# Gaia Goal Jam
In this document we outline a strategy to develop a community [[Obeya Room]] in conjunction with young people, universities, private companies and the World Economic Forum based around running a simple pilot to create a sustainable football. We can call this ball "One Ball" or "Gaia Ball" or some such brand. Here we develop the idea, attempting to synthesise the part into a coherant whole.

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## Components

1. Obeya Rooms in footbal club youth centres
2. Goal Jam 2021 and 2022
4. WEF sustainability pilot (2021)
5. Raise money to plant trees?
6. Collaborative story telling in wiki (LARP)
7. Sustainability research with academic partners
8. Supply chain trust - with Lexon
9. 3. Partner with Global Game Jam

## One Ball - one planet
One action of good deed by a million of people in love with football, will trippel our chances to reach our global goals for living well together on the Planet.

Ten actions of good deed by 60 million of children and youth, with influence minimum the lives of 1 200 000 000 people if we imagine each one influence 2 people.

It is our goal to inspire millions of children and youth and to support them in their hopes and actions for a better world through sports. We build trust in a shared future of living well, on One Planet, by investing in education through sport and a joyful civic culture.

We will support millions of children and youth to empower their own lives and a force of good in themselves, in their local community and in the Oneness of being a global citizen on a Planet with limited resources.

By 2025 our goals is to directly and indirectly reach 60 million of people tripled by the force of Xn

## Background
Marc X is a sport brand which is based on a dictum to make this world a worthy place to live. It revolve around the concept of Circular Economy(CE) in football industry ( soccer if American) by reducing the amount of hazardous waste to environment and innovating healthy, sustainable & environmental friendly materials for our sports products. In addition, we collect and bring old and used soccer balls back into the production loop in order to manufacture a new one, and to take the responsibility as a manufacturer to recycling instead of spreading toxic waste to the environment.

“Football for the planet” is the official environmental program of the FIFA and aims to minimize the negative impacts of its activities on the environment. This program is part of the environmental efforts during FIFA Events since FIFA World Cup 2006. In Brazil, FIFA and Local Organizing Committee (LOC) tried to implements measures to reduce the FIFA 2014 Negative impacts to Environment.

FIFA and LOC estimated the total carbon dioxide that release into the atmosphere was 2.5 m tons. One thing is important that this release is just during the one FIFA event and for one chemical. Millions of such chemicals are being released during the regular activity of sport.

After analyzing the waste creation and carbon footprint in sports, Marc X joined hands with 360 Hub Global, based in Norway, bringing forward the objectives of being “the fastest accelerator for a Circular Economy”.

Both started their mission on small level in 2017 and investigate the impacts of footballs and its material in lab tests in the city of Sialkot - the football-making-city of the world. It have been found that almost all the soccer ball manufacturing brands are selling PU or PVC based balls in the market, which is very hazardous material for the environment and human skin due to the presence of isocyanides in them. However, this is not all. Inner structures of soccer balls from those brands involve even more toxic elements.

This is the grand reason from where Marc X story took flight and started its mission with 360 Hub Global in 2015 to bring soccer products back to environmental friendly level by inventing new natural materials, and new ways of production to reduce toxic waste and chemicals.

Marc X and 360Hub Global found that PU & PVC are not only materials to develop soccer products. Soccer ball can be developed with many other worthy materials like fish leather, natural rubber and advanced natural denim, even with upcycled blends. PU & PVC can also be produced with much more natural methods while removing isocyanides during their production,
Marc X and 360Hub Global started manufacturing its soccer balls in the early days of January 2018 with its new invented environmental materials. For the international standard soccer balls, Marc X is using Green Polyurethane and fishleather while it is using natural rubber, natural denim, upcycled denim for training and Street Soccer Balls. Inner Structure of the ball is also into special consideration and it being developed with natural cotton clothing and natural rubber. These combine efforts do not end only on materials but also on reducing toxic chemicals & water wastage during the production process by inventing unique and healthy production procedures.

Marc X and 360Hub Global believe Eco-friendly manufacturing processes protects the Planet from exploitations and conserves natural resources. Its products are being made from sustainable materials, while waste is being reduced through reuse and recycling.

### Sialkot – city of football makers

Sialkot is in the Punjab province of Pakistan, on the border with India, and has a population of 1.7 million people. It’s also been around for thousands of years with mentions of the place dating back to four centuries BCE, and is the purported birthplace of one of Pakistan’s founders.

In the city of Sialkot more than half the world’s footballs (that’s soccer balls, if you’re American), which amounts to 60 million balls every year, according to The Far Post, a venture between Sports Illustrated and Roads & Kingdom.

Sialkot was back in the global spotlight after it produced the Official FIFA World Cup ball, Brazuca. The six panelled ball was hailed as a “revolutionary” design.

The story of Sialkot’s football domination started more than 100 years ago when, legend has it, a local cobbler was asked to repair a football brought to him by a British officer. It was the era of colonialism and that cobbler studied how to construct the balls. He went on to make a fortune peddling them to British soldiers.
Thus, it began the Sialkot’s partnership with football, which now stretches to more than 200 factories along with almost 2000 stitching centres, according to The Telegraph. The city’s football factories, along with factories for clothes and other sporting goods, bring in billions of dollars a year. Pakistan Today said 99 % of the city’s production is exported to countries all over the world.

### Solving the problem of waste and plastic pollution

Soccer is a universal language and it unites people together. However at another end the the game is being a cause of environmental danger with its soccer ball’s plastic materials. Research available on the internet which provide different estimations of dangerous environmental effects. We are not extending our concerned to artificial playgrounds with plastic and chemical, but the new “rule of the game” the global sport industry will have to look into these consequences of microplastic pollution.

MARC X is on a mission to bring soccer balls on Green Materials instead of Plastic, and even bladders, threads & printing materials. In order to achieve this Marc-X is committed to manufacture its balls in:

- Green Polyurethane which do not have toxic chemicals instead of normal polyurethane.
- Natural Rubber and also Rubber from garbage to be recycled- eg. Norwegian Fishnets www.oceansurplus.com
- Green Denim - recycled and upcycled from jeans production in mix with hamp and cotton.
- Fishleather. www.norwegianfishleather.com - traceability of origin and process.
- Green Printing Materials without Isocyanates

Marc X is making a committed with International standards of manufacturing and making it sure to minimize the wastages to environment during production process. For this, Marc X have invested in special manufacturing unit in Sialkot.

However, one of the biggest reason of waste is old soccer balls which people normally throw out in garbage to be burned, ending up in landfills, or just throw-away in nature. Marc-X is working on a strategy so people do not throw out their old soccer balls, but give them back to us in order to get some discounts on new balls of Marc-X. The 360 thinking and training of staff in the encounter of retail-salespoint, the shops will be a “campus” for education and training in the principles of Sustainable Development Goals, and ONE FOOTBALL - ONE PLANET, and millions of actions for a better world through sports. No agreements with commercial Sports Outlets are yet signed.

## Educational Project: beyond the game of Football

Marc-X is committed to bring the environment back to its natural stage but also to prevail messages of brother- and sisterhood, peace, happiness & humanity through its special range for children and youth.

Soccer is the world’s most popular sport and it bring people closer to each other. This is the the best leverate to reach as many people as possible, with a positive and powerful messages with our next generation. It is based on the principle of Peer-to-Peer Education, where each football is the main teacher. In order to make this world a peaceful place to live, we have to work with thoughts and mindscapes. Imagine, when such educational soccer balls will reach to kids of different economical zones/countries with our “Buy One, Give One” program, we will be able to alter to minds of million of children and youth, both girls and boys. We work in partnership with the youth by making it sure that their minds are capturing symbols of love, sharing, creativity, playfulness, music and peace instead of war, hate or any negativity - and to work around conflicts and tension through a Culture of Peace Program through football, as defined by UNESCO, and the 17 Sustainable Development Goals.

To address educational sectors and network of libraries in the world we will bridge sport and culture, and to bring forward a civic project for dialogue and democracy, in which free will and joy will be the imperative to bring forward a global Spirit of a better world for all .

To secure this intention, the enterprise Phil Nordic Southern Africa Ltd., based in Lusaka, Zambia, has welcome to outline a strategy for this, and to connect with sporting clubs and schools in whole Southern Africa.

The 360hub Global has developed a blueprint for this project; 4pir2 ( mathematical formula for the sphere of a football and the globe), and this is connected to the history of the Greek Library in the City of Alexandria, Egypt. In this way the history of the past, is connected to the goals of the future. Connecting mathematics with philosophy, and health of the planet with the health of humanity and our extended ecosystem of all life on the Planet.
http://360hub.global/storytelling/

We want to create an intuitive answer, like in the legend about John Lennon when he wrote the assignment at school to tell what he wanted to become when being grown-up.
He answered: “ -happy!”
The teacher told him that he had misunderstood the task. John told the teacher he had misunderstood the meaning of life. Today many boys in Africa can imagine themselves being a soldier. For girls a vague dream of studying and to get a formal education. It is millions of small and big jobs to be created in new era of sustainable development and in the paradigme of Circular Economy. Vocational- and lifelong learning will be important, and sports is part of bringing forward this new energy of hope and new goals.