We are grateful to David Stewart for his submission, "35 Things You Can Do For My Birthday" to enhance the Socratic Dialogue on ATCA in regard to "Countering Climate Chaos."

There is a parallel online public debate initiated by Open ATCA at IntentBlog based in USA and Asia. You can take part by clicking on: 35 Things You Can Do For My Birthday.

David "Dave" Stewart is one of the most respected and trusted people in the music industry today. A prodigious producer of music, film and photography he is the "musician's musician", an all-round multi-media entrepreneur and, in Bob Dylan's words, "a fearless innovator". Dave's career spans the last 25 years, having achieved over 75 million album sales with Eurythmics' partner Annie Lennox. In 1999, the duo were honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Brits. Stewart is also known as one of the most prestigious British record producers, working with the biggest names in the music industry worldwide. Dave has won Best Producer four times, as well as numerous Grammys, MTV and Best British Songwriter award 5 times. Eurythmics embarked upon a world tour during 1999 and 2000 and donated the proceeds to Amnesty International and Greenpeace. Annie and Dave ended the millennium playing live in Greenwich London and played their way into 2000 with the whole world watching as they sang "Sweet Dreams" at midnight Greenwich Meantime. Dave and Annie were inducted into the UK Hall of Fame by Bob Geldof in November 2005 with British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Mick Jagger and Sting all delivering speeches.

Since 2000, Dave Stewart has written numerous songs with several other major artists including Bono, Bryan Ferry, Gwen Stefani, Anastacia and Shakira to name but a few. Dave is considered one of the great guitar players and has shared the stage with everybody from BB.King The Edge, Eric Clapton, Bruce Springsteen and Bob Dylan. Stewart is also a highly-regarded artist and filmmaker. He has been active for several years in cinema, writing numerous film scores for Director's such as Robert Altman, Paul Verhoven, Ted Demme also writing and producing the title songs for many hit movies throughout the years. Along with close friend and long time collaborator Mick Jagger, Dave wrote and produced the Score for Charles Shyer's movie Alfie starring Jude Law. They won a Golden Globe for best original song as well as USA film critics award and World Music Soundtrack award. Dave produced the award winning documentary, Deep Blues and has directed many music promos. He has also written numerous scripts and his first feature film, "Honest", premiered at the Cannes Film Festival 2000. Dave was Guest of Honour for the Opening Ceremony of Cannes Film Festival in 2002 at the "Why are you Creative" Exhibition. Stewart's work as a professional stills photographer has been well documented. He has worked on numerous major ad campaigns and magazine covers and lectured on creativity for the UK Government and the advertising industry. He has exhibited solo and in group shows at Paris Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum NYC and the Saatchi Gallery London. He writes:

Dear DK and Colleagues

I'm celebrating my birthday in conjunction with the 35th Anniversary of Greenpeace. Here are 35 things you can do for me:

* Believe in Global Warming. It is real.
* Drive a hybrid.
* Swear off plastic bags. They are rampant in our oceans and wildlife feeds off them, thinking they are plankton. Bring your own bags to the supermarket and visit oceans.greenpeace.org for more on how to Defend our Oceans.
* Support renewable energy. Install solar panels on your house.
* Bring your family to visit our newest and fastest ship, the Esperanza, when it makes a stop in San Diego in November.
* Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.
* Write about environmental issues.
* Place environmental messages in your lyrics.
* Use musical instruments made of wood approved by the Forest Stewardship Council.
* Support wind farms, even when they interfere with your view.
* Learn to drive a Greenpeace Zodiac.
* Provide bail money for a Greenpeace action.
* Participate in a peaceful direct action with Greenpeace.
* Eat organic foods. Support farmers' markets.
* Restrict your fish consumption: fish may be good for you, but not when it contains mercury. And overfishing is perhaps the single biggest, most immediate threat facing the world's ocean.
* Don't use anti-bacterial soap: the chemicals they contain wind up in wastewater and ultimately in the environment-and anyway, studies suggest they're probably no more effective at combating germs than normal soap and water.
* Participate in a beach clean up.
* Conserve energy.
* Conserve water.
* Don't litter, and confront those who do.
* Stay away from genetically engineered foods.
* Help build a PVC-free Habitat for Humanity House.
* Avoid farmed fish. Huge amounts of fish are caught to feed aquaculture species, and fish farms can cause severe damage to coastal environments.
* Use energy efficient light bulbs.
* Turn those lights off when you're not using them.
* See "An Inconvenient Truth." Tell a friend or a family member to see it too. And have them tell another friend...
* Take your own coffee cup to be filled up at your own local coffee shop.
* Print on both sides of paper.
* Dispose of computers and other electronic products responsibly. Every year, hundreds of thousands of old computers and cell phones are dumped in landfills or burned in smelters. Thousands more are exported, often illegally, to Asia, where workers at scrap yards, often children, are exposed to a cocktail of toxic chemicals and poisons. * Don't run the dishwasher until it is full.
* Speak out against wars of any kind.
* Stay informed except when you can't take it any more. Then, take a short break and get back to it.
* Support Greenpeace, one of my favourite organizations. Operating in over 30 countries worldwide, they're active day in, day out where it counts: on the front lines to protect the planet.
* Listen to my song to celebrate Greenpeace's 35th Anniversary -- I will post it when it is ready.
* Wish me a Happy Birthday!

All the best

Dave

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We look forward to your further thoughts, observations and views. Thank you.

Best wishes

For and on behalf of DK Matai, Chairman, Asymmetric Threats Contingency Alliance (ATCA)

ATCA: The Asymmetric Threats Contingency Alliance is a philanthropic expert initiative founded in 2001 to understand and to address complex global challenges. ATCA conducts collective Socratic dialogue on global opportunities and threats arising from climate chaos, radical poverty, organised crime, extremism, informatics, nanotechnology, robotics, genetics, artificial intelligence and financial systems. Present membership of ATCA is by invitation only and has over 5,000 distinguished members: including several from the House of Lords, House of Commons, EU Parliament, US Congress & Senate, G10's Senior Government officials and over 1,500 CEOs from financial institutions, scientific corporates and voluntary organisations as well as over 750 Professors from academic centres of excellence worldwide.

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