Call it what you want: the earth has a request, or the earth is screaming for help. But is it really our planet that needs help? Or are we the ones that need it? The earth will be around for some time to come, but what role do we play in the future? ACT Global’s main goal is to help make our world more sustainable.

ACT Global is an organization that houses a knowledge network which encourages young people and facilitates global searches to A Convenient Truth. In fact, ACT Global is a Brain Chain: a neural network that creates countless links. ACT Global links knowledge and intelligence in such a way that new ideas that sound too good to be true will really lead to solutions and changes in the long run.

This process starts from inside a War Room: a room that is going to be built at a casemate near Kornwerderzand. At this historic location the Netherlands successfully resisted the German invasion. In 2008 we are facing a very different enemy: The Inconvenient Truth.

In the War Room we will invite young and brilliant students to search for solutions - on a 24/7 basis - to complex problems and examine the technical, economic and social applicability of inventions. In the War Rooms themselves all means are available to gather and exchange as much knowledge as possible in an open network – a Brain Chain. Elsewhere in our country and in the world knowledge is being gathered in so-called knowledge cells and test set-ups could be built and used. Actually, the War Rooms function as modern versions of Isaac Newton’s study.

Within ACT Global T-Xchange supports Think & Link processes and the set-up of the War Room and brain cells.

Near the War Room at the IJsselmeer, a different casemate houses a visitors centre with an extensive public function in terms of information and education. This is the place where members of the public can drop in with their ideas, challenges and inventions to contribute to restoring the natural balance on our planet. The visitors centre is also the place from where visitors from all over the world can make an ecological tour through the northern part of the Netherlands: the Frisian Exhibition of Sustainable Art.

ACT Global is a brand that delivers content on sustainability and raises awareness in order to change people’s behaviour: first for the younger, then for the older generations. The brand should be perfectly attuned to the need that young people feel to “save their own world”, while the current people with the right to decide create an environment in which young people can in fact do save their world. Young people are more aware, have the opportunity to grow as a person and make a significant contribution to a better world. ACT Global restores the status of the thinker in society and creates appreciation for content.