times until it turns black. The black salt is thought to be tastier, and is famed for its medicinal qualities in treating stomach and eye problems. Maya Global is working to uncover more of the original Salinas. Currently, a wall is needed to protect the area from flooding.

Reducing Poverty and Improving Environments

Imagine the health benefits the Maya Black Salt would bring to health conscious consumers! It will be a featured product in the Global Online Store that Maya Global 2012 is helping to build, which will be filled with healthy and natural products. It is the Maya of Sacapulas, descendants of the Ahau Canil, who carry on and preserve the Sacapulas identity and are the salt makers that enjoy the rights to the salt sources. It is only the people from the barrio of San Sebastian that own kitchens and sections of the playa along the river. Today, both women and men work and share in the salt production. But they are greatly limited due to flooding of the river, which prevents them from accessing the salt sources along the river. Their needs are great to reverse a state of poverty and poor health. Their only opportunity is to have access to funds to build an infrastructure for the reliable production of the Maya Black Salt, and access to a sustainable marketplace for this very healthy and tasty natural product.

October 10th is last day to sign up for this very special opportunity to learn first-hand about the Maya culture…past, present, and future. Click here to sign up for the trip! You will be spending the last four days in Copan Ruinas, Honduras celebrating and learning about the significance of the ending of the 5,140 year Maya Calendar on December 21st from renowned Maya Luminaries and leaders. For the first six days, you will be traveling on the ancient trails in Guatemala visiting our five Maya projects and their community and spiritual leaders. They are: Kuchub’al in the Quezaltenango region; the Peasant Committee of the High Plains in the mountainous volcano region surrounding Lake Atitlan; the Sakapulas Black Salt community in the Quiche region ; SAAQ’ ACH’OODI NIMLA K’ALEB’AL Maya Red Cacao in the Alta Verapaz region; and the Oxwitik Ch’orti in Chiquimula, Guatemala and Copan, Honduras.

Lake Atitlán with Volcano Atitlan, Volcano San Pedro, and Volcano Toliman

The Peasant Committee of the High Plains

The Maya people of Atitlán are predominantly Tz’utujil and Kaqchikel…but today with our project, The Peasant Committee of the High Plains, you will find indigenous people from all of the Maya regions. It was during the Spanish conquest of the Kaqchikel that they initially allied themselves with the invaders to defeat their historic enemies the Tz’utujil and Quiche Maya. The Kaqchikel were then conquered and subdued when they refused to pay tribute to the Spanish.

The Peasant Committee of the High Plains is an organization of more than 1,200 members representing people from all 21 Maya indigenous populations and regions. As with all of our projects, they understand value-added and want to make products to sell to our marketplace, to raise them out of dire poverty and to provide a future for their children. They grow all their crops, including rich high elevation-high valued coffee beans, macadamia nuts, and sugar cane in the Maya traditional method. However, today their plight is they must walk hours just to deliver a 50 lb. sack of green coffee beans for a minimum price from buyers called coyotes.

Reducing Poverty and Improving Environments

Imagine a store filled with healthy, natural products. All the products are produced by companies owned by indigenous Mayan people using raw materials grown in the region using agricultural methods that enrich the land rather than depleting it. The workers and growers are working themselves out of poverty by selling the products directly to consumers and avoiding wholesalers. The workers share company ownership with community foundations that use the profits to fund projects such as health clinics, water purification plants and school programs. Every product in the store is tied to a particular company and you can easily see how they produce it and what they are doing with your money.