A major milestone for the emergence of a fair, sustainable economy

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Our first full quarter of operations completed for us
(http://www.alonovo.com) on December 31. Our revenue payment
is generated 30 days after the quarter end and we then
allocate, print and distribute checks to over 70 prolific
organizations.

While I would have personally been delighted to be writing
much bigger checks for organizations like CoopAmerica, the
NRDC, WalMartWatch, FAIR, Doctors Without Borders, Habitat for
Humanity, United for a Fair Economy and many others --I
recognize that we are in our infancy, in many respects
--together we have catayzed Capitalism 2.0 (I am ex-Oracle, so
I guess version numbers have a nostalgic value to me).

We know we have many technology challenges ahead, and things
we must quickly implement to scale alonovo.com -and with it
the new economy.

By shifting to a social values shopping paradigm, when we
spend our money for products and services -by ensuring that
our money does not perpetuate poor labor conditions,
pollution, corruption and political influence -instead we will
buy (or, at a minimum maintain an affinity for) products and
services from businesses that our evolving to embody a proper
and sustainable balance.

While I certainly have my personal view, in many respects
alonovo.com has grown from diverse principles and thoughts
that have come from across the political spectrum.

There is a different perspective (which I subscribe to) that
politics are a shadow manifestation of the underlying economy
-a method to allocate wealth and power. I have seen many
passionate, firmly entrenched debates between liberal and
conservative friends and peers and I have concluded that as
long as we remain polarized as an American community -the
politics will be up for grabs. I have lunch with a good friend
who maintains a very conservative position and voted (egad!)
for this administration. Yet, when I think about it (he is
well educated, and smart) -he does not want his aquifer
polluted. He doesn't want the forests clearcut and our
national parks mined and/or drilled. He doesn't want to leave
his house (presumably after watching Fox 'News' in the
morning) and see the brown air over his house, neighborhood,
state. He wants children to have access to good education. The
point is, I think we perpetuate the dangerous divide in this
country and neocons are all too familiar with a 'divide and
conquer' strategy and have used it against liberals, moderates
and conservatives.

The way we take America back is to rebuild our sense of
community, respect one another and take the time to learn we
generally have the same objective, regardless of side. The
real enemy are large businesses that are able to dictate
Governmental policy, diminish or eradicate enforcement and
societal protections -while forming a taxation policy that is
guaranteed to shift more wealth and power their way on the
backs of most Americans (and the entire world community). It
is not about buying red or blue. It is purely about green. No
need to scan headline archives to see what ExxonMobil,
Chevron, Enron, Halliburton and other entities have done to
world while we continue to be intentionally distracted by
important, yet secondary issues. We are fighting for our
quality of life, and of everyone elses'. While the odds are
not against us -as wealth and power continues to shift, they
are stacking up.

With hope for a better future for all,

George
Founder, alonovo.com