About us

Board of Directors

Michael Bailey
Grant Barbeito
Richard Stancliff

Michael is an experienced conservationist and video producer who places a high degree of emphasis on sustainability and protection of nature.The productions and projects which Michael directs have generated news media coverage via numerous news agencies. Michael Bailey’s ongoing initiatives include directing efforts to protect whales, dolphins, sharks, and sea turtles.

Michael is experienced with educational endeavors designed to advance understanding of how the ocean’s microscopic plant life is essential for sustaining the ocean food chain and can help slow down global warming and climate change.

He has organized international speaking tours pertaining to how natural microbes can be effectively used by organic farmers, animal husbandry, zoos, water treatment, and can benefit human health.

The balance of economy and ecology, that is world finance and environmental value, is one of Michael’s primary initiatives.

Michael’s expertise in domestic and international political matters is exemplified in the successful passage of the United Nations ban on high seas driftnets, That General Assembly Resolution successfully saves the lives of over 1 million dolphins, 4 million seabirds every year. Driftnets were a serious financial threat to the world’s salmon, tuna and billfish fisheries.

Please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Bailey_(environmentalist) for more info.

Grant is producer and creative leader. He is a digital media creative working on next level story telling and design. His skills include assembling world-class teams to accomplish large scale productions..
Grant has a deep passion for sustainability and finding solutions that protect the planet.

Grant is initiator of EarthProtect.tv and EarthProtect.com, that serve as demonstration platforms for streaming media pertaining to topics involving wildlife conservation, environment and sustainability.

Earthprotect.tv is a demonstration website that is dedicated to environmental issues and sustainability solutions. EarthProtect.tv enables people to watch, learn, and help protect what they love including their children, families, communities and future generations.

Earth Protect.com serves as a presentation website for film trailers and productions featuring wildlife protection, environment and natural ecology

Richard began a career in rental real estate in the early 1970’s. He initiated efforts leading up to the WorldOpt concept in the later 1970’s when he and a friend chartered an organization called The Institute for Quality Living, which provided housing and job training for the underhoused or homeless in Berkeley, California. This work led him toward further considerations of how we could cooperatively address social issues and become sustainable as a community of human beings.

The World Optimization concept has been gestating for over a decade as Richard and various friends and associates have considered the scope of work needed to achieve true sustainability. Of course it involves being responsible stewards of our only home planet; and developing the best options for all the beings inhabiting it. Eventually our thinking evolved away from specific “on the ground” causes, and we realized that a more comprehensive “airplane view from 30,000 feet” was needed to understand and encompass the wide range of issues confronting humanity, in hopes to optimize our world.

Now semi-retired, Richard currently manages a real estate project in Honolulu, Hawaii, and applies part of his spare time efforts to advocating best practices and predictive modeling, which can be expected to promote improved function of the multitude of factors comprising our society and biosphere.

Michal is an IT specialist with two masters degrees in computer science. He is currently working as a programmer/website developer for IBM and as an IT freelancer. His home is in Slovakia, central Europe.
He met Richard during his trip to Hawaii in 2013 and they became really good friends. Richard introduced Michal to Michael and after a dinner together, the collaboration began. Michal created all of this website’s technical features, and donated the site in its original form to WorldOpt; and now updates and maintains the site. Currently he is also working with Michael and Richard on another related project – planetviews.org, Michael’s website.

“We have become, by the power of a glorious evolutionary accident called intelligence, the stewards of life's continuity on earth. We did not ask for this role, but we cannot abjure it. We may not be suited to it, but here we are.”
~Stephen Jay Gould, The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History

“A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people. ”
~Franklin D. Roosevelt

“For every additional year of primary schooling, a child's future productivity grows 10 to 30 percent.”
~George Psacharopoulos.

“In America today you can murder land for private profit. You can leave the corpse for all to see, and nobody calls the cops. ”
~Paul Brooks, The Pursuit of Wilderness, 1971

“If the world's dwindling forests and coral reefs were compared to museums and universities, "then their destruction would be regarded as massive vandalism .”
~Klaus Toepfer, director of the U.N. Environment Program.

“When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”
~Jimi Hendrix

“Through his dignity, grace and the quality of his forgiveness, Nelson Mandela made racism everywhere not just immoral, but stupid.”
~Tony Blair, British Prime Minister

“If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace”
~John Lennon

"“In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.” (1987)
~Carl Sagan"