The Green Children
Hear international recording artists, The Green Children, live daily at the Energy Trust Better Living Show on the SustainableLife Stage.
Dynamic, daring, INFECTIOUS!
Milla Sunde and Marlow Bevan, better known as The Green Children, are bringing “Cinematic Fantasy Pop” to an international audience. The extremely talented Euro-duo has channeled their passion for positive awareness to all four corners of the world; one note at a time. Fostering charity through their musical talents, they are changing the face of the music industry.
Within a short period of time, they have already partnered up with Whole Foods Market and Whole Planet Foundation and have been called “Angels of positive change,” by Philip Sansone, President of Whole Planet Foundation. It does not stop there. In addition to this they joined forces with Nobel Peace Prize recipient Professor Muhammad Yunus (see below) with whom they raised over $500,000 for one of the first eye hospitals in rural Bangladesh.
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“With my voice, I hope to inspire and raise awareness for positive solutions that are working to conquer world poverty," says Milla who along with Marlow began this journey from The Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts – an English university established by Sir Paul McCartney. Marlow’s instrumentation and Milla’s melodious tones, caught the ears of Universal Music Group in the US, over five thousand miles away. In 2008, The Green Children signed to Universal Motown but quickly became unhappy with their experience at the label. The fearless duo that stays true to their beliefs and values danced to the beat of their own drum and left the label in April of 2009.
The Green Children's single, “Hear Me Now” has received to date 194,758 hits on YouTube, 100,000 video shares on Facebook and 202,612 plays on MySpace. “Life Was Beautiful,” (202,944 hits on YouTube) released on October 1, 2009 and is available on iTunes as well as all other major download sites.
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Muhammad Yunus is a Bangladeshi banker and economist. He previously was a professor of economics where he developed the concept of microcredit. These loans are given to entrepreneurs too poor to qualify for traditional bank loans. Yunus is also the founder of Grameen Bank. In 2006, Yunus and the bank were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, "for their efforts to create economic and social development from below." Yunus himself has received several other national and international honors. He is the author of Banker to the Poor and a founding board member of Grameen America.
Microcredit is the extension of very small loans (microloans) to those in poverty designed to spur entrepreneurship. These individuals lack collateral, steady employment and a verifiable credit history and therefore cannot meet even the most minimal qualifications to gain access to traditional credit. Microcredit is a part of microfinance, which is the provision of a wider range of financial services to the very poor.
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Microcredit is a financial innovation that is generally considered to have originated with the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh. In that country, it has successfully enabled extremely impoverished people to engage in self-employment projects that allow them to generate an income and, in many cases, begin to build wealth and exit poverty. Due to the success of microcredit, many in the traditional banking industry have begun to realize that these microcredit borrowers should more correctly be categorized as pre-bankable; thus, microcredit is increasingly gaining credibility in the mainstream finance industry, and many traditional large finance organizations are contemplating microcredit projects as a source of future growth, even though almost everyone in larger development organizations discounted the likelihood of success of microcredit when it was begun.
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