Green Cities Fund

Projects

  • Palma Soriano – A Clean Water Plan

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    Over a decade ago river restoration experts from the University of California at Berkeley began developing a clean water plan with the Palma Soriano community. Located near Santiago de Cuba in Eastern Cuba, it is a community of 80,000 rich in Haitian-Cuban tradition including descendants of slaves brought from Haiti over 200 years ago when…

  • Cuban Economy Project

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    Green Cities Fund has been at the forefront of economic innovation in Cuba, providing educational information on socially responsible enterprise as an adjunct to the state-controlled economy. Here is an article on the subject: http://www.ssireview.org/articles/entry/cuban_remix Here is a report by the Green Cities sponsored Cuban Economy Working Group:  (TBA) November 2014 NPR program on cooperatives in…

  • Cuba Music, Art and Cultural Programs

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    Cuba’s love of music, art and culture is renowned, and to encourage exchanges in this area Green Cities Fund has accomplished several outstanding successes. Green Cities Fund arranged for the Oscar nominated documentary and Sundance Film Festival winning documentary film “Daughter from Danang”, which Green Cities Fund founders helped produce, to be shown at the…

  • Eco Cuba Network

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    Eco Cuba Network, a 20 year old collaboration between US and Cuban environmentalists, promotes environmental interchange with Cuba, and works within both countries to implement the ideas generated by the Network. Our goals are two-fold: to create a program of mutual benefit for both our people, as we work together to avert economic catastrophe and environmental…

  • Cuban Humanitarian Programs

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    The above photo shows Cuban gay rights advocate Mariella Castro and her husband accepting Berkeley cartoonist Khalil Bendib’s “Play Ball” cartoon from Berkeley Mayor Tom Bates, State Senator Loni Hancock and Green Cities co-founder Tran Tuong Nhu at a December, 2012 “Planting Seeds” dinner in Havana. Green Cities Fund founders have a 20 year history…

  • Aid to Haiti: “FONDAM” – The Dallas Monnin Foundation

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    The Monnin family has played an integral part in Haitian culture since 1947.  Through Galerie Monnin, Haiti’s most prominent gallery, the family has introduced Haitian artists to the international art market with great success.  In 2002, the family established The Dallas Monnin Foundation (“FONDAM”) in honor of the Monnin family’s late daughter, Dallas. It was…

  • Vietnam Green Building Council

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    The Vietnam Green Building Council, founded in Vietnam by Green Cities Fund in 2006, has had a major impact in Vietnam and Southeast Asia through its educational programs and its development of the “Lotus” green building certification program specific to Vietnam. “Lotus” certification is now widely used in Vietnam in both commercial and residential building.…

  • The Center for Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

    The Center for Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

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    Green Cities Fund

    In 1966 co-founder Tom Miller and renowned plastic surgeon Arthur J. Barsky, a veteran of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, established the Center for Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery in Vietnam to  treat war-injured children.  A medical team led by Israeli plastic and reconstructive surgeon Isaak Kaplan, opened the Center in an empty apartment house in Saigon…

  • Tuning with the Enemy

    Tuning with the Enemy

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    In 1993 Berkeley California piano tuner Ben Treuhaft was introduced by Green Cities Fund founder TT Nhu to the director of Cuba’s extraordinary National Music School, where talented youth from all over the country come to study in an open and invigorating atmosphere.  Ben noticed the sad state of the school’s pianos, and worked many…

  • New Sun Road

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    After serving as founding director of the Vietnam Green Building Council’s founding director, Jalel Sager, obtained his doctorate from the University of California at Berkeley’s Energy Resource Group.  He then established with colleagues New Sun Road, which focuses on renewable generation, mini-grids, and related technology innovation. Replacing fossil fuels, or supplying power to communities off…

  • La Pena Cultural Center

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    Green Cities Fund co-founder Tom Miller assisted in the establishment of La Pena Cultural Center in Berkeley, California over 40 years ago.  La Peña was started by a group of Latin American & Californian allies as a direct response to the military coup in Chile that overthrew the democratically elected socialist government of Dr. Salvador…

  • Chi-Em Microfinance

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    Chi-Em is a small microfinance project serving ethnic minorities living in the mountains surrounding Dien Bien Phu, the remote valley in the northwest corner of Vietnam where, in 1954, the Vietnamese defeated the French colonial government. It was founded by Nathalie Miller, daughter of the founders of Green Cities Fund. The Chi-Em web site is: http://www.entrepreneursdumonde.org/~vietnam/wordpress/